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Mass

Make the world better with music

About Me

I am a musician and a producer. I play or have played in SQUIRTGUN, SCREECHING WEASEL, and COMMON RIDER. In these three bands, I have toured or appeared with JIMMY EAT WORLD, BLINK 182, THURSDAY, OPERATION IVY, POISON THE WELL, INTERNATIONAL (NOISE) CONSPIRACY, BOUNCING SOULS, YELLOWCARD, GLASSJAW, the DISTILLERS, NOFX, and many more.As a producer, I have worked with ALKALINE TRIO, ANTI-FLAG, RISE AGAINST, the RIVERDALES, the QUEERS, Kris Roe of the ATARIS, Mike Dirnt and Billie Joe Armstrong of GREEN DAY, the TEEN IDOLS, the GROOVIE GHOULIES, TOXIC REASONS, the ZERO BOYS, the QUEERS, the METHADONES, the COPYRIGHTS, EVEN IN BLACKOUTS, the EYELINERS, the PEACOCKS (Switzerland), LOS PEPINIYOZ (Puerto Rico), SCARRED HOPE (Australia), SUCKERBOX (Cayman Islands), the SMUGGLERS (Canada), and many more.I am also very interested in social issues such as civil liberties, the elimination of the poverty and discrimination, and the reduction of armed forces worldwide, and more...Some albums I have played on:And here are is a small sample of some of the albums I have produced:
My mother, Elena, with my brother Flav on the left, and me on the right, in 1972.

My Interests

Music, film, literature, language, trail running, dogs, history, social justice...

I'd like to meet:



Fun and interesting people that care about other people. No racists, sexists, or homophobes!

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Music:

Squirtgun, Screeching Weasel, Common Rider, (I HAVE to list those!), Anti-Flag, Rise Against, the Riverdales, the Queers, the Eyeliners, the Copyrights, Amazing Transparent Man, Thursday, Shawn Phillips, the Ataris, Jawbreaker, the Peacocks, Thrice, International (Noise) Conspiracy, Tom Russell, the Beatles, the Pretenders, the Dead Kennedys, the Methadones, Jenny Choi, Even in Blackouts, Emeline Michel, the Ramones, Bouncing Souls, Poison the Well, Cursive, Green Day, Alkaline Trio, Smoking Popes, the Vents, Scarred Hope, Operation Ivy, Zero Boys, Victor Jara, Billy Bragg, Toxic Reasons, and many more...

Movies:

Screeching Weasel - "Every Night," Live at the House of Blues, Chicago, in October 2000.

Squirtgun - "Burn for You"



The video for "Burn for You" by Squirtgun, directed by Jason Doty and featuring a guest vocal appearance by Kris Roe of the Ataris.Amores perros, Todo sobre mi madre, the Usual Suspects, Abre los ojos, il conformista, Riso amaro, Deserto Rosso, Sexo y Lucia, Habla Con Ella, Eyes Wide Shut, Frances, Ladies and Gentlemen - the Fabulous Stains!, Sid and Nancy, and many more...

Television:

Background song: "Make it Wreck," by Squirtgun. We released this song in 2003 on the "Fade to Bright" album (Honest Don's/Fat Wreck). The music is by my brother Flav Giorgini, the arrangement and solo section are mine, and the lyrics are a collaboration, with the main lyrical line by Matt Hart (Squirtgun lead vocalist, and MFA with a focus on poetry), and several guest appearances -- most of which included original lyric contributions -- by many of friends including: Justin Sane (lead singer of Anti-Flag), Kepi Ghoulie (lead singer of the Groovie Ghoulies), Chris Bauermeister (of Jawbreaker), Mike Park (formerly of Skankin' Pickle, and founder of Asian Man Records), and Geovanny Durán (of El Guato, punk band from Costa Rica).The song is an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist anthem, inspired by the second US war in Iraq.

Books:

( Luis Alberto Urrea; Across the Wire, By the Lake of the Sleeping Children, Six Kinds of Sky, The Devil's Highway, The Hummingbird's Daughter )( Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ; El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha )( Dante Alighieri ; La Divina Commedia )( Jorge Luís Borges ; Ficciones, El Aleph )( Edwidge Danticat ; The Dew Breaker, Krik? Krak! )( Ernesto Sábato ; El túnel )( Italo Calvino ; Marcovaldo, Le Cosmicomiche )( Gabriel Garcia Marquez ; Cien años de soledad, A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings, Cronica de una muerte anunciada )( John Fowles ; The Magus )( John Irving ; A Prayer for Owen Meany )( Stewart O'Nan ; The Speed Queen, Snow Angels )( Joey Goebels ; The Anomalies )( Carlos Fuentes ; La muerte de Artemio Cruz )( Ben Foster (aka Ben Weasel); Like Hell, Punk is a Four-Letter Word )( Federico Garcia Lorca ; Bodas de sangre )( Patricia Henley ; Hummingbird House )( J.D. Salinger ; Catcher in the Rye )( Manuel Puig ; El beso de la mujer araña)(Miguel Delibes ; Cinco Horas con Mario )(Carmen Martin Gaite ; El Cuarto de Atras )( Thomas Hardy; Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d'Urbervilles )( Subcomandante Marcos; Our Word is Our Weapon )( Herman Hesse; Demian, Narcissus and Goldmund )( Feliciano de Silva ; Segunda Celestina )( Paulo Coelho; The Alchemist, Eleven Minutes )

Heroes:

Aldo Giorgini, Luis Alberto Urrea, Ben Lawton, Michael Weinstein, Tufty (aka David Clough), Paul Mahern, Subcomandante Marcos, Miguel de Cervantes.

My Blog

Squirtgun Interview Podcast Online

An interview with Dan and Mass of Squirtgun with Tim Brouk of the Lafayette Journal and Courier is now online at: http://download.gannett.edgesuite.net/journalandcourier/podc asts/life/music/2008/febru...
Posted by Mass on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:13:00 PST

Squirtgun Show!

Squirtgun will be playing its first show in over two years on February 9th. The show will take place at "The Venue" in downtown Lafayette at the corner of 6th and Main Street. It will be a benefit for...
Posted by Mass on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:15:00 PST

In Recovery from Surgery

In the surgery recovery room, following laporoscopic hernia repair. I developed an inguinal hernia following three weeks in which I only slept 6 hours. Beginning at week 2, I began to suffer from se...
Posted by Mass on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 04:20:00 PST

Interview

I am woefully past due on posting new blogs, so I have decided to reprint here an interview I did with Lafayette-area magazine Tipp-C in December of 1995. As the distribution of the free publication i...
Posted by Mass on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:44:00 PST

Interview Reprint

I have a new blog post up at my main blog site, and will add it here as soon as I am able.  It is an online "reprint" of an interview I did for a local music magazine. For those who wish to see i...
Posted by Mass on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 03:42:00 PST

A Hymn to Achievement

  The same event of which I wrote in my prior blog entry generated more than just one media article, apparently.  In the Summer 1973 issue of the Purdue Alumnus magazine, there appeared an e...
Posted by Mass on Sun, 25 Dec 2005 03:18:00 PST

Little Man with Man on the Moon

  Little Man With Man On The Moon was the caption to this photograph, which shows me getting an autograph from Eugene Cernan, commander of the Apollo 17 space mission, and the last astronaut to...
Posted by Mass on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 08:33:00 PST

My "Teacher Rating"

One of my good MySpace buddies pointed this teacher rating page out to me... http://schools.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=schools.view Ratings&sid=5235&tid=737363&lname=G&hiddensc ho...
Posted by Mass on Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:30:00 PST

Laura Poggi Benefit Concert: The Results

The following is a letter I wrote to the Purdue Exponent thanking several people and organizations for their help in the planning of, operation of, promotion of, and attendance at the Laura ...
Posted by Mass on Sun, 27 Nov 2005 10:16:00 PST

My first live appearance in over six months...

This is one of the longest stretches I have ever gone in my life without playing a live show -- but the cause that is bringing me back onto the stage is a good one:Squirtgun will be doing a one-off sh...
Posted by Mass on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 05:57:00 PST