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Tiamat

every morning when I walk into work I say a prayer for the damn snails on the sidewalk so they won't

About Me

Things I have learned
Life is a process. It's not meant to be perfect.
Tomorrow never comes. Live today
Harboring negative intent only weighs you down.
If you half-ass anything in life, then life only sucks that much more.
Over-analyzing is a waste of time.
Taking the high road only seems like it sucks ass at first.
Everything really does happen for a reason. So quit with the "why me's"
Like attracts like.
Follow your heart, without fail.
Beauty is in the process.
Capitalism sucks.
Books rock.
Art and music are band-aids for fractured existences.
Being happy with what you have takes a lot less out of you than being pissed off about what you want.
Being thankful for where you're at takes a lot less energy than being remorseful for what never was.
Owning up to shit is a sign of true character.
Showing face is a lost art.
Anything worth half a shit in life takes effort.
Most of humanity's greatest feats were born of adversity.
The now is all we've got.
Life is a trip.
Take care of good things when you have them. Tomorrow, there's a good chance they will be gone.
By the way, I make it a point to keep all of my page info and blogs public. Please don't make me reconsider...

My Interests

DRUMMING
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SENSUALITY
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THE OCEAN
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LONGING
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DESIRE
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DRIVE
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PASSION
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RHYTHM
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HARMONY
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FORGETFULNESS
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SEDUCING FATE
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DEJECTION
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THE OM
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I'd like to meet:


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CHECK MY CALENDAR FOR UPCOMING SHOWS:

Music:

Meshuggah, Sikth, Tool, Lamb of God, Unearth, Gojira, Bury Your Dead, Ankla, Pink Floyd (from Piper to Pulse), Nine Inch Nails, A Perfect Circle, Dredg, Divine Heresy, Misery Signals, Led Zeppelin, In Every Breath, Discord, Kavena, Pantera, Fear Factory, In Flames, Mudvayne, Threat Signal, Poison the Well, Gizmachi, Blessthefall, Iscariot, 36 Crazyfists, Mnemic, Cynic, Ion Dissonance, The Acacia Strain, Necrophagist, Hatebreed, Hostility, A Dying Dream, Ektomorf, Audkik, I Killed The Prom Queen, Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana, Alice In Chains, Radiohead, Queens of the Stone Age, The Apex Theory, Porcupine Tree, The Strokes, Bright Eyes, Bjork, Immortal Technique, Tori Amos, Natalie Imbruglia, Corina Round, Massive Attack, Air, Thievery Corporation, Dead Can Dance, Kraftwerk, Enigma, Rush, The Doors, Soulfly, The White Stripes, Depswa, the Deftones, Rob Zombie, Walls of Jericho, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Slayer, Arch Enemy, Sepultura, old school Marilyn Manson, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Dave Brubeck, The Cure, Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Yerba Buena, Lazy Sunday, Pearl Jam, the Gypsy Strings, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Bob Marley & the Wailers, old school Metallica, Whitesnake, Queensryche, the Crystal Method, Georges Bizet, Jean Sibelius, Claude Debussy, Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, traditional Middle-eastern music, Afrikan drumming, local projects, etc.
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Movies:

take me please

Television:

no comment

Books:


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Stick Control
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A Funky Primer
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Syncopation
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The Self-Aware Universe
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The Holographic Universe
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The End of Evolution
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The Biology of Transcendence
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Chaos
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The Dhammapadda
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The Bhagavad Gita
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Fingerprints of the Gods
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The Gospel According to Jesus
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Conversations with God
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The Katha Upanishad
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The Prophet
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The Elegant Universe
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Civil Disobedience
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The Mission of Art
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Heroes:

My father, sister, and the Prophets.
Musicians who never gave up on themselves.

My Blog

It’s happening

The distractions are becoming equallly as intense as the calling these days.  Focus not on these.  Their din will only grow louder.  Your mind will be as a monk in meditation amidst thi...
Posted by Tiamat on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:12:00 PST

Home

My lineage was displaced halfway around the world to begin with, were we ever meant to be Americans?  Then the only link in the French-Canadian chain was broken, swept up by fate itself.  Th...
Posted by Tiamat on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:50:00 PST

Practical Analysis and Application of Polyrhythm

The outro breakdown on Meshuggah’s "Electric Red" off the new ObZen album is arguably one of the heaviest breakdowns ever conceived by the likes of human beings.  Without paying attention, ...
Posted by Tiamat on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:32:00 PST

Satan!

How much, how much can be squeezed out of your puny little soul?  What price can be put on your sanity, your dignity, your lifeblood? What human cost does not matter to liars, to thieves, to the...
Posted by Tiamat on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:04:00 PST

Holy hell

the big China is on the right nowbut the left pedal’s still too far away...I’ll take what I can.Tuning takes for EVERBut I do it anyways,I still struggle to find my soundbut I’ve fou...
Posted by Tiamat on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:19:00 PST

Whats new pussycat

Well, it’s Thursday and I’ve done a mediocre job of paying attention at work this week.  One more day to go.  Usually when the week starts I have 3 or 4 goals to get accomplished...
Posted by Tiamat on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:24:00 PST

seventeen

seventeen's collaboration--silver strings hummed,4.75 each hour at a timemade possible the shrinking of a concrete room:I still have trouble hearing you...A hydra of ambitionsplagued walls with painta...
Posted by Tiamat on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:47:00 PST

Peering out

A California roadway,A highway,A mile between me and what it means to be freeHalfway around the world from what could have been.Brazilian accentmeets a cultural flux,It was striking out which struck u...
Posted by Tiamat on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:02:00 PST

habits

running around in circlesthe same old struggles,god release mefrom my miseryto lift eyes to a lightwhich ceaselessly shinesluminescencethe appealin ascensionto counter the inferior,a self-constructof ...
Posted by Tiamat on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:45:00 PST

Ah, Love

like rhythm,like melody,sunriseand raindrops,tears that roll andswell like surfonto pilly fabric,soft from love.I rest in the grooveyou left,a niche my heart has made for you....
Posted by Tiamat on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:44:00 PST