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al howard

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

Hey there digital people. Who knows how long ago I started this myspace page. It began as a joke and then somehow I got dooped into a healthy crack-like myspace addiction. God Damnit!!!!!! So now I have to polish this fucker up. I'm Al Howard, member of the K23 Orchestra, asshole from New Jersey, scrawny overeater, bitter & disillusioned with the state of things, tired and hungry. I used to be a Star Wars guy, but Lord of the Rings is currently the Trilogy I identlify with most. I live by San Diego State in a sweltering hot appartment next to fraternaties, sororities and stupid clonelike people who need a figurehead to shape and mold their goals and personalities (I don't think this is a coincidence). I write, that's pretty much the only productive thing that I do. Music is my life, period. It has saved me, moved me, comforted me, pushed me and makes every idle moment of my day degrees more interesting. My life has had a good soundtrack and I'm thankful, I'm not including when some kid named Shawn taught me how to ride a bike as Bon Jovi, Slippery When Wet played in the background, that soundtrack sucked. I thought that stupid album was about a road. Anyway, that's most of the important stuff about myself. As far as I'm concerned my mother is the closest entity to God that I've ever come across, she creates daily, and holds nothing but compassion and forgiveness in her heart.......... and she purchased me Optimus Prime at the right time in the 80's. She's my inspiration and support. Thanks to all my friends who put up with my shit and push me to do better. Thanks to my band members who could get lumped under the umbrella of friends, but you're more like a long term relationship with no sex (thank the fuckin lord), triumphs, tribulations and this best moments my young life has known. Also, thanks to the cat who invented toilet seat covers, you're up there with the penicillin people. Peace al

My Interests

Insulting the obvious character flaws of people, passing gas at inappropriate times, writing, mispelling words and creating gramatical errors which bother most people yet leave me unphased, throwing things at people, making out, listening to music, frisbee, eating free food, watching other people do really difficult things that I would never attempt to try and laughing at them when they are unsucessful, slapping Josh Rice across his big Lakeside face.

I'd like to meet:

I wish this section was who would you like to fight. I'm not a violent person, but since I'm anti-social I don't really want to meet anyone, but I'd like to fight..... Fred Savage Kid Rock (sedated) Mini Kiss George W. Bush (and all those associated with him) Billy Corrigan The black dude from Lost Jaleel White (Urkle) The chick that played Blossom Charles Mingus' son who plays bass in a pop band (What the Fuck!!!) Miles Davis (1983) A Perfect Circle (there would be more Tool albums if they didn't exist) Bill O'Reilly (A long line to kick his ass, but well worth the wait) The fat guy that ate my sandwhich when I was stoned and hungry at a concert in Boston ALL TECHNO DJS (sorry.......well not really) the cast of Full House Steven Spielberg (War of the Worlds sucked that much) This dreadlocked guy who sold me squares of loose-leaf at a Phish show in New Jersey which I purchased to impress this hot girl I was trying to kick game to Marvin Gaye's father Everyone in our band except for SteveI should probably just update this list every few days

Music:

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Do Make Say Think, Jeff Tweedy, Dr. Dog, Jeff Mangum, Sufijan Stevens, Bill Withers, Arcade Fire, Mastodon, Leonard Cohen, Hugh Masekela, Johnny Cash, Elliot Smith, Velvet Underground, Built to Spill, Clinic, Black Keys, Al Green, the Raconteurs, Thom Yorke, Andrew Bird, Antibalas, Neil Young, Queens of the Stone Age, TV on the Radio, Tom Petty, Red Sparrow, Bennevento Russo Duo, Mars Volta, Jacob Fred Jazz Oddessy, K23, Mingus, Jane's Addiction, Digable Planets, Company Flow, John Coltrane, Hella, Radiohead, Grateful Dead, Phish, King Crimson, Beatles, Mr. Bungle, Wilco, System of A Down, the Pixies, John McLaughlin, Silver Mount Zion, Godspeed, Anti Pop Consortium, Tea Leaf Green, Bob Dylan, Butterfield Blues Band, Jimi Hendrix, Neutral Milk Hotel, Spiritualized, Nirvana, Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, Sam Cooke, Bjork, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Mark Lanegan, Queens of the Stone Age, Sunny Day Real Estate, Alice Coltrane, Donald Byrd, the Shins, Devandra Bahnart, Modest Mouse, Marvin Gaye, the Rachels, At the Drive In, the Make Up, MMW, Murder City Devils, Cannibal Ox, Pinback, Bill Hicks, Bright Eyes

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine, Waking Life, the Royal Tannenbaums, Star Wars (Original versions of original movies and 63% of the last one), Meeting People is Easy, Koyaanisqatsi, Baraka, A Very Long Engagement, the preceding were to make me seem smart and arty, Old School, Die Hards, Lethal Weapon 1, Fight Club, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Tombstone, Lord Of the Rings, Superbad, the Departed, Casino a bunch of other shit

Television:

Lost, Family Guy, Simpsons, South Park, Futurama, Critic, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Days of Our Lives (God help me I wish I was joking about this last one)

Books:

Any Tom Robbins, Kurt Vonnegut, Schrödinger's Cat, Langston Hughes, Hafiz and Rumi

Heroes:

Mom & Larry David

My Blog

Canes this Saturday, Old Shoe Works the Pedal

Hello good folks of the mailing list. How the hell are you? I'm sitting in my apartment listening to a Guided by Voices cd I stole from our bass player last August. I hope that living through these b...
Posted by al howard on Wed, 07 May 2008 06:30:00 PST

K23 in Reno, Arcata and SF

Hello good folks of the mailing list.  How are you cats doing on this overcast San Diego afternoon?  Thanks to everyone who came out to Winstons last night to view the 7-piece titanic madnes...
Posted by al howard on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 01:05:00 PST

K23 New Website, Brian Haas Shows and Tales from the Road

Subject: [ahk23.com] K23 New Website, Brian Haas Shows and Tales from the Road Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 1:21 PM Hello good folks of the mailing list, how are you cats doing this afternoon? ...
Posted by al howard on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 01:48:00 PST

K23 Colorado Tour

Hello good folks of the mailing list.  Hope the note finds you well.  We recently returned from a Coastal run which somehow involved us competing in the Orange County Music Awards.  For...
Posted by al howard on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:54:00 PST

K23 HOB w/Charlie Hitchcock, Long Beach, All Peoples Breakfast Lyrics

Hello good people of the mailing list. Hope the note finds you having a great afternoon. Thanks to everyone who came out to the Belly Up on Friday night. It was a pretty rockin K23 set, extra speci...
Posted by al howard on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:15:00 PST

K23 @ House of Blues, Belly Up Friday w/ Dirty Dozen

"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people." Martin Luther K...
Posted by al howard on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:00:00 PST

K23 HOB tomorrow, Tahoe, Arcata, SF, Al's a dork pass it on

Hello wonderful people of the K23 Orchestra mailing list.  Hope you are on a good one today/tonight.  I'm writing this from my new laptop and thanking some terrific deity for iTunes and its ...
Posted by al howard on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:02:00 PST

K23 House of Blues w/Charlie Hitchcock

Hello good folks of the mailing list.  Happy New Years to everyone, hope you all had a healthy and enjoyable entrance into 2007.  Thank you to everyone who came out to Winstons this past Sun...
Posted by al howard on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:59:00 PST

K23 Santa Cruz, SF, San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara

Hello good folks of the mailing list.  Hope the note finds you well.  Thanks for coming out early to the House of Blues last night.  I've come to understand that we were going up agains...
Posted by al howard on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 12:24:00 PST

K23 Shows, I'm Having A Yard Sale Hello, K23ers of the world. How are you all doing at the tai

K23 Shows, I'm Having A Yard Sale Hello, K23ers of the world. How are you all doing at the tail end of summer? Hopefully well. We just got home from the second day of Festival Del Mar...
Posted by al howard on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:19:00 PST