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Cam is Psilonaut

The pain of staying the same must become greater than the pain of the change for the change to take

About Me

.. RAISED in a Christian home, overprotected. Recovering fundamentalist. Was a late bloomer, but making up for lost time..... Decided to become a producer in 2000. Slipped, and BECAME a DJ in 2001. NOW, I own a 5k watt sound system, and a DJ rig that has been played on by Sasha, Saleed&Palash, DeepDish, James Zabiela, and all the local legands....................... DEEPHOUSE is my dish, with influences from jazz, scat, funk and soul. My sets are built on Migs, Youngman, Kaskade, Jay-J, Fiasco, Donaldson, Belmont&Clark, etc, and peppered with some of the most talented bedroom producers on the planet. Applause to the unknown................... How did Psilonaut get his name? The name “Psilonaut” is a true term taken from the field of mycology, and was coined by the famed botanist Terence McKenna. The root word is psilopsybin, the active ingredient in stropharia-cubensis..................Some things I believe: I believe in love-at-first-sight, and friends-at-first-sight. I believe in love that grows slow. I believe that the way we live our lives has a direct bearing on how our light will shine in eternity. Nothing in life is more important than being true to yourself, and be true to those you love............................Here's my gear list.. DJ Performance Rig: 1 PioneerDJM600 mixer, 2 TechnicsSL1200M3D turntables, 2 PioneerCDJ1000 cd players, 2 JBL10G2 monitors, 1 Apple PowerBookG4 laptop running FinalScratch2 and Bias Peak, 1 Glyph 200gig ext.h.d. containing all my titles (.AIFF files, not .mp3s). And nine Littlite gooseneck worklights with blue filters..Live PA Rig: 1 Behringer 8x2 mixer, 1 dbx DriveRackPA EQ/RTA/Xover/, 1 Behringer UltraCurvePro EQ/RTA/Xover, 1 Whirlwind 12x4 100foot multi-conductor, several Shure mics, stands & booms..Sound Reinforcement Rig: 2 JBL 418 bass bins, 2JBL EON1500 mid/hi cabinets, 2 JBL SoundFactor 2332 full-range cabinets, 2 CrownCE1000 amps, 1 CrownCE2000 amp. Each component is mounted in an individual road case with diamond finish, all cables are on reels, reels go into roller bins. 3 QuickLock table stands, 2 Ultimate siscer stands are draped with midnight blue velvet skirts..The entire system is packaged for ease of transport, but still requires of crew of 2 well-muscled boys to loadup, transport, movein, setup, plugup, tuneup, perform, strike&load, transport, move back home. Whew! Home | Browse | Search | Invite | Film | Mail | Blog | Favorites | Forum | Groups | Events | Videos | Music | Comedy | Classifieds

My Interests

I love conversation with interesting people, especially if their opinion is different from mine. Conversation is good. Argument is good. Intimacy is not possible without arguement. Also enjoy reading about PsychoAcoustics, sound systems, gear with flashing lights. Also: psychology, cosmology, planetary science, etc... Who are we? Where did we come from? And where are we going? The biggest questions still remain.

I'd like to meet:

You! Anyone who is able to be honest with him/herself, and honest with others; that's who I like to talk to. Also interested in anyone with sensitivity to spiritual issues without being new-age, hocus-pocus or religious. I like people who can laugh at themselves.

Music:

Jazzy & soulful DeepHouse. Played on vinyl, CD, and FinalScratch. Mostly FinalScratch. Also like classical: Serge Rachmaninov, Gustov Mahler. Never liked Mozart till I had my first 420.

Movies:

Run Lola, Run; What Dreams May Come; Meet Joe Black; Fear & Loathing In LosVegas; 2001 A Space Odyssey;....

Television:

Charlie Rose, Bill Moyers, The Science Channel, History Channel, especially cosmology, astronomy and planetary science. Anthony Bourdain No Reservations, and America's Funiest Home Videos (Where else can you see humans being so human?)

Books:

The God Dilusion, by Richard Dawkins; Warped Passages, Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions, by Lisa Randall; The Art Of Loving, by Erich Fromm; To Have Or To Be, by Erich Fromm; The Seat Of The Soul, by Gary Zukav; The Mind Changers, by Em Griffin; Addicted To Mediocrity, by Franky Schaeffer; Six Great Ideas, by Mortimer Adler; The Way Of The Bull, by Leo Buscaglia; The Medium Is The Message, by Marshall McLuhan; Media Sexploitation, by Wilson Bryan Key; The Media Lab, by Stewart Brand; Cosmos, John Gribbin; Murmurs Of Earth, by Carl Sagan; The Day The Universe Changed, by James Burke; The Human Animal, by Phil Donahue; Ourselves And Other Animals, by Evans & Durrell. ..

Heroes:

No heros! I learned a long time ago not to have heros. If you make a mere mortal into a hero, you expect more-than-human things from them. And they'll let you down. They're only human. And if you turn a cartoon character into a hero, you're establishing a standard from a person that doesn't exist...

My Blog

MySpace Suicide

Have you heard about the MySpace suicide? It's been a big story on CNN. Incase you missed it, here are the basic details.Apparently, a young girl had a page on MySpace. She was suffering with a bit of...
Posted by Cam is Psilonaut on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 11:43:00 PST

My weekend adventure

Well, I've had an interesting experience this wknd. Woke up Fri morn with black dots and black strings floating in my vision. Thinking it was dust on the cornea, I did several applications of Visine....
Posted by Cam is Psilonaut on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:47:00 PST

Milk & Honey

The promised land (land is always a mother symbol) is described as flowing with milk and honey. Milk is the symbol of the first aspect of love, that of care and affirmation. Honey symbolizes the sweet...
Posted by Cam is Psilonaut on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:45:00 PST