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Berferd and the Hats

Those window clings really give me a lot of hipster cred.

About Me

hey hippies! do you like the beatnick music? well then be my musical friend by friending me on my musical myspace .
i'll tell you what, i'm a real pickle.
i have been known to smoke a pipe. i own an $80 Peterson.
i own a $1000 sitar.
i own two 1989 Saab 900s. you want one? you can have the gray one.
i own two Rhodes pianos. you want one? JUST KIDDING.
i own 1,000,000 hats, which i keep on a hatrack. berferd keeps them safe.
i own a Wurlitzer 200A.
i own way too much stuff.
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My Interests


rhodes pianos, rhodes music, peanut butter, tea, sine waves and harmonics and stuff, myspace, my FIANCEE, mod design, mod art, mod furniture, mod houses, mod food, mod kittens, mod pieces of lint, music music music, sitar, piano, guitar sometimes, funk keyboards (wurlitzers, clavinets, rhodes, you know), true love, Jesus, coffee and its shops, H&M, t-shirts, cooking sometimes, bluegrass, indie music, indian music, jazz, recording music, music, playing music, circus music, GINA, arp and moog synthesizers, deep contemplation, God, being superior to everyone, cats, wine, talking for hours, being genuine, genuine people, hilariousness, things that make no sense, relating to people on a deep level which is rare, cheese
http://www.shopodd.com
http://www.allmusic.com

I'd like to meet:

harold rhodes, chick corea, herbie hancock, the majority of my friends

Music:

Beck
Herbie Hancock
Rufus Wainwright
Starlight Mints
The Shins
Ben Folds (Five)
Badly Drawn Boy
Greyboy Allstars
Lemon Jelly
Elliott Smith
The Magnetic Fields
Kraftwerk
Stereolab
Cornelius
Yo La Tengo
Dust Brothers
Bran Van 3000
Pizzicato Five
"Pure Funk" 1&2
The Moony Suzuki
The Beatles
Danny Elfman
Medeski Martin & Wood
old blues guys like Mississippi Fred MacDowell
Grand Funk Railroad
The Strokes
The White Stripes
Jamiroquai
Marcy Playground
The Toadies
Sunny Day Real Estate
BS 2000
Nick Drake
Johann Sabastian Bach
Jimmy McGriff
Keith Jarret
Steely Dan
Ramsey Lewis
Portishead
Kings of Convenience
Pavement
DJ Vadim
Wendy Carlos
Vince Guaraldi
Ohio Players
Jimmy McGriff
Earth Wind & Fire
Johnny Costa
Coldplay
Moldy Peaches
The Verve
Lothar & the Hand People
Belle & Sebastian
Charlie Rouse
Airto
Sly & The Family Stone
Dimirti from Paris
Junior Senior
George Duke
The Tannahill Weavers
Kartik Seshadri
Charlie Rouse
Ben Kweller (my arch nemesis)
The Lovin' Spoonful
Thomas Dolby
Elvis Costello
Gary Numan
Otis Redding
Keith Jarett
Bud Powell
Chick Corea
Woodie Guthrie
Beat Happening
James Brown
Boards of Canada
Beta Band
Henry Mancini
HiJack
Fugu
Ravi Shankar
Modest Mouse
Steven Malkmus & The Jicks
The Swingle Singers
Jimi Hendrix
The Apples in Stereo
Death Cab for Cutie
The Sea and Cake
Electric Soft Parade
Postal Service
Cat Power
Mouse on Mars
Tosca Tango Orchestra
Wagon Christ
Towa Tei
Groove Collective
Blood, Sweat & Tears
DJ Shadow
Plumb
DJ QBert
Sondre Lerche
Mary Timony
Pedro the Lion
Flake Music
Fantastic Plastic Machine
Quickspace
American Analog Set
Aluminum Group
Esquivel
Martin Denny
Dungen
Luther Picket
and yet I am still very picky.

Movies:

Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
Big Top Pee-wee
Cannibal! The Musical
Breakfast of Champions
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Waking Life
Magnolia
Adaptation
Fight Club
Pi
Ernest Goes to Jail
Slingblade
Bowling for Columbine
Requiem for a Dream
Eraserhead
High Fidelity
The Big Lebowski
Baseketball
The Royal Tenenbaums
Ernest Goes to Camp
Office Space
Dark City
Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Snatch
Trainspotting
Rushmore
Clockwork Orange
Bottle Rocket
THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU
Napoleon Dynamite
ET CETERA

Television:

National Geographic Channel
Comedy Central
The Science Channel
MST3K
and, of course, Lassie.
no no, I mean: and of course, The Simpsons.

Books:

The Bible
The Hipster Handbook
A Clockwork Orange
Breakfast of Champions and other selected Vonnegut titles
Science & Music by Sir James Jeans
The Oxford Book of English Verse
The Purpose-driven Life
This Book Will Change Your Life
A Catcher in the Rye
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Giver
Calvin & Hobbes anthologies
The Great Gatspy
C.S. Lewis gems like Mere Christianity, Screwtape Letters, and The Great Divorce
any book about language and etymology such as The Story of English
A Brief History of Time
ET AL.

Heroes:

those brave fire fighters who lost their lives in the tragedy over there in Iraq
no wait, thats not right

My Blog

Waltart? Talmarget?

I WORK FOR TARGET AGAIN. Why do I do this to myself? It really is an addicting company. It's the methadone to Walmart's heroin. I really thought I was done with it, but when I needed someone, and no o...
Posted by Berferd and the Hats on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:01:00 PST

A man’s holiday

I carried our fucking Christmas tree into the house on my man-shoulder. I didn't wipe my damn feet like a pussy would. When I got it inside I held it up with one hand while I slamm...
Posted by Berferd and the Hats on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:23:00 PST

Ode to My Hair: a short poem by Trich O'Felia

My Hair My hair makes many jealous. My hair makes Mommy proud. My hair can do a million things. It stands out in a crowd. My hair is quite luxurious. My hair is never combed. My hair is certified orga...
Posted by Berferd and the Hats on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 05:55:00 PST

reach out and brush someone(s teeth)

i really don't care for the song "cocaine" by eric clapton due to its general overwhelming suckness, and now i'm required to participate in an exact reproduction of that song for a stud...
Posted by Berferd and the Hats on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 06:09:00 PST

bruth your teex

do you pea-pl realize that i've been on myspace since 2003? when was that? i don't even remember when that was. 2003? was that .. was that back before every cell phone had a camera? i think it was....
Posted by Berferd and the Hats on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 08:51:00 PST

FIRST BLOG IN FOREVER! And it's a survey, sorry.

I fell asleep numerous times toward the end. Don't even ask me to proofread it.   Do you get good grades in school? me fail english? well, i got good grades until high school. then i gave up on l...
Posted by Berferd and the Hats on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:27:00 PST

SITAR FOR SALE

yeah here's the same thing i posted as an away message, AND in live journal, AND as a bulletin. i just thought you might enjoy reading it again: anyone want to buy my old sitar? $200 or best offe...
Posted by Berferd and the Hats on Sat, 03 Dec 2005 11:34:00 PST

!!!!!!!! WURLITZER

I PLAYED A WURLITZER TODAY let me explain. so. all my life i have loved Rhodes and Wurlitzers. all my life, ever since i heard Return to Forever's "Light as a Feather" on LP because my dad listened...
Posted by Berferd and the Hats on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST