basmati profile picture

basmati

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

If Mary dropped my baby girl tonight, I would name her Rock and Roll.

Create your own MySpace Layouts using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

My Interests

All stages of music production, from composition to recording/engineering to performance.
Vintage scooters [Vespa | Lambretta]
Modding & Tweaking Gadgetry [Computers, Stereos, Game Consoles, iPods, Phones]
Film [Not to be confused with Movies]
Photography [An admitted novice]
TEH INTARWEBS
Microbrew/Import Beer
Wine [Predominantly France, Italy, Austria]
Coffee [From the finer points of preparation/art to consumption]

I'd like to meet:

So David Lynch, Werner Herzog, and Hayao Miyazaki walk into a bar...

Music:

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.
- Frank Zappa

Movies:

FILM people, film.
Citzen Kane
Style Wars
Incident At Loch Ness
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Rushmore
Team America: World Police
M
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Blue Velvet
Mulholland Drive
The Straight Story
Raising Arizona
The Crimson Pig
Spirited Away
Audition
Zebraman
The Holy Mountain
Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy

Television:

The Simpsons
Futurama
Family Guy
Robot Chicken
Upright Citizens Brigade
Look Around You
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Lance Krall Show
The Ernie Kovacs Show
Chappelle's Show
Mr. Show with Bob and David
The Kids in the Hall
The Daily Show

Books:

Bushwacked: Life in George W. Bush's America; Molly Ivins
Faster; James Gleick
Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs : A Low Culture Manifesto; Chuck Klosterman
One Nation under Goods: Malls and the Seductions of American Shopping; James J. Farrell
Chronicles; Bob Dylan
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong; James Loewen
Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War; Judith Stephen, William Miller, Engelberg, Broad

Heroes:

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
- Bob Dylan

My Blog

Old news that bears repeating.

NewsCorp, the parent company of Fox News, has purchased Intermix Media, owner of Myspace.com. This has implications for myspace down the road that I don't agree with, on several levels. This wil...
Posted by basmati on Sun, 20 Nov 2005 07:57:00 PST

Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe

For eva eva, FOR EVA EVA?
Posted by basmati on Sat, 05 Nov 2005 11:18:00 PST

MY SHOES HURT!

So much rain. So much bad music. So much pain in my feet and legs. At least I heard The Specials, Devo, and James Brown throughout the saga that was a hosted wedding / reception today. Are w...
Posted by basmati on Sun, 09 Oct 2005 06:23:00 PST

Against the odds.

Here it is BAM and you say GOD DAMN this is a dope jam.
Posted by basmati on Sat, 08 Oct 2005 07:34:00 PST