About Me

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough
Without ever having felt sorry for itself.-- D.H. Lawrence My old band, ColorStorm.My music profile http://www.myspace.com/mondostratsolo

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Music:

Music

Guitar players ~ Allan Holdsworth, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, Yngwie Malmsteen, Jennifer Batten, Jeff Beck, Rory Gallagher, Gary Moore, Michael Schenker, Ritchie Blackmore, Marty Friedman, and Tony Macalpine (lots more)
Classical Music- Angel Trumpets and Devil Trombones! Ludwig van and Wolfgang amadeaus! Corelli, Tchaikovsky, Vivaldi, Alan Hovhaness, Sibelius-Big Russian Symphonies, little baroque trio sonatas- the piano perfume of Debussy- the heavenmetel organ of Bach!
I also like cool jazz trumpeters like Blue Mitchell, Chet Baker, Clifford Brown, Art Farmer, Freddie Hubbard and Miles Davis.
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My absolute favorite is
Cold Fairyland
Listen to "Mosul", if you dare!

Movies:

Movies

The Goddess of 1967
Clockwork Orange
Blade Runner
The Fifth Element
Natural Born Killers
The Crow
Brazil
Spinal Tap
Serenity
Anything with Michelle Yeoh or Zhang Ziyi.

Television:

Television

That band rocked! "I fell into the arms- of Venus de Milo!"
Firefly, Dark Angel, The Crow ~ Stairway to Heaven

Books:

Books

Big Science Fiction fan.
Non Sci-fi
Knut Hamsun, Henry Miller, William Burroughs, Haruki Murakami, Graham Greene, Vladimir Navokov, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, William Faulkner, Paul Auster, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. , Tom Robbins
"Chinese Phrases for Dummies" by Dr. Wendy Abraham
"Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns" by Nicolas Slonimsky
Two Hand Technique" by Jennifer Batten
Guitar Secrets by Joe Satriani
Sci-fi
Theodore Sturgeon, William Gibson, Samuel R Delany, Roger Zelazny, Philip K Dick, Kelly Link, "Air" by Geoff Ryman ....
tons more

Heroes:

Flashy!

Some song sketches from my "dreamy instrumental" period.

My Blog

Balloon Fiesta

One of the best things about living in Albuquerque is the Balloon Fiesta every October.Here are some pictures. ...
Posted by MondoStrat on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:42:00 PST

Seeds On the Ground

Seeds On the GroundSince it's inception in 2001 as a collaboration between Lindy and bass player Su Yong , Cold Fairyland has been on an incredible journey of exploration, experimentation, and musica...
Posted by MondoStrat on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:46:00 PST

record company rant

Record Company RantThe record companies have been complaining of declining CD sales for the past 20 years. First the problem was the internet, they said. People were illegally download songs from plac...
Posted by MondoStrat on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 11:37:00 PST

Chekhov's Pistol

In Haruki Murakami's book, "Kafka on the Shore", Oshima tells Kafka about Chekhov's Pistol. He said that if Chekhov wrote a pistol into his story, it would have to be used.Stretching the metaphor, he...
Posted by MondoStrat on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:29:00 PST

Cold Fairyland - A Guided Tour

Cold Fairyland - A Guided Tour The journey begins, fellow travelers, to a magical destination, Cold Fairyland. Cold Fairyland is the brainchild of my special friend - Lindy, Saying that Lindy is spe...
Posted by MondoStrat on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 07:21:00 PST

Strats in the Snow

Strats in the Snownumber onecold fairylandsunburstpinkygoldiemermaidkamikazethe pickguards for cold fairyland, mermaid, and sunburst were painted by Robert Moralescheck him out at http://www.robertmor...
Posted by MondoStrat on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 04:43:00 PST

Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix11/27/1942 - 09/18/1970The most influential guitarist in music history, Jimi put the "Electric" in electric guitar. Jimi was not the first to use feedback and distortion, but he elevated t...
Posted by MondoStrat on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:24:00 PST

Linda Cotton

Linda ( on the left ) and Dori at Asado, summer 2006Every Saturday for the past twenty years I would have lunch with my dear friend, Linda Cotton. Today, I am writing this instead because my dear frie...
Posted by MondoStrat on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:23:00 PST