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Erim

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About Me

i play electric bass, and I am looking for bands to play funk, rock, jazz, R&B, afro-cuban, and everything else.i play with Ten Count Junky, an LA based rock band, and used to play with Qwiksand, a funk/reggae/rock/soul band. I took lessons from Alphonso Johnson for more than 2 years. I've just got my Ph.D. degree from industrial and systems engineering department at USC, currently doing research on some mathematical games, and playing bass till my fingers fall off.

My Interests

music, improvisation, some math...the sea and the ocean. funk/jazz/rock/fusion. Groove. Afro-Cuban and Brazilian music. Percussions used in Afro-Cuban music. Psychoanalysis. Freud, Marx, Nietzsche. Game Theory. Stochastic games. Probability. Optimization. Queues. Queueing control. Gypsy culture. World music. Living life to the fullest.

I'd like to meet:

good bands. music people. friends.

Music:

Alphonso Johnson, Louis Johnson, Larry Graham, Weather Report, Yellowjackets, Joe Zawinul, Marcus Miller, Stanley Clarke,Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, John Coltrane. Always Led Zeppelin, the Doors, Deep Purple, Dream Theater, Metallica. Jazz/funk/rock/fusion. Incognito. Brand New Heavies, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Craig Harris. The Cure.David Bowie. Selim Sesler. Husnu Senlendirici. and many others. Too many to list here. Erkin Koray. Orhan Gencebay. Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Movies:

Any movie with DeNiro in it. Arizona Dream. Peter Sellers movies. Billy Wilder movies. Black and white movies from the 50s. The long Goodbye. LOts of movies. Too many to list.

Heroes:

Sibel Kekilli