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About Me

It's no longer 4:30am and tomorrow has come at last, so I think it's time to say something. *I have almost earned a degree (one incomplete from last fall) from SIUC.**(--- That is no longer true. I've finally graduated!)*[---I was being hasty there, after a fuck up by SIU I've finally officially graduated]***{---It took SIUC six months to fix the error. I have finally received my dipolma} Lots of time will be spent reading and improving my Japanese (which never really happened). The rest of the time will be spent making music in multiple bands (upon retrospect, by multiple, I really meant one) and doing the normal activies of the people in my age bracket.

I have my own band: Shopping is a Feeling .
One more year and I'm out! (That year has finally come, although I think I wrote that two years ago, maybe not).
Chicago here I come, and I'm bringing some company!

My Interests

Music - Electronic, Postpunk, Punk Rock, Jazz, Classical, Experimental, Noise, Old Country, Various sub-genres and derivatives of certain afore-mentioned musical styles; Synthesizers and drum machines - Playing, Programming, Building; Politics - especially IR and democratic theory, definitely not American; Philosophy - aesthetics/art, political; History - Non Western in particular; Japan; Japanese culture; Art - (in particular and most interesting to me)Dada and Fluxus; Reading books related to the afore-mentioned interests

I'd like to meet:

Everyone in this video. (as long as they still exist now as they did then)

Music:

Depeche Mode, New Order, Joy Division, Ramones, Adult., A Certain Ratio, Brian Eno, Tangerine Dream, Mike Patton, Atari Teenage Riot, Merzbow, Talking Heads, David Byrne, XTC, Yaz, Ladytron, Crass, Alec Empire, Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Ultravox, Claude Debussy, Sergei Rachmaninov, Selby Tigers, The Methodones, Sigur Ros, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Gang of Four, Erasure, Psychedelic Furs, Fad Gadget, X-Ray Specs, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Stone Roses, The Smiths, Morrisey, The Happy Mondays, Whitehouse, The Velvet Underground, John Cage, Phillip Glass, John Zorn, Faith No More, John Coltraine, Ella Fiztgerald, Astrud Gilberto, Subhumans, Stan Getz, Squarepusher, Plastikman, Sonic Youth, Rush, Reagan Youth, The Riverdales, The Eugenics Council, Pizzicato Five, Melt-Banana, Saladabar, New Low, Nhhmbase, Music From the Mars, Deracine, Towelket Guitar, YMO, Ryuichi Sakamoto

Television:

The Simpsons, Family Guy, PBS kids shows, ATHF, Full House, The "L" Word, Mystery, MST3K, My guilty pleasures- All My Children and One Life To Live

Books:

Currently reading - Music Synthesizers:A Manual of Design & Construction/Delton T. Horn; last night a dj saved my life/Bill Brewster+Frank Broughton

Check out my humble library

Heroes:

Mike Patton, Brian Wilson, Brian Eno, David Byrne, David Bowie, Martin Gore, Kraftwerk, The Ramones, Voltaire, John Cage, John Zorn, James Chance, Luigi Russolo

My Blog

The Beginning of the Beginning

Here I am in Chicago. I'm sitting in the "red room". I assume it's named so due to the extreme use of red paint on the walls. I shouldn't have been awake until 8 am Saturday night/Sunday morning. ...
Posted by Jeff on Tue, 13 May 2008 11:16:00 PST

Hmmm

The Cars were right, "You can't go on, thinking nothing's wrong".
Posted by Jeff on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 01:09:00 PST

Stuff is better

My life has steadily improved since that last post. I took the GRE on Saturday. I did pretty good for having only studied for a week prior. As far as I can tell, my journey toward gr...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 02:59:00 PST

Stuff

Lots of things have happen over the last nine months since my last post. Maybe I'll talk about them. Right now I'm sad.
Posted by Jeff on Fri, 05 May 2006 09:59:00 PST

Kaetta

Back. You'd be surprised who you meet at the airport the day after Fuji Rock Festival. The Mars Volta are nice guys. They let me cut in front of them, so I wouldn't miss my flight. I...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

This is the end.

The end of many things is coming soon. I may not have the chance to post again until I return to America. There's that vomit feeling I get when I think about going back. Let's see, things have been ov...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Another Sleepless Night

Once again I find myself at an internet bar not getting sleep. Fuck. At least I get free soft drinks. Well yesterday I got a haircut and bought a CD. The CD: Hemophiliac from John Zorn`s 50th b...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I'm still never going back to the USA

Well, it looks like I'm still not going back to Carbondale, USA. I've been offered an internship at the new school taking SIUC's place in Nakajo. I should be staying until August making my stay in J...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

chotto byoki

I've been a little sick over the past couple of days, so I've decided to quit smoking earlier than I had planned. I'm going to Tokyo this weekend. It's been over a month since I've been back(I was ...
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Just a reminder(I'm aging soon)

My day of birth is arriving at break-neck speeds i.e. Feb. 25(stop) I expect presents to be bought and set aside until I return to the Island of North America(stop) End
Posted by Jeff on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST