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Attention Bands!

If you are either
a) an excellent shoegazer band,
b) an excellent EBM/industrial band, or
c) an excellent goth band,
send your demos, EPs and albums to me and I'll play them when I DJ. Other genres, like "generic boring indie rock" or "generic boring power noise" need not apply.
Message me for details on this exciting offer!
THE SITUATION

A night of Shoegazer and Indie Rock+Dance
First and third (and fifth) Wednesdays at The Lucky Cat:
245 Grand St. between Driggs & Roebling

ASS YR DANCE OFF

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Plausibly Relevant and Possibly Entertaining Links:
The Rare Book Room - Pages from my books.
www.epiphanus.net - Everything online pertaining to me.
Phrenolog - My actual blog. Almost exclusively depressing and despondent.
Gallery - Self-promoting photoganda and questionable miscellanea.
limina.studio - design/collaboration/consultation.
Notice: Hi! If I don't know you in person and you want to "friend" me, which sounds like an awfully sinister verb, you can at least send me a message. I don't add people I don't know without some kind of repoire ;)
Assorted and Sundry Facts about Teddles:

I do a lot of freelance graphic design, Flash design/coding as limina.studio . I write music for a few projects. Among them: current_working_directory , Mainspring, and an industrial / hard EBM project named STAUB. (actually 2b) Music composition, gear, mixing, engineering, etc.. I also play guitar, bass, drums, keyboards and whatever else makes noise. I occasionally work as an assistant camera on films. I also used to do a lot of video editing and post-production for my last job. I am a Romantic. Define that as you will. I am inspired by the enigmatic and the mysterious. However... The most romantic idea I can conceive of is that the universe is not inherently unknowable, and that humans are not only capable of achieving that ultimate knowledge, but will inevitably achieve it. Pursuant to that conceit, I personally endeavor to increase my own knowledge as long as I have the power, and if at all possible, contribute to the greater knowledge of all humanity. Whee! Yes: I used to participate in Rennaissance Fairs. They still hold a great deal of wistful delight for me. I like collecting books. For instance, old and first editions of Peake's Gormenghast trilogy. I'm always on the lookout for good bilingual editions of German poetry and literature, too (they're hard to find). I am a vocal proponent of attentive spelling and grammar. I absolutely will not stand for ignorance of any kind. All around me I witness daily the astonishing and stultifying effects of simple ignorance. There can be no possible excuse for not making an effort to learn. I make keyholes into rooms and write archipoesy.

Fascinations and Esoteric Hobbies:

Literature theory. Especially that pertaining to aesthetics and poetics. Architecture theory. Very closely related to 1). I tend to think of Architecture as a subset of Poetry. Semiotics. The field that ties 1) and 2) together for me. Mainly I'm interested in how the signs of architecture and poetry signify to their "readers" and how meaning is conveyed and construed. This also vaguely connects into Phenomenology. You might as well throw Film theory into this mix as well for similar reasons. Quantum Physics. All physical and theoretical sciences tend to offer something I'm amazed by. Child and developmental psychology. For many of the same reasons as 3). Mainly I'm amazed by the state of constantly novel experience that very young children go through. I want to feel like that all the time :) Neuroscience / neuroanatomy. Mainly because of how it can give rise to human language and consciousness, both emergent properties of the brain, in my righteous and vehement opinion. Speaking of... Emergence. The phenomenon of emergent behavior and the properties of emergent systems. I'm fascinated at how much of the universe is basically emergent. In my opinion all of nature is effectively an emergent system (physics + initial conditions = our present universe). Thus... Determinism. I'm conviced that ours is a deterministic universe. Quantum physics, you say? Hawking Radiation, you say? Read carefully: causality is never actually broken. ... I think. I am also STRONGLY ANTI-DRM and I get really angry and vocal about the subject. Interface design. I love novel and well-executed interfaces, whether in software or hardware, and I love inventing and developing them. I've been doing this, I realized, almost my whole life (in one form or another). It'd be a dream-come-true to work for Apple or IDEO or maybe Google, even as a consultant (or maybe, better as a consultant!) Steampunks, rivetheads and gothypantses!

That's all I can think of for the moment.