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Andrew

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About Me


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My Interests

music, good design and architecture, music, building vacuum tube audio thermionic devices just to watch them glow and listen to them, art, photography, film, travel, hiking, eating good food with friends, red wine, scotch whisky, malty amber beers, science, technology, sunshine, birds, cats, a fish named Moe, being myself, hanging out with open minded people, music, a good story, watching people do what they do,...

I'd like to meet:


A Back Traveler

SOMA FM Indie channel Rocks!

Classic DK

Music:

rock (classic, indie, punk, whatever label), blues, classical, 50's and 60's jazz. art pepper, dave brubeck, joe henry, david hidalgo, the older rush LPs, black flag, pixies, sparklehorse...many, many, many more

Movies:

foreign, independent, drama, comedic, off the wall film. barfly is a classic. riding giants

Television:

IFC, History, Discovery HD. ...most TV is pretty much shit, being commercials with a little programming thrown in.

Books:

henry miller's: big sur. ray bradbury's: fahrenheit 451. arthur c. clark's: 2001 a space odyssey. edward abbey's books. Anthony Burgess': a clockwork orange. Mags: scientific american, paste, dwell. have read a lot of english and american lit...i think every one should see and experience another very different culture to our own at least once (i.e. china). jared diamond's brilliant works: "collapse", and "guns, germs, and steel". **Support Project Gutenberg!**

Heroes:

Open minded, tolerant, and selfless people. The Friends who claim me. My 7 cats, who have taught me the most about unconditional acceptance, love, compassion, and harmony.

My Blog

About HELLBENDER AMPS

Hellbender Amplification specializes in hand wired, point to point, built in USA, vacuum tube guitar and hi-fi amplifiers. Circuit designs exclusively engineered by The DowdyLama (Jim Dowdy), who nee...
Posted by Andrew on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:12:00 PST

Tops for 2007 (muzak)

Here's what I'm listening to in rotation lately (updated 8/12/07):- Earlimart ( latest 2 albums are both great)- The Boxer Rebellion - Exits- Blonde Redhead - 23- The Shins - Wincing the Night Away- D...
Posted by Andrew on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 06:00:00 PST

Stream Scream

Written locally, felt this worth posting here for others to read and think about.Stream Scream Royalty ruling poses a threat to music webcasting "You make the East Tennessee area so attractive...
Posted by Andrew on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 05:36:00 PST

Farewell to Rostropovich

Rostropovich's Passion Was Music. His Forte Was LifeAn Inspiring Man and Musician - Moscow Times...
Posted by Andrew on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 05:47:00 PST