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About Me

Music and Love is pretty much what it is all about. I'm a bit of an escapist, which is basically a fancy word for "geek". I'm completely fascinated by the limitless depth of human imagination. For this reason, I love surrealist art, films/books about magic and worlds that don't exist but make you believe that they do, and music that transports me to bizarre corners of my mind. -----------------------------I love the Earth and wish people would realize that it is our greatest asset as human beings. NOTHING else matters (politics, money etc) if we destroy our planet. The environment should be our #1 priority. It bugs me when people with the opportunity to make a difference or take a stance on something choose not to------------------------ I'm proud to be a Minnesotan, and its hard to get through a conversation with me without it coming up somehow. I don't give a shit about sports, except Minnesota teams, which even then I only pay casual attention. My favorite mode in which to write music is Lydian. I strongly believe that if we all lived like Hobbits, the world would be much better off. I'm very hobbit like myself, meaning I enjoy a good ale and a good smoke from time to time, and can eat about half my body weight in one sitting. I don't do drugs. I really like earth tones. I am a vegetarian, but I don't rub it in. I'm also a social breakfast eater, in that I usually won't eat breakfast unless I'm with other people. I live for Autumn. I love Irish things (the people, the music, the drinks, the actual landscape...).Questions? Don't be shy. Chances are good that I like you.
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My Interests

I'm in to Playing Music (Drums, Piano), Listening to Music, laughing, Art, Tea and all the amazing things it can do for you, Trees and all the amazing things they can do for you, Fall, Summer, films that actually mean something, getting into conversations about films that actually mean something, Street lights, the sky, The glorious creature that is the Welch Corgi, the Icelandic accent, the adding of peanut butter to chocolate, anything involving Frisbees, nerd things such as Star Wars/Epic Fantasy Novels/RPG's etc..., Penguins, drawing, deep dish pizza, Thai/Vietnamese Food, snowboarding

I'd like to meet:

Hayao Miyazaki, Robin Williams, Jonsi Birgisson, Shakespeare, the late Richard Harris, Eddie Izzard, Tim Curry

Music:

Sigur Ros, The Bad Plus, Jeff Buckley, Bjork, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, David Gray, Broken Social Scene, Sufjan Stevens, Radiohead, The Police, Peter Gabriel, The Frames, Yellowjackets, The Pogues, Andrew Bird, Steve Reich, The Album Leaf, Halloween Alaska, The Francisco Mela Quintent, Man's Best Friend/Sole, Bill Mike, 12 Rods, Doves, Regina Spektor, Mew, Look Alive, Aruan Ortiz Trio,Phish, The Velvet Teen, Ben Harper, Stevie Wonder, Sylvan Luc, The Love Cars, The Arcade Fire, The Mars Volta, Typical Cats, Air, Feist, Mason Jennings, Elliot Smith, RJD2, G. Love and Special Sauce, The Beatles, Heiruspecs, Mute Math, Beirut, Sunny Day Real Estate, Underoath, old school Michael Jackson, Frou Frou, Waking Vision Trio, Bob Dylan, Brother Ali, Mr. Bungle, Chick Korea, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, The Band, Thelonious Monk, Led Zeppelin, Happy Apple, Johnny Cash, Queen, The Clash, Smashing Pumpkins, Gorillaz, Coldplay, George Duke, The Postal Service, American Football, The Darkness, Bernard, The Streets, The Beta Band, City Sleeps, Damien Rice, The Killers, John Lennon, TV on the Radio, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Howard Shore, The Vintage Mink, Aneuretical, Lord of the Yum-Yum, John Denver, Less than Jake, Gabriel Faure, Elizabeth & the Catapult, Rusted Root, Andres Segovia, Styrofoam, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Belle and Sebastian, Jimmy Eat World, Buchanan, Cat Stevens, The Shins, Grateful Dead, Daft Punk, Royksopp, Lauryn Hill, New Broadway Musicals (I'm kinda sick of the "classics"), The Cheiftans, (and any other traditional Celtic), remixes of old songs, M. Ward, Rage Against the Machine, Hot Hot Heat, Simon and Garfunkel...it goes on...trust me...it goes on...

Movies:

LOTR Trilogy, Star Wars, The Village, Eternal Sunshine, Young Frankenstein, What Dreams May Come, Shawn of the Dead, Dancer in the Dark, Pan's Labyrinth, Howl's Moving Castle, Vanilla Sky, The Producers, The Big Lebowski, The Birdcage, Vertical Ray of the Sun, M, Spirited Away, High Fidelity, Donnie Darko, City of Lost Children, Paths of Glory, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Oddessy, Snatch, Hook, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, Brazil, Nosferatu, Edward Scissorhands, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Nightmare Before X-mas, Suicide Club, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Kill Bill vol 1 and 2, Kung Fu Hustle, Labyrinth, Clue, The Field, Anything with the Muppets, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Austin Powers, The Harry Potters, Wet Hot American Summer, Pirates of the Carribean 1 and 2, Ice Age, Living in Oblivion, and for some reason Shrek 2

Television:

I dont have access to any TV stations anymore, and I couldn't be happier...But I do enjoy Family Guy, the Simpsons, Who's Line is it Anyway? and the UK version of The Office.

Books:

LOTR Trilogy, Anything written by Dave Barry, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and all other Adams material), The Lorax, anything written by David Sedaris, the works of CG Jung, Anything by Flannery O'Connor, Slaughterhouse 5, The Harry Potters, The Redwall series, plays by Eugene O'Neil, Brian Friel and Martin McDonagh, How to Survive a Robot Uprising

Heroes:

Drum Heroes: Dave King, Steve Goold, Francisco Mela, Marcus Baylor, Stewart Copeland, Manu Katche, Brian Blade, Tony Williams, John Bonham, Carter Beauford, John Fishman, Elvin Jones, Yoran Israel-------------------Other People I Admire for their vision, intelligence and artistry: Wesley Wallace and Kevin Clark (2 of the most brilliant people I've ever known), Pratt Bennet, Hayao Miyazaki, Robin Williams, Salvador Dali, M.C Escher, Dr. Seuss, Shakespeare, Lennon, Tolkien...
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My Blog

About once a day

About once a day, I promise myself I will make changes. Pretty much daily, I tell myself, "Nate, fuck your hesitations and inhibitions...just DO IT!" Yet, for some reason, here I remain, the same as...
Posted by Nate on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:42:00 PST

Cinema

I just got home from seeing "Pan's Labyrinth." If you havn't gone to see it yet, GO RIGHT NOW! It is unlike anything you will ever see. Ever. I promise. I'm not going to go into any details about...
Posted by Nate on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:46:00 PST

I think I'd rather be left behind...

So today, I saw an article about a video game based on the "Left Behind" book series. For those who don't know what that is, it is a Christian series written about the end of the world happening, and...
Posted by Nate on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:56:00 PST

I see it around me, I see it in everything...

Today will definitely go down in my book as a very memorable Thanksgiving. This is the first time I've spent a Thanksgiving without ANY family members or friends from home. Want to know the funny pa...
Posted by Nate on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 09:17:00 PST

Major Thirds

I never really know what to say when I learn a friend has died. Nor should I. No one should. I hope to god its a situation that I never get used to. But, when the shock wears off and the heartache...
Posted by Nate on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:39:00 PST

All rivers...

Ive been reading my arm a lot lately.I suppose before I go any further, I should mention what this means. For those that dont know, at the end of July, I got a tattoo on the inside of my left forearm...
Posted by Nate on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:23:00 PST

Read the WHOLE THING before sending me hate mail

10 Reasons Why Gay Marriage Is Wrong........................1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning....................
Posted by Nate on Sat, 03 Jun 2006 08:36:00 PST

I still dream about you.

Sometimes, I would rather not sleep than have some of the dreams that I have. Call it a defense mechanism, call it whatever you want, but these dreams keep my mind completely tunnel-visioned for the ...
Posted by Nate on Tue, 09 May 2006 12:13:00 PST

Man Of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts

I've been on my feet all day...I tell you, I can't wait until I dont have to have "day jobs" anymore. I feel so wonderfully "college student" -ish...cause at some point, every college student is a wa...
Posted by Nate on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 08:44:00 PST