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Nate

You've got disaster on your mind.

About Me

*I live with a married couple because they are cool and cook for me
*I'm a dork, especially when it comes to music and computers
*I care more about music than most other things
*I wish I had a more creative job
*I think too much about things that really have no significance
*I love to travel, but don't get to enough
*My family & friends are awesome and I love them

My Interests

*listening to, playing, & recording music
*art
*haiku
*sarcasm
*breathing
* Monday Night Volleyball
* Sunday Night Kickball
*Herkimer Shuffleboard
*YMCA Basketball
*Chicago Bears Football
*vinyl LPs
*foosball
*turning nouns into verbs
*double negatives
*co-ed slow pitch softball
*live music
*dive bars
*poker
*liars dice
*grilling
*long shutter photography
*nutritional facts
*asterisks
* Pitchfork Media
* Maddox

Music:

...in no certain order....

ARTISTS

*Menomena
*Battles
*Annuals
*The Dears
*Rogue Wave
*The Clientele
*Apostle of Hustle
*Stars
*The Besnard Lakes
*The Album Leaf
*Low
*Cold War Kids
*Neutral Milk Hotel
*Olivia Tremor Control
*Emily Haines
*Feist
*Amy Milan
*+/-
*Hot Chip
*Electric President
*Tapes 'n Tapes
*Duplomacy
*Neko Case
*Mogwai
*Cursive
*TV on the Radio
*The Notwist
*Houston
*The National
*Elliot Smith
*Riddle of Steel
*Failure
*Hum
*Ten Grand
*The Vida Blue
*Muse
*Sufjan Stevens
*Bright Eyes
*Frank Black
*Clair de Lune
*Shudder To Think
*Autolux
*Sparklehorse
*Tortoise
*Beck
*Far
*Onelinedrawing
*DozeMaryPool
*Wolf Parade
*Pinback
*Houston
*Blinker the Star
*Lusk
*Fugazi
*Dntel
*Rilo Kiley
*Jenny Lewis
*Doves
*Shots Fired
*These Arms are Snakes
*Explosions in the Sky
*Gorillaz
*The Go Team
*Slint
*Destroyer
*Gnarls Barkley
*The Flaming Lips
*Cat Power
*The Good Life
*Grandaddy
*Iron & Wine
*Band of Horses
*Bob Dylan
*Isis
*Spoon
*These Modern Socks
*Kid Dakota
*Quicksand
*Harp & Finial
*Islands
*Wilco
*The Twilight Sad
*Calexico
*My Morning Jacket
*The Raconteurs
*Roma 79
*Lou Barlow
*Pixies
*Kings of Convenience
*Radiohead
*Pavement
*Imogen Heap
*Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
*Self-Evident
*Sleepeater
*The Stella Link
*The Arcade Fire
*Story of the Sea
*Sigur Ros
*The Secret Machines
*Jawbox
*The Decemberists
*Halloween, Alaska
*Nick Drake
*Murder By Death
*Shellac
*Refused
*At the Drive In
*Johnny Cash
*The Shins
*Snapcase
*12 Rods
*Vicious Vicious
*Mercury Rev
*Apples in Stereo
*Of Montreal
*Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
*Cave In
*Shiner
*Toe
*Year of the Rabbit
*It From Bit
*The Poison Control Center
*Day Kit
*The Canadian Wheat Lords
*Traindodge
*Tripping Daisy
*Nada Surf
*On
*... and you will know us by the Trail of Dead
*Death Cab for Cutie
*No Knife
*The Casket Lottery
*Sparta
*The Postal Service
*The Life & Times

I'm sure there is more...

LABELS

* Morr Music
* Elephant 6
* SpeakerPhone Records
* Merge
* Ascetic Records
* Dischord Records
* Barsuk Records
* Deep Elm Records
* 54 40 or Fight Records
* Jade Tree Records
* Kill Rock Stars
* Saddle Creek Records
* Southern Records
* 2024 Records
* Anodyne Records
* Sub Pop Records
* Bi-Fi Records
* Blue Worm Records
* Gold Standard Labs

Movies:

*mostly independent stuff *anything by Stanley Kubrick, Wes Anderson, Sacha Baron Cohen, Quentin Tarantino, David Lynch, and Josh Thacker
*stupid comedies
*dark comedies
*lots of interesting documentaries

Television:

*Poker
*Deadwood
*The Wire
*Ali G
*Dog Bites Man
*Conan
*Six Feet Under
*Weeds
*Arrested Development
*The Office
*Family Guy
*Entourage

Books:

*Chuck Palahniuk
*Charles Bukowski
*Edgar Allen Poe
*Ayn Rand
*Augusten Burroughs
*Interesting biographies and autobiographies (especially music related)
*Other ones with big pictures.

Heroes:

*my mother
*my grandmothers
*my sisters
*my best friends
*anyone who is pursuing their dreams
*Johan Santana
* Little Mac
* Nick Bowman
* Devin Hester
* Michael Ricketts

My Blog

Changes...

I started a new job last week with a video game company called THQ.  I'm working on the wireless side of the company which mainly deals with mobile and online games.So far I'm still not sure how ...
Posted by Natron on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:20:00 PST

LGFUAD

I'm in the new Motion City Soundtrack video that my good friends Josh Thacker and Abby Stavig directed and produced, respectively.  Since the DVD it's featured on has finally been released I thou...
Posted by Natron on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 03:16:00 PST

Bar-B-Cue Ribs

Last September I traveled to Cleveland for a team building excercise called Yawp Fest, put on by the amazing (cough) company that I work for, American Greetings. My team was lucky enough to win the sc...
Posted by Natron on Fri, 19 May 2006 01:01:00 PST

10 Things I Learned Today

...in the order that I learned them. 1. My job really sucks sometimes. 2. This might be the funniest movie to come out in 2006. 3. I will be attending the Built to Spill show on April 11. Hooray! ...
Posted by Natron on Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:09:00 PST

Popsicles, Vicodin, and Shuffleboard

So, I've been sick for a good portion of the past 2 weeks.  I thought, for a brief period last week, that I was over it...only to have the sickness return.  Stuffed-up sinuses and extremely ...
Posted by Natron on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:35:00 PST

Best of 2005

Last week's blog was 2005 highlights. Now its time for my Best of 2005 in music. Top tens in albums and shows. Albums. 1. Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary 2. John Vanderslice - Pixe...
Posted by Natron on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 02:21:00 PST

Highlights...

...of the great year of 2005 in the life of Nathan DykstraI guess I don't know how great it really was.  But I guess it was an okay year for me. A few highpoints of my year: 1. I got a ne...
Posted by Natron on Wed, 21 Dec 2005 12:03:00 PST

Nobody knows you and nobody gives a damn....

I was in Chicago this weekend to see Fiona Apple and I realized 3 things. 1. I am in love with Fiona Apple.  The show was everything I had hoped it would be.  She is amazingly talented and r...
Posted by Natron on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 11:58:00 PST

I am a pirate and it makes me sad.

Recently I was shown an incredibly simple way to download almost any music I want. It's allowed me to check out way so many artists/bands that I've been meaning to hear. So many that it should be im...
Posted by Natron on Sat, 22 Oct 2005 07:41:00 PST

Show me that smile again...

I'm going to start this blog off with a bulletin I posted earlier this week: "How is it that I can work for a company called 'American' Greetings, but yet they can still eliminate my department in ...
Posted by Natron on Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:32:00 PST