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Gavin

tonebuddha

About Me

You are The Magician

Skill, wisdom, adaptation. Craft, cunning, depending on dignity.

Eloquent and charismatic both verbally and in writing, you are clever, witty, inventive and persuasive.

The Magician is the male power of creation, creation by willpower and desire. In that ancient sense, it is the ability to make things so just by speaking them aloud. Reflecting this is the fact that the Magician is represented by Mercury. He represents the gift of tongues, a smooth talker, a salesman. Also clever with the sleight of hand and a medicine man - either a real doctor or someone trying to sell you snake oil.

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My Interests

I write a weekly column for sketchycrew, a great local Canberra dance music website and weekly email newsletter www.sketchycrew.com.

I'd like to meet:

I'm on a mission to meet everybody in Canberra.

Music:

Music is my life. Producer of DJ nights Playground (trance), Cheeky (electro/house), Funky Pleasure (funk/breaks). Bands currently Bluestone (classic blues/rock) and a new orginals project, once upon a time CooCoo Fondoo and Prik Harness. In a previous life Director of Canberra Youth Music for 6 years and played tuba in the Tasmania Symphony Orchestra for 8 years.

Movies:

Fave movies of all time: Diva (France 1981), Bliss (Australia 1985), Tampopo (Japan 1985). Producing a short film called Blue Angels, local Canberra production.

Books:

Favourite authors include Thomas Pynchon, Terry Pratchett, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, James Ellroy, Neal Stephenson, Jeff Noon, Paul Auster, Peter Carey, Alice Walker, Tom Robbins, Bharati Mukherjee, Victor Hugo, Hermann Hesse, Arundhati Roy.

My Blog

Things of beauty

Often one of the most difficult things about writing a weekly missive like this is that I simply can't write about the things that are uppermost in the swirling cosmic chaos that is Tonebuddha's mind....
Posted by Gavin on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:33:00 PST

Recalibration Pt.2

Every so often things get so out of whack. Well, it's kind of a sense of impending calamity, so very unlike me. Tonebuddha has always been extremely lucky, and often invokes the Celtic deity Lugh, god...
Posted by Gavin on Sun, 21 Oct 2007 03:34:00 PST

Yuck

Tonebuddha has had one of the most revolting weeks ever. Owing ridiculous amounts of money through no fault of my own and having to ask friends to wait for a months or so, flatmate has huge screaming ...
Posted by Gavin on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 02:47:00 PST

Really Dirty South

Had some enjoyable shenanigans in the deep south last week, specifically The Venue in Wanniassa where were treated to a gilt-edged line-up of Adam Wesley, Mikah Freeman, Drew Lyristakis and of course ...
Posted by Gavin on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:21:00 PST

Entranced

As I mentioned last week, Tonebuddha was honoured to be invited to the birthday of the wonderful Adam aka DJ Incongruous aboard the MV Southern Cross last Friday night. I took along a friend of mine w...
Posted by Gavin on Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:29:00 PST

that old familiar feeling

Last night Tonebuddha went home grumpy and stressed out, and did not being to unwind until about the third glass of wine. Why? Well, I'm back in production mode. Some sketchies are already aware of th...
Posted by Gavin on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:24:00 PST

Mysteries unfolding

Some weeks ago Tonebuddha began the tale of the mystery text message romance which resulted, the following week, in a devastating emotional upheaval as the object of my affections told me not to get a...
Posted by Gavin on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 12:59:00 PST

Diamond Mind

A days days ago, Tonebuddha sent a late somewhat self-pitying text to a friend after a weekend of enjoyable but pointless shenanigans on the road with my band, which left me feeling sated but empty an...
Posted by Gavin on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:50:00 PST

Sometimes it's Hard

Now the last thing I want to do is provide any ammunition to my numerous well-wishers and even more numerous ex-girlfriends out there, but this detox is doing Tonebuddha a power of good. It's more tha...
Posted by Gavin on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:10:00 PST

Animal Logic

What sort of animal is Tonebuddha? A POLITICAL animal. So over the next few months you are going to have to put up with learning a little something about it.We live in in a most complacement age, wher...
Posted by Gavin on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 01:37:00 PST