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About Me

I play guitar and bass in Viva la Venus. I like to go outside to play and be reminded that there is a world out there with a big warm, sun to keep us alive. I think people who pass judgement on others because they differ in religion, culture, skin color, sexual orientation or religion need to take a good hard look at how they can improve themselves, not others. I believe that peace (personal and universal) can only come through acceptance, understanding and goodwill towards oneself as well as others. To accept others, we must accept ourselves.

Check out my band's MySpace page at http://www.myspace.com/vivalavenus .

My Interests

Music: playing guitar, bass, and occasionally drumming (doumbek). Mountain biking, hiking, tennis, canoeing, good food, mirth and merriment. And... yeah, okay, I like the Internet.

I'd like to meet:

Folks who like to have FUN!

Viva la Venus at Volume 11 Tavern, July 2007
Cover of "Take It Off" by The Donnas. Video by Karen Mann

Music:

Oh... there's so much great music out there...
Of course, there's my current band, Viva la Venus

A partial list:
Ember Swift , Lake Trout , Jonathan Byrd , Velvet , Gerty! , Robo Sapien , Lactose Quervo , Fluttr Effect , Stephanie's Id , A Problem of Alarming Dimensions , Out of Orbit , Sound Tribe Sector 9, Franz Ferdinand, Dzihan & Kamien, Thievery Corporation, Mephisto Odyssey, Paul Van Dyk, Paul Oakenfold, Solar Plexus, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, KMFDM, Ministry, Sepultura, Sonic Youth, Queen, Earth, Wind & Fire, Hobex, Jamiroquai, Scissor Sisters, Rasputina, Ani Difranco, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Muddy Waters, k.d. lang, Trina Hamlin , Jamie Anderson , Wishing Chair , Melissa Ferrick, Le Tigre, Loreena McKennitt, Zap Mama, Sweet Honey in the Rock, Yes, Pink Floyd, Rush, Led Zeppelin, Boston, Fleetwood Mac, Branford Marsalis, Miles Davis, Patsy Cline, Eurythmics / Annie Lennox, Natalie Merchant, Throwing Muses, REM, U2...

To be continued...

Movies:

Movies I like:

Waking Life, What the Bleep Do We Know, anything by Nick Park (e.g., Wallace & Gromit ), Monty Python's Life of Brian, Team America, Mars Attacks, Blade Runner, and a bunch of others I can't think of right now.

Television:

Daily Show (don't have cable anymore, so don't get to watch it much), Millenium (just bought the DVD's!), South Park, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, L Word (although I only get to watch it on DVD), Queer as Folk (again, on DVD)

Books:

Actually, I never read much. That's why I got an English Literature degree!

Here are some: Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, DaVinci Code, Celestine Prophecy, Ishmael...

Authors: Kurt Vonnegut, Jonathan Swift, Walt Whitman, Annie Dillard, Margaret Atwood, August Wilson, John Edgar Wideman

My secret online addiction: Etemenanki

Heroes:

Dr. Susan, International Woman of Mystery

My Blog

End of an era - My Farewell Show

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Posted by mab on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:56:00 PST

Done deal...

Oh my god, I've been working my a$$ off for the past two months, trying to purge all my worldly possessions. It's EXHAUSTING!But... the good news is, we closed on the house yesterday and I should be ...
Posted by mab on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:12:00 PST

Big Brother and the IT Company...

I am a web developer. I spend much of my time at work on the Internet. Apparently, I (and presumably others) spent too much of that time at work on MySpace and they've blocked access to th...
Posted by mab on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 05:20:00 PST

New Zealand Photos

Oh yeah... for those of you who weren't on my non-MySpace email list... here are links to the photos from my New Zealand trip. Enjoy! http://www.flickr.com/photos/barckhoff/collections/721576008 584635...
Posted by mab on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:37:00 PST

Wanna see something gross??

Here's a picture of my "hematoma haunch" after my mountain biking mishap in New Zealand. I tried to cross a stream and it attacked me and threw my bike at my leg. It was rather sore for a few days a...
Posted by mab on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:56:00 PST

Global Warming: Education or Propoganda?

Egads. So, Melanie Morgan writes on WorldNetDaily that the Weather Channel has suddenly turned into some "leftist propoganda machine" because they are attempting to educate people about global warmin...
Posted by mab on Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:47:00 PST

I'm ba-a-ack! (Again)

Yes, I've come back from down-under -- NZ (that's "En-Zed" in Kiwi). I think the jetlag is setting in... not sure what time my body thinks it is yet, but I have a feeling it will be variable in the n...
Posted by mab on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:08:00 PST

Two more weeks!!!

Only two more weeks until I leave for New Zealand!!! I can't wait!!!! It'll be summer time and I won't have to freeze my a$$ off in PA (sorry to friends and family who live there).I'm exci...
Posted by mab on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:57:00 PST

Good quote

Here's a good quote from something I was reading recently: "Fear is not your enemy. It is a compass pointing you to the areas where you need to grow. So when you encounter a new fear within yourself, ...
Posted by mab on Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:05:00 PST

A new period of enlightenment...

So, I recently watched the movie, The Secret. I'm thinking about having a Secret party... It's all about the law of attraction -- how we manifest reality in our lives. It's good stuff. Metaphysical/ph...
Posted by mab on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:17:00 PST