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About Me

I have turned my love of choral music into a vocation. (I teach at the Santa Barbara City College Music Department, I have a church gig, and I started my own semi-professional chorus, see below.) I have a lovely wife and two nutty kids, (see pics), who keep me busy. Love travelling, reading, and working out when I can.The Quire of VoycesEverything can be taken from a man but ...the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way. Victor Frankl

My Interests

dead composers, a few live ones, travel, sarcasm, electro-lounge music, fine ales, horror flicks, photography, biking, hiking, running, diving, modern design, high end audio, roadsters, gardening, yerba mate, bourbon and of course, SINGLE MALT WHISKEY!

I'd like to meet:

John Stewart, Noam Chomsky, Al Franken, Dalai Lama, Bill Clinton, people who use their brains, like to travel, and enjoy themselves. Your results:
You are Iron Man Iron Man 100% Spider-Man 70% Green Lantern 70% Supergirl 60% The Flash 60% Robin 55% Wonder Woman 50% Superman 50% Catwoman 45% Hulk 35% Batman 30% Inventor. Businessman. Genius.
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Music:

CHORAL MUSIC: Renaissance, Modern a cappella, Bach, Tallis & Handel.ELECTRONIC: Morcheeba, Groove Armada, St. Germain, Tosca, Mo Horizon, Blue Six, Gotan Project, Thievery Corporation,SALSA: Los Vientos del Sur, Afro-Cuban All-Stars, Perez Prado, Benny More, Ruben GonzalezHIP-HOP: Lyrics Born, Orishas, 90's hip-hop, Jazzhole, Guru, Charlie Tuna,LOUNGE: Sinatra, Ella, Louis Prima, Mancini,FUNK: all of itR&B: Ray Charles, Erika Badu,

Movies:

sci-fi, horror, comedy, foreign

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Television:

the Daily Show, otherwise TV sucks..

Books:

non-fiction: travel, philosophy, sociology, psychology, politics, religion..... currently reading :Chomsky's 'Hegemony or Survival"

Heroes:

Elementary School Teachers, my family, Dalai Lama,

My Blog

A plan to save the country

A plan to save the countryBy Garrison KeillorAugust 31, 2006It's the best part of summer, the long, lovely passage into fall. A procession of lazy, golden days that my sandy-haired, gap-toothed little...
Posted by Nathan on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 02:01:00 PST

Challenging the Culture of Obedience

Challenging the Culture of Obedience by Ross C. AndersonA patriot is a person who loves his or her country. Who among you lovesyour country so much that you have come here today to raise your voiceo...
Posted by Nathan on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 11:56:00 PST

the little man

The little man History will remember Bush as an incompetent and incurious man overwhelmed by a world too big for him. By Garrison Keillor Feb. 08, 2006 | The headline of the AP story was "Bush ...
Posted by Nathan on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:29:00 PST

Pinter's speech

Harold Pinter Nobel Lecture Art, Truth & Politics In 1958 I wrote the following: 'There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal, nor between what is true and what i...
Posted by Nathan on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 09:50:00 PST

this may seem a little obvious, but....

This Isn't the Real America By Jimmy Carter The Los Angeles Times Monday 14 November 2005 In recent years, I have become increasingly concerned by a host of radical government policies that ...
Posted by Nathan on Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:49:00 PST

conductor comments

These are claimed to be actual comments by an unnamed conductor of an orchestra in the northeast. 1. "I try not to look, because then I see." 2. "Terrible rhythmic training. Why don't you kill...
Posted by Nathan on Thu, 10 Nov 2005 02:18:00 PST