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Will

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About Me

I'm me... but with a twist of lime and a carmelized sugar rim. Gosh...... I don't know what to say, NOBODY'S ever asked me THAT before.s I guess it would be fitting for me to quote my good friend John Sanders and say that I'm "Living The Dream". I've had a lot of weird jobs, played music with a lot of different people, made some amazing friends, and generally had the Fates smile upon me. I'm a lucky individual to be doing exactly what I want to be doing. I'm able to make a living as a professional musician and teacher and you can god-damn believe I make the most of it. I play in 4 great bands (Echo Helstrom, Garett Brennan and the EBGB's, The Echo Jazz Trio, Stephanie Schneiderman) as well as a bunch of other stuff like subbing, recording projects, musicals and whatever else I can get my sticky little fingers on. Also, I teach bass at Beacock's Music, George Fox University, Western Oregon University and privately. My life is punctuated by moments of madness alternating with sequences of peace and quiet. Throughout it all I rely on some of the most beautiful and genuine individuals you will ever meet to always be there when I need an ear, hand, whatever. Seriously, you should meet them. They're pretty effing rad.

My Interests

the persuit of omnipresence/the opposite sex/my super neat-o friends/night life/miller high life/witty coffee mugs/rockin' out, dude/reading a lot/ napping/good bad jokes/long walks on the beach (that ones for the ladies. hi ladies)/my cat trout/building shit both tangible and in-/playing and listening to as much music as humanly possible/fog

I'd like to meet:

homosapians, gentle animals, strange insects, cave dwellers, checkers champions, gurus, gnu's, boobs, fraggles, unstable muppets, house pets, baffoons, antarcticans, nomads, people with 5 teeth, tsunami survivers, inbreds, purebreds, diversions, philanthropic billionaires, octigenarions, brightly colored rocks, and.... oh yeah, Abraham Lincoln cause he was tall and thin like me and enjoyed the theatre.

Music:

OK, I've been silent too long. Here goes: Radiohead, Gomez, Echo Helstrom (shameless promotion), Garett Brennan and the EBGB's (guilty again), Blitzen Trapper, Nancy King, Glen Moore, Spoon, Bjork, Beck, Stereo Lab,Seu Jorge, Gilberto Gil, Mahler, Miles Davis, Slam Stewart, Scarth Locke, Rufus Wainwright, Monk, Ween, Weezer, Mozart, The Thrills, Tom Waits, Nina Simone, Beethoven, MMW, Kurt Elling, Jeff Buckley, Jamiroquai, Feist, Broken Social Scene, Deerhoof, Cornershop, Charles Mingus, Charlie Hunter, Bill Withers, Ben Folds, Ben Kweller, The Bad Plus, Kronos Quartet, Sufjan Stevens, Juan Garcia Esquivel. Just to name just a few.

Movies:

The Sword in the Stone, Dancer in the Dark, Wet, Hot, American Summer, Momento, True Romance, City of Lost Children, Time Code, Life is Beautiful, What to do in case of fire, LOTR Trilogy, Spinal Tap, Waiting For Guffman, Triplets of Belleville, Dazed and Confused, anything by Wes Anderson, Anchorman, Napoleon Dynomite, Fight Club, Harry Pooter and the Gobba-Gobba Hey, Wholphin, Wallace and Gromet. You know, stuff like that

Television:

The Daily Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Family Guy, Adult Swim, the Simpsons, Conan O'Brian, Connections or The Day The World Changed, Kids in the Hall, The State, Strangers With Candy and SNL. I pay absolutley no attention to sports and reality TV makes me vomit blood.

Books:

The Mc Sweeney's Liberatem, The collected works of Neil Pollack, You shall know our velocity, Trout Fishing in America, Kilgore Trout (also the name of my cat), Steve Martin's Cruel Shoes, Terry Pratchett, The Tao of Physics, Phillip K. Dick, Neil Gaimen, Crap I find on the ground, Paul Bowles, Richard P. Feynman, Zinn , Chabon, Shel Silverstein. Dr. Suess in Japanese cause it makes more sense.

Heroes:

The hircine, the pygobombe, the nimgimmers, the monorchid, the misologists and my imaginary friend Mr. Nobody At All.