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David

So...what am I supposed to understand?

About Me

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My Interests

Music:

On my iPod you'll find the following: M.I.A., Kings Of Leon, The Liars, The National, BRMC, Shout Out Louds, Wolfmother, Asobi Seksu, The 88, Clinic, Doves, French Kicks, Cat Power, Editors, The Go! Team, Hot Hot Hat, Kasabian, Mylo, The Rakes, The Constantines, Deerhoof, Broadcast, Broken Social Scene, The Arcade Fire, Midnight Movies, The Postal Service, Rogue Wave, Metric, The Rapture, Franz Ferdinand, Bloc Party, Spoon, Interpol, The New Pornographers, The Shins, Stereolab, The Strokes, The Yeah Yeah Yeah's, Enon, The American Analog Set, A Tribe Called Quest, The Beta Band, Blonde Redhead, The Breeders, Bright Eyes, DJ Shadow, Ztrip, Daft Punk, Kanye West, JayZ, Dead Kennedys, Death Cab For Cutie, Dinosaur Jr, XTC, Iron and Wine, M Ward, Jurassic 5, Massive Attack, Mos Def, Public Enemy, Gang Starr (the best rap group, ever!) The Strokes, The Kinks, The Beach Boys (pre Brian Wilson meltdown), The Clash, Sex Pistols, The Beatles, The Who, The Velvet Underground, MC5, The Stooges, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Television, Tom Waits, Tom Petty, The Buzzcocks, The Eagles, ELO, The Fall, Joy Division, The Kinks, Marvin Gaye, Miles Davis, My Bloody Valentine, The Smiths, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, James Brown, Janis Joplin, Jane's Addiction, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Jon Brion, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Liz Phair, Lou Reed, Louis Prima, Love, Son Volt, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, Van Morrison,Wilco, Uncle Tupelo, Elliott Smith, Pavement, Beck, Pinback, The White Stripes, Fugazi, The Flaming Lips, The Pixies, Bjork, The Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, The Verve, Blur, Nirvana, Elvis Costello, Jeff Buckley, Johnny Cash, Oasis, Patsy Cline, Billie Holliday, Patti Smith, PJ Harvey, Potishead, REM, The Stones, The Stone Roses, Van Morrison, The Doors, Charlie Parker, Chet Baker, Billie Holliday, Max Roach, Muddy Waters, The Pogues, Portishead, Bebel Gilberto (especially that cute lil song about having somebody samba through life with her), Sarah McLachlan, Sheryl Crow...

Books:

The Pursuit of Happyness - Chris Gardner Magie Cassidy - Kerouac, always fuckin Kerouac

My Blog

Ten years of Urban Hymns

Out of the gate, at first listen, the violins consume you.The horsehair lined bow and finger grasped stick-- first upand then down, then, the angelic second set of strings layerquietly in the backgrou...
Posted by David on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:45:00 PST

LA Cancer Challenge- Blog Entry

So, I was involved in this little race on the Westside of LA last Sunday, and in preparation of the big day, I decided to collect a little money. I sent e-mails to friends and co-workers; I posted bul...
Posted by David on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 08:59:00 PST

An ode to Jack Kerouac

Free association: this enchanting lord of journalistic purity, before the word processor, all set to the likes of Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Miles Davis (song and essence)-- set in a time of dr...
Posted by David on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 09:36:00 PST

Good days, bad days

Im not quite sure what caused this emotional funk as of late. The most convenient explanation is that I am just unhappy, and my anti-social behavior is masking the innermost part of me thats screaming...
Posted by David on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:56:00 PST

Be calculating in your assumption:

Be gracious and pleasant as your world tumbles down, in the days that follow. The candy cane characters and hold over traits that unraveled lately have consumed you completely, but you dont know it. C...
Posted by David on Wed, 17 May 2006 12:43:00 PST

The immigration debate:

The immigration debate:     If you are in a collegiate debate, one cardinal rule is this: you must win one of two arguments, the legal or philosophical; so if you're losing a debate o...
Posted by David on Tue, 11 Apr 2006 02:05:00 PST

The big misconception about immigration reform

As kids walked out of their classes (and adults from their jobs) earlier this week, in protest of the proposed immigration bill; they held up signs and chanted malicious slogans (spoken in Spanish) in...
Posted by David on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:52:00 PST

My Father and the Change of the Seasons.

The night sky of winter is a dark and cold space that has a tendency to disrupt rational thought when you're a kid. I'd look up and contemplate if the lack of contact with my father was a good or...
Posted by David on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:22:00 PST

Brown people who wear turbins: need not apply.

Dubai finally throws up its hands and after weeks of inter-party wrangling, congressional opposition, threats of presidential vetoes and straight up fear-mongering; the Dubai-owned company -that was s...
Posted by David on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:48:00 PST

The increasing violence in Iraq has made me so befuddled.

This Administration has frowned on the notion that Iraqi's are sliding into a civil war but Sunni's and Shiites have been at each others throats since the days of Muhammed, way back in 632. They've d...
Posted by David on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 05:47:00 PST