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shawn mediaclast, aka the audio schizophrenic

If you're a U.S. citizen and you're not having ethical and existential crises right now you're in an

About Me

pragmatic utopian.musician.omnivore.artist.social critic. sex-machine.insomniac.dj(recorded music whore).cyborg.improvisor-comedian/capitalist/survivalist/com munitarian.Freek-Nite, is a weekly Sat. Night Dance Party I DJ at SNAFU. email: [email protected]

My Interests

Music, physics, culture, art, people, hipocrisy, amen. Cards are over-rated, lets have sex!

I'd like to meet:

God, Bob Barker, Mary Lou Retton, The Grim Reaper, Benji, Noam Chomsky, Snuffalupagis, Vitalic, Kathleen Hanna, Satan, Terry Giliam.fun people, loyal friends, non-territorial, intelligent folk in the Eugene area who want to help contribute to a fun, unrepressed, inspiring, and mutually thriving music and art community.people who are able to experience and recognize beauty outside of pretentious, elitest atmospheres.disciplined improvisor musicians.people who can get off their myspace chair and dance....and can somebody get a sense of humor please?!people who like to cook.people who don't judge me before they know me.non-scenesters.

Music:

sun ra, alice coltrane, peaches, fred frith, james brown, iva bittova, fugazi, billie holiday, boredoms, bikinni kill, william hooker, louis prima, gary numan, fats waller, nation of ulysses, polyphonic spree, the makeup, james chance & the contortions, edith piaf, dj spooky, painkiller, the ex, vitalic, the beasteez, devo, the fall, gang of four, sonic youth, godspeed you black emperor, causey way, ORI, dj spooky, kraftwerk, neu, faust, can, saul williams, dj shadow, marcus intalex, gravy train, the normal, giorgio moroder, all good dancefloor shit. Are ya reddy to pardy?

Movies:

pan's labrynth, v for vendetta, thx-1138, pi, meaning of life, sleeper, space is the place, take the money and run, life of brian, good night, good luck.

Television:

no time. what a lonely fucking planet(ok i recently started watching some cable, mainly because I'm an insomniac, late night greatest boxing fights and I like animal planet and discovery and cnn sometimes...Anything that reflects some aspect of reality, at least in part.........

Books:

biography of sun ra, chaos, astronomy for dummies, as bad as i wanna be, relativity and time travel, propaganda and control of the public mind, shapeshifters witches and bigfoot. orwell, chomsky, kafka, woody allen short stories. But when it comes down to it, people are better than books. A good conversation always beats the best author to a goddamm pulp.

Heroes:

fred frith, sun ra, iva bittova, william hooker, rumi, rahsaan roland kirk,janis joplin, ian mackye, hannah hoch, marcel duchamp, jimmy hendrix, salvador dali, my mom, prudence, steve, cj, river, andy,

My Blog

DJing in Eugene/Freek-Nite Sat.@SNAFU/Electro-Mash Philosophy

I am the host and dj of Freek-Nite at SNAFU every Sat. night. I love British, French, and German electro, Detroit techno, Chicago house, UK hard house, polka, drum 'n bass, swing, hip-hop, soul, ...
Posted by shawn mediaclast, aka the audio schizophrenic on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 07:01:00 PST

Oxymoronic People List! Embrace the Human Condition in all its Hipocrisy!!!

The human condition is oh so surprising, paradoxical, beautiful, creepy, and poetic! All at the same time!!! If you're offended by any of these! Than you're offended by reality! Because many of these ...
Posted by shawn mediaclast, aka the audio schizophrenic on Fri, 18 May 2007 06:25:00 PST

I Relate to Fish by Eating Them

And theres nothing wrong with that. Its the cycle of life! Ecology baby! Evolution! Instinct! ps.  A huge percentage of neurological cells(the cells our brain and nervous system are&nbs...
Posted by shawn mediaclast, aka the audio schizophrenic on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:46:00 PST

Too Much Power, Too Little Brains;Fred Frith Lyrics

Too much power, too little brains.Doesn't everybody feel fear and pain?So how come we make the same mistakes, again and again....Too much power too little heart.Carve up the world, just tear it apart....
Posted by shawn mediaclast, aka the audio schizophrenic on Tue, 30 May 2006 12:41:00 PST

Don't Let the Burner Get You Down: My Take on Burning Man

I hate it already, and I've never been there. And yeah I know theres tons of great feats of art, mobile sculpture, djs, projections and the like, but by and large, just admit it, Burning Man has becom...
Posted by shawn mediaclast, aka the audio schizophrenic on Sun, 07 May 2006 05:25:00 PST