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About Me

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4I'm a filmmaker currently working on my experimental work (both film and video) and a series of more narrative work exploring film style and genre (up to 4 films in the series). You can sample the series with the second installment
My name is Jay (DJ Draven). I really love goth/industrial music.
I graduated Ithaca College with B.S. in Cinema & Photography (with a production concentration)
I'm currently in Los Angeles and looking for DJing spots so if you have anything, feel free to contact.
I hosted two radio shows on 106 VIC by the name of The Last Exit and Axis of Industrial
I worked at the world famous Fetish Factory in Fort Lauderdale, FL
I am the former Resident DJ for Dark Odyssey in Ithaca, NY
I've done DJing spots at:
The 2005 (first ever) Black-Sun Festival in New Haven, CT
Haven in Northampton, MA
Ground Control in Los Angeles, CA
Inferno in Madison, WI
Alter-Ego's March and July 2007 Parties (Fetish Factory parties) in Hollywood, FL
Necrology in Hadley, MA
Flux in New Haven, CT
Perversion in Worcester, MA
Purgatory in Easthampton, MA
Alchemy at Nation in Washington D.C.
Nokturna in Ithaca, NY
La Petite Mort in Hollywood, FL
I'm available to do guest spots so any clubs/events/parties interested in having me DJ I would love to come out and spin at.
I've run shows with Ego Likeness, Assemblage23, Backandtotheleft, Cylab, Pitbull Daycare, Hungry Lucy, Pigface, Sheep On Drugs, Voodou, Nocturne and Process of Elimination.
If you're a band and adding me, please just send me a CD otherwise I'll never get around to listening to you guys but I do love new music and would have asked many of you for a CD anyway, just message me for an address.
I DJed a show on 106 VIC Ithaca called The Last Exit which has recently run its course because of my graduating and used to do a straight up Industrial show called The Last Exit: Axis of Industrial. I've interviewed KMFDM, Bile, Icon of Coil, Orgy, Lucia Cifarelli, Covenant, Martin Atkins, VNV Nation, More Machine Than Man, Razed in Black, You Shriek, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Bow Ever Down, Imperative Reaction, Goteki, Hanzel und Gretyl, Melotron, Project Sphere, Bella Morte, I'Parasite, The Empire Hideous, Battery Cage, Klone, Assemblage 23, Captured by Robots, Malice in Leatherland, Celldweller, Cruciform Injection, Voodou, Lacuna Coil, Zeromancer, and Collapse Into Reason. I also club DJ on occasion. I really love meeting new people, especially if they're into the music.

My Interests

Find out :)

I'd like to meet:

Filmmakers, Poets, DJs, pretentious fucks, robots, redheads, Jer

NO FUCKING EMO KIDS. I'm not being a jerk. How many emo kids does it take to screw in a light bulb? None...they're all chopped into little pieces in my basement. Now I'm being a jerk.

Music:

Distorted Reality, Colony 5, Goteki, Hanzel und Gretyl, Wumpscut, Deathboy, Pigface, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Bile, Razed in Black, Echo Image, KMFDM, Melotron, Front 242, Assemblage 23, Joy Division, Collapse Into Reason, Voodou, Iris, Dekoy, Wolfsheim, Pink Floyd, Seabound, Computorgirl, Project Sphere, Orbital, Radiohead, Snog, Spray, Ohgr, Skinny Puppy, Noxious Emotion, Half the World, The Gothsicles, Ikon, Voltaire, God Module, Control.Org, Bella Morte, Captured by Robots, Kidneythieves, Theatre of Tragedy, Lolo, Gary Numan, Neuroticfish, Lacuna Coil, Icon of Coil, Apoptygma Berzerk, Aghast View, New Order, A-Ha, VNV Nation, Chris Connelly, De/Vision, Swarf, Run Level Zero, XeroG, Laibach, MDFMK, TOY, More Machine Than Man, Zeromancer, Type O Negative, The Doors, The Last Dance, Depeche Mode, Bow Ever Down, Grim Faeries, Einsturzende Neubauten, Covenant, Meg Lee Chin, The Azoic, Fiction 8, Queen, Resurrection Eve, Process of Elimination, PTI, Pride and Fall, Nocturne, Bozo Porno Circus, Godkomplex, E Nomine, The Cure, Celldweller, Tanzwut, Corvus Corax, System of a Down, Stabbing Westward, I Parasite, Psyche, UV, Chemlab, Rhapsody, Gebrauche-Musik, The Cruxshadows, Peter Murphy, DuskMusik, Seize, Absurd Minds, Malice in Leatherland, Syrian, Cowboy X, Eisbrecher, Witt, Ego Likeness, The Sounds, The Mountain Goats, Ladytron, Voltaire, The Knife, Rotersand, Strip Music, Client, Lunascape, Sheep on Drugs, Cylab, Cylob, Massiv in Mensch, Tanzwut, Corvus Corax, Mindless Self Indulgence, Xandria, Tiga, The Dresden Dolls, Stromkern, Front Line Assembly, Lost Signal, ThouShaltNot, Monstrum Sepsis, King Missle, Battery Cage, Informatik, Stochastic Theory, Null Device, Caustic, Timb, The Freakin Hott, Zombies! Organize!!, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Placebo, Manu Chao, Leaves' Eyes

Movies:

Hackers, Kill Bill Volumes 1&2, La Jette, Jules et Jim, Band of Outsiders, Sincerely Joe P. Bear, The Secret History of The Dividing Line, Unleashed, Gloria!, Mongoloid, In The Mood For Love, 2046, After Life, Jarhead, A History of Violence, Breathless, Hidden Fortress, Serenity, Sin City, A Clockwork Orange, Donnie Darko, The Crow, Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure/Bogus Journey, Tank Girl, MASH, Deep Rising, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Toxic Avenger, Kill Bill, The Cell, Clerks, Lord of the Rings, American Psycho, Stigmata, American History X, Singin' in the Rain, Sgt. Kabuki Man NYPD, Life of Brian, Shadow of the Vampire, Nosferatu, Earth, Beetlejuice, Life on Earth, Army of Darkness, 28 Days Later, White Boyz, Ed Wood, Pirates of the Caribbean, Session 9, Willow, Neverending Story, Dragonslayer, Tron, Children of the Corn, Predator, Dr. Strangelove, Highlander, 24 Hour Party People, Big Lebowski, Casino, Underworld, Snatch, Seven, 12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Shanghai Triad, Legend, La Jetee, Coffee and Cigarettes, Big Fish, more than I can remember

Television:

House, Heroes, Firefly, MASH, Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Sealab 2021, Futurama, Sports Night, The West Wing, Quantum Leap, Greg The Bunny

Books:

Einstein's Dreams, The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, A Brave New World, Crime and Punishment, the Communist Manifesto, the poetry of Wislawa Szymborska, A Wrinkle in Time, Candid, Kafka On The Shore

Heroes:

I Wish Martin Atkins was my father. Heroes are a weird thing but I'm a great admirer of David Gatten, Cathy Crane, Jason Livingston, FranÃ§ois Truffaut, Michel Gondry, Curse Mackey, Joachim Montelius, Maya Deren, Harold Bloom, Aaron Sorkin, Peter Kubelka, Stan Brakhage, Kenneth Anger, Hollis Frampton, and many other great artists which I'll probably add later

My Blog

Alter Ego DJ Set

Alter Ego -Exotique Set - DJ Draven 4/14/07(r) denotes requestChris Randall - Baron SamediGavin Friday - The SliderOhGr - HiLoThe Loyal Opposition - Under The StateNerve Filter - Hey.DaddyAlien Produk...
Posted by DJ Draven on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:41:00 PST