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Aaron

The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeop

About Me


musician. audio engineer and sound designer. full time music tech/music production student at Bloomfield College. alabama born jersey resident. engaged to a wonderful woman. arm chair music critic. digital art goober. computer geek. total weirdo. a legend in my own mind. happy go lucky kind of guy.



I play bass & guitar and do the drum programming for my digital garage band called A Minor Crisis . I also have another project called The Crash Override with my buddy Troy Thoden. I also have other musical and audio/visual projects up my sleeves.


My Interests


..music. sound capture and its manipulation. electricity. the eternal quest for enlightenment. movies. the beach. camping. glass artwork. tattoos. fireworks. cats. bonfires. exploration. nature. architecture. building anything. gardening. the occult. cooking. incense. fire. politics. psychology. the environment.

I'd like to meet:


people to make music with. collaborators, musicians, audio geeks, gig promoter type folk, old friends, new friends, cool people, cool bands, & people interested in making the world a better place


Music:



..favorites: Smashing Pumpkins, nine inch nails, The Cure, Queens of the Stone Age, Pearl Jam, Led Zeppelin, Fugazi, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Alice in Chains, Tool, Black Sabbath, Helmet, Kyuss, The Jesus Lizard, My Bloody Valentine, Spiritualized, Catherine Wheel, ISIS, Pelican, Explosions in the Sky, At the Drive In, The Mars Volta, Quicksand, The Melvins

other stuff: Hum, The Poster Children, Corrosion of Conformity, Holy Fuck, Alabama Thunderpussy, Dead Meadow, Death From Above, Dillinger Escape Plan, Shellac, Sparta, Circa Survive, Lush

Movies:


..Star Wars, Batman, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Pulp Fiction, A Clockwork Orange, Natural Born Killers, The Crow, Little Shop of Horrors, Reservoir Dogs, 12 Monkeys, A Nightmare Before Christmas, Fight Club, Silence of the Lambs, Snatch, Dark City, The Big Lebowski, Boondock Saints, Eraserhead, Nightmare on Elm Street, The Shining, Amityville Horror, Edward Scissorhands

Television:


I like to watch both FOX and CNN news so I can see how completely ridiculous they both are.

..Lost, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, Adult Swim, South Park, Sopranos, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, The Daily Show, Strangers with Candy, The L Word, Weeds, Arrested Development, Seinfeld.... most of the TV I watch is actually DVD sets of seasons.

Books:


..Neuromancer by William F Gibson is my favorite novel of all time. Jung's Man and His Symbols and Memories, Dreams, and Reflections, Shakey, The Biography of Neil Young,

books Ive actually read lately:
Sequencing Using Reason 4.0
Flash CS3
The Musician's Guide to ProTools
Arrangement

i know, i know.

Heroes:


i dont know if id actually call them heroes, but influences maybe?

Mikey Houser, Maynard James Keenan, Trent Reznor, Robert Smith, Bill Hicks, Steve Albini, Ian MacKaye, Billy Corgan, Jimi Hendrix

My Blog

*whew*

Oh man. My head is reeling as I realize it's time to go to class again. There's exactly two weeks left, and final projects are in full swing. I feel like I haven't stopped moving in two weeks, and can...
Posted by Aaron on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:38:00 PST

March Madness (No Basketball Content)

What a crazy month. I spent 4 days in AL at the beginning of the month during spring break. Mostly a family trip really. Spent a ton of time with Zack. Spent some time with my grandfather who I haven&...
Posted by Aaron on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:17:00 PST

The Crash Override

Go add my new band! Myspace PageThe Crash Override Official Website - not much to look at for now, but stay tuned.My friend Troy and I are writing some songs and putting them out entirely ourselves. T...
Posted by Aaron on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:30:00 PST

My newest addiction

Lost. God help me. Yes, I have been living under a rock. I had not ever seen the show before last Friday, and after seeing one episode and being supremely confused and intrigued at the same time, I go...
Posted by Aaron on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:43:00 PST

Free Digital Copy

So the Family Guy DVD of 'Blue Harvest' says it comes with a 'free digital copy' on a second DVD-ROM. (Its incredibly wasteful to use a DVD for 496MB on a disc. Esp in a mass distribution scheme like ...
Posted by Aaron on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:54:00 PST

Verbatim Regurgitation and the Epiphany Matrix

Busy as hell as usual, but can't complain. I have so much going on, that if I were rich, I'd be hiring assistants.Learned how to sample a part of a song and make that into something new. Right now Im ...
Posted by Aaron on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 07:56:00 PST

Goings On, Reptile, Sweet Procrastination, and Peace Action

School has hit full swing. I opted for dropping the sociology class, so now Im down to 4 classes. Tuesday and Thursday nights are freed up for me now to spend more time working on other projects. I ca...
Posted by Aaron on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 08:57:00 PST

This semester...

...is going to be even better than the last.Sound Design is taught by a teacher who is still actively involved in the record industry as well as doing audio post for film. He did work for Saturday Nig...
Posted by Aaron on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:53:00 PST

Guitar Heroine

Just a quick scribble. The past few weeks have been a blur. Work has been keeping me pretty busy, and class starts Wed. I managed to write 4 new songs in the past few weeks, and I met a super cool tot...
Posted by Aaron on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:15:00 PST

100 Million

pay for the sign on the hill that says you're homepay for the hole in the ground to place your bonespay for the words in your mouth to flowpay for the soles of your shoes to walk the streets of kingsp...
Posted by Aaron on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 08:36:00 PST