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About Me

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Music is life, life is music.
I:
- am a classical & rock musician... mkay, classical pays the bills, & rock is for a diversion.
- am from Texas, y'all, & have moved back... though I've been living in Chicago the past few years, & I miss Chi-town dearly :(
- have 3 degrees in music, & um, yah, I know a lot about music :-P
- have been teaching music lessons for about 10 years... & since I've been around so many kids already, i don't want any of my own *grin*
- play in professional symphony orchestras in TX & MI. I recently landed an orchestra gig in Austin after taking a bunch of auditions all over the country in the past few years, so that's why I'm back in TX... which is cool that i've come back to my home state.
- sing & play guitar, bass guitar, flute, oboe, pots & pans, you know.
- am very sarcastic, laidback, & friendly person.
- am a Taurus.
- am a mutt (by heritage).
- love animals. if it weren't for music, i'd probably have a job of some type working with animals.
- live for 80s & 90s music.... see listing.
- can understand some Spanish & German, & I'm trying to learn more. ich liebe Musik... es ist mein Leben.
- love beanie hats, milk, dark colors, mexican food, night-time, burgers, pizza, & cloudy days.
- am NOT going to post revealing poses like soooo many of these profiles. SOME people on here don't leave enough to the imagination, if you ask me!!
- don't need a 10 zillion comments everyday... honestly, what's the point? but I do like messages, so if you add me, feel free to email or IM me... I won't bite too hard ;-)
- am VERY interested in voice-over acting... I've been told I can do voices well, enjoy doing them, & hey, why not? I'd be interested in taking classes in the near future
- I play the flute & I'm an orchestral nerd. If you're so curious, you can hear my flute playing here
- I have had music recorded, which you can find under The Rainy Thursdays
Feel free to add my band if you like what you hear, & you may add me if you think we have a good deal in common. I'd also like to chat with some locals... esp. lovers of rock & symphonic music. I like meeting new people. Also, if you are in the Austin area & at all interested in playing with The Rainy Thursdays, (especially for live shows), & play guitar/bass, keyboards & drums, please message or IM me! Thanks.
AIM - pessymystica - If you're already on my friends list &/or i know you IRL, feel free to drop a line. If you're not, I'd rather you send a friend request first before adding me to your buddylist instead of sending me a random message. If you're local & looking to hook-up, i will NOT respond!! that's NOT why i'm on this website.
THIS is why I'm on this website... musik!! I hope y'all enjoy some of these songs I like by a bunch of bands I've been listening to a LOT for the past year & more.
Your a...GOTH! Your depressed most of the time,
life sucks and you wanna show the world. You
don't mind being called a freak or weird, its
who you are and if people don't like that they
can get lost!
Which type of style are you at heart? (Pictures, Girls only)
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You Were A Lion
You have a lethal combination of strength and energy.
You have strong family ties, and close friends are like family to you. What Animal Were You In a Past Life?

My Interests

all things music, guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar, flute, oboe, singing, writing songs, animals, internet, playing games

I'd like to meet:

I'd like to chat with people who...
- are music freaks
- have good taste in music
- are other musicians
- are intelligent
- have a good & similar sense of humor
- were band or orchestra dorks that I knew somewhere... high school, college, music festival, wherever.
- are NOT superficial.... therefore definitely not "girl collectors"

If you are an individual & want to add me, NO thanks to all the fake porn & nonsense profiles trying to add me *SIGH*, I've changed my settings to where you have to know my name/email. If you want me to add you, & it looks like we have a good deal in common, I don't mind, just shoot me a message & I'll most likely add you when I know you're a real person. If I can't see your profile, please tell me where you found my profile & why you want to be my friend. If I already know you from somewhere (school, summer festival, friend of a friend, etc.), feel free to send me a request & don't forget to say hi!
If you are a band, not to sound snotty like I'm all important or anything, but I have just gotten WAY too many band requests. I just don't possibly have time to listen to them all, so I've had to turn off bands adding me. I also need to request no emails if you read this far, I've just gotten WAY too many of them now too! If you REALLY think I'll like you based on my musical interests, feel free to drop my BAND an add request, & possibly a note THERE on what you sound like, what bands you've been compared to, etc... OF COURSE, as long as it looks like I would probably like it... just PLEASE look at my list of bands. Obviously, I like a LOT of music, so I most likely can appreciate a lot of other bands. I know most people probably don't read this far, but oh well... I probably won't add you if I don't like the type of music... like screamo, emo, hard-core metal, death metal, pop, rap or whatever... it's just not my thing. If I really really like your music, I'll add you on here. Another thing: PLEASE don't bother sending me an email about your club event if it's nowhere NEAR my location!!
Also, if you're an .. radio station, magazine, clothing line, or anything similar, please send a request to my BAND instead. I'd rather keep people I know or bands I like on here.

Music:

i love this band...

80s music, new wave, 90s rock, alternative, indie rock, shoegazer rock, goth, goth rock, grunge, synthpop, ebm, industrial, dance music, darkwave, post punk, electronica, classical music
Top 10 Favorite Bands:
The Cure , Depeche Mode, Echo and the Bunnymen , New Order, Bauhaus , Clan of Xymox , Chameleons UK, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, The Damned
Top 10 Bands I have overplayed as of lately:
Autolux , Covenant , Melotron , Mew , Nosferatu, Placebo , Project Pitchfork , Radiohead, The Rakes, Siouxsie and the Banshees
Now I will list just about every freaking band I like (with some myspace links):
A Flock of Seagulls, A Perfect Circle, Adam Ant, And One , Apoptygma Berzerk , Ash, Daniel Ash, Assemblage 23 , Audioslave, Beastie Boys, Beborn Beton , Beck, Berlin, Billy Idol, The Birthday Massacre , Bjork, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club , Blondie, Blur, The Bolshoi, British Sea Power , Broken Social Scene, Bronski Beat, Johnny Cash, Catherine Wheel, Charlatans UK, Chemical Brothers, Chevelle , The Clash, Clinic, Cocteau Twins, Coldplay , Collective Soul, Concrete Blonde, The Church, The Cult , Curve, Dandy Warhols, Danse Society, Das Ich, Dave Gahan, David Bowie, Dead or Alive, Death Cab for Cutie, Dido, Dirty Vegas, The Doors, Doves , Duran Duran, Elefant , English Beat, Erasure, Failure, The Faint, Faith & the Muse, Fields of the Nephilim , Flaming Lips, Fluke, Franz Ferdinand , Front 242, Front Line Assembly, Funker Vogt, Gang of Four, Garbage, Gary Numan, Girls Against Boys, Goldfrapp , Gorillaz , Juliana Hatfield, Hole, House of Love, Hum, Human League, Husker Du, Icon of Coil, Iggy Pop, In Strict Confidence , Interpol , INXS, Jamiroquai , Jane's Addiction, Jesus & Mary Chain, Joan Jett, Joy Division, Juno Reactor, Kasabian , Kenna, Kidney Thieves, Killing Joke, KMFDM, The Lemonheads, The Libertines , Lightning Seeds, Live, Longwave, Lords of Acid, Love & Rockets, Lush, Lycia, March Violets , Ian McCulloch, Metric, Ministry, Misfits, Mission UK, Modest Mouse, Morrissey, My Bloody Valentine, Muse , My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult , New Model Army, Nine Inch Nails , Nirvana, Nitzer Ebb, Oasis, Ohgr, OMD, Orgy , Pearl Jam, Pet Shop Boys, Pete Yorn, Peter Murphy, Pink Floyd, PJ Harvey, Plimsouls, The Police, The Pretenders, Primal Scream, The Prodigy , Psychedelic Furs, Pulp, The Raveonettes , The Rapture, Razed in Black, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, REM, Revolting Cocks , Rolling Stones, Ryan Adams, Sarah McLachlan, She Wants Revenge , Sheryl Crow, The Shins, Sigur Ros, Simple Minds, Sinead O'Connor, Sisters of Mercy, Skinny Puppy, Smashing Pumpkins, Snow Patrol , Soft Cell, Sonic Youth, Static X, The Stills, Stone Temple Pilots, Suicide Commando, The Sundays, Supergrass , Sven Vath, Talk Talk, Tears for Fears, The Smiths, The The, Tones on Tail, Tool, Tori Amos, U2, Ultravox, Underworld, Until December, VAST, Verve, Velvet Acid Christ, VHS or Beta , Violent Femmes, Visage, VNV Nation , The Walkmen, Wedding Present, The White Stripes, Wolfsheim , The Wrens, Wumpscut, XTC , Yo La Tengo

even a LITTLE country (I'm from Texas!!): George Strait, Alan Jackson, Dwight Yoakam, Garth Brooks, Shania Twain
Classical Composers: JS Bach, CPE Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Johannes Brahms, Peter Tchaikovsky, Claude Debussy, Richard Strauss, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Prokofiev

You're a Post-Punk. You know 70s punk was cool, but
it was mostly just a stepping stone for the
greater intellectualism of what would come
after. The 80s were amazing. You quite possibly
have huge hair, and may wear lots of black.
Snare drums need reverb. Lots and lots of
reverb.

You Know Yer Indie. Let's Sub-Categorize.
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You're Bauhaus, the grandfather's of goth. You
probably don't call yourself a goth...but that
just makes you cooler. Nice boots, by the way
}:)

What Goth Band Are You?
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You're all about the music. Not too incredibly
mainstream, but not too incredibly underground.
It's awfully hard for anyone to oppose you,
seeing as how you rule.

What band from the 80s are you?
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MINISTRY -You are Ministry. You were not always as dark and
scary as you are now. Yes there was a time
when you could cheese it out like the rest of
them! Don't try to hide it, we love it!
Sometimes it's good to get that fake English
accent a kickin'

What New Wave band are you??
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Pink Floyd

What Classic Band Are You?
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what Creation Records band are you? (complete with text and images)
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You are a Trad Goth, you like your classic Gothic
Rock bands, and swear that Andrew Eldritch is
in fact God. You can easily be comfortable
with being considered a Death Rocker also.
You still like the basic black
clothing/makeup, and don't care if it's now
considered stereotypical. You also still go
for the teased hair look. You most likely
gave up on the club scene long ago when they
started playing that "oonz oonz"
shit. Picture of Siouxsie Sioux

What Gothic Subgenre Do You Indentify With?
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What EBM band are you?
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Movies:

i haven't been to the movies in ages... i'd rather watch movies at home where i have speakers, a couch, & a pause button
some movies that I have &/or have seen a lot:
Sixteen Candles, The Lost Boys, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Weird Science, Better Off Dead, Say Anything, Heathers, Dazed & Confused, Clueless, The Craft, Cruel Intentions, Empire Records, Bring It On, Not Another Teen Movie, Reality, Threesome, Singles, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Friday, Romy and Michele's High School Reunion, The Truth About Cats & Dogs, High Fidelity, Beavis & Butthead Do America, Office Space, Super Troopers, Old School, Wedding Crashers, Groundhog Day, Memento, Girl Interrupted, A Beautiful Mind, Donnie Darko, Benny & Joon, Willow, Beetlejuice, Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, Harry Potter, Legend, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Edward Scissorhands, Basic Instinct, Pulp Fiction, Face/Off, Go, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs. The Crow, Blade, Dark City, Aliens, Wizard of Oz, Falling Down, Wayne's World, My Cousin Vinny, Sleepy Hollow
WhAt GrEaT ::80's:: MoViE aRe YOU?
You're Sixteen Candles. I bet loads of people can totally relate to that teen movie. Molly Ringwald is the best.
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Television:

I luv South Park , & sometimes I'll watch Family Guy, The Simpsons, or King of the Hill... & of course Beavis and Butthead, My So Called Life, Married with Children, Roseanne, Living Single, Golden Girls, & other 80s/90s show reruns for nostalgic trips; not much else, TV sucks & generally bores me. people sit around all day & watch TV in their spare time... i do the same thing listening to music. I don't watch TV much, but when I do watch it, I love Comedy Central & Animal Planet... & i might add that Law & Order & CSI reruns can be HIGHLY addicting

Books:

mostly fiction like 1984, Catcher in the Rye, Brave New World, stuff like that. i read Mozart in the Jungle semi-recently

Heroes:

my family; people who can be good-natured & nice to people, no matter what happens; people who stand up for their beliefs, in a good way. people who have been through bad & traumatic things in their life, but still have the strength & courage to get through it with their heads on straight.

My Blog

Lollapalooza 2008

Day 1 Rogue Wave - missed em cuz the train took so darn long :( Enemy UK - this was the 1st band i actually saw, & 1 of the only ones i saw that i didn't really plan on seeing. it was on the way t...
Posted by pessimystica on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 05:28:00 PST

another music survey worth keeping

List 10 Bands:1. Catherine Wheel2. Failure3. Chemical Brothers4. The Shins5. Covenant6. Muse7. Kasabian8. Dandy Warhols9. Supergrass10. Interpol01. Three adjectives to describe 6?awesome, drivin...
Posted by pessimystica on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:00:00 PST

2007 Albums (revised)

just like with the 2006 list, I'm just going to keep track here of all the albums I heard during 2007. There hasn't been an overwhelming amount or anything, or at least not that I'm aware of, bu...
Posted by pessimystica on Mon, 28 May 2007 10:35:00 PST

music survey! (this was worth keeping)

[Music Survey] [10 Favorite Bands] 1) The Cure 2) Depeche Mode 3) New Order 4) Echo & the Bunnymen 5) Chameleons UK 6) Clan of Xymox 7) Alice in Chains 8) Soundgarden 9) Bauhaus 10) My ...
Posted by pessimystica on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:01:00 PST

my visited states map

well, thanks to being a professional auditioner, as of last year, i've been to all 4 corners of the US finally. only states left i really wanna visit are Washington & Colorado. I hear ...
Posted by pessimystica on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:22:00 PST

look me up on these music sites

other websites you music freaks can stalk me on... & feel free to add... assuming you're human & really share the same music & aren't a bot ;-) http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=pessimy...
Posted by pessimystica on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 12:57:00 PST

2006 albums

here're new albums that have come out this year that I've been listening to, & in the order that I've heard them (I've been adding on to this through all through 2006): She Wan...
Posted by pessimystica on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 01:53:00 PST

Fall Concerts

as usual around this time of year, I was checking on Pollstar & Ticketmaster to see who's coming to town within the next few months to figure out who I wanna see, who I have seen, & who I...
Posted by pessimystica on Sun, 13 Aug 2006 05:20:00 PST

playing album catchup

Not only have I been trying to keep track of good new releases, but the past still holds MANY albums I haven't heard until more recently (within the past several months). Here are some of t...
Posted by pessimystica on Tue, 09 May 2006 04:28:00 PST

what the world needs now....

my brain is on scramble/ramble mode right now, & even though I'm tired, i'm not gonna sleep...the world really needs: - people that can think for themselves - magazines free of overexposed celebri...
Posted by pessimystica on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 01:36:00 PST