Shawno - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm male. I like girls. I don't like apple pie. I like to create things. I'm not only self-deprecating, but omni-deprecating. I am in the first person.NOTE: This is not my main journal. I'm not here to make umpteen electronic connections to people I will most likely not go out for coffee or beer with, or exchange emails about breathing. I rarely friend bands (not that any of you out there randomly clicking that "add friend" button are reading this). If you want to band network go to The Eighth MySpace page (there are links here, take a look around for them). So if I don't friend you on this page, that's why.
Irisabductor I've been drawing and doing art-type things ever since I could hold a pencil. Don't ask if I've won any awards or any such thing because I learned the hard way long ago that such things are nothing more than a popularity contest. Homey don't play that.
Pencils, inks, and watercolour are my main avenues when it comes to the paper and utensil approach. I've also been exploring digital photography and photo manipulation quite a bit the past couple years.Wordsmith I also write things. Poetry, short story, essays and lyrics primarily. I've published some work, have performed editor duties on work of other writers. Currently I'm revisiting a graphic novel I started back in 1993, editing a novella I wrote a couple years ago, and composing lyrics for OBCT.Audiomonger Music, interestingly, didn't take a big hold of me until well after the previous two categories became involved in my life. I've started or been in a number of bands over the past twelve years or so, and have also assisted in mixing and production as well as put together a few remixes for other people. Currently I play bass in an outfit called UCKF; I've been with them a little over three years. Personally I have a project called The Eighth which involves music, theatre, dance, and a variety of performance art concepts. I also am the music director of Etoile du Nord Ice Theatre Company, composing the music for their first project.You can find links to the above stuff over on the left.

My Interests

Music. Books. Idiosyncrasies. Unusual trinkets. Hello Kitty. David Lynch. Bones. Bacon. Profiling. Creating. Poetry Slams. Wordsmithing. Raspberries. Visceral Assonance.The Eighth
The Eighth on MySpace
Chromation

I'd like to meet:

You must be self-actualized.

I REPEAT: I DO NOT FRIEND BANDS ANYMORE. Go to The Eighth on MySpace to friend me as a band. You're just wasting your mouse finger and browsing time otherwise.

Create your own Friend Test here

Music:

Loud. Quiet. Heavy. Electronical. Plaintive. Fulfilling.

Movies:

No pie-fucking, and no street racing.

Television:

Lost. Twin Peaks.

Books:

Objectivism. Gaiman. Freemasonry. Art. Hughes. Palahniuk.

Heroes:

Be one.

My Blog

Brutal does good; Shawno maintains life support systems and kisses babies.

Okay, I haven't kissed any babies in a long time, so I lied there."Brutal" is doing amazingly well on GarageBand, having moved on to round two and jumped to #8. Thanks guys! More album ann...
Posted by Shawno on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 02:12:00 PST

The Eighth's "Brutal" gets Track of the Day at GarageBand

The Eighth at Garageband...
Posted by Shawno on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:09:00 PST

I die.

From Somwewhere on the interwebs: "At age 70 you will fall from the fifth floor window of a hotel while under the influence of Robitussin DM."Of course, this means that the rockstar lifestyle will nev...
Posted by Shawno on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 02:01:00 PST

The end of the year/beginning of the year recap, sorta.

Two thousand seven. Retarded. Oh well. Hopefully will have a new job in the next month or two, then life might start to make a little more sense. Might be having Des play keys in Th...
Posted by Shawno on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:15:00 PST

Weird blog of tagging and stuff.

Dan leaves my place heavy-lidded, and then he does this to me.The rules are: Once you've been tagged you have to write a blog with 10 weird or random things, facts, or habits about yourself. At the en...
Posted by Shawno on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:33:00 PST

Poll.

The Eighth "Titan" listening party, at Club Underground, with tracks from OBCT and the upcoming UCKF album played as well.Hells yeah I'll be there!Fuck that shit, I have episodes of Battlestar Galacti...
Posted by Shawno on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:15:00 PST

I can feel it....

Just finished recording. Fuckin' a. Thanks G and D. You guys are the shit.
Posted by Shawno on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 08:29:00 PST

Commentation mem-type thing.

Go to your page and list the last twelve people who have commmented you. If someone has commented twice, skip to the next person. Skip bands. 1. Ray 2. Nikki 3. Megan 4. Geoff 5. Marcia 6. Dan 7. J...
Posted by Shawno on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 09:09:00 PST

Excerpt.

Random tidbits: I'm still looking for a new job. Kinda hard when at the end of the day I just want to go to bed. The Eighth album is perpetually "nearly done". But I'm patient. My head ...
Posted by Shawno on Thu, 07 Sep 2006 11:14:00 PST

Psycho Suzi's=Cancerous Donkey Balls.

So, I was suppose to get this job at Psycho Suzi's. Interviewed there three times, all, readily agreeing that I more than qualified. Let me throw in that they just lost a kitchen manager d...
Posted by Shawno on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 12:06:00 PST