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Dave

it's like you're dreamin' about gorgonzola cheese when it's clearly brie time, baby.

About Me

i'm slowly balding, moderately overweight, socially inept, disdainful of just about everything, and contemptuous of just about everyone. accordingly, i live alone and have been single for several years.music dominates my life. i have a recording studio in my basement, which has evolved into something genuinely respectable. my house is littered with vintage electric pianos, hammond organs, analog synthesizers, guitars, drums, microphones, reels of 1" tape, and various other noise making implements. primarily, i play with a portland-based band called cabinessence. i'm also a part-timer with a group called celilo and have contributed to the recordings of derby, annalisa tornfelt, erin ivey, stephen ashbrook, sweet juice, and others. i hope to someday earn a decent living recording and performing music, as the political science degree i worked so hard for has left me utterly unqualified to do much else.

My Interests

music, politics, basketball, golf, audio recording, vintage music gear, audio recordings of vintage music gear

I'd like to meet:

the ghosts of hunter thompson, ray charles, george carlin, and tim russert. and dikembe mutombo.

Music:

medeski martin and wood, bill frisell, charlie hunter, john scofield, soulive, stan getz, jimmy smith, keith jarrett, herbie hancock, alan jones, django reinhardt, thelonious monk, duke ellington, miles davis, art tatum, bud powell, d'angelo, randy newman, beck, black crowes, sly and the family stone, al green, aretha franklin, stevie wonder, the roots, tom waits, junior brown, rufus wainwright, otis redding, robert walter, sharon jones

Movies:

the big lebowski, raising arizona, rushmore, get shorty, pulp fiction, snatch, lock stock and two smoking barrels, better off dead, the burbs, fear and loathing in las vegas

Television:

newshour, hardball, meet the press, basketball, daily show, colbert report, mythbusters, top gear, south park, family guy, sportscenter, baseball tonight

Books:

hunter s. thompson, chuck palahniuk, howard zinn, greg palast, jack kerouac, john stuart mill, michael walzer, adam smith, political theory, jazz biographies, history

Heroes:

the dude