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Ideal

Deeper their heart grows and nobler their bearing, Whose youth in the fires of anguish hath died.

About Me

I'm a person with several names for several ways of life. Andrew, the Christian raised middle-class American, filled with anxiety, "white man's burden", and a desire to unlock something significant in the Collective Unconscious that will take us further through the timestream than we ever imagined before. Ideal, the multi-faceted presenter of music to soothe the soul and inebriate the body. Beriba, the capoerista who sees the world through calm, confident eyes, and wants to dance lithely through this life and live it humbly. I'm a Drum n Bass dj with 180 degrees and 404audio. I also have a great selection of downtempo and brokenbeat house styles. I still like video games and cartoons when I have time, but don't think that makes me a simpleton. Videogames helped me to function in the crazy mechanical world in which we live. I've been a nonsmoker for over two years! Cold Turkey works if you're really ready. I make a great friend as long as you aren't too ignorant in the ways of the world. Sometimes even if you are, if you're at least trying."A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." Sir Francis Bacon///180 Degrees Presents///: Click Here To View Event

My Interests

Drum n Bass culture, psychedelic insight, all forms of Philosophy, Esotericism, Quantum physics, Metaphysics, History, what really happened, Capoeira, Brasil, healthy eating, sushi, wine, culture, natural sciences, wildlife, ecology, intelligent pop culture, steady paradigm shifts and non-violent revolutions, cooperation, compassion

I'd like to meet:

fellow drearily enlightened individuals who know how to have fun anyway.

Music:

DNB!: Omni Trio, ICR, John B, Polar, Electrosoul System, Kemal, Stunna, Syncopix, Cyantific, Fokuz recs., Mav, Covert Operations, Lettuce, Amaning, Spor, Evol Intent, Ewun, SPL, Ben Sage, Psidream, Matrix, London Elektricity, Mathematics, X-Plorer and Dee Pulse, XRS, Patife, Duo InfernaleOther: Tomcraft, Yellow Note, Aphex Twin, Orbital, Ladytron, Adult., Fischerspooner, Chromeo, Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mars Volta, Coheed and Cambria, Snowden, Massive Attack, Meat Beat Manifesto, Bjork, Postal Service, Blockhead, St. Germaine, Naked Music, Snow Patrol, Thievery Corporation, Desmond Williams, Thunderball, Yukihiro Fukutomi, Landslide, Jazzanova, Imogen Heap, Smoke City, Keane, Esthero, Zero7, Peelander Z, Get Up Kids, The Rentals, Hum, Nada Surf, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger, Suicide Machines, Descendants, The Clash, Velvet Underground, David Bowie, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Neil Young, Yes, Rush, Supertramp, Journey, Chicago, The Beatles, Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Stan Getz, Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey, Mile Davis, Dave BrubeckFun smilie happy stuff, and sad rainy day stuff.

Movies:

Movies that have a person's definitive stamp on them. Jeunet (Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, Amelie), Terry Gilliam (Brazil, Fear and Loating in Las Vegas, Monty Python), David Cronenberg (Scanners, Videodrome, Naked Lunch, eXistenZ), David Lynch (Mulholland Dr., Blue Velvet, Eraserhead, Lost Highway), Akira Kurosawa (Ran, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Dreams), Peter Jackson (even Bad Taste and Dead Alive), Spielberg (even the jaded must admit he's a pro), Charlie Kaufmann (Adaptation(big 3), Eternal Sunshine OTSM, Being John Malkovitch), Stanley Kubrick (Probably really why I liked AI so much), Baraka, Deep Blue, Genesis, Jan Svankmajer's Alice, Waking Life, Serenity, American Psycho, Jacob's Ladder,anything with imagination, inspiration, and creative visual design. Oh and campy 80's movies and high school comedies

Television:

The Daily Show/Colbert Repor(t), Family Guy, Futurama, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Boondocks, Wonder Showzen, Robot Chicken, Blue Planet, Planet Earth, The Universe, Nova, Wild Discovery, Animal Planet's MOST EXTREME (lol), Barking Mad, AMC, History Channel

Books:

'The Doors of Perception', Brave New World/Revisited, Island (Huxley), Heart of Darkness (Conrad), Journey to the End of the Night (Celine), The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (HP Lovecraft), The Dark Tower saga (King), the Lord of the Rings Trilogy and the Hobbit (Tolkien), On the Road (Kerouac), Walden and Civil Disobedience (Thoreau), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Adams), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, Valis, A Scanner Darkly (Dick), Fight Club, Survivor (Palahniuk), A Brief History of Time (Hawking), Animal Farm, 1984 (Orwell), A People's History of the United States (Zinn), The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Hall), Where the Wild Things Are (Sendak), Goodnight Moon (Brown/Hurd), The Jungle Book (Kipling), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Carroll), Peter Pan (Barry)

Heroes:

Bill Hicks, Alex Jones, JFK, Mestre Fran

My Blog

New Mix! 1-Up for you!

Here's a fun mix I've been conceptualizing for a couple years now. I finally have more music than I need for it, so here's 20 tracks jam-packed into 80 minutes of digital fun! It's a mix of classic bl...
Posted by Ideal on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

180 Degrees Website Is Live!

http://www.180degreesatl.com Our wonderful new site is all polished and ready for some browsing!  We've got dj bios, event info, radio show info, pictures from past events, and lots of class...
Posted by Ideal on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:10:00 PST

Insight From the Heart of Darkness

I just read this and thought I'd quote some of the better parts I'd like to remember. (somewhat entertaining and insensitive aside on women, but also pertains to the illusioned minds in general.) "It'...
Posted by Ideal on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:53:00 PST

India's Culture and Malandragem pt. 4

Obligation..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />   We've also talked about "obligations."  What might that be?  Obligations to laws?  To society'...
Posted by Ideal on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 08:42:00 PST

India's culture and malandragem Pt. 3

Continuing on with the excerpt from Nestor Capoeira's Capoeira: Roots of the Dance-Fight-Game: Freedom..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />   To know freedom i...
Posted by Ideal on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 03:12:00 PST

India's Culture and Malandragem Pt 2

To the Hindus there are four aims in "being a human being."  Here we find similarities with candomblé.              Candomblé and caopeira ar...
Posted by Ideal on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:04:00 PST

India's Many-Thousand Year Old Culture and the Ethics of Malandragem Part 1

I took down the new year's resolution post because it seems to have attracted a lot of spam bots / myspace slorches.  So here's a passage from a great book written by Nestor Capoeira, a long time...
Posted by Ideal on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 08:15:00 PST

Thanksgiving - The short list

I'm thankful that all things can turn around and around again as much as they need to. I'm also thankful that I get along with my family as well as I do. I'm thankful that people appreciate thin...
Posted by Ideal on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 01:43:00 PST

Fresh Brokenbeat Mix For Download

This is essentially the set I played at East Side Lounge a couple weeks ago, for those who couldn't make it.  I love this style and look forward to playing more and more of it since dnb has been ...
Posted by Ideal on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 07:26:00 PST

Ideal Live on Subterranean 88.5 Atlanta (download)

Here's the archive of the mixing I did on Subterranean a couple weeks ago for those who missed it or want to hear it again.  Enjoy! Ideal live on Subterranean 88.5 fm Atlanta (right click, save a...
Posted by Ideal on Tue, 09 May 2006 08:17:00 PST