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jame-smacks-well

I am here for Dating, Serious Relationships, Friends and Networking

About Me

The two things that I am most fascinated by are music and nature. They seem to put everything into perspective for me and help me to accept and embrace the unknown. I do my best to stay positive and progress. I'm not always successful and I deal with a lot of set backs but I try to overcome that as much as possible. I enjoy being unpredictable. I have really appriciate absurdity. I absolutely love the feeling of being out in the middle of nowhere and knowing that no one is around for miles. I just recently moved back to Oregon after spending three years in the deserts of Utah. It's good to not have to walk for two days in order to find fresh water. It's also much easier to build a shelter with so many trees around. I no longer have to wander the hills to try to find caves to sleep in which is a HUGE relief...okay so the last part is not true at all. I told you I like absurdity.
I have played drums with the following groups/artist:
CART!
Julia Dawn
The Grokkers

My Interests

nature, music, drums, learning, art, bike riding, happiness, environmentalism, spanish, humor, exercising, portland, hiking, summer, latin america,enlightenment, traveling, oregon, vegetarianism, barcelona, plants, spain, national parks, taboo, history, salvador dali, spirituality, australia, biology, taking risks, asturias, snowboarding, europe, dumpster diving, poetry, aviles, andy goldsworthy, questioning, pop culture, wasting time on the internets, getting into trouble, brazil, industrial districts, reading, ambiance, france, alex grey, emotions, gijon, indigenous cultures, cuba

I'd like to meet:

Interesting, intelligent people that are passionate about life and want to have a positive impact on the world. I am tired of having surface level relationships with people. I want to get to know people on a deeper level. I have started to care a lot less about whether or not people like what I think about the world. We are all different, right? I do my thing, you do yours. I'm new to Corvallis so it would be nice to make new friends in the area and meet some other musicians. I'd like to get reacquainted with old friends too. I should put a disclaimer here though. Sometimes I take a very long time to get back to messages. I'm trying to get better though. My screen name on AOL is sanskr, for MSN it's [email protected] or send me an e-mail: [email protected]

Music:


Jimi Hendrix, Talking Heads, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Fugazi, Manu Chao, Prefuse 73, Meat Puppets, Pink Floyd, Bjork, Miles Davis, Bad Brains, Herbie Hancock, Sonic Youth, David Bowie, CART!, Primus, Outcast, Radiohead, Charles Mingus, Black Sabbath, The Beach Boys, Andrew Gorny, Peter Tosh, Wipers, My Bloody Valentine, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Tom Waits, Laddio Bolocko, Aphex Twin, Jurassic 5, Pixies, Dead Kennedy's, Parliament Funkadelic, John Coltrane, Yes, Igor Stravinsky, Air, Nirvana, Buena Vista Social Club, King Crimson, New Order, The Mars Volta, Bo Diddley, Tool, The Residents, Hella, Frederick Chopin, Dr. Dre, Brian Eno, Starflyer 59, Howlin' Wolf, The Kinks, Black Flag, Ravi Shankar, Neil Young, The Clash, Stan Getz, Buzzcocks, Bob Dylan, Prince, Rage Against the Machine, Minutemen, Orishas, Cars, Bill Evans, Marvin Gaye, Tone Dogs, Johnny Cash, Otis Redding, Lauryn Hill, Mindless Self Indulgence, Dave Brubeck, Queen, Metallica (Black Album and before), Sigur Ros, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Mudhoney, Fischerspooner, Rolling Stones, Smashy Smashy, Babatunde Olatunji, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, T. Rex, Ween, Melt Banana, Thelonius Monk, Longarm, Art Blakey, fIREHOSE, Ninety Pound Wuss, Bob Marley, Fiona Apple, SLAJO, Foo Fighters, Nice Nice, The Fucking Champs, Roy Orbison, Pinback, Leadbelly, Spoon, Refused, Shins, Charlie Parker, Amy Winehouse, Get Hustle, Portishead, Yo La Tengo, Weezer, St. Germain, Van Halen (not Van Hagar), Wire, Rocket From the Crypt, The Who, Willie Nelson, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, White Noise, Etta James, Lo-Fidelity Allstars, Devo, Beachwood Sparks, Matt Wilson, Slave Traitor, Maxem-Ill, Point Line Plane, Capillary Action,

Movies:

Life Aquatic, The Motorcycle Diaries, Waking Life, Amelie, Yellow Submarine, Lord of the Rings, Titus, Life is Beautiful, Dancer in the Dark, Star Wars, Spinal Tap, Fantastic Planet, L'Auberge Espagnole

Television:

The Discovery Channel, Telemundo, Univision, Azteca America, PBS, The Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Mr. Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Chapelle's Show, Arrested Development, CNN

Books:

Siddhartha - Herman Hesse, The Bible - Various Authors, Viente Poemas de Amor y una Cancion Desperada - Pablo Neruda...and lots of textbooks.

Heroes:

Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Bob Marley, Jesus, Mahatma Gandhi, Albert Einstein, Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Danny Carey, Mitch Mitchell, John Bonham, Kurdt Cobain, Bjork, Scott Herren, Dave Grohl, John Coltrane, David Byrne, Alex Grey, Matt Cameron, Kelly Wallis, David Bowie, Josh Usselman, Phil Selway, Tom Waits, Nick Mason, Manu Chao, Zach Hill, Bill Bigalow, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Bill Bruford, Ali G (aka Sacha Baron Cohen), Steve Cook, Chris Pennie, Jon Theodore,

My Blog

Pandora’s Marimba

Whoa I just discovered the badassness of Pandora.com. Check it out if you haven't been there yet it's awesome. It's a website that allows you to create radio stations based around artists or songs tha...
Posted by jame-smacks-well on Fri, 16 May 2008 08:03:00 PST

Musical news

So apparently Ministy played with Meshugga at the Roseland a couple weeks ago and I didn't know about it cause I don't know of anywhere that gets the Mercury in Corvallis. That sucks!!! I bet that was...
Posted by jame-smacks-well on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:28:00 PST

quotes

Every adversity carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit. - Napoleon Hill Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and ev...
Posted by jame-smacks-well on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:22:00 PST

Ah......sweet recklessness

I went home for lunch today and while I was preparring my food I noticed that some kids were trying their luck at walking out onto the lake in my backyard that is frozen over. They definitely weren't ...
Posted by jame-smacks-well on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:09:00 PST

Knockin’ boots with karma

I'm feeling exceptionally good about the state of my life right now. Today I went and spoke with one of the advisors at school and changed my schedule around which allowed me to drop chemistry. That i...
Posted by jame-smacks-well on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 09:17:00 PST

musica bonita

Does anybody else get the urge to freak out in public when you are listening to amazing music?...cause it happens to me all the time. Check out my new music player thing on my profile. I'm pretty prou...
Posted by jame-smacks-well on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:18:00 PST

Hell Explained

HELL EXPLAINED BY CHEMISTRY STUDENT The following is an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid term. The answer by one student was so "profound" that the professor shared i...
Posted by jame-smacks-well on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 02:41:00 PST

It’s about time

I'm glad to see that myspace has finally started to rip off the cool features of facebook and use them to their advantage.  For example, they just reciently added the friend updates which I like ...
Posted by jame-smacks-well on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 11:15:00 PST

Gates vs. GM

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared thecomputer industry with the auto industry and stated,"If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we wouldall...
Posted by jame-smacks-well on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:28:00 PST

SLAJO

I went and saw this sick band last night called the Salt Lake Alternative Jazz Orchestra. They are an avant-garde jazz big band with about 15 horns and a rhythm section which is not something you see ...
Posted by jame-smacks-well on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:54:00 PST