♠ [ Nate Seekerman ] ♥

I'd like to meet:

My band.
Our band.

I'm looking to start the epic band that saves America,
maybe even the precious earth itself.

Any ideas?

Experienced, ear-trained, cooperative,
ambitious, multi-instrumentalist, and um,
preferably local inquiries only, please.
And NO USERS. You know who you are.

I'm also curious about all these folks...

India, Moscow, Spain, Guam...
and is that, Equatorial Guinea??
Who are all you crazy cats??

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Music:

classic rock, emo, punk, funk, folk, heady - if not educational - hip-hop, classical, some opera, some country (mostly pre-1970), some pop, alternative, bebop, retro, revival, reggae, acoustic feminists, electric transexuals, indigenous tribal music, jazz, alt rock, big band, soul, select rock ballads, gospel, Rythym n Blues (pre-'RnB'), selective RnB (post-'Rythym n Blues'), film soundtracks, latin, latin-rock, salsa, a few slow jams, a lil' techno, trailer, trip-hop, Dixie, southern rock, singer-songwriters, indie rock, prog rock, hard rock, industrial, metal, big band, grunge, jam bands, jungle, blues, blue grass, celtic, ambient, Tibetan monk chants, drum and bass, swing, 'world' music, tangos, [much of] the 60s, 70s, 80s - the 90s, American folk, choir, a cappella, beatboxing, surf rock, tribal, anarchic metal, some Broadway, some ska, some club, some chamber, psychadelic, freestyle, Cheech n Chong, Spinal Tap, Tenacious D, music my friends make, music I make, and the music my students make . And a bunch of stuff that resists categorization...

_ I like music.

_ "Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music.
_ But, man, there's no boundary line to art." __

-Charlie Parker

Movies:

Some Notable Favorites
Raising Arizona _ --- _ Baraka _ --- _ The Big Lebowski _ --- _ Loose Change, 2nd Edition _ --- _ Contact _ --- _ Oh Brother Where Art Thou? _ --- _ Wallace & Gromit - shorts and features _ --- _ Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas _ --- _ Night On Earth _ --- _ The Blues Brothers _ --- _ Good Will Hunting _ --- _ Ghostbusters _ --- _ BBC's The Power of Nightmares _ --- _ Rushmore _ --- _ The Matrix _ --- _ Amelie _ --- _ V For Vendetta _ --- _ Wayne's World _ --- _ Sir Lancelot's Greatest Hits _ --- _ Terminal Velocity _ --- _ Toy Story _ --- _ American Beauty _ --- _ Ferris Beuler's Day Off _ --- _ Roger & Me _ --- _ The Thin Red Line _ --- _ This Is Spinal Tap _ --- _ Waking Life _ --- _ A Scanner Darkly _ --- _ The Desperado Trilogy _ --- _ Dr. Strangelove _ --- _ Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure _ --- _ Coming to America _ --- _ The Three Amigos _ --- _ E.T. _ --- _ Goodfellas _ --- _ Grosse Pointe Blank _ --- _ Apocalypse Now _ --- _ Finding Nemo _ --- _ Taxi Driver _ --- _ The French Connection _ --- _ Me, Myself & Irene _ --- _ Tatie et Brun _ --- _ The Copper Chopper Trilogy _ --- _ Hedwig and the Angry Inch _ --- _ The Goonies _ --- _ Behind Enemy Lines _ --- _ Groundhog Day _ --- _ School of Rock _ --- _ Pirates of the Carribean _ --- _ High Fidelity _ --- _ The Royal Tenenbaums _ --- _ The Salton Sea _ --- _ Half Baked _ --- _ Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels _ --- _ Almost Famous _ --- _ Shaun of the Dead _ --- _ Election _ --- _ Dumb & Dumber _ --- _ Captain Ron _ --- _ The Shawshank Redemption _ --- _ Indiana Jones _ --- _ Raging Bull _ --- _ Back to the Future _ --- _ Glory _ --- _ True Stories _ --- _ Stop Making Sense _ --- _ Batman Begins _ --- _ Finding Neverland _ --- _ Snatch _ --- _ Blade Runner _ --- _ The Corporation _ --- _ The Ice Storm _ --- _ Old School _ --- _ The Crow _ --- _ Where the Buffalo Roam _ --- _ 9/11 Press for Truth _ --- _ The Aviator _ --- _ Donnie Darko _ --- _ The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh _ --- _ Fight Club _ --- _ Fargo _ --- _ the Muppet movies _ --- _ Caddyshack _ --- _ Star Wars (4,5,6) _ --- _ Friday (1) _ --- _ Office Space _ --- _ Clueless _ --- _ Face/Off _ --- _ Se7en _ --- _ One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest _ --- _ The Great Dictator _ --- _ Lord of the Rings _ --- _ The Incredibles _ --- _ The Lion King _ --- _ Being John Malkovich _ --- _ Modern Times _ --- _ Liar, Liar _ --- _ The 40-Year-Old Virgin _ --- _ City of God _ --- _ Bottle Rocket _ --- _ Casino _ --- _ Dazed and Confused --- _ _ Boondock Saints _ --- _ Walking Tall _ --- _ Bowling for Columbine _ --- _ Happy Gilmore _ --- _ La Haine _ --- _ Brazil _ --- _ The NeverEnding Story _ --- _ Napolean Dynamite _ --- _ SLC Punk _ --- _ Mission Impossible _ --- _ National Treasure _ --- _ Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent _ --- _ Shrek _ --- _ The Graduate _ --- _ La Dolce Vita _ --- _ X-Men _ --- _ Once Upon a Time in Mexico _ --- _ Edward Scissorhands _ --- _ Blazing Saddles _ --- _ Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid _ --- _ Fast Times at Ridgemont High _ --- _ the animated Robin Hood _ --- _ The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) _ --- _ Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves _ --- _ The Princess Bride _ --- _ No Direction Home: Bob Dylan _ --- _ Trainspotting _ --- _ The Truman Show _ --- _ Benny & Joon _ --- _ Flight of the Navigator _ --- _ The Manchurian Candidate _ --- _ And Many More...
_ Generally, I dig flicks I can't rightly classify as petty. But then, I have also long been an outspoken fan and advocate of Joe Dirt...
_ Love documentaries, too. They're like Reality TV, only, they're real!
_ Okay, well, so they're real-er, at any rate...

Television:

_ Kill the idiot box.

_ Kill it 'till it's dead.

_ Television is called programming for a reason.

Books:

_ Calvin and Hobbes , mysteries, psychological thrillers, political histories, narrative histories, magical-realism, autobiographies, fantasies, spoof textbooks, adventures, Choose-Your-Own adventures, thesauruses, encyclopedias, and how-to's (-Draw, -Build Underground Homes, -Sing Like the King, etc.). Probably a few more too.

_ Don't get to read much many books these days, but do when I'm able.

Heroes:

Charlie Chaplin makes a speech pleading for all people to follow the path of peace, brotherhood and democracy, just before World War II.

From The Great Dictator , 1940