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About Me

I like sound and sound manipulation. I like the radio.Did I mention I'm one of the jazz DJ's on KSYM 90.1 in San Antonio?Hear me every other Saturday from 7am-9am as I host "Straight, No Chaser" my own blend of jazz and jazz-inflected music.

I'm pro-choice on EVERYTHING!

TANSTAAFL! (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch)
Check my ramblings on the thoughts in my head here

My Interests

Music, sound creation and manipulation, saving radio from the coporate shills who have damn near killed it, reading, stand up comedy, discussing political and economic theory, live music, live theatre, quality beer

I'd like to meet:

Scoffers, Blasphemers, Heretics, Skeptics, Those who relish nothing more than eating a sacred cow(and eating the HELL out of it!)

People who can give a philosophical dissertation on science fiction movies. People who think we should have guns AND drugs!
Anyone who can and does bring or give up the funk

Music:

Jazz, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Miles Davis, Flatt & Scruggs, Bela Fleck, Banjo tunes, Nasty slide guitar blues, Parliament, Funkadelic, Leo Kottke, Sacred Steel, The Timelords/Justified Ancients of MuMu/JAMs/The KLF, Aphex Twin, Orb, Bad Religion, Norah Jones, oldies, 13th Floor Elevators, REAL country, Texas music, Over-the-top ridiculous musicals, Gyorgy Ligeti, Kryzstof Penderecki, all kinds of experimental weirdness

Movies:

The Big Lebowski, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, THX-1138, Total Recall, 2001: A Space Odyssey, any Kubrick, Robert Rodriguez, Cannibal!, Orgazmo, BASEketball, Buckaroo Banzai, Blade Runner, Pi, Starship Troopers, Sweet & Lowdown, Reefer Madness the Movie Musical, The Day The Earth Stood Still, Spinal Tap, any weird sci-fi with a philosophical message

Television:

Penn & Teller's BULLSHIT!, Dead Like Me, The Simpsons, South Park, Carnivale, Conan O'Brien, Curb Your Enthusiasm

Books:

The Moon is A Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein
Stranger in A Strange Land by Robert Heinlein
ANYTHING by Robert Heinlein, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Philip K. Dick, Stanislaw Lem, J. Neil Schulman, Douglas Adams, Robert Anton Wilson

Heroes:

Norman Borlaug (the greatest human being who ever lived)
Robert Anton Wilson
Timothy Leary
Ludwig von Mises
Lysander Spooner
Individualists
My folks

My Blog

Holy Shit! I did it again!

Once again I filled in on the Casbah - 15 March 2008Kris Ruins the Casbah, Volume IIIFunkadelic - I Bet You - FunkadelicSwingin’ Bluejeans - Shakin’ All OverDonovan - Hurdy Gurdy Man - Don...
Posted by The Big Zebrowski on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:33:00 PST

Have You Seen A Better Playlist?

I love it when Brian let's me fill in on The CasbahKris Ruins the Casbah - 15 September 2007Funkadelic - I Bet You - FunkadelicButthole Surfers - Who Was In My Room Last Night? - Independent Worm Salo...
Posted by The Big Zebrowski on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 04:19:00 PST

11 & 12 August 2007

A strange weekend of lot of activity....Saturday Jazz Show (Straight, No Chaser swappin' with Hammond Eggs for a funkay time in Austin on the 17th) Dream hallucination of figure, presence over m...
Posted by The Big Zebrowski on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:55:00 PST

Short But Sweet

How about another haiku....this one about haikus?Yeah, I thought so! First, five syllables. The second line has seven. Then there's five again.
Posted by The Big Zebrowski on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:57:00 PST

Werdz N Id-earz

Two spontaneously generated haikus:I. (whilst watching Almost Famous)"Groupies!" " 'Dude, 'Band Aids!' ""Right, like they're not called 'hookers,'They're called 'sex workers.' "II.I feel...really rea...
Posted by The Big Zebrowski on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 10:18:00 PST

Moar!

Here's another one from about the same time as the last one:Opposing Viewson LifeI.Hey! Look here: Haven't you got it yet?That &n...
Posted by The Big Zebrowski on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:39:00 PST

Poesy

I wrote this ten years ago today:The ArgumentBoth wits matched, Even though one wasolder more and experienced,The other was formidable competition It knew some thingsthe first didn't...
Posted by The Big Zebrowski on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 03:34:00 PST

Rock You Like A Hurricane

Alright, global warming. Alot of people think this is for real. Some even think it's the Biggest Crisis We Face in Our Lifetime. I gotta say, all-in-all, this global warming is not living up to the ...
Posted by The Big Zebrowski on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 08:11:00 PST

Teleportation Is The Best Way To Travel

My good buddy JT has changed shifts at work and so is now back in the afternoons with those of us who Rock the Most. It's nice to have a friend back that you can discuss all sorts of things with...
Posted by The Big Zebrowski on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 07:27:00 PST

Theorem

What is it about a vi chord that just does it for me? I've noticed that going from the I (or root) to the minor 6 (that is, for example, A to F#min) has this awesome, pretty, kinda sad, kinda plainti...
Posted by The Big Zebrowski on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 10:47:00 PST