W. David - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Born on California, raised in Colorado, residing in Chicago. 6'-2" of guitar and bass playing fury.
I am Master Shake from Aqua Teen Hunger Force!!
Which Aqua Teen Hunger Force character are you??

My Interests

Music, cooking, architecture and urban planning. Oh, and I'm a Star Wars geek.

I'd like to meet:

Chicago area musicians and Waxtrax! & Invisible fans

Music:

Former member of Until We Wake and JILT; currently bass player for Room 101.Influences include but are not limited to: Jeff Buckley, Killing Joke, The Damage Manual, The Revolting Cocks, Queens of the Stone Age, Jimi Hendrix, Pigface, Tori Amos, Eagles of Death Metal and Chris Connelly.Turn-offs: Orange amps, jam bands, indie/emo preciousness

Movies:

Idiocracy, Election, Dr. Strangelove, Memento, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars, Blade Runner, Office Space.Don't bother me with: Romantic comedies, anything produced by Jerry Bruckheimer.

Television:

Beavis and Butthead, The Simpsons, South Park, Family Guy, Futurama (are we noticing a pattern yet?) Ren & Stimpy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Harvey Birdman: Attorney at Law

Books:

The Lord of the Rings, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Illuminatus! Trilogy, Moby Dick, Foucalt's Pendulum, The Name of The Rose, anything by Bradbury, Vonnegut, or Philip K. Dick

Heroes:

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Niccolo Machiavelli, Chris Connelly, Geordie Walker, Martin Atkins, Josh Homme, Dave Grohl, Jeff Buckley, Bill Rieflin

My Blog

Sold Out: The Problem with Live Music, Part 2

Ticketmaster vs. the scalpers: Who wins? Not you. I’ll try to keep this relatively brief, because either the history of Ticketmaster or the economics of entertainment alone would each be suffic...
Posted by W. David on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:36:00 PST

SOLD OUT: The Problem With Live Music, Part 1

My writerly compulsion has forced me back to (somewhat) regular blogging on the myspace front, until such time as I can sort out and edit my old, new, and forthcoming entries into one or more differen...
Posted by W. David on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:09:00 PST

Bitter Harvest: The Astronaut Farmer Revisited

Several months ago I posted an entry in which I brutally and voluminously excoriated the Billy Bob Thornton vehicle The Astronaut Farmer. Somewhere underneath the pile of digressive diatribes about th...
Posted by W. David on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:18:00 PST

Its all coming down

In my very first post, I asked rhetorically if blogging was a worthwhile endeavor. While it has been salutary and fun to articulate some ideas independently of any specific goal, as a sort of nur...
Posted by W. David on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 10:34:00 PST

Which ten albums would you want if you were stranded on a desert island?

I'm taking a brief respite from rants for a bit of rave. The following is by no means intended to be definitive or universal the albums I would want if stranded on a desert island might well drive ...
Posted by W. David on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:02:00 PST

THE RANT LIST, VOL. I

There are many things in this world that piss me off. My close friends can attest to the fact that I am not only arrogant, impatient and judgmental, but all-in-all a bone-deep, dyed-in-the-wool Hate...
Posted by W. David on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:52:00 PST

God Bless You, Mr. Vonnegut

I scribbled this on spec for my friends at the Rocky Mountain Chronicle . . . unfortunately, they didn't have space for it in this week's edition, so I'm publishing it here instead: ...
Posted by W. David on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:33:00 PST

Excerpt from a letter: Issues with modern vocabulary

By the way, "blog" is an ugly, stupid word, isn't it? It sounds like 1984 Newspeak. I think coining such a drab, curt little term for online writing makes it that much easier for professional journo "...
Posted by W. David on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:39:00 PST

Sober Poet II: A puzzling effort

cRyPt0gR4m i peel back layers of parchment, glass onion skin images, subversive verses cryptically etched in the margins of your copy of the story of o. is it unspoken understanding or just mi...
Posted by W. David on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 01:38:00 PST

Astronaut Farmers and Other Stupid Americans

Lately I've been musing quite a bit on the challenges facing our society, and engaging in friendly debate with family and friends on whether or not America can possibly reverse or avoid the social and...
Posted by W. David on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 03:44:00 PST