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John

A brand new me, piece by piece...

About Me

Yeah, I play guitar, sing, write, ride my wonderful motorcycle around, do some distance running, hang out with my amazing son, hang out with my great friends, record music, run live sound for bands, and try to be a genuine human being who is in love with life.

I'm generally friendly, occasionally late, usually well organized, typically male, specifically serious about music, anatomically correct, categorically undefinable, historically unpredictable, and last but not least a friend to the animal kingdom...except cats.

This is a solo acoustic album I put together CLICK HERE to check that out.

Oh...and apparently I am a goofball.

Favorite quote: "At first, I saw mountains as mountains and rivers as rivers. Then, I saw mountains were not mountains and rivers were not rivers. Finally, I see mountains again as mountains, and rivers again as rivers. " -zen proverb

My Interests

Music, people, guitars, singing, songwriting, recording, musical gear in general, concerts, gumball machines with the really long winding tubes, toaster ovens, running, snowboarding, biking, cooking, movies, Chipotle', graphic design, religions of the world, cell phone coverage plans, coffee, kolachees, dirty martinis, a tasty beer, Native American art, live sound, simplicity, honesty...

I'd like to meet:

Anyone

Music:

U2, Beatles, State Radio, Strata, Mute Math, Regina Spektor, Army of Anyone, O.A.R., John Meyer, Tenacious D, Black Crowes, Band of Horses, Flobots, The Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend, Jeff Buckley, Anna Ternheim, Radiohead, Breaking Benjamin, Chevelle, A Perfect Circle, Audioslave, Tantric, System of a Down, Incubus, Foo Fighters, Lo Pro, The Used, Sevendust, Tool, Live, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Neil Young, DMB, Counting Crows, CCR, Blink 182, Finger 11, Green Day, Alice in Chains, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sade, Better Than Ezra, Pat McGee Band, Los Lonely Boys, Indigenous, SRV,...and the list goes on.

Find these artists and support them: Random Effect, Heather Edwards Band, Stereoside, Langus, Down to This, Nemesis, Brandon Kuptz, Bully, Revery, Come and Go, Ahimsa Theory, Uprising, Pedestal, Dying Breed, Rainmarket, Tick Tock Boom, Directline, Running with Scissors, Nowhere...to be continued.

Movies:

The Emperor's New Groove, Across The Universe, Walk Hard, The Old Star Wars, Into The Wild, Talladega Nights, An Inconvenient Truth, Fahrenheit 911, Independent Films, Rocky Balboa, Tenacious D: The Complete Master Works, Office Space, The Shawshank Redemption, U2 Rattle and Hum, Hype, Singles, Napoleon Dynamite, Anchorman, The Matrix, The Terminator, The Matrix Terminator, Zoolander, School of Rock, Lord de la Ringos, Fight Club, Ocean's Eleven, Showgirls, Castaway, Big Fish, Smoke Signals, Kill Bill, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon...

Television:

The Daily Buzz, The Cobert Report, History Channel, Discovery Channel, anything about the planet, bugs, animals, religion, engineering, comedy. Golf on TV is good for naptime...

Books:

Into The Wild, Scar Tissue, Survivor, Coma Therapy, Invisible Monsters, Choke, Henderson The Rain King, The Hipster's Handbook, So You Wanna Be a Rock 'n Roll Star, Catcher in the Rye...

My Blog

What to do now...

Right now I am sitting here wondering what's next.  Maybe that's not quite descriptive enough though.  I'm not desperately hoping for change, or about to head off towards some great goal.&nb...
Posted by John on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:55:00 PST