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About Me

I'll let you know when I've finished workin' on it...

My Interests

Capoeira, Computers, Music, Snowboarding, Max/MSP/Jitter, Synesthesia.

Music:

Squarepusher, Amon Tobin, Zap Mama, Greyscale, Top Cats, Thelonius Monk, Aphex Twin, Dave Fitzhugh, Yolk, Radiohead, The Mars Volta, Joshua Redman, Lamb, Talking Heads, Fugazi, NOFX, Soul Coughing, Super Silent, Terry S. Taylor -- Imaginarium, Tori Amos, Tom Waits, Capoeira, India Arie, Björk, Photek, Jamal-Ski, the Smiths, Erykah Badu, Who Cares, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Mos Def, Brand New Heavies, Tribe..., Gry, Portishead, Tool, Perfect Thyröid, Sepultura, Faith No More, Midtown, Deftones, Reprazent, DJ Krust, Kid Beyond, Mr. Bungle, Earthiling Massive, A Perfect Circle, Skindred, Lostprophets, Postal Service, They Might Be Giants, Blip-Hop in General, Noises, Buzzes, Whistles, Bells, and Playa.

Movies:

Nightmare Before Christmas, Dark Crystal, DJ Qbert's Wavetwisters, City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, Amelie, Fight Club, Seven, π, Requiem for a Dream, Alien, Legend, TRON, the Matrix, Pulp Fiction, Four Rooms, Ninja Scroll, Big Trouble in Little China, Real Genius, Better Off Dead, Top Secret, Water Babies, the Last Unicorn, Clash of the Titans, Seven, 12 Monkeys, Brasil, Time Bandits.

Television:

Option 1:

Turn it off. Wait until the show is off the air. Think long and hard about it. Consider buying the series on DVD.

Option 2:

Turn it off. Go to the website for the station (hopefully PBS), find out when the series is available on DVD. See the second half of option one.

Books:

Tolkien -- the works, Alice in Wonderland, Harry Potter, The Stormbringer Saga, Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Handbook, On Truth and Lying..., the entire O'Reilly Catalog, Composing Interactive Music in Max/MSP, MIDI for the Professional, Things Fall Apart, The Quiet American, Dog Soldiers, Animal Farm, We, 1984, Faherenheit 451, Watership Down.

Heroes:

Nicole and Jeff

My Blog

In strange footsteps

A year ago I was in the same place and ready to go home... There has only been one truly cathartic return to the desert. I said goodbye to a very dear friend and watched friends say goodbye to sorel...
Posted by dB on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:15:00 PST

Short and Sweet

Short:Insomnia is now getting on my nerves. Bikram yoga is an amazing practice.You should all eat more fiber.Sweet:I miss the fucking dogs. I miss the puke mouthed, psycho-obssessive, stick fetching...
Posted by dB on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:09:00 PST

Stealing Pizza

Dreams and the supernatural seems a far more interesting topic than anything that has been going on lately... spent the larger half of the morning rearranging a hotel room just so it can function as a...
Posted by dB on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 03:14:00 PST

Production Office Afterhours

Sore throat... wandering in and out of cigarette smoke. I am excited about showering tomorrow, instead in these gang rape cloisters with overhead plumbing. I hope we are in a shit hole devoid of inte...
Posted by dB on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:09:00 PST

A goodbye for now...

Home alone. Buzzed from passing company... Short on time and change. A maelstrom opens its mouth... And inhales a cheap red. To be alone on the playa, surrounded by nothing, lost in a dust storm... ...
Posted by dB on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 09:21:00 PST

A plan came together...

Still outta sorts... too much coffee. To little coffee. Need to do a few weeks of yoga, tweaked my back getting off the stage last night. Come to think of it I have no idea how Donna or the background...
Posted by dB on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:00:00 PST

Coming and Going

My clock seems a little more off then normal, can't seem to sync up food, sleep, business hours. I am all over the map, usually have an easier times adjusting to longer time zone differences. I ofte...
Posted by dB on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:35:00 PST

Not one for bells and whistles

I am generally a little too cynical, jaded -- to get excited over material things... yes, occasionally I am a pretentious asshole, after all I have an MFA. However, I just had christmas early... Lost...
Posted by dB on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 12:46:00 PST

A great loss...

It seems that violence qualifies and quantifies the great movements of our time... With the passing of Rosa Parks, we have lost a great reminder that sweeping change does need to begin in or perpetua...
Posted by dB on Thu, 03 Nov 2005 05:15:00 PST

Disco Deluge Invasion

It seems that it isn't black metal alone that inspires ubiquitous day-of-show precipitation. As of late the disco diva consistently inspires heavenly egestion  take that how you will. Bless'd b...
Posted by dB on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST