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Ben

ember farming riff ninja

About Me

another member of the information generation taking advantage of advancements in communication...

My Interests

the computer program Logic, coffee shops with atmosphere, drumming, nature, chess, Peru, smoothies, the card game Set, minerals, pick-up basketball, Super Monkeyball, meditation, sushi, conversation that deserves the term dialogue, animals, campfires, and 5 meter high dives

I'd like to meet:

people who spend their time trying to be as happy as possible, patrons of the arts, libertarians and rational anarchists, shamans, alchemists, musicians in the ATL, people with hook-ups, explorers of the infinite abyss, and anyone who wants to talk about grokking, art as the expression of ideals, programming beats, or the beauty of strats and teles.

Music:

Wilco, George Benson, Squarepusher, Kanye, Miles, Bjork, Outkast, Prince, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Dan the Automator, Hendrix, Bela Fleck, Death Cab, Dylan, Modest Mouse, Bill Frisell, the Dead, Michael Franti, Disco Biscuits, John Butler, and all my amazingly talented friends!

Movies:

SLC Punk, Serpico and the whole Pacino section, everything Charlie Kaufman has written, Slam, Igby Goes Down, Lost In Translation, Garden State, Batman Begins, Stephen Chow movies, Miyazaki and other anime...

Television:

Family Guy, Samurai Champloo, Full Metal Alchemist, Robot Chicken

Books:

Atlas Shrugged, The Toilers of the Sea, Stranger in a Strange Land, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Jitterbug Perfume, The Electric Koolaid Acid Test, Miles Davis's autobiography, The Story of B, True Hallucinations, The Emerald Tablet, The Real Book (the illegal version of course), Jesus's Son, McElligot's Pool, said the shotgun to the head, Pinchbeck...my latest obsession-William Gibson

Heroes:

John Galt, Saul Williams, the Mckenna brothers, Drizzt Do'urden

My Blog

this just might be my final blog...

Oh Myspace! Its been a great run we've had these last few years. I haven't felt such enthusiasm to sign online since back in the AOL days of junior high yore. Together we have reconnected many estrang...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 12:48:00 PST

speculations on the nature of creativity

The beauty of our subconciousis our inabillity to control it.The spring of dreams runs dryfrom the dilution of truth,making lies to oneselfthe worst kind of compromise.Our one pure happinessswings fro...
Posted by Ben on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:26:00 PST

Because We Know How Good It Feels

Whoa. Surprise, surprise; the mainstream media misses the point again! This particular time, the offending article is some kind of misguided editorial about rudeness in modern society on the front pag...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 17 Oct 2005 01:27:00 PST

and you shall hear the noise in my head!

Ive tried to extract oxygen from my dreams and new dreams from thin air. You wouldnt believe the mess. The other side of mirrors is not an acceptable escape because there is no future in being a ...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Captain Metaphor

Man, that idea is about as backwards as Kris Kross in a funhouse mirror...singing songs about red rum!Captain Metaphor is always on the ball with the perfect comparison using like or as. Whether he's ...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

People who I DON'T want to meet:

1. Metal bands in the south. Sorry, we don't have music tastes that match up. Although I was ambigious about what kind of music I like, you will notice in the list of artists I did name, there are no ...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

patchwork appraisal...

I want friends who can dismantle their parents like an atomic bomb, with the delicacy to keep insecurity from blowing up in their face. I'm so sick of nuclear radiation, because I'm feeling like there...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

God, I thought I'd be blogging everyday...

I'm falling way behind here, so I figured I should write a top ten major events in my life since I posted my last blog. 1. great shows with a new band in Atlanta, Columbus, and Birmingham 2. seper...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Back To The Dec...

So to sum up the last couple weeks of my life, I managed to drive from L.A. to Atlanta in less than two days, got back and started rehearsing immediatly, celebrated Thanksgiving with the fam for the f...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Go See Metal School...

Oh my god! Go see Metal School, Monday nights at the Roxy. I just got back, and it was the best possible thing to do during my last week in L.A. So funny and yet they rocked so hard....I never thought...
Posted by Ben on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST