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About Me

So despite my trying to hide it, the trailer for my movie ended up on youtube. Watch it:
Have 2 bands that I love. fhole and Tank Attack. Come see us!
(fhole myspace page)
(Tank Attack myspace page)
Tank Attack is currently recording, but you can hear us live here!!! (from our first live performance ever...)
I produce a Podcast called "Forcing the Magic". Its improvised and comedic. Check it out here .
Or you can find it through itunes, either by looking up "Forcing the Magic" in the podcast directory, or by following this link .
Making a digital motion picture with a couple friends We are about 95% done with shooting.
Do a TV show called 'Local Independent' with same friends.
I make videos. Here is my most recent effort with Double Dutchess . If you want to see some of my best recent work, check out the videos I made with the Hawnay Troof at retard disco's site . Scroll down to the middle of the page to see Southern Drama (with 2 actors playing 6 parts!) and Dry Hump 2002. Some other recent work includes 2 video collages made with/for xbxrx and dvd authoring for the awesome double dutchess dvd, flextasy (the dutchess's site) .
My most recent band was Canaries Kept Quiet Kill with me on guitar & vocals and Team playing drums. If you want to check out some mp3s, pics and video, go to our yahoo group .
May 1st, 2004 I wrote, recorded and played live a solo set in 24 hours. You can hear the results here . I am using these songs as a basis for a new band which will hopefully debut at some point.

My Interests

people, music, films, video production, education, logic, and of course travel... I havn't seen much of the US (West Coast, East Coast, Hawaii, Texas, New Orleans), but have spent time in Germany, Spain, England, France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Hungary, Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, Romania, Bulgaria, Iceland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Bolivia, Peru, Canada, South Korea, Japan, and China. ..

I'd like to meet:

Each and every one of your friends.

Music:

Kit (my favorite band), Faxed Head, Total Shutdown, Pink & Brown, the Secret Chiefs 3, Devo, t.i.t.s., xbxrx, Casiotone for the painfully alone, Nate Denver's Neck, the Buzzcocks, Death Sentence: Panda, Numbers, Lil' Pocketknife, Dieselhed, the Lowdown, Hawnay Troof, the Sick Lipstick, pre-psych Boredoms, Melt Banana, Warbler, Pop-O-Pies, early Bad Brains, Snowsuit*, Minutemen, Gang-way, Burmese, Crack: We are Rock, the Flying Luttenbachers, Dengue Fever, Dynasty, Echo & the Bunnymen, Idiot Flesh, Crash Worship, Ornette Coleman, Kletka Red, Han Bennick, Ruins, Lake of Dracula, Chen Santa-Maria, Minor Threat, OOIOO, Roberto Rodriguez, the Monkees

Movies:

Vampire's Kiss, The City of Lost Children, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Waiting for Guffman, Gozu, Boogie Nights, Army of Darkness, Top Secret!, Brain Candy, Mulholland Drive, The Happiness of the Katakuris

Television:

Strangers with Candy, the Office, the Kids in the Hall, Arrested Development, Twin Peaks, the Dana Carvey Show, Early Ren & Stimpy, Saturday Night Live (Esp. '88-91), the Adventures of Pete & Pete

Books:

Midnight's Children (Rushdie), the Castle (Kafka), I am a Cat (Soseki), the Satanic Verses (Rushdie), Moab is my Washpot (Stephen Fry), God Bless you Mr. Rosewater (Vonnegut), If Chins Could Kill (Bruce Campbell)

Heroes:

Salmon Rushdie, Robert Rodriguez, the Touchtons

My Blog

First Press!

Hey, so the project that I've given my soul over to the past year has been finally shown to the press. I gave demos of our technology to several different magazines this last week, and this is the fir...
Posted by dug on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 06:55:00 PST

Where I been

Here's a cool way to see where you been in the world. So far, I've spent some time in 27 countries, so I've seen 12% of the world! So little!create your own visited countries map...
Posted by dug on Fri, 28 Apr 2006 03:55:00 PST

I'm dual-bay

Starting May 1st, I'll be east-bay, west-bay and north bay. I've rented a room in SF, Haight and Steiner. But my main residence will still be my room in Oakland. And I still work in San Rafael. And fr...
Posted by dug on Mon, 24 Apr 2006 02:48:00 PST

I'm full on full time yo

Today was my first day of work at my new full time position at THX. We settled on the title "Senior Project Engineer". I didn't want to be too specific since there are so many things I want to do ther...
Posted by dug on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:29:00 PST

Tank Attack is illegal

My friend Nam hosted a party that we played and since DA Kamala Harris lived nearby, she had the cops raid it and now they've issued a warrent for his arrest. Good thing he gave them a fake name. But ...
Posted by dug on Tue, 27 Dec 2005 01:18:00 PST

I'm going to Vegas!

So THX invited me to attend CES with them January 6/7-ish. They're gonna fly me out and everything. Also, I was told today that they are drafting an offer to take me on full time. I think they l...
Posted by dug on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 03:15:00 PST

sudden work

I got a call last friday asking if I'd partner in developing a new technology for THX. Sunday I crashed my car. Monday I was at work at Lucas Ranch in Marin. By friday I had my own lab and a meeting w...
Posted by dug on Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:37:00 PST

My Classmates Bio

I'm putting some real info up in the about me section, so I wanted to move this to the blog section... The bio I put up at classmates dot com: "Oh, where to start... after high school I lost my wil...
Posted by dug on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST