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Gottlieb

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About Me

I'm terrible at being concise: My passion is social/political activism, it gives my life meaning but I'm not pretentious about it. My other passion is music. And baseball.

My Interests

music, activism, reading, community, philosophy, history, drums, baseball, golf, wiffleball, 380s n'sh*t, thinking.

I'd like to meet:

Activists, Musicians, those who like being told the truth.

Music:

And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead..., A Tribe Called Quest, Abyssinian Creole, Aceyalone, Acid House Kings, Adam Green, Aesop Rock, The Album Leaf, American Football, The Arcade Fire, Art Blakey, The B-52's, Barry White, The Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Benny Goodman, Bill Evans, Billy Preston, Black Sabbath, Blonde Redhead, Blue Scholars, Boards of Canada, Bob Dylan, Bobby Timmons, Bootsy Colins, Broken Social Scene, Buddy Rich, Buena Vista Social Club, Cannonball Adderley, Cattle Decapitation, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Chick Correa, The Chocolate Watchband, Chuck Berry, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Common, Count Basie and his Orchestra, Country Joe McDonald, The Cure, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Dave Miner, Dave Weckl, David Bowie, Dead Prez, Dizzie Gillespie, Django Reinhardt, DJ Krush, DJ Shadow, Do Make Say Think, Don Caballaro, The Doors, Dragonforce, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Duke Ellington, Earth, Wind & Fire, Electric Light Orchestra, Ella Fitzgerald, Elliott Smith, Elton John, Elvin Jones, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Elvis Presley, Explosions In The Sky, The Faint, Four Tet, Gang Starr, Gene Krupa, George Clinton, George Harrison, Ghostface Killah, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Guru, Herbie Hancock, The Higher Intelligence Agency, Hot Water Music, Ike Quebec, Immortal Technique, Interpol, Iron & Wine, Iron Maiden, J-Live, Jack DeJohnette, James Brown, Jedi Mind Tricks, Jeru The Damaja, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, John Coltrane, John Lennon, John McLaughlin, John Mayer Trio, Johnny Cash, John Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra, Joe Pass, Joy Division, Jurassic 5, K-os, Kanye West, Kenny Dorham, KRS-ONE, Ladytron, Lee Morgan, Leonard Cohen, Lionel Hampton, Louis Logic, Ludwig van Beethoven, LWHS Music Department, Lyrics Born, Madvillian, Maynard Furgison, Max Roach, MF Doom, Michael Jackson, The Microphones, Miles Davis, Minus The Bear, Modern Jazz Quartet, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, The Moldy Peaches, Mos Def, The Mountain Goats, Mozart, Nas, Nick Drake, Oliver Nelson, OutKast, Paris, Paul Chambers, Pedro The Lion, Physics, Pink Floyd, Prefuse 73, Prince, Public Enemy, Queen, Radiohead, Randy Newman, Rage Against The Machine, Rakim, The Rapture, Ratatat, Ray Barbee, Ray Brown, Ray Charles, RJD2, The Roots, Royce Da 5'9, Rush, Sage Francis, Sharks Keep Moving, The Shins, Simon and Garfunkel, Slayer, Sly & The Family Stone, The Smiths, Snoop Doggy Dogg, Sonic Youth, Sonny Rollins, Squarepusher, Stan Getz, Stetsasonic, Strange Fruit Project, Stevie Wonder, Sweatshop Union, Taj Mahal, Talib Kweli, Tenacious D, Thelonious Monk, These Arms Are Snakes, Tommy Guerrero, Tower of Power, Tribalistas, TV On The Radio, Ugly Casanova, Ugly Duckling, Us3, The Velvet Underground, Vince Guaraldi Trio, War, Warren Zevon, Weather Report, Weird Al Yankovic, Wes Montgomery, Wolf Parade, Wu-Tang Clan, Wynton Marsalis, The X-Ecutuioners, Yesterday's New Quintet, Zach De La Rocha.

Movies:

American History X, BASEketball, Cannibal! The Musical, Full Metal Jacket, Malcom X, Dr. Strangelove, Broken Flowers, Dirty Work, Orgazmo, The Royal Tannenbaum's, Little Miss Sunshine, Superbad, Life Aquatic, Thank You For Smoking, Life Is Beautiful, Good Night and Good Luck, Repo Man, Coming to America, The Lion King, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Blow, The Usual Suspects, American Gangster, political/historical documentaries, Star Wars, Mel Brooks movies, Monty Python movies and Kevin Smith movies.

Television:

is on strike.

Books:

teach you so much, which is why nobody reads them.

Heroes:

Jesuits, draft dodgers, Dave Miner, Sam Paige and Ray Allen.

My Blog

words on music's integrity

Begin the dayWith a friendly voiceA companion, unobtrusivePlays that song thats so elusiveAnd the magic music makes your morning moodOff on your wayHit the open roadThere is magic at your fingersFor t...
Posted by Gottlieb on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 11:42:00 PST

hmmm.

You scored as Existentialist, Existentialism emphasizes human capability. There is no greater power interfering with life and thus it is up to us to make things happen. Sometimes considered a negative...
Posted by Gottlieb on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Einstein

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I hav...
Posted by Gottlieb on Sun, 26 Mar 2006 11:38:00 PST

Everytime I...

...hear somone say "The Strokes" I giggle vigourisly.
Posted by Gottlieb on Sun, 21 Aug 2005 11:24:00 PST

It's correct.

..http://images.quizilla.com/A/adayinthelife/1043304323_uizc homsky.JPG" border="0" alt="Chomsky">Anarcho-Syndicalist - You believe that governmentsand corporations are both equally evil.  Yout...
Posted by Gottlieb on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

"fuckin like ride garbage cans n' shit, fuckin do kickflips n' 380's and shit" : mmm, folklife.

Why don't we recap on yesterdays blast, shall we? Alllllrighty then! I had the honor of  having my iend, Alex Hupp, sleep over once again. We sat and listined to music, traded farts back and fort...
Posted by Gottlieb on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Doitdoitdoit!

1. Who are you? 2. Are we friends? 3. When and how did we meet? 4. Do you have a crush on me? 5. Would you kiss me? 6. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it. 7. Describe me in one wor...
Posted by Gottlieb on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A good quote from Barry Goldwater.

"However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a ...
Posted by Gottlieb on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST