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About Me

SGI-USA Buddhist since 1969 (introduced to Buddhism in San Francisco as a 17-year old runaway from Silver Spring, MD); columnist ("Rave Reviews" on the electronic dance music scene) for Music Monthly (Baltimore, DC and beyond) since 2000; member, WAMA, since 2005; employee of The Washington Post since 1982.Married since 1975 to a handsome teacher/drummer. We have two beautiful, intelligent and kind daughters, one wonderful son-in-law, one incredibly cute grandson and one incredibly adorable granddaughter.Besides Music Monthly have been published in The Washington Post, Big Shot, Mixer, Remix, RINSE, Jive, Knowledge, ATM, Mixer, www.dogsonacid.com, www.selekta.com ... (letters to the editor in Wall Street Journal and USA Today :)Artists interviewed include:2501 AK1200 Aphrodite Army of Me Baby Anne Armanni Reign Biz Markie Boy George BT (cover story) Gina Crash DJ Craze DJ DB John Digweed Deep Dish (Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia & Sharam Tayebi) (cover story) DJ Dara Dieselboy (www.myspace.com/humanimprint) DJ Enjay FanuSamurai Charles Feelgood (cover story) Lonnie Fisher (Sonar Lounge, UltraWorld) Fort Knox Five Fresh Goldie Good Charlotte (press conference) Grandmaster Flash Green Day (Mike Dirnt) Scott Henry (cover story) DJ Icey Implicit Impulse Holmes Ives Jette-Ives Kelly Bell Band (cover story) Kiko Kode Bleuu Jen Lasher Bill Laswell Christopher Lawrence Little Louie Vega Loquat LoveGrove (LG Concannon) Marky MentalSharp (Armanni + Sharpness) Messinian Micro Muramasa Nigel Richards Paul Oakenfold Photek Planet of the Drums Steve Porter Dave Ralph Ransom DJ Rap Reid Speed Ror-Shak (DJ DB + Stakka) Sage Sasha Sharam MC Sharpness DJ Simon Sinestro Stakka Submerged John Tab Thievery Corporation (cover story) Thunderball (cover story) Tiesto Ultra Nate (cover story) UpFront Industries (Bobby Jae & Yvonne Sayres) Paul van Dyk Richard "Humpty" Vission Wakefield (cover story) XRS ZoltarFeatures:Buzz is Back (Big Shot)Reviews:AK1200: Weapons of Tomorrow (Big Shot) Method of Defiance: Inamorata (Big Shot) Partyline (Music Monthly) The Spoils of Northwest (Music Monthly)LTJ Bukem with MC Conrad @ 9:30 Club (Music Monthly) Virgin Festival 2006 (Music Monthly) Virgin Festival 2007 (Music Monthly)

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Nelson Mandela, Paul Rusesabagina, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Orlando Bloom, Tina Turner, The Killers, Matt Lauer, Ann Curry, Mariane Pearl, Angelina Jolie (thank you for your beautiful portrayal of Mariane Pearl), Brad Pitt (thank you for making "A Mighty Heart"), George Clooney. [met Fanu/FanuSamurai :) 2008][met Moby! :) 2008]

My Blog

dieselboy at fall massive, baltimore 11/29/08

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=921KN2JEEvo
Posted by on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:24:00 GMT

dieselboy q&a on dogsonacid.com

dogsonacid.com interview with Dieselboy about SUBSTANCE D (Release date: May 6) http://www.dogsonacid.com/showthread.php?threadid=570988&mod e=article (pre-edited version) DIESELBOY PRESCRIBES S...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:11:00 GMT

AK1200 : WEAPONS OF TOMORROW

(pre-edited) AK1200: WEAPONS OF TOMORROW "AK1200 blew the roof off Mosaic! Drum and bass has a new home in Baltimore," enthuses LG Concannon, general manager of Mosaic Lounge, who booked AK1200 to ki...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:53:00 GMT

georgie james: places

(pre-edited) PLACES There are places we remember, to paraphrase the Beatles classic In My Life, and one might well hear some echoing in the new album Places by the DC duo known as Georgie James. Rele...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 13:21:00 GMT

christopher lawrence (buzzlife/starscape07)

(pre-edited) CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE: LIVE IN MOSCOW When DJ Magazine tallied the votes for its annual Top 100 DJ's of 2006 poll, Californian CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE came in at a dazzling 4 behind a German...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 14:11:00 GMT

virgin festival 07 by virgin mobile : music monthly september 2007

(pre-edited) Virgin Festival 2007 by Virgin Mobile Pimlico Race Course August 4-5, 2007 "74,000 people, 42 acts on three stages, two days of music, one mindset: Green It like you Mean It," a Virgin ...
Posted by on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:19:00 GMT

starscape 2007 (music monthly july 2007)

STARSCAPE 2007 Ft. Armistead Park, Baltimore June 9, 2007 The ninth annual Starscape Festival was a wondrous confluence of human sweat and genius with cosmic cooperation resulting in legendary magi...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:20:00 GMT

dubfire: taipei (global underground 031)

music monthly (july 2007) DUBFIRE STORMS TAIPEI Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia of the Grammy Award-winning electronic music duo known as DEEP DISH made a dazzling solo mix-CD debut with DUBFIRE: TAIPEI, t...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 11:16:00 GMT

music monthly tribute to Daniel Hess 1976-2007 dc ska singer/promoter

Music Monthly's tribute to Dan Hess, DC ska singer and promoter, by Michelle Chin, his fiancĂ©e, and Alex Fine, his best friend and bandmate. (June 2007) DANIEL HESS October 29, 1976 to May ...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:34:00 GMT

planet of the drums 2007 tour video feat. Dieselboy, AK1200, Dara and Messinian

Part 1 featuring AK1200, DJ Dara, Messinian see Breakbeat Science Polaroids (DJ Lee, GQ, Dom & Roland, Kemistry & Storm, John B, Marky & XRS, Jonny L, Zinc & Rage, "Bed Rush," Flight, ...
Posted by on Wed, 23 May 2007 16:25:00 GMT