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☮ veggie dustin ☮

sedition, not sedation

About Me


My name is Dustin.
I'm some sort of confused pseudo-hippie punk that's way into my own little world of music and art and political upheaval. I don't ever find that I see eye to eye with many people, but I don't let that stop me from being friends with damn near anyone. I crave intelligent conversations like a junkie craves black tar. My biggest pet peeve is probably just stupid, stupid people. And I'm not saying I'm a genius by any means....but seriously, rationality, it's a good thing.
I've suffered a lot of loss and many hardships, but everything happens for a reason. I wouldn't be who I am if not for the experiences I've dealt with, and whether or not anyone else accepts me for who I am is irrelevant. I'm comfortable with myself and my ideals. Let's get to those, shall we?
First off, probably my strictest value. I am a vegetarian. I'm not militant about it, nor will I get preachy. I simply don't believe it is our races place or right to cause harm and suffering to other living things. Plenty of people get through their lives without consuming animal products, so it obviously isn't a necessity.
I am pro-choice. As a male, I don't believe I should have any say in what a woman does with her body.
I am a full supporter of equal rights. I am strongly against racism, sexism, and prejudice.
I'm a Virgo, and whether or not you put any merit into astrological signs, the description of a male Virgo pretty much sums me up very nicely.
I love to read. If I have any free time whatsoever, my nose is probably buried in a book.
I'm very independent but enjoy being around others.
I constantly have a barrage of artistic ideas and concepts floating around in my head. I usually don't have the resources to pull much of it off, but once I set my mind on some sort of DIY art project, it's prety hard to stop me.
I enjoy going to the gym and staying healthy. I swim as often as I can, and I'll hike anywhere worth hiking.
I dislike wearing shoes. Chances are, if the weather is decent and there's no rocks or glass shards around, I'll be barefoot.
I love to travel. I hate my hometown and absolutely love going new places and exploring them. I haven't really been outside the Pacific Northwest much, but even a few hours away is like another world apart from Spokane.
I'm very open to meeting and talking to new people. I seem to know hundreds of people, yet have so very few friends.
I attend school at Spokane Falls Community College. Almost finished!
I'm a freelance journalist for the music section of the local magazine The Inlander.
I host a radio show every Wednesday evening.
I play bass guitar for Merrick Diaries , and My Fatal Mistake .
If you'd like, feel free to add me to your MSN Messenger.
Syko_Sirkle @ Hotmail

My Interests



I <3:
performing & playing music, vegetarian & vegan cooking, yoga, education, Vitamin Water, Viso, audio sampling, open mics, poetry, European football, the sun, dreads, trees, hiking, peace, love, happiness, coffeeshops, camping, the ocean, astronomy, animals, being barefoot, trees, soy milk, full stacks, tube amps, Sunn & Ampeg equipment, Warwick basses, writing

I have a disdain for:
meat, dairy, hunting, government, organized religion, consumerism, chauvinism, capitalism, math, racism, homophobia, pollution, bad music, trend hoppers, scene jumpers, unnatural drugs, smoking, pro-lifers.

I'd like to meet:

I met her once. Hopefully I will again someday. Punk rockers, hip-hoppers, intellectual hippie types that do more than just get high all day, jazz musicians, anyone that likes post-rock, animals of any kind (the cuter the better), musicians (of good taste), anyone with a creative, artistic, and DIY spirit and attitude, and anyone else worth taking the time to get to know.

comments go here
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Music:

Music is the mortar that holds the walls of my life and my sanity together.
Instrumental/Down-Tempo
Thee Letting Forth of Fire, Trenches, Pelican, Jesu, Old Man Gloom, Giant, Ascent of Everest, Tides, Windmills By the Ocean, Mono, Red Sparowes, Callisto, Boards of Canada, Isis, Neurosis, Explosions in the Sky, Caspian, M83, Adai, Cult of Luna, Giants, North, Disappearer, Fall of Efrafra, Monuments, God Is An Astronaut, Spylacopa

Post-Metal/Stoner rock
Earth, Sleep, Kylesa, Cherubin, Made Out of Babies, Baroness, Battle of Mice, the Melvins, Mastodon, Buzzov*en, Kyuss, Cicadas, I Am the Thorn, Beluga

Post Rock/Experimental/Progressive rock
Loom, I Am the Ocean, Protest the Hero, the Mars Volta, Coheed & Cambria, Cyrus Fell Down, The Fall of Troy, Battles, Ratatat, Exotic Animal Petting Zoo

Crust, Punk/Metal
Skarp, Oroku, Tragedy, Wormwood, His Hero is Gone, Greyskull, Owen Hart, Behold, Nausea, Blacken the Skies, the Helm, Gather, Graf Orlock, Architect, Doomriders, Coliseum, Don The Reader, Antischism, Aus Rotten, Akimbo, Requiem, After Eyes Are Gone, Book of Black Earth, From Ashes Rise, The Black March, Monolith, Another Oppressive System, Behind Enemy Lines, Appalachian Terror Unit, Backstabbers Inc., Cursed, Deathreat, Engineer, Fuck the Facts, Mind Pollution, Skitsystem, Leper

Metal
Emperor, Tristania, At the Gates, The Black Dahlia Murder, Necrophagist, Opeth, Abigail Williams, the Death Campaign, Decapitated, All Shall Perish, Obstruktor, Doom Lit Sky, Mortal Remains, Arsis, Carnifex, Death, the Faceless, Vital Remains, Wolves in the Throne Room, Finntroll, Ensiferum, Nachtmysticism, Silentist

Indie/Alt
the Myriad, the Back Row Kings, Muse, She Wants Revenge, Portishead, Postal Service, White Rabbits, the Black Angels, Sigur Ros, Envy, Cursive, Starflight Ambush, Death Cab for Cutie, Oil of Angels, Radiohead, Mewithoutyou, Idiot Pilot, Minus the Bear, the Side Project, Soular, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill

Punk/Ska/Psychobilly
Operation Ivy, Rise Against, Goldfinger, Anti-Flag, Flogging Molly, the Misfits, Tiger Army, Crass, Dead Kennedys, Against Me!, A.F.I., Leftover Crack, Bad Religion, Bikini Kill, Tilt, Retching Red, The Sissies, The Lot Lizards, the Creeps, the Clash, Dancing Cadavers, Conflict, Dead Milkmen, F-Minus, I Object!, Jawbreaker, Lagwagon, the Unseen, Pennywise, Less Than Jake, Propaghandi, Tsunami Bomb, the Vandals, Street Dogs

Post Hardcore
Pg.99, Botch, Gaza, Converge, Coalesce, Burst, Dillinger Escape Plan, The Hope Conspiracy, Jedediah the Pilot, Trap Them, Narrows

Metalcore/Deathcore
Zao, Underoath, Invidia, The Midnight Society, August Burns Red, Between the Buried and Me, the Bled, Darkest Hour, Living Sacrifice, Norma Jean, Poison the Well, Spitfire, Still Remains

Hardcore
Vanguard, H20, Good Clean Fun, Sinking Ships, Casey Jones, Earth Crisis, Minor Threat, Strife, Snapcase, Gallows, Conquer, Shai Hulud, Passing in Dreams

Post-Punk/Goth/New Wave
Stolen Babies, Siouxsie & the Banshees, David Bowie, the Cure, Bauhaus, Bella Morte, Gary Numan, Joy Division, Clear Static, Shiny Toy Guns, My Bloody Valentine, Christian Death, Creature Feature, Dresden Dolls, the Pixies

Hip-Hop/Rap/Reggae
Michael Franti & Spearhead, Blue Scholars, Saul Williams, Del, Gorillaz, Locke, Freetime Synthetic, Pharcyde, MC Chris, the Marleys, the Roots, M.I.A., Uncle Scams, Lil' Jon, Three 6 Mafia, Wu Tang, Dre, Snoop

Industrial/EBM/Electro
KMFDM, Psyclon 9, Mankind Is Obsolete, Combichrist, Ministry, the Birthday Massacre, Wumpscut, Skinny Puppy, Crystal Method, Delerium, Chemical Brothers, the Faint, Tactical Sekt, Switchblade Symphony, Dust Brothers, Mindless Self Indulgence, Rorschach Test, Grendel, Velvet Acid Christ, Bell's Theorem, Collide, Dead Millionaires, Frontline Assembly, L'amme Immortelle

Rock, Alternative
Tool, A Perfect Circle, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins, Saves the Day, Thrice, Schoolyard Heroes, Incubus, the Hives, the Vines, Sublime, the Strokes, the Back Row Kings, Brand New, Butthole Surfers, the Toadies, Queens of the Stone Age, Secret & Whisper, Saosin, the Used, Franz Ferdinand, Garbage, Jackoff Jill, Scarling, the Killers, Lacuna Coil, the Offspring, Mistress & the Misters, Primus, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Folk
Defiance Ohio, Ghost Mice, Captain Chaos, Dandelion Junk Queens, Johnny Hobo and the Freight Trains, Jason Webley, Gogol Bordello, Leaves Eyes, the Red Paintings, Table Top Joe

Classics
Pink Floyd, The Beatles, Queen, Journey, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, The Velvet Underground, Jefferson Airplane, Blue Oyster Cult, Foreigner, Jimi Hendrix, Billy Idol, Black Sabbath, Pat Benatar

Singer/Songwriters, Pop
Ani DiFranco, Sarah McLachlan, Paula Cole, the Cranberries, Mordekye Layman, David Bazan, Joanna Newsom, Jack Johnson, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Tom Waits, Gary Jules, Surfjan Stevens

I also enjoy classical, symphonic, Celtic, Baroque, blues, and jazz.

Movies:


The Royal Tannenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited, The Big Lebowski, The Life Aquatic, Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Across the Universe, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Planet Terror, Snatch, Trainspotting, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Eternal Sunshine, Everything is Illuminated, Sin City, V for Vendetta, 300, i <3 Huckabees, A Clockwork Orange, Dark City, Boondock Saints, Sweeney Todd, Anchorman, The Lost Boys, Blow, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Memento, Alice in Wonderland, American History X, Go!, Hedwig, From Hell, Full Metal Jacket, I am Legend, Irreversible, City of Lost Children, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Rocky Horror, Schindler's List, Silence of the Lambs, the Mist, Silent Hill, Office Space, Se7en, Shawshank Redemption, Secret Window, the Doom Generation, Saved!, Spun, 28 days later, 28 weeks later, Fear & Loathing, Metropolis, 12 monkeys, Tank Girl, Quills, SLC Punk, Troma films, Pineapple Express

Television:



I watch television as a last resort due to boredom and bad weather. Some of the programs I've found I can get into are Dexter, Lost, Heroes, Carnivale, Dead Like Me, Six Feet Under, the Office, and Oz. Oh, and Metalocalypse.

Books:


The Dark Tower series, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, Dante's Inferno, the Dexter series, Paradise Lost, Lord of the Flies, The Green Mile, The Stand, The Shining, The God Delusion, Fight Club, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Animal Farm. Dystopian literature, poetry, physics, philosophy, and astronomy.

Heroes:


my mother.
Victor Wooten, Les Claypool, Alec Baille, Justin Chancellor, Troy Sanders, Flea, Dirk Lance, Dan Briggs, Paul McCartney, Dave Edwardson, Juho Niemelä, Eddie Reckenridge, Simon Gallop, Nate Newton, Brian Cook, Stefan Fimmers, Jonah Bergman, Chris Wolstenholme, Rani Sharone, Evan Brewer

My Blog

this morning I left my house....

.....I had my tam on, my Pelican hoodie zipped up, as it was cold. My iPod had Minus the Bear surging pleasantly into my ears. And as I walked to the tempo of the snare drum beat, I couldn't help but ...
Posted by . veggie dustin . on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:55:00 PST

I hope I die soon

Generally I find posting lyrics really cheesy and stupid.....but this song made me fucking cry. "I Hope I Die Soon" by Leperoff of their album, Embarassed to Be Human I was born August 12th, the deliv...
Posted by . veggie dustin . on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:06:00 PST

a lying, whorish shell of a once beautiful woman....

......is all that remains of the girl I once loved. I'm not saying this as a surprised bystander, as I've seen it coming for months. That's why things had to end when they did........But I hoped for h...
Posted by . veggie dustin . on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:18:00 PST

Things are looking up....

Went out tonight and hung out with Josh, Gabriel, Rhea, James, and the dudes from Gery Fox at the Blvd. Watched Jucifer put on a hell of a good show. Ran into lots of random people I hadn't seen forev...
Posted by . veggie dustin . on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:12:00 PST

I don’t even care.....

.....about any of the stupid crap I'm going through. Depression sucks, sure, but I'll get over it. Insomnia REALLY sucks, and hopefully I'll get over that immediately. As far as my relationships with ...
Posted by . veggie dustin . on Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:25:00 PST

I’m so confused

I can't make other people happy without first being happy with myself, right?What if one of the only things that makes me happy, is making other people happy?This whole growing up and dealing with lif...
Posted by . veggie dustin . on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:45:00 PST

a life of happiness or a life of meaning

They say leading a life both of happiness and of meaning can't be done.Two very different paths.To be truly happy, one must live absolutely in the present. No thought of what's gone .., and no thought...
Posted by . veggie dustin . on Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:51:00 PST

the past few days have been a blur!

I have been so utterly busy! So I must blog and share this with the three of you who read this. Hopefully I can articulate the events in a colorful enough manner to adequately shave some minutes off y...
Posted by . veggie dustin . on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:00:00 PST

mandatory Warped blog

I really need to get a USB cable for my phone...it would make this a much more colorful lil' blog if I could upload the pictrues and videos I took from Warped.Anyway, plans sort of fell through at the...
Posted by . veggie dustin . on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:59:00 PST

fallacies

 It's 3 something a.m. and I cannot sleep. This has become routine.During the long, cold days of winter I yearned for this summer. I'm thankful for the sunlight, and for the 8 days I spent on the...
Posted by . veggie dustin . on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 03:47:00 PST