I'm a music fanatic.
Outside of my close and important personal relationships, everything in my life revolves around music. I write & record original music and remix under the name Entropy ( click here to visit the Entropy MySpace page and hear brand new music ). Entropy's first official release will be an E.P. entitled Paradigm Shift, tentatively scheduled for release in mid to late 2007 (after I finish writing & recording some new songs I've decided to include). In addition to writing & recording original Entropy music, most recently I've created remixes for Liv-Diode, an up & coming EBM band from New Jersey.
I've remixed tracks by some notable power-noise, harsh-electro, goth and old-skool industrial bands such as Die Form, The Last Dance, N.T.T. (Navicon Torture Technologies) , Throbbing Gristle, The Filmstrip, Assemblage 23 and Cop Shoot Cop; all remixes will be available for download or your streaming pleasure/torture from the upcoming, official Entropy Webspace due to premiere in mid to late 2007.
I've been actively involved in Las Vegas' gothic & industrial subculture for the past 10 years and I've worked as a resident and/or regular guest DJ at almost every dark-music clubnight in Las Vegas since 1997. Most recently I've DJ'ed at:
Sanctuary (the new-skool version), currently active every Friday night at the Krave lounge on the Las Vegas Strip;
Paint It Black at the Icehouse in Downtown Las Vegas;
Sacrilege , a long-running goth/industrial/fetish event hosted by Dame Azriele;
Subversion , a recently closed event notable for high-energy DJ sets & live performances by top EBM & power-noise artists;
Magnetic Celadon , a groundbreaking monthly experimental & avant-garde arts event on hiatus.
I'm currently taking a break from DJ'ing and clubbing while I work on finishing the Entropy album but I hope to return to form in the Summer of 2007.
Rozz Williams R.I.P.: 1963-1998
Musician & artist, founding member of Christian Death, Shadow Project, Daucus Karota, Premature Ejaculation...
I was on the Convergence IX planning committee (as Band Liaison) and had the pleasure of bringing The Last Dance, Android Lust, Boole, Frankenstein and otherprominent goth, deathrock & dark-electronic bands to perform in Las Vegas in April 2003.
I'm originallyfrom Suffern, New York, a suburb of New York City in Rockland County about 30 miles northwest of the city, andI spent a good part of my life in New York City itself. New York is the greatest city in the world. I moved toLas Vegas with my girlfriend/muse Alexis on Tuesday October 24, 1995. I miss New York City and my family & friends so I've been back to visit 10 times in 11years.
Other random facts about me:
* I'm a private person who doesn't particularly care to deal with others but have to because of one of myoccupations (music teacher: piano, guitar and bass). My offtime is spent with my girlfriend or on music. I play5 instruments and program the hell out of a sixth.
* I read a lot, I'm of above average intelligence andkind of a snob. I believe you can tell a lot about a person based on their attitude towards the arts, music inparticular, and I've been fairly successful in customizing my relationships to that end.
* During the day Iwork as a "Construction Tax Analyst", a job which requires minimal contact with people and lots of time hunchedover a computer. Very cool!
* I hated cats until I got one for my girlfriend. Now I hate people who hatecats.
* I believe art is expression and exists only as a snapshot of the artist's worldview at the point ofits creation. I love artistic expression that challenges social convention and redefines that which theunenlightened masses accept as "normal".
* I believe in ghosts & other "unseen" beings and I've formulated ascientific theory for their existence.
* I think christians and mormons should be arrested for proselytizing(and I think it's funny that they've altered their public language and now refer to the practice as"witnessing". Whatever).
* Fuck it. Lock 'em all up anyway, just for fun.
* I have a problem with metalbands who appropriate the "goth" label for themselves. A black trenchcoat and membership in a pseudo-vampire"clan" does not a goth make.
* I dream of exploring the deep ocean abyss. I'm fascinated by the concept ofHell as a "real" place, complete with walls, borders and façades. The unexplored, deep ocean (I'm talkingMarianas Trench deep) is probably the closest place on earth to the Gates Of Hell.
* I dream of exploringhigher dimensions and time-space continuums and wish I had the mental & physical faculties to understand them.I hope I live long enough to see a workable, accurate and (gasp!) testable quantum theory of gravity and theresulting advances made towards a true, scientific understanding of the structure of physical reality (spaceis discrete, dammit!).
* I hope I live long enough to finally understand the General Theory ofRelativity and Quantum Mechanics. I have a basic, layman's understanding of the theories now, but noworries...towards the end of Richard Feynman's life, he admitted barely understanding them either. Maybe hisperturbation theory is applicable to education?
* I'm fascinated by objective representations of abstractconcepts. I love maps. I believe in the complete separation of church and state. I hateposeurs.