Music is my vocation AND avocation. I realize that puts me in the one percentile and I never have license to complain about my life!
Collecting musical instruments and learning them to varying degrees is a related obsession. The ones I play well enough to list include: voice, guitar, bass, drums, keys, mandolin, Irish bouzouki, oud, gu zheng (koto), yang chin, D whistle, baglama saz, recorder, dumbek, tar, riq, djembe, etc.
Wealthy benefactors of the arts; friends to exchange rants with; any passionate creative types who follow their bliss.
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Brent
Birthday: 6-19
Birthplace: Tomah, WI
Current Location: Los Angeles, CA
Eye Color: Hazel
Hair Color: platinum blonde
Height: 5'9" (before hair)
Right Handed or Left Handed: Rightie
Your Heritage: Euro-mutt
The Shoes You Wore Today: none
Your Weakness: eBay music gear
Your Fears: Already realized, Four more years anyone?
Your Perfect Pizza: NY style greasy dripping pepperoni
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Finish album/get signed
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: Sorry, I'm married......
Thoughts First Waking Up: Sorry, I'm married......
Your Best Physical Feature: anterior superior illiac spine..?
Your Bedtime: loosely before sunrise
Your Most Missed Memory: the immortality of youth
Pepsi or Coke: either, diet only
MacDonalds or Burger King: ew, no supersizing ME, thank you
Single or Group Dates: single, much prefer intimacy of solo time
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: neither, green or Earl Grey
Chocolate or Vanilla: hmmm, I guess I'm "Vanilla" as I dont do dom/sub
Cappuccino or Coffee: yuck, causes nausea
Do you Smoke: never, ever, EVER (like smell of cloves, though)
Do you Swear: I try to limit swearing to maximize it's impact and shock value.
Do you Sing: yes, by profession
Do you Shower Daily: almost always
Have you Been in Love: yes
Do you want to go to College: ugh, not AGAIN!
Do you want to get Married: I already am
Do you belive in yourself: yes
Do you get Motion Sickness: nope, even in Air force planes doing maneuvers.
Do you think you are Attractive: sure, enough for eMpTyV? We'll see...
Are you a Health Freak: bordering on; carb cravings sabotage my otherwise valliant efforts
Do you get along with your Parents: very well, we're close
Do you like Thunderstorms: I love them, I often miss the dramatic Texas storms
Do you play an Instrument: got a while? Albiet poorly, I play lots of 'em that are difficult to pronounce to Westerners
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: yes
In the past month have you Smoked: no sir, dont' like it...not one bit
In the past month have you been on Drugs: no, nay, never
In the past month have you gone on a Date: no
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: no
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: no
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: no
In the past month have you been on Stage: YES! At long last, Yes!
In the past month have you been Dumped: no
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: no
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: that would depend largely on one's definition of intellectual property rights.
Ever been Drunk: yes
Ever been called a Tease: only by my gay bretheren
Ever been Beaten up: yes, by the stereotypical Beavis and Butthead "Todd" style bully with a mullet who was held back a few grades
Ever Shoplifted: see aforementioned quandry re: intellectual property rights
How do you want to Die: very old and alert, having made a difference in people's lives
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: the same thing I've wanted to be in my long protracted adolescence
What country would you most like to Visit: New Zealand
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: not particluar as long as they are fixed in my gaze
Favourite Hair Color: BLACK or some naturally dark brunette shade, or otherwise very unnatural colors
Short or Long Hair: depends on the face being framed
Height: average
Weight: waifish, pixie thin
Best Clothing Style: independent, vintage, retro, goth, Victorian, Victoria's Secret
Number of Drugs I have taken: almost zero
Number of CDs I own: 5000+
Number of Piercings: two
Number of Tattoos: zero
Number of things in my Past I Regret: too numerous to count, sadly; although I realize the futility of that endeavor
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ecclectic, KCRW, world fusion, early music, goth, retro 80s, powerpop, rock, prog, electroclash, ambient, bebop, shoegazer, classical, electronica, darkwave, swing, etc. I appreciate quality craft and heartfelt delivery in almost any genre.
Particular faves are: Dead Can Dance, David Sylvian, Sigur Ros, Peter Gabriel, Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn, Editors, Brian Eno, King Crimson, M83, Peter Murphy, Rush, Shiny Toy Guns, Bjork, Arvo Part, Depeche Mode, Yes, Alison Krauss, Radiohead, Henryk Gorecki, Sting, Interpol, Genesis, Massive Attack, Toru Takemitsu, Delerium, Igor Stravinski, Tori Amos, Jeff Buckley, Kate Bush, VAST, Sarah McLachlan, Tears For Fears, Loreena KcKennitt, Bowie, Led Zep, Hildegaard von Bingen, Tool, Miles Davis, APC, The Cure, Anglagard, NIN, Jellyfish, The Smiths, Dredg, Queen, Lycia, Vishwa Mohan Bhatt, Talk Talk, AfroCelt sound System, Sinatra, Happy Rhodes, Beatles, Coldplay, Jon Brion, Bel Canto, Icehouse, CSNY, Air, Echo & Bunnymen, Miranda Sex Garden, The Autumns, Pink Floyd, Mediaeval Baebes, Ravi Shankar, KD Lang, A Flock of Seagulls, Vas, Seal, Michael Brook, Anekdoten, Goldfrapp, U2, Lycia, Duran, Death Cab, QOTSA, Tan Dun, Cocteau Twins
Wrist opening dramas that expose the flaws/fallacy of the human condition; foreign fare, British humour, fake rockumentaries. Recent fare: Once, The Sea Inside, What the Bleep, Waking Life, Motorcycle Diaries, Rory O'Shea Was Here, Who Killed The Electric Car, Donnie Darco, Requiem For A Dream, Good Will Hunting
Directors I love include: Terry Gilliam, Jeunet & Caro, Steven Soderbergh, Richard Linklater, Martin Scorsese, Michel Gondry, Michael Moore, Kevin Smith, P.T. Anderson, Stanley Kubrick, Alexander Payne, Wim Wenders, Anthony Minghella, Milos Forman, Christopher Guest
Real Time w/ Bill Maher, The Daily Show, 30 Days, Californication, Weeds, Dexter, Alton Brown, Entourage, Unsolved History, Discovery, Animal Planet, BBC diluted for Yanks, CNN World (VERY different perspective), that precious 10 minutes of programming a week that eMpTyV plays a music video in its entirety.
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, Holy Blood Holy Grail by Bennett, Leigh, et al., Ghost Rider by Neil Peart, Mother Night by Kurt Vonnegut, Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco, Principia Discordia by ?, The Truth (With Jokes) by Al Franken, The Universe In A Single Atom by The Dalai Lama, Tom Tommorow collection, Villa Incognito by Tom Robbins, Dude, where's My Country by Michael Moore, Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
Other fave authors include: Harlan Ellison, Joseph Campbell, John Irving, Stephen Hawking, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Anton Wilson, Thomas Pynchon, Kahlil Gibran, Neil Gaiman, Phillip K Dick, Ayn Rand, Henri Miller, Carlos Casteneda, Carl Sagan, Issac Asimov, G.I. Gurdjieff, Nick Hornby, William Gibson, Arthur C. Clarke, Anais Nin, James Joyce, Robert Pirsig, Daniel Clowes
My list of exemplary humans includes: Carl Sagan, Ghandi, Steven Biko, George Martin, Bill Clinton, Bono, Nelson Mandela, Peter Gabriel, MLK, Trevor Horn, Richard Branson, The Dalai Lama, Robert Fripp, Michael Moore, Neil Peart, Jimmy Carter, George Harrison, George McGovern, Noam Chomsky, Paul Kurtz, the lone Chinese dissident who stood in front of tanks in Tiennanmen Square