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van

Thanks to the internet I'm now bored of sex.

About Me

I play in a one-piece experimental band:

Chopstick
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More Bollywood fun!
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My Interests

Coffee. Experimental music composition. Doujin Shmups. Danmaku Shmups. Video games. Live shows. Road trips that involve music acts and used CD stores. Animation. Coffee. Rainy days. Cities that I don't live in. Bitter beers. Coffee. Japanese and Indian curry. Split pea soup. And road trips in general.

Music:

And this is the short list...
Adachi Tomomi Royal Chorus; The Advantage; Afrirampo; AGATA; Agoraphobic Nosebleed; BACH; The Beatles; Bernard Herrmann; BJRK; Blonde Redhead; BOREDOMS; Buckethead; Christian Marclay; Ennio Morricone; ENT; Estradasphere; Eyvind Kang; FANTOMAS; Frank Zappa; George Harrison; Ground Zero; Handsome Boy Modeling School; HELLA; Idiot Flesh; John Lennon; John Linnell; John Zorn; Karlheinz Stockhausen; Koenji-Hyakkei; Korekyojin; The Koto Music of Japan; Kriss Kross; Laziest Men on Mars; The Left Rights; Lightning Bolt; The Locust; MALDOROR; MCCHRIS; Mega Man; Melt Banana; MELVINS; MERZBOW; Mike Patton; Mindless Self Indulgence; Mr. Bungle; Lovage; Nervous Cop; NWA; Otomo Yoshihide; Peeping Tom; Pig Destroyer; PRIMUS; R. H.Y. Yau; Ravi Shankar; Rova Orkestrova; RUINS; Satoko Fujii; Erik Satie; Secret Chiefs 3; Sleepytime Gorilla Museum; Steroid Maximus; Strong Bad; TOMAHAWK; They Might Be Giants; Trevor Dunn; The Ventures; Yamamoto Seiichi; Yoshida Tatsuya; Yuka Honda; Zubi Zuva;

Movies:

Anime, Zombies, Vampires, bizarre rarities, tokusatsu kaiju, Japanese Monster movies

Television:

Simpsons, MST3K, Family Guy, Seinfield, Adult Swim, Dr. Katz, Golden Age , Metalocalypse

Books:

"To be is to do" -Socrates.
"To do is to be" -Jean-Paul Sartre.
"Do be do be do" -Frank Sinatra.

Raymond Carver, Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Ray Bradbury, Chuck Palahniuk, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes.

Heroes:

Erik Satie. Bob Moog. Mike Patton. Otomo Yoshihide. Yoshida Tatsuya. John Zorn. Trey Spruance. Kurt Vonnegut. Emo Phillips. Ray Bradbury. John K. Chris Ware.

My Blog

Private Pages

Myspace has added a new function which is utterly bizarre.  Sort of borrowing the "if you liked this then you would also like" function of Amazon.com, but aiming it towards profiles.  If you...
Posted by van on Mon, 26 May 2008 03:58:00 PST

coffee shop / car getting serviced

Right now I'm in a coffee shop, blogging on my PSP. It's really annoying rather, but I'm getting the hang of it's keyboard function. I'll be in east sac most of the day so if anyone wants to hang out ...
Posted by van on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:25:00 PST

Circuit Bending Challenge

My entry for the circuit bending challenge,http://vanillatray.blogspot.com/2007/10/circuit-be nding-challenge-10-28-07.htmlLinks:Get LofiCreate Digital Music...
Posted by van on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 11:12:00 PST

Found Cats

In attempts of searching for my own lost cat, I had made friends with a few of the local strays.  First, I was able to take this picture of the gray stray cat that's been looming around my proper...
Posted by van on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 11:40:00 PST

loev laptop

I've been having some laptop woes recently.  Luckily my cat loves the warm air coming from the laptop's exhaust (err... fans) so as I'm working on them, he'll do stupid poses like this.My origina...
Posted by van on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 09:18:00 PST

My PSP is way cooler than yours!

Ninja pizza!  Pizza that vanish without trace!
Posted by van on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 08:27:00 PST

Two best emo albums of all time.

new hero. yay.
Posted by van on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:07:00 PST

Bangai-O

After playing this game for five minutes now, err... twenty minutes, this is my new favorite Dreamcast game.  With engrish like this, how can you disagree?Sabu:  Uff.Riki:  Are you the ...
Posted by van on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:58:00 PST

i'm such a stupid nerd

Here are some xbox to usb dongles I made this evening.  I made an xbox female to usb male, and now a standard xbox controller will function in windows.And I made an xbox male to usb female so I c...
Posted by van on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 09:42:00 PST

the internet is a waste of space

seriously. Now, this one is actually good, ...
Posted by van on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 05:31:00 PST