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Art

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

I've got an Architecture degree from UMD, and I just finished my Masters Degree in Architecture here in the windy city...After another three years interning, I'll be ready to get my license and take on the world, blazing a path for minimalists everywhere. I'm originally from Miami so I think I'd like be back in the warm and in the water someday, after the Chicago experiment comes to a conclusion. The Cuban part of me likes this idea, but the jaded techno snot in me wants nothing more than to play good records and stay on the Detroit / Chicago axis. Of course who knows where any of us will be a few years from now. IM: TakeItEasyMon

My Interests

Music. Now I know everyone says 'music,' but do they really mean it? Oh wait, there is a music section. More on this later :) I spin records for fun, no false ideas about making a career out of djing. It's a great (expensive)hobby. Lots of nerdy stuff, basically any sci-fi; movie or written. Movies in general, I really like the more offbeat sort of films as well, like "The Hunger" (any 80's movie with Susan Sarandon doing lesbian scenes, David Bowie, AND Bauhaus, well that's a recipe for goddamn brilliance right there), SLC Punk, ect. Conversation. Everyone loves to talk but when's the last time you actually had a conversation with someone? Architecture of course, artwork in general as well.

I'd like to meet:

Someone who combines the sensibilities of a 1950's robot with the dynamic flair of a 1970's street pimp.Everyone! More specifically, someone who has the same quirks that I do. Now this is a hard one: Nerdy enough to read sci-fi and watch Unscrewed on TechTV (R.I.P., it was the best show ever made), introverted enough to be comfortable going out and having a drink by yourself, yet on the other side of the coin outgoing enough to go out and be around large groups of people and have a blast when it's called for. Kind of a strange mix. Be passionate about SOMETHING, don't just coast. Someone who'se been around the block enough that they are tired of bullshit and games. Someone slightly to all-the-way off the beaten path. No room for completely well-adjusted people here :) And someone who'se easily entertained, because I'm excited about just about anything. haha.

Music:

*update* Lately I've really been enjoying this revival of the jack-house/acid stuff (not to be confused with the short lived acid "revival" of a few years back, where every hack DJ would try and toss out an uninspired acid track or two and call it a day. We knows good acid when we hears it. Tadd Mullinix and his alter egos, that whole sound. It's a bit slower, but layers upon layers my friends. Mix that in with 25 year-old house records and you've got yourself a fun night planned.*old list* Techno. No trance, no drum and base, no hardcore, no breakbeats, no goddamn UK hard house, just techno. Minimal Techno. Detroit. Walking that fine, blurry line between the clicks and clacks. Downbeat is fine, trip hop is always fine. I'm talking Richie, I'm talking Magda. Villalobos and Matthew Herbert. Minor-key abrasive Jeff Mills records. Green Velvet. Chicks on speed. M. Dear and everyone on the Ghostly Label/spectral sound. Minus label as well. It's too bad D.C. has such a small techno scene. People pay $40 to see idiots like Tiesto and Sasha, but when the good acts come through, only the tech-heads come out of the woodwork. OK enough ranting :) Oh and of course there will always be a very special place in my heart for all the old early 90's records from way back when. "Camera's ready, prepare to flash!" Lately I've really been listening to lot of very strange 80s/90s styled gothy/punky/electro/country/rockabilly wierdness. Sort of the strange areas where those things collide. You should definately listen to Radio Ghoul School, the very latest in awesomeness, and it plays all of that sort of music. Go listen to anything by The Vanishing (The Disafectionate, or Princess Poison perhaps). I think Miss Jesie Evans and I are just going ot have to get married. Sorry ladies. On the non-electronic side, I used to be very hardcore into the Smashing Pumpkins/NIN, ect. ALSO: Fiona Apple/Portishead/Bjork/and a wide assortment of amazing female singer/songwriters. ALSO 2: Tenacious D rocks seriously hard, I suggest you buy thier album and watch thier DVD as soon as possible, although I must warn you ahead of time not to do so unless you are ready to be blown away. ALSO AGAIN: KAREN O! *update* Might as well just list a smattering of artists/bands that I enjoy, and that you should as well! Ghostface Killah, Mos Def, Urban Thermo Dynamics, Urban Renewal Program, Deadbolt, The Frantic Flintstones, Speedy J, Mathew Herbert, Dresden Dolls, Billy Corgan, Nine Inch Nails, Talking Heads, Sufjan Stevens, Sugarcubes, Long Beach Dub Allstars, 311, AFI (old afi), Azure Ray, Bloodhound Gang, Bright Eyes, Chicks on Speed, Prefuse 73, Wu Tang, Dizzee Rascal, Enigma, Every Time I Die, Felix Da Housecat, The Cure, Miss Kitten, The Hacker, Garbage, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Kill Memory Crash, Sublime, M83, Marilyn Manson, New Order, Depeche Mode, B-52's, Smashing Pumpkins, Adam X, Ada, Afrika Bombaataa, Baby Ford, Luz Casal, Demented are Go! The Detroit Experiment, Gorillaz, Run Stop Restore, Mount Sims, Bauhaus, Joy Division....anyway I like a lot of different things, you get the idea.

Movies:

Anything and everything, I love them all. "Evil Dead" to "Sneakers." "7 Deadly Weapons of Kung-Fu" to "SLC Punk." Throw in your classics, your b-movies, your tragically misunderstood commercial flops. How about Michael Radford's "Nineteen Eighty-Four," or "Strange Days?" "Human Traffic" and "Ghost in the Shell." Everything.

Television:

I'm not a big TV fan, -but- WTTW Channel 11 is, simply put, a phenomenal channel. The L Word, Nip Tuck (awesome), Deadwood, and most things on sci-fi, tech-tv, and comedy central. Coupling (British version only). Mr. Show was also amazing, go get the DVDs. -Currently- No cable, no broadcast, TV only used for Netflix, thank you very much.

Books:

The Road, Cormac McCarthy. Might just fuck you up for a whole month if you become emotionally invest in it. Forever War by Joe Haldeman, one of my all-time favorites. Good, classic sci-fi with an actual basis in reality and excellent writing. Go pick it up. Ender's Game (of course). Speaker for the Dead was also beautiful. It's a shame Card took the series in such a lame direction after these two, but they are his characters, he can do what he wishes. The Singluarity is Near, Ray Kurzweil. Just might change your life. I don't read nearly as much as I would like to, but school keeps me pretty busy, so when I read its usually work related and not for pleasure :( Techno Rebels by Dan Sicko, if you want a pretty spot-on musical history lesson. Fight Club was also really really good. Check it out and you'll have a better appreciation for how well they made the movie out of it.

Heroes:

Went downhill after mid-season

My Blog

"Easy Access....To your balls."

Been a while so I'm going to shotgun on a few random topics here.....So apparantly there's a giant hold in a pair of my jeans right on the inseam, next to the boys. Unbeknownst to me, I've been giving...
Posted by Art on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:11:00 PST

Emergency

...musical emergency.I recorded a drunken mix about a year ago and distributed it to several of you, along with a link to get it online. The title, I believe, was "beermix." Cause I was drunk when I m...
Posted by Art on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:32:00 PST

"This is the way we make Techno?"

Entirely too far behind the ball lately, but here's a few things...Blacklight SleazeGood beat with the standard vocals about jaded clubber sorts of things. One of these comes out every few years and t...
Posted by Art on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:32:00 PST

Finally Found It

My current favorite piece of vinyl. Hell yes. Peace Division feat. Pleasant Gehman - Blacklight SleazeSometimes, I wonder what I'm doing hereIn the middle of this tiny square roomFilled with smoke and...
Posted by Art on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:12:00 PST

P.S.

Put some new music up on the ole front page. Rejoice, for Jessie Evans is makin' new stuff, and it be awesome. 
Posted by Art on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 07:09:00 PST

El Weekend-o

A number of interesting events coming up this weekend and beyond that covet my attention.  -International Chicago Film Festival started yesterday and runs for the next two weeks. Most of the thea...
Posted by Art on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 07:02:00 PST

Ahem

"I have to say that I'm done hating things just because idiots like them, a state you might call post post post hip."Something to endeavor towards, perhaps. But probably not. Anyway I'll try and actua...
Posted by Art on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:19:00 PST

Alive?

A brief communique:Internet Connections have been terminated at my apartment (by me, since RCN can't manage to use the $40 a month I'm giving them to provide me with any internet) so I've been a bit o...
Posted by Art on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:00:00 PST

Ahem

..To the gentleman (or gentlewoman) who threw a lit cigerette into the back seat of my topless jeep the other night while I slept: thank you ever so kindly. I'm sorry you didn't burn the whole car dow...
Posted by Art on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:17:00 PST

Currently Listening:

    AwesomenessTrack listing hereI continue to be impressed with the breadth and depth of knowledge these two guys have.  You should be listening to this.  Japan's "Ghosts" is...
Posted by Art on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:25:00 PST