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Randy

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About Me

Musician, trombonist. Born 1984 in Madison, WI.

My Interests

Unusual or strange sounds, coffee

I'd like to meet:

If your brain waited this long to talk to your hand a cigarette would burn right through your fingers. That's too long. I feel like I just smoked a deck of cigarettes and forgot to blow out the smoke...If I shut my eyes I feel like I'm back in Indiana. Then I open them and I want to take the next guy I see and rip the ribs right out of his chest. I want to take this crowd and mash it together like a sack of potatoes... "The noise was so loud I didn't know if the bullet hit me or not."..."It didn't but you might wish it had..."..."Thanks. A real friend will always tell you after it's too late to do anything."...There are only so many ways a woman can undress. I thought I'd seen them all

Music:

Zorn, Brookmeyer, Dave Douglas, Bill Evans, John Luther Adams, John Hollenbeck, Cuong Vu, Steve Reich, Webern, Beethoven, Fred Wesley, Robin Eubanks, Meredith Monk, Thelonious Monk, Morton Feldman, Sonny Rollins, Clark Terry, Stuart Dempster, Talking Heads, Mike Patton, Marc Ribot, Maria Schneider, Bill Frisell, Napalm Death, Dillinger Escape Plan, Debussy, Ravel, Sage Francis, Public Enemy, Patricia Barber, Ennio Morricone, Bernard Hermann, Morton Subotnick, the list goes on and on...

Movies:

Anything by: David Lynch, Jean-Luc Godard, Woody Allen, Sergio Leone, Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Bunuel, Man Ray, Maya Deren (esp. Meshes of the Afternoon) Also: Woman in the Dunes, Koyaanisqatsi, Repulsion

Television:

Twin Peaks, Quincy M.E.

Books:

The Trail, The Castle, Arcana: Musicians on Music, My Gun is Quick, The Killing Man, Maus, Walden by Thoreau, Asterix the Gaul, Tintin, R. Crumb, anything by Salinger, Silence by John Cage, American Splendor, Zamyatin's We, Naguib Maufouz

Heroes:

No thanks, I'm trying to cut back.

My Blog

Rocking the Esplanade

Hello friends, Living in Boston has been extremely interesting thus far - it's mostly been great, but I do miss Eau Claire very much. Class has been really fun - I'm taking two jazz theory classes (im...
Posted by Randy on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:11:00 PST

...Rend fou

...Gone, gone, gone... Take care, keep in touch!  I'll try and come back for a visit over the Winter.  Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, for everything. Randy...
Posted by Randy on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 10:52:00 PST

Soon to leave Wisconsin...

Hey Kids, So the day that I leave Wisconsin for good is quickly approaching.  I've been spending a lot of my recent time burning CD's to an external hard drive and enjoying music that I haven't h...
Posted by Randy on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:45:00 PST

Chaos Totale!

Oh shit... I'm sitting in my (Keith's) kitchen staring at the financial info for NEC. Oh shit... It looks like this guy is staying at home for the rest of the summer.  If you're looking for me I'...
Posted by Randy on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:12:00 PST

It's warm

Hey Kids, I just finished cooking dinner, and I can't remember ever being warmer than I am right now.  I'm subleasing from Keith and Courtney and they live in part of the second fl...
Posted by Randy on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:55:00 PST

An open letter to spammers and absconders of myspace...

Dear Spambots, Fuck you.  I'm not even really 100% clear on what a ringtone is (and I don't even care), which probably places me firmly out of whatever your target market is. Regards,Randy...
Posted by Randy on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:19:00 PST

It's decided!

Hello all, Well, the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back arrived in my email inbox this afternoon, and it helped me make a really difficult decision.  Next year it's going to be: I'm ve...
Posted by Randy on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:05:00 PST

I have no real problems...

...but I'm having a heck-of-a time trying to decide where to spend the next few years of my life.Four days ago I was convinced that it would be Manhattan... Two days ago I was convinced that it would ...
Posted by Randy on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 09:49:00 PST

More good news...

I just heard from New England Conservatory, and they also accepted me into their jazz program!  Now for the financial aid headaches... Randy
Posted by Randy on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 02:53:00 PST

Good News...

Hey Friends, So I just heard back from Manhattan School of Music.  I got accepted for jazz trombone.  I'm totally blown away and I'm so happy.  I've yet to hear back from the other scho...
Posted by Randy on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:34:00 PST