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Byr0n

You learned to live like a mouse...

About Me



I'm in a band called Air War

Also, I was born during the Perseid meteor shower.

Perseid meteor shower

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My Interests

Physics, Music, Art, Philosophy, Anthropology, History, Cognitive Science, Mathematics, Language

I'd like to meet:


People who fight the good fight.

Music:

Indie-rock, Post-rock, Math-rock, Metal, Screamo, Grindcore, Shoegazer, Slow-core, 60's and 70's country, Prog-rock, New Wave, Post-Punk, Electroclash, Dance-Punk, Glitch, IDM, Minimalist Composers, Jazz, Classical, Hardcore, Post-Hardcore, Metal-Core, Nintendo-Core, Sludge, Doom

That being said, if the above words mean nothing to you, I'll start the token pretentiously long list of bands. These are the artists I respect or who have impacted my life in some way:

Hum, My Bloody Valentine, U.S. Maple, Don Caballero, Owls, Make Believe, Built To Spill, Modest Mouse (meh), Mare, Kayo Dot, Neurosis, By The End Of Tonight, American Analog Set, Collapsar, Urbosleeks, October Ground Fly, HORSE The Band, Elsa Mort, CapnJazz, Isis, Explosions in the Sky, Lay To Waste, Mono, Television, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, The Who, Led Zeplin, Do Make Say Think, Ghidrah, Behold the Arctopus, Pink Floyd, Sharks Keep Moving, Juno Reactor, June of 44, The Jazz June, American Football, Always the Runner, Iron Maiden, Kreator, Napalm Death, Queensryche, Storm and Stress, Your Enemie's Friends, Dillinger Escape Plan, Aphex Twin, Mu-ziq, Neal Young, Johny Cash, Willie Nelson, Carcass, Cult of Luna, Ride, Slowdive, Swervedriver, Curve, Sunny Day Real Estate, Radiohead, Slayer, Mihai Edrich, Gospel, City of Catapillar, Envy, .hopesfall., View of a Burning City, The Appleseed Cast, The Mercury Program, Origin, Discordant Axis, Daughters, Man or Astroman, Sonic Youth, Jessamine, Low, Sigur Ros, Coil, King Crimson, Rush, Godspeed You Black Emperor, The Dirty Three, Pavement, Archers of Loaf, Uberzone, Underworld, Sasha/Digweed, Seefeel, Plug, Steve Reich, Phillip Glass, Debussy, Dizzy Gilespie, 'Bird' Parker, Krigshot, Khante, SunO))), Earth, Mineral, Pelican, Eric's Trip, The Flaming Lips, Attractive and Popular, Liars, The Rapture, Stinking Lizaveta, DJ Shadow, Arab on Radar, Q and Not U, Celephic Carnage, Fugazi, Aloha, Engine Down, Fred Weaver, The Rolling Stones, Rumah Sakit, Red Sparrows, Tortoise, The Sea and , Lightning Bolt, Juno, Shiner, Wolves, We Are Wolves, Blonde Redhead, Mogwai, Meshuggah, Ween, The Blood Brothers, Neil Diamond, The Microphones, !!! (ck ck ck), Tribes of Neurot, Tarantel, Tristeza, The Rachels, The Shipping News, Polvo, Peter Gabriel, The Police, Talk Talk, Shudder to Think, Grant Lee Buffalo, Belly, Trans Am, Autechre, Cave In, Failure, ...and you will know us by the trail of dead, Roni Size, Wu-Tang Clan, Clones Extravaganza, Tool (bruh), Megadeth, Funeral Diner, Pedro the Lion, Maserati, Clinic, The Boo Radleys, Mojave 3, Spacemen 3, Kyuss, Miles Davis, Lungfish, Jimie Hendrix, Stereolab, The Mars Volta, Starflyer 59, The London Suede, Rhapsody (haha), Jacques Dutronc, The Catherine Wheel, The Beatles, Squarepusher, Roots of Orchis, Photek, Meat Beat Manifesto, Tricky, Pigface ( GUB mostly), Ahab, Interpol, Infidel? Castro!, Bedhead, Mind Over Four, Janes Addiction, Deconstruction, Buffalo Tom, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, Pre-Black album Metallica, Liquidrone, Nobody, Bauhaus, Hek-Atomic Cherries, Electric Eel Shock, Ballistic Missile, The Object at the End of History, Curse Capitol, Zoviet France, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Catherine, Voivod, Massive Attack, Drive-In Funeral, Height 611, Stardotstar, Billy Ocean, Tears For Fears, Michael Jackson, Now Sleepyhead, Death, Theloneus Monk, Minestry, Self, Blame Game, Guns 'n Roses, Rare Avis, The Monkeys, Smashing Punpkins, John Prine, Morrissey, Beck, Foster Silvers, Testament, The Paper Chase, Unwound, Mocket, Satisfact, Mice Parade, The Locust, An Albatros, Hot Cross, Bad Dudes, Mae Shi, Lordes of Light

Movies:

Short Circuit pt 1, Top Gun, The Goonies, and Pee Wee's Big Adventure

Television:

The internet is the new television.

Books:

I like non-fiction. As far as fiction goes, I like Haruki Marukami, Kurt Vonegut, Dostoevsky, Daniel Quinn and Camu.

Heroes:

my father and grandfathers

My Blog

two things

1) Lately, I have found an emotional resonance with the following:Revolver - The BeatlesFuture Lived In The Past Tense - JunoOut of Tune - Mojave 3Mezcal Head - SwervedriverMighty Joe Moon - Grant Lee...
Posted by Byr0n on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:21:00 PST

just when you think you’re special

you learn that an elephant can paint a picture of him/herself better than you can ...
Posted by Byr0n on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:27:00 PST

well this is rather alarming...

AP Probe Finds Drugs in Drinking Water Sunday, March 09, 2008 1:00:08 PMBy JEFF DONN, MARTHA MENDOZA and JUSTIN PRITCHARD A vast array of pharmaceuticals -- including antibiotics, anti-convulsan...
Posted by Byr0n on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 01:41:00 PST

father

It's my father's birthday in 9 days. He's going to be 60! My question is, what does one get his father on his 60th birthday? Let it be said that I think he's the greatest man I've ever met, so a tie w...
Posted by Byr0n on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:44:00 PST

standing on the shoulders of giants

"We have learnt that nothing is simple and rational except what we ourselves have invented; that God thinks in terms neither of Euclid nor of Riemann; that science has "explained" nothing; that the mo...
Posted by Byr0n on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:59:00 PST

hahahaha

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Posted by Byr0n on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:22:00 PST

this fact depresses me

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Posted by Byr0n on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 03:57:00 PST

keepin it real


Posted by Byr0n on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:58:00 PST

co’heard

Fuck yeah. Happy birthday me.
Posted by Byr0n on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:10:00 PST

the ladies

Not that it matters much, but it has been somewhere on the back left burner of my mind that I have not written a blog of any substanitive value in a long time. I say a long time in blog years, not dis...
Posted by Byr0n on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 01:06:00 PST