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Dick

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Software Engineer by Day (VS.NET is my weapon not of choice)
Musician/Songwriter by Night (in the bands The Fall of Rome and Sin Tax)
Sample Artist when time permits (as Idiot Robinson)

The Fall of Rome
Dick Huff . com

My Interests

Percussion, Guitars, Sample Art, MOTU DP, textured music, OOP, topology, the Singularity theory, etc.

I'd like to meet:

Other musicians, noise makers, and audiophiles...and Yuta Tabuse

Music:

A fanatic towards:
Medeski Martin & Wood
Ken Andrews (Failure, Year of the Rabbit, On)
Howie B.
Radiohead
PJ Harvey
Billy Corgan
DJ Shadow
Miles Davis
Autolux
Richard D James
Hum
Underworld
The Frames
The Bad Plus
Future Sound of London
The Joy Circuit
Sugar
Shiner
Castor
Oceansize
The Life and Times
National Skyline
Mogwai

I create:
The Fall of Rome
Sin Tax MySpace
Idiot Robinson
Overdriven Guitar Riffs
Overeffected Samples
Poly-Rhythmic Beats
Bipolar Melodies

Movies:

Favorites:
THX 1138
Slacker (Richard Linklater)
Trainspotting

Favorite Genres:
Cinema Verite
Documentaries
Noir

Television:

Lost
Family Guy
Venture Brothers
American Dad
Weeds
The Office

Books:

Hermann Hesse
Jack Kerouac
Irvine Welsh
Aldous Huxley
Christopher Hitchens

My Blog

If Myspace did not exist...

If Myspace didn't exist, I would have more money and would not know about half the bands I do. So, do yourself a favor and check out Traindodge, Silversun Pickups, Dropsonic, Russian Circles, Early Da...
Posted by Dick on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 02:09:00 PST

re-inventing wheels

Just an observation...I don't think one person can invent a new idea. Had another grand idea and god damned Wikipedia proved me unoriginal yet again. Not only has it been defined, but an army of brai...
Posted by Dick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I bet...

i bet you follow jesus i can't tell when you're lying if it wasn't for intervention would you still be trying? to reach that rope the book been squeezed for hope and when no one looking from the plate...
Posted by Dick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

How to offend people

Sick Humor How to talk dirty And offend people All you have to do Is let your guard down Lenny Bruce American politics Blow your nose on camera I'm not putting you on Silence, Court's i...
Posted by Dick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

acoustic persuasion...

It's Monday...turning into a good day. Tonsilitis is gone Worked my butt off (which is good, makes the workday go quick) Went to the chiropractor during my lunch break (ahhh...feel better) Soon ...
Posted by Dick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Po-dunk

Have a gig in a bar inside a bowling alley tonight...enough said...its ok to laugh
Posted by Dick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

So many blogs, very few reasons...

I have many blogs in existance. It seems that when you sign up to any community now-a-days, you get a free blog (www.spymac.com for example). What's so different about this one? Once I start link...
Posted by Dick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Dataset/Datgridding with large queries

Note to self:Use a DataAdapter for large chunks of data!Paging Through a Query Result Remember back in the day when ADO let you set page sizes for RecordSets? Well, I thought it was impossible to do...
Posted by Dick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST