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Eli

Fighting for metal. Metal that's real.

About Me

I like to play, write, watch, listen to and teach music. That's pretty much all I do. I play drums in Knife the Glitter , Normal Love , Time Is Like A Sword , Inzinzac , Bring It Inside , Tweeter , and Gun Muffs . I also write my own ambient and experimental electronic music and crazy metal midi's under the alias of Wolf Kraft (my middle name). I graduated from Temple University with a Bachelors in Music. My concentration was jazz performance on the drumset as well as music technology. I'm originally from Mendham, NJ and end up there occasionally; Usually on weekends after band practice.
AIM = MojoTFB

My Interests

all forms of metal, rock, jazz, classical, hip hop, R&B, world music and even some classic country. drums. guitar. air guitar. air drums. shows. Rowe camp. music - listening, watching, playing, creating, absorbing. my bands - Knife the Glitter, Normal Love and Time Is Like A Sword. abstract and surrealist art, especially Salvador Dali and MC Escher. enjoying life.

I'd like to meet:

People with similair interests. People who like to talk about those similair interests. Bjork.

Music:

Knife the Glitter, Normal Love, Time Is Like A Sword, Bjork, Extol, Orphaned Land, Manowar, Necrophagist, Blind Guardian, Queen, Opeth, Dimmu Borgir, Converge, Illumina, The Mars Volta, At the Drive In, Coldplay, Bjorkestra, Sigur Ros, Candiria, Daughters, Envy, Tom Waits, Time of Orchids, Codeseven, Engine Down, Borknagar, Behemoth, Rhapsody, Dragonforce, Ben Folds, Meshuggah, The End, Between The Buried And Me, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Emperor, Ihsahn, Cave In, Don Caballero, Embodyment, Minus The Bear, Broken Social Scene, Team Sleep, The Anniversary, The Fall of Troy, Ween, Weezer, Wintersun, The Black Heart Procession, Red Sparrows, The Locust, Refused, Low, Neurosis, Isis, Blood & Time, Lotus Eaters, Bee & Flower, Grails, Strapping Young Lad, Hella, Lightning Bolt, Pinback, Eisley, Rachels, In Pieces, Porcupine Tree, Elliot Smith, Neck, Dredg, This Day Forward, Reverend Glasseye, The Red Chord, Misery Signals, 7 Angels 7 Plagues, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Two Foot Yard, Tin Hat Trio, Book of Knots, Charming Hostess, Faun Fables, System of a Down, Crotchduster, Secret Chiefs 3, Dysrhythmia, Winds, Circa Survive, Behold...The Arctopus, Estradasphere, Jesu, Melvins, Kaada, Mindless Self Indulgence, Chromelodeon, Dream Theater, Into The Moat, Cryptopsy, Copeland, Iron and Wine, John Vanderslice, Steve Vai, Zombi, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Tortoise, Neutral Milk Hotel, Aphex Twin, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Boards of Canada, Telefon Tel Aviv, Venetian Snares, Air, They Might Be Giants, Jaga Jazzist, Trilok Gurtu, 311, Beck, Burnt By The Sun, Ed Gein, From A Second Story Window, Portishead, Mr. Bungle, Radiohead, Iron Maiden, Do Make Say Think, Dead Can Dance, Alice In Chains, John Mayer, Steely Dan, Lauryn Hill, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Brad Mehldau, Dave Holland, Bobby McFerrin, Soul Coughing, The Cardigans, Jamiroquai, Nick Drake, Cake, Nine Inch Nails, Mastodon, Nile, Tool, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, Hank Williams Sr, Erykah Badu, The Roots, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Bartok, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Beethoven, Mahler, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Schumann, Schubert, music from other cultures: India, China, Japan, Bali & Java, Bulgaria, Egypt, Tibet, Africa, South America, etc etc etc

Movies:

Kill Bill 1 & 2, Fight Club, Dancer In the Dark, Lost Highway, Pulp Fiction, Donnie Darko, The Green Mile, Adaptation, Wayne's World 1 & 2, Vanilla Sky, Amelie, Mulholland Drive, Monty Python - Meaning of Life & Holy Grail, Team America, Punch Drunk Love, Napoleon Dynamite, Cradle of Fear

Television:

Metalocalypse, Family Guy, Sealab 2021, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman, The Brak Show, Home Movies, Mr Show, South Park, Arrested Development, The Office (UK)

Books:

The Da Vinci Code, 1984, Lord of the Flies

Heroes:

Gene Hoglan, Nicholas Barker, Keneth Schalk, Thomas Haake, Chris Pennie, Bjork

My Blog

I've been learning a lot lately...

...much more so, it feels, than I have in the past. Life lessons, self awareness and human relations. I would just like to thank everyone that I interact with directly and indirectly in my life. Th...
Posted by Eli on Sat, 19 May 2007 12:52:00 PST

my house has officially entered the future

Within the past month, my house has been upgraded with the following:-A new record player in the dining room for playing my wonderful records on my now better sounding, original stereo system.-A new 5...
Posted by Eli on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:26:00 PST

Most Incredible Night of Music Ever

Well the title pretty much says it all. Last night my band, Normal Love, played in West Philly as a part of DARK FORCES SWING BLIND PUNCHES: A FEST OF VISCERAL PROGRESSIVE MUSIC. And wow, holy shit,...
Posted by Eli on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 01:22:00 PST

LISTEN TO MY MUSIC!!!....please?

I make lots of music and I like it when people listen to it.  The first 5 of my top 8: Wolf Kraft (electronic) and (metal), Knife the Glitter, Normal Love, and Time Is Like A Sword, are all music that...
Posted by Eli on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 03:44:00 PST

burning the midnight oil

I played a pretty fun gig last night at Tritone in Philly. A bunch of my friends came to hang out. Then i got home at 6 am. Good times.
Posted by Eli on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 01:01:00 PST

best night ever, cont.

last night I did many things that made me very happy.  first I went to the Pontiac Grille to see From A Second Story Window.  They are very good friends of mine and its always great to see t...
Posted by Eli on Sun, 25 Sep 2005 11:38:00 PST

best night ever?

ok, yea, so, best night ever?  if not, very close.  more on that later.  its 4:15am and I have to teach drum lessons in 7 hrs.  yee haw!
Posted by Eli on Sat, 24 Sep 2005 01:09:00 PST

my first blog

welcome to my first blog.  the end.
Posted by Eli on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:17:00 PST