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Werner von Trout

About Me

I like phrases and blips, quick sayings or images that jab you quickly in the eyes, jabbing through to the brain. For instance, I like taglines. My current tagline comes from girls with slingshots . Older lines have come from Disney's The Sword in the Stone (1963) (No sense in going around insulting bullfrogs), and a poem by X.J. Kennedy (Anything. Anything for a fix of light.).
WvT aka Sasquatch aka Paul. WvT for my love of funny names. Sasquatch because I tend to become very fuzzy fellow, and I am rather tall. Paul because my parents weren't dirty hippies or dumb yuppies who named their kids Hunter or Scout, or Moon Unit. Really, Hunter? I don't think they're referring to the late Mr. S. Thompson . //
Central / Southern Cali music fiend, of the electronic variety (with some deviation from this norm). I'm a DeeJay at KCPR 91.3fm , a slack-about (ie: not quite done with school, still without a job, though I'm not living with my parents), and an idealist of sorts, with a hint of laziness -- sure, we takers are fsking up things with our greed, but nature's pretty tough and not everyone is rotten. I tend to join interesting-seeming webgroups, only to wander away after a few weeks of concentrated activity. MySpace is vaguely more interesting than learning how to fold shirts , but still not as much fun as Discogs.com . //
I'm a stingy bastard when it comes to buying most things not made of/ for music. Like anything that might support musicians, like t-shirts from bands on tour and limited edition vinyl. Food and clothes and such only take up precious space and money that could be used for CD and records . Close your eyes, and the only thing you notice is the music, unless it's really cold, then you might notice the frostbite. That's when you find yourself a really spiffy hat or steal a leprechaun's jacket. Or you could just turn the music up louder, hoping you have no option but to dance, dance, DANCE! //
If you really want to be my friend, you have to tell me a story . About you, about something that resembles you (one time I resembled a cloud of goldfish, but I think I had a fever of 104° F), about someone who re-assembles you. Otherwise, how do I know you? Pictures lie, like the wind steals and the dead don't always stay dead (that one's for you, Sparkles =) //
No need to delve further into my personal trunk of oddities, I'm not really real to you. Meet me, and I'll expound on this notion. Oh, and I like odd words. Perhaps you'd say I think they're keen? //
New music on my page in tribute to the Southwest, where I am not but Suzy told me has "fluffy clouds" - this song always comes to mind. Thank you, fake Orb profile =)

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Someone who knows the stories of the crows, makers of seatbelts and odd beats, the kind of people who would enjoy the company of salamanders and agarose. You know, folks who like to have a good time and hang ... out over death-defying precipices! (Ha!)

My Blog

un-Twitter: I want to go swimming

If I had a twitter account/ widget/ thing (I still don't quite understand it, mostly for lack of caring much), it would currently display something like this: I want to go swimming. A lot. Right now. ...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:38:00 GMT

San Luis Obispo doesn’t get October

By that, I mean it never really feels like October. Or maybe it doesn't feel like Halloween should really be next week. The first year I was at Cal Poly, I lived in the dorms, and didn't notice Octobe...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:25:00 GMT

June Gloom Greets Jolly Grooms?

I don't know if there's a proper truism or saying for June, but this title seems fitting for the general San Luis Obispo area. Yes, I'm a groom, now a husband. And it was foggy when leaving from Cayuc...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 11:15:00 GMT

Random thought dumping

Complete randomness, for this fine Friday. EvaluMate.com, one of the newer dumb website ideas. How did I find this? A silly radio advert I heard at work. What's the concept? "Evaluate a date" - seriou...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 09:54:00 GMT

Happy Opera-Day!

My monthly update went by the way-side for March, for lack of vaguely interesting information from my area. I'm back at KCPR, listening to more live Opera from the New York Metropolitan Opera house, s...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:41:00 GMT

In these last hours

... of that awkward little month we call February, with it's awkward spelling and its late-in-coming creation (did you know the Romans considered winter to be a monthless period? Nor did I! Thanks, wi...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 22:18:00 GMT

The New Year bodes well (enough)

The story goes that the first week of the new year will set the pace for the rest of the year, and it's held true well enough for the past few years I've thought about it. So what does this year hold ...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:33:00 GMT

Happy Saturday / Met Opera Day / December!

It's a day + a month since I've last posted, but at least it's still December. Time for the monthly update!The joys of holiday travelsI'm at KCPR, on Saturday morning, during the station's winter brea...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 10:11:00 GMT

Pre-Turkey Day Ponderances

Question 1: aren't the peoples who originally resided in the Americas to be referred to as Native Americans? I know "Indian" is a term rather set in our culture (cowboys and native americans doesn't h...
Posted by on Wed, 22 Nov 2006 20:40:00 GMT

Vaguely monthly update: Happy November!

It's been about a month since my last post, and this time I have a little something to say. I had my second interview with the County of San Luis Obispo! Yes, my future as a professional planner might...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 16:13:00 GMT