Devoted to the eternal search for music. And I spend some time with my family and friends too. A little sun worship, a little moon worship, a little tree worship, it's all good.
Musicheads.
Top five bands of the past five years, no order: Shins, Clientele, Of Montreal, Broadcast, Radiohead. All time faves (listening for 20+ years): Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Grateful Dead, Black Sabbath, Allman Bros, Jefferson Airplane,Led Zeppelin, Cream, Hendrix, Cap't Beefheart, Dylan, Renaissance, Beatles, Moody Blues, Cat Stevens, Utopia,Uriah Heep, Jethro Tull, ELO, ELP, Yes, Mike Oldfield, Genesis, CSNY/Neil Young, Traffic, Mothers of Invention. 90's bands that I haven't quite been listening to for 20 years: Son Volt, Mazzy Star, Pavement, Jayhawks, Pond, Meat Puppets, Smashing Pumpkins, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, Beck, Yo La Tengo, Belle & Sebastian, Low. 90's bands I used to love but can't stomach anymore: Primus, Jane's Addiction, AIC, Phish, RHCP. Now that it's 08 I guess we can add a section for bands in the early/mid part of the decade: Apples in Stereo, Blur, Wilco, Burning Airlines, Jets to Brazil, Super Furry Animals, Malkmus solo, Grandaddy, Sleater-Kinney, Snow Patrol. More recent stuff I'm adoring: Andrew Bird, Jose Gonzalez, Califone, Caribou, Deerhoof, Iron & Wine, Espers, Fruit Bats, Fiery Furnaces, Menomena, New Pornographers, Phosphorescent, Sufjan Stevens. Local: Expecting Rain, Dreadful Yawns, Mike St Jude and the Valentines, Bears, Kiddo, Clan of the Cave Bear, X Bolex, Plasma for Guns, Very Knees, Volta Sound, 6 Parts 7, Brian Straw, Cobra Verde, New Lou Reeds, The Twilight, Puffy Areolas, Scarcity of Tanks, Machine Go Boom. College Radio: WCSB: Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, Synesthesia, that Brown Dwarf Niburi show thing, Throat Culture Cafe/Dreaming on a Tuesday, Not What You Think, Mysterious Black Box, Krauty McKraut (in all permutations),Live Transmissions, Mid Day Audio Show, Cool Chick 59, 666oz of Madness, Fusion Show, Friday Night Rock Rotation ,Music for Gracious Living, 669. WRUW: Chasing Infinity, Cream of Brocolli, Dig Baby Dig, On the One, Bird Calls, Shindignation, Across the Broad, Radio Show w Tony & Erin, Radio Dystopia, Occasional Detour, The Clap, Prosper Hazzard, Stonecoldbikini,EMPTY, Live from Cleveland, Down by the Cuyahoga, El Gato Blanco. "Discovered" WFMU recently and been into that too. I never work at work, just stream.
Pan's Labyrinth, Motorcycle Diaries, Girl in Gold Boots, Convoy, White Line Fever. Zabriskie Point, with its soundtrack and eternally long shots and terrible acting is a long-time favorite. 200 Motels.
Simpsons, Family Guy, Office, Medium, Bonanza, Alice, One Day at a Time, 30 Rock, Lost in Space, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Little Rascals, My Name is Earl, SOAP, Mork and Mindy, The Jeffersons.
The Ishmael series by Daniel Quinn, anything by Bill Bryson. Sagan, Pinchbeck, McKenna.
everyone. you're all just fucking great.