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captain rich

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I used to have an unequivocal knack for being humble, but it ended up going to my head.. also a starving artist. please support independent music and buy my tracks yo. it will only lead to more music..... ..

My Interests

Art/Music, film, other kinds of sound, vintage instruments, old stuff in general, travelling, new stuff, Ska, Reggae, Rocksteady, Trumpet, Soul, Jazz, Be-Bop, etc...

I'd like to meet:

people who are committed to the truth. Interesting folks. People who bang on things for the purpose of sound. people who think in terms of their direction, not just their location. musicians and artists who appriciate the undergound of the underground, love what they do, and are not in it for the money. people who hate what they do. Thinkers, music lovers, artists, the homeless community, and whoever else feels like typing.

Music:

westbound train, the void union, captainchristmas, cake, devo, clifford brown, derrick morgan, the ethiopians, primus, the slackers, soulive, the Techniques, TMBG, ben folds, tom waits, curtis mayfield, lee morgan, hepcat, skatalites, kool keith, krs1, don cherry, the phenomenauts, The Drastics, Alton Ellis, the toasters, the specials, english beat, the selecter, grooved pavement, ethan stone, girl parts, neutral milk hotel, white stripes, elvis, elvis, cash, miles, freddie, clark , woody, louis....

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, I heart Huckabees, Nightmare before christmas, My life aquatic, adaptation...

Television:

Simpsons, The Daily Show, Nova, Aqua Teen, yacht rock, Futurama...

Books:

The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (from a to b and back again), The way of Zen, Mysticism of Sound and Music, A Brief History Of Time, Get in the van...

Heroes:

Les Claypool, Alan Watts, Clifford Brown, My Mom, Tom Waits, John Coltrane...

My Blog

yup

haikus are stupidi prefer not to write thembut sometimes i do
Posted by captain rich on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:50:00 PST

stupid poem 4

I loose my mind at least twice a day when things unfold like they did this may...If I could ride in a magic van it would seem to lend the upper hand, but that seldom works out how its planned, so ill ...
Posted by captain rich on Tue, 22 May 2007 02:35:00 PST

Switzerland,Belgium,Germany,England,France, and Italy...

Hello friends and family,So I'm in Milan, Italy today. The tour has been great so far -I figured I should blog it. We were in Switzerland a week ago, I have been there twice before but for some reas...
Posted by captain rich on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 12:48:00 PST

im alive!

hello friends and family,I just wanted to write while I can to say that I am alive, so far. We got into Madrid three days ago and I havent had much luck with internet since. The shows so far have be...
Posted by captain rich on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 07:08:00 PST

on the road again -to my friends and family...

hey friends and family, i hope everyone is well and having a wonderful spring... well its about that time again for me; im leaving monday to once again hit the trail with my good friends in westboun...
Posted by captain rich on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:11:00 PST

i'm a bad speler

Hey, anyone who ever reads this bolg. I have had some time off recently, and I've been spanding my time working on some side projects that I don't get a chance to work on much when I'm on the road wi...
Posted by captain rich on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:01:00 PST

i am chanting this into a mirror

1-23-07Tuesday morning, two fifty-eight am. As I walk to the fridge to get another bowl of generic frosted mini wheat's with honey and maple walnut granola, I arrive. Things are not necessarily ok. ...
Posted by captain rich on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 01:36:00 PST

another bad haiku about itself

heres my new haikui'm writing it on the flyit's kind of awful
Posted by captain rich on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:28:00 PST

can i get you a drink, or perhaps some psychotropics?

This is just the letter I was asked to write to the Burbank management office yesterday recounting the day before.... Oh and this should be it for a little while, as I am leaving for Florida today to...
Posted by captain rich on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:00:00 PST

here's why I had to pretend to be on the phone with the cops today...

Ok, anyone who has ever bothered to actually read any of my blogs knows that my neighbor, who lives directly below me, is an absolute freaking nut-job. I woke up to a metallic banging sound today, co...
Posted by captain rich on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 02:59:00 PST