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AJ

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I am an Orthodox Christian who is engaged to Hayden.

My Interests

The Orthodox life in Christ, bicycles, music, coffee, books, and Hayden. Oh yes, and eating tasty food.

Music:

Arvo Part, Boards of Canada, bleeps, samples, clicky beats, synths, etc. Valaam and Athonite monks chanting. I like DJ's and turntablism.

Movies:

Rushmore, This is Spinal Tap, Dr. Strangelove, Waiting for Guffman, The Princess Bride, The Royal Tenebaums.

Books:

Saint Silouan the Athonite, by Elder Sophrony Monastic Wisdom, by Elder Joseph Counsels from the Holy Mountain, by Elder Ephraim A Night in the Desert of the Holy Mountain, by Met. Hierotheos Vlachos We Shall See Him As He Is, by Elder Sophrony (and everything else he has written) Enlargement of the Heart, by Archimandrite Zacharias Sayings of the Desert Fathers Wounded by Love, Elder Porphyrios Precious Vessels of the Holy Spirit lives of the saints and martyrs, counsels of holy men and women (if anyone has recommendations send me a message) The Great Divorce, by CS Lewis Anything by Elder Sophrony, Metropolitan Hierotheos Vlachos, or Fr. John Romanides is gold.

My Blog

Austin trip, Father Tom Hopko, and facial hair

I went to Austin with Hayden to visit her aunt and uncle/hang out around the city. We were gone for about two days. It was fun!Yesterday I worked. Straight afterwards I drove down to the Cathedral ...
Posted by AJ on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:28:00 PST

Jane the animal dancing on cloud

I'm almost done with a mashup/remix of short snippets of Animal Collective, Jane, and cLOUDDEAD. I made the beat and whatnot... it's interesting. It will probably be included on my second demo once ...
Posted by AJ on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 08:38:00 PST

Going to a monastery

I'm going with some people from church to a Greek Orthodox monastery in San Antonio. It's modelled after the monastic system of Mount Athos, the center of Orthodox monasticism. I'll be gone this wee...
Posted by AJ on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:24:00 PST

I've started making my laptop music

I've finished four pieces today:) One is a weird noise intro thing with echoed speech, another one is called Trash Tribal - it consists of me messing beats I made by banging my fists and fingers agai...
Posted by AJ on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 09:38:00 PST

Sound project I'm going to start

Once I get my new comp up and running, I'll make rhythmic stuff. This stuff will be composed of collected sounds that I like - I'm using the noise of various banged objects for beats, and ambient dro...
Posted by AJ on Wed, 24 May 2006 07:56:00 PST

Sunday was nice

Hayden and I went to the St. Serpahim Cathedral on Sunday. Beautiful temple, Liturgy was great. Afterwards we got lost, we ran out of diesel gas, and eventually found a gas station that sold diesel....
Posted by AJ on Thu, 04 May 2006 08:54:00 PST

What a weekend

Yesterday, April 15th, I entered the Orthodox Church.  I was imparted with the the Seal of the Holy Spirit through the sacrament of Chrismation.  It's wonderful to be able to finally take pa...
Posted by AJ on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:02:00 PST

technology is a hassle

My laptop's LAN chip or whatever it is went mad, so now I don't have internet access on my laptop.  I'm using my mom's right now.   I haven't been paying much attention to the internet and d...
Posted by AJ on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:35:00 PST

Triumph of Orthodoxy, and hanging out with Ben

Last day of the first week of the Great Fast. Today's Liturgy was celebrating the "Triumph of Orthodoxy" over the iconoclast heretics. The Arian and Nestorian heretic soldiers and government officia...
Posted by AJ on Mon, 13 Mar 2006 06:17:00 PST

Tobacco,

Yesterday I watched about half of Thumbsucker with Hayden. She got restless, so we left to go eat at Panera. We had a debate over whether Boca Burgers defeat the idea of fasting from meat during Gre...
Posted by AJ on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 07:44:00 PST