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Justin

Put the lotion in the basket

About Me

Howdy
I'm Justin.
Music is my life.
Seriously, you don't even know.
I obsessively play all forms of percussion, some keyboards, and really bad guitar.
I can be eccentric, especially when it comes to music.
All my time is spent making or teaching music.
Analog makes me happy.
I have trouble letting people in at first.
My dog is the best friend ever.
My other friends are pretty cool as well, and I don't call them enough anymore.
I've had a fairly adventurous life so far, living all over, and seeing most of America after 3 full US tours.
I was born in Washington D.C. and moved to Rickmansworth, a small town just outside of London, England. The UK is my second home, and I plan on going back to live someday.
I moved to Minneapolis 3 years ago from Anoka to pursue a life as a recording engineer and producer. I graduated last year with an AAS in Audio Production/Engineering.
I'm currently working for MakeMusic, doing tech support for Finale and SmartMusic.
Composition is another love of mine, and would like to one day break into the world of composing and scoring music for film....or just for bandos.

My Interests

Music production
Percussion
All forms of poker
Good beer
Snowboarding
Baseball
Drumcorps
Not living in Anooooka

I'd like to meet:

Feel free to message or IM me (drumjustinp) on AIM.

I'm a Digidesign Certified Pro Tools Operator looking to engineer/produce local artists.

Contact me for rates and work samples.

Music:

A Perfect Circle
Alice in Chains
All Shall Perish
Amon Amarth
At The Drive-In
Between The Buried And Me
Black Sabbath
Bob Dylan
Cake
Calexico
cKy
Coldplay
Converge
Dark Tranquillity
Darkest Hour
Dave Matthews Band
Death
Deftones
Dillinger Escape Plan
The Doors
Fiona Apple
Flogging Molly
Foreign Objects
Gorguts
Gorillaz
Hypocrisy
Iced Earth
Imogen Heap
Incubus
Jamiroquai
Kalmah
King Crimson
Lamb Of God
Led Zeppelin
Malevolent Creation
The Mars Volta
The Marshall Tucker Band
Massive Attack
Mastodon
Meshuggah
Metallica
Napalm Death
Nile
Nine Inch Nails
Opeth
Pantera
Peter Gabriel
Pink Floyd
The Police
Primus
Prince
Protest The Hero
Radiohead
Rage Against the Machine
Red Hot Chili Peppers
The Roots
Rudy + Blitz
Sepultura
Shooter Jennings
Slayer
Sly & The Family Stone
Smashing Pumpkins
Sublime
Tool
Type O Negative
Ween
With Dead Hands Rising

Movies:

Boondock Saints, Fight Club, Se7en, 12 Monkeys, Requiem for a Dream, American History X, Snatch, Lock-Stock-and 2 Smoking Barrels, Shawn of the Dead, Collateral, Minority Report, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown, E.T., Taxi Driver, Full Metal Jacket, Rounders, I 3 Huckabees, Zoolander, Scarface, Napoleon Dynamite, Malcolm X, The 25th Hour, Apocolypse Now, Born on the 4th of July, Jerry Maguire, Spinal Tap, Alien, Aliens, Predator, Predator 2, Legends of the Fall, The Good-The Bad-and The Ugly, Memento, Platoon, Reservior Dogs, Natural Born Killers, Bowling for Columbine, Supersize This, The Matrix, Akira, American Pie, Schindler's List, Kill Bill, The Crow, Blow, Half Baked, Friday, Money Talks, Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma, Chasing Amy, Office Space, Donnie Darko, Dumb and Dumber, Billy Madison, Tommy Boy, and a ton more....I have a lot of DVDs....

Television:

24, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Office, Family Guy, late night PBS.

Books:

Roots, Fight Club, Choke, Survivor, Rum Punch, The Switch, Animal Farm, 1984, Night, America-A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction, Dude-Where's My Country?

Heroes:

Rick Rubin, Rich Costey, David Bottrill, Terry Date, Danny Carey, Neil Peart, Samuel Barber, Bela Bartok, Bernard Herrmann, Eddie Kramer, Andy Sneap, Jon Theodore, my parents

My Blog

Deep Thoughts

I haven’t been blogging much in the past few months.  It’s not because I haven’t been doing anything interesting, it’s because I’m a terrible writer.  So, I&rsq...
Posted by Justin on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:59:00 PST

Arrrg!!!

So I a few weeks ago I get a letter in the mail from my wonderful landlord (who happens to be my uncle through marriage to my mom’s sister) that my rent will be raised from $450 a month to $650 ...
Posted by Justin on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:47:00 PST

Weird Fishes

Thank god for spring breaks.  The highschoolers are on break all this week, so that means I am as well.  Other than a meeting up at Andover tomorrow afternoon and MBI on Wednesday, I don&rsq...
Posted by Justin on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:21:00 PST

Justins Poker Challenge

So recently it came to my attention that a professional poker player (Chris Ferguson) has made $10,000+ from playing poker for free.  I've always loved playing poker, and usually do fairly well f...
Posted by Justin on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 02:20:00 PST

Wow.

Uhh, what happend last night?I'm serious.  If you know, tell me ....
Posted by Justin on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 08:18:00 PST

Pffttghgh

I hate you all.Seriously.
Posted by Justin on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 12:30:00 PST

(Insert witty title here)

I have absolutely nothing on my schedule for this weekend for once, and it rocks.  I'm playing it spontaniously.Not much has been going on in the past few days, sent in more resumes, didn't get m...
Posted by Justin on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 11:08:00 PST

The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

I guess it's time for another installment of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly, since I've been a tard about blogging recently. -The Good- Minnesota Brass has been rocking lately.  Great rehearsa...
Posted by Justin on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:02:00 PST

I gone done got tagged too

"The rules in this game of tag are simple -- once you have been tagged, you must write a blog with ten weird, random things, little known facts or habits about yourself. At the end choose 10 people to...
Posted by Justin on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:11:00 PST

The Shock and Terror Keeps Me Sane

Unless you live under a rock, you know that there was a terrible crime at VT on Monday.I spent a little time today surfing around the 24/7 news networks, and listened to a while to how these so called...
Posted by Justin on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:55:00 PST