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dreams are free, motherfucker

I've shaken the hand of Abe Vigoda

About Me

We are cuss words

My Interests

Music, My Dog Otis, Mountain Biking, Poking fun at the advantaged, tight rope walking, urban hang gliding, trying on clothes that I know are too small for me, hiking, striving to do a push up, messing up a mods hair and then pushing his scooter over, playing air hockey with New Age CD's, singing Karaoke to Run DMC's Tougher Than Leather..

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

..Minutemen, Anything Mike Watt Related, Stooges, Black Flag, Husker Du, Dinosaur Jr., Germs, Mingus, Coltrane, Charlie Haden and his whole damn family, Avishai Cohen(bass..but the trumpeter is no slouch either) Bird, Ella, Billie Holiday, Patsy Cline, The Wipers, The Clash, Bad Brains, Hank, Bob, Merle and Johnny Cash, Television, SLF, Dead Kennedys, X, Sonic Youth,The Avengers, Grant Green, Jimmy Smith, Hank Mobley, Donald Byrd, elliot smith.

Movies:

Bar Fly, old westerns, even John Wayne movies(Although John Wayne was a Nazi). Clockwork Orange, Suburbia, Decline of Western Civ. My extremely short attention span prohibits the viewing of many movies.

Television:

MASH reruns, King of the Hill, Jeopardy, Discovery and History Channel, Family Guy and the Mariachi Band that plays at the Ford Delaerships on Telemundo.

Books:

Mostly bios, Confederacy of Dunces...Our Band Could be Your life...mostly bios

Heroes:

My Grandfathers, Father, Step-pop and John Coltrane

My Blog

Avishai

Went and checked out Avishai throw down on Friday. His music is perfection. Beautiful...intense..engaging..complex....in short, it makes me happy.
Posted by dreams are free, motherfucker on Tue, 07 Mar 2006 05:37:00 PST

The "Germs" and Watt

It's been a while since I've update, much more due to laziness than lack of gig going.... First band that played was a band called Orange. It wasn't so much that they sucked, but the singer/bassist ho...
Posted by dreams are free, motherfucker on Mon, 05 Dec 2005 03:30:00 PST

The Bad Plus at the Knit

fucked my shit up. These guys just get better and better. The new album is going to be ill.
Posted by dreams are free, motherfucker on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Alan Pasqua Trio

with Darek Oles on bass and Peter Erskine on drums. Caught the first set at the Barnsdall Art Park. Great set, great space.. I'm drunk
Posted by dreams are free, motherfucker on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Campground Effect at the Key Club

So I made an exception to my "never West of Fairfax" rule and ventured to the Key Club to see Thad's band throw down. They were opening for Local H, whcih I did not stay for as WHH (West Hollywood Hip...
Posted by dreams are free, motherfucker on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Saw Dale Fielder and his quartet at the Jazz Bakery

Dale played all Bari..was a record release party for Baritone Sunride. Josh went with. He said "sure..I'll go see Dale with you..Tom Jones or The Darkness isn't playing and I'm current on all my episo...
Posted by dreams are free, motherfucker on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Saw Avishai Cohen..

Tuesday night at the Jazz Bakery, where he and his band killed. Sam Barsh on keys and Mark Guiliana on drums, all three tore shit. Then saw Avishai and Sam record 3 duet tunes for a Chris Dourdias in...
Posted by dreams are free, motherfucker on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Mastodon

What a fucking band! Tight, loud and heavy as shit. Saw them at the Troubador with Burning Brides, who were amazing as always and a band we missed called the Helping Hands I think..or was it healing h...
Posted by dreams are free, motherfucker on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Saw Josh Workman at the Jazz Bakery

Good band and Josh is a great trad player. I really dislike the Jazz Bakery, despite them booking some great acts. 20 and 30 dollar tickets and you are sitting in fucking lawn chairs.....
Posted by dreams are free, motherfucker on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Saw Slint @ the Avalon

Good show, but I was kinda of expecting more. Sound was great. I like Tweez and Spiderland a lot, but I blame this current trend of emo shit on slint. Lucky for them, the wise staff of the Avalon pou...
Posted by dreams are free, motherfucker on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST