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let's take a ride and see what's mine

About Me



My Interests

Ideas, more ideas, thoughts, refining, editing, writing, composing, figuring it out on my own, making it work, making great music by whatever means necessary, songwriting, music as art, playing in a rocknroll band, bass, pedal steel, lyrics, voice, electric guitar, Theremin, producing, recording; the dark side of pop culture, smart women, hot women, defying authority to the greatest extent possible, a sassy raven-haired bitch, raspberry dessert with Rachel, reading Bukowski, listening to CDs, d.i.y. photography, politics, news, science, style, dancing, skanky hair, overdrive, distortion, fuzz, fuzztone, fuzzbox, superfuzz, square wave, feedback, fuzz through fuzz, the fuzziest fuzz, fuzzy fuzz and scuzzy fuzz, fat nasty bass, the bassiest bass, the cleanest clean, the noisiest noise, saturation, broken speakers, swirliness, shimmer, in tune-ness, analog delay, digital delay, stereo delay, clean sparkly tones drenched in cathedral-sized reverb, tubes, compression, layers of vocal noise, gothic pedal steel, playing pedal steel on other people's records, Moog Etherwave Theremin, rewired guitars, modified amps, stompbox mania, Mazzy Star, Fender Jazz Bass, Fender Jaguar Bass, Fender Jazzmaster, Fender 12 string Jazzmaster, Fender Jaguar, Fender Super Reverb, Vox AC30, indie, shoegaze, fuzz-out, fuzz-psych, psych-fuzz, post-punk, mod/Brit, dreampop, Manchester, 4AD, Factory, words, metaphor, metonymy, irony, allegory, symbolism, sarcasm, understatement, hyperbole, paradox, satire, color, imagery, Absinthe, Ouzo, Patron Tequila, Pernod, Chartreuse, red wine, three-button suits, skinny ties, pins that say things like "your band sucks" and "Fuck Bush", classic literature, rock magazines, the dictionary, instruction manuals, old buildings, Hollywood, New York, Paris, London, Bukowski, Bar Sinister, Perversion, Release The Bats, The Echo, Spaceland, Bats Day, wasting time with friends. The Wussy Goth Gang. Big Sonic Heaven. Shovel. Rodney on the Roq. Record shops, flea markets, Melrose. Deviance, dissension, protest, opposition. Nonsense. Odd occurrences. The unexpected. You name it...

I'd like to meet:

People who are smart, musical, and fun.

Movies:

Blue Velvet, The Virgin Suicides, Amelie, Northfork, 24 Hour Party People, Born Into This, Repo Man, Killing Zoe, Welcome To The Dollhouse, War of the Roses, Run Lola Run, Glengarry Glen Ross, Reservoir Dogs, River's Edge, Boogie Nights, Wild at Heart, Le Retour de Martin Guerre, Mayor of the Sunset Strip, American Beauty, The Rules of Attraction, Napoleon Dynamite, Being There, Little Caesar, Magnolia, Pulp Fiction, The Red Violin, The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle, Don't Look Back, Dig, Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains, After Hours, The Wild Angels, Eyes Wide Shut, Big Fish, Belle de Jour, Rude Boy, SLC Punk, Swingers, Ed Wood, Vanilla Sky, Crash, Fahrenheit 9-11, Amadeus

Books:

love is a dog from hell

Heroes:

Dungeon Dog Man

My Blog

A Bukowski Moment

Charles Bukowski wrote the following poem...DOWNERSsome peoplegrind awaymaking theirunhappinessthe ultimatefactorof theirexistenceuntilfinallythey arejustautomaticallyunhappy,theirsuspiciousupsetsnarl...
Posted by F on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 02:57:00 PST

Not bad for a single day

Today was a surprisingly good day.  First, I got a call from my friend Marc Dauer, saying that our old band with Pete Yorn was going to play again.  We rehearse Thursday night.  That's ...
Posted by F on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 02:53:00 PST

Question and answer

To all my wonderful friendswho laughat my painfully slowpiece of shitDell PC laptopwith the broken keypadnecessating an external keypadwhich basically doubles the sizeof the piece of shit laptop,guess...
Posted by F on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 07:02:00 PST

something for when the meaning gets lost

Gus lived next door to meand he was my best friend;the kind of best friend you havewhen you become friends in the third gradeand then never stop being friends.We were third graders at a time whenthird...
Posted by F on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 04:49:00 PST

Maybe you already are and dont know it.

Stop complainingabout things around you.There is no placethat's perfect.No place where you will be god,and those around youworshipers.No clubwhere they playthe exact musicthat's playing in your head.N...
Posted by F on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:56:00 PST

The Inevitable Oblivion

Several years agoI was in an LA rock bandthat had sort of a Bowie/Britpop sound.We worked really hardand we becamethe biggest band in town,headlining the TroubadourViper Roomlines around the block750 ...
Posted by F on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 03:14:00 PST

Winning everything to nothing

Winning everything to nothing   (a poem by F, 2007) I went to a high schoolthat was, for the most part,made up of middle class kids.Yet some of the studentscame from familieswho were obvious...
Posted by F on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 04:10:00 PST

But why?

I write beautiful songs. People get angry with me. It makes perfect sense.
Posted by F on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:14:00 PST

Everything was nice

The first sign of the impending clash with the outside world was when one confused night, late, a police officer showed up at the front door of our peaceful home with my older brother.  He had ju...
Posted by F on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 03:05:00 PST

Movie

I'm pretty happy about my song "It's A Dying Thing" being in the brand new movie "The Kid & I".  It opens tomorrow in LA and New York, and I guess it'll be in the rest of the countr...
Posted by F on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 12:36:00 PST