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About Me

Hello, I'm
* a flamenco/techno guitarist performing under the name el douje. You can check out and purchase my CD, Worlds Collide here
* guitarist with the gypsy/ flamenco/ klezmer/ manouche fusion band Fishtank Ensemble. You can listen to and purchase this CD, Super Raoul here
* Guitarist with the pop/ rock/ comedy/ satire band Foxycock. You can purchase this CD, Black Music for White People here
* Running a music publighing company called Foxy World Music.
* Music Producer with 5 full albums to my credit as well as a large number of other projects.
* a certified Macintosh repair technician.
* currently working on three more albums. 1. a pop opus entitled 'Foxypop'. 2. a new Foxycock album that will be the funniest album ever recorded entitled 'The Lost Powerchord'. 3. A brand new Flamenco Fusion record.
Heres my new one sheet.and here's a hotlink for it...This profile was edited with Thomas' myspace editor™ V2.5

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/15/2005
Band Website: eldouje.com
Band Members: el douje - (Douglas Smolens) Guitar, percussion, palmas, keyboards, Production Dave Weckl. - Drums
Tom Kennedy - Bass
Tim Smolens - Bass
Kevin Kmetz - Shamisan
Ursula Knudson - Voice, Saw
Fabrice Martinez - Violin
Timb Harris - Violin
John Whooley - Sax
Dan Robins - Bass

Influences: Flamenco, Paco de Lucia , Mr. Bungle, Camaron de la Isla , the existentialessense of music, Django Reinhardt , Cephalic Carnage, the Roma, Duende, Secret Chiefs, Vicente Amigo, Buckethead, Dave Weckl, Taraf de Haidouks, Estradasphere, Gypsy guitar, Nizari Ismailis, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Ivo Papislov, Sabicas, Nusat Fateh Ali Khan, God of Shamisen , Glodge (George Smith), Foxycock , Upanishads, Akward vibes, uwanted junk mail, Brian Wilson, ancient mystical rites, Nikola Tesla, templars, world history, mystical philosphy, duende, music production, selling out, withdrawling from as much meaninglessness as possible, eroticism, Foxycock, Laura Bush's Evil eyes, Being O.K. with the end of this cycle of existence, music, transcendentalism, Computer troubleshooting, Shaminism, truth, Sufism, Conspiracy theories, David's Icke's theories of shape shifting reptialians ruling the planet, the occult, 70's porn, Kabbalah, soap opera, open source software, the fall of the American Empire, Purity, Craps, Psilocybin, Economics, the Psychology of Repression and Ascension, the Mayan Calendar, sense of cosmological unity, History, Neoplatonicism, the Origins of Civilization, Ennio Morricone, Jimmy Rosenberg, Chaos Theory, Joey Baron, Alex Jones
Things I'm not interested in but are top keywords to search for in myspace: html, Lesbian, Download Songs, Import Cars, Swingers, Piercing, Hip Hop, Diesel, Dating, Clubs.
Sounds Like: No one.
Record Label: self released
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Out What House of Being (a poem)

Out What House of BeingMan has heard about the pastthough on the pillars of now we restFirmly promised and finally foundThe pleasures mine Im findingOut what house of being are we taking it down sinki...
Posted by el douje on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 10:36:00 PST

A Statue of Desire (the poem that inspired the song. the best i've written)

A Statue of Desire by Douglas SmolensThere are so many things . . . Where do you begin when there are so many things?Now should I end yet before I begin?Is it even worth it to make word of this...
Posted by el douje on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 02:15:00 PST

The Old 'About Me'

I, (eldouje) was born Douglas Smolens in Guadalajara Mexico in the early 1970s. From an early age, I was exposed to and sought out a diverse range of musical styles. In high school, I started playing ...
Posted by el douje on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 01:17:00 PST

9/11 is an inside job

if anyone still believes that 19 hijackers from the caves of afghanistan hijacked 4 planes on 9/11, they obviously havent looked at the facts. look, i didnt want to believe it either, but the facts ...
Posted by el douje on Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:45:00 PST

FIrst Blog and First Poem

so i thought it would be appropriate that on my first blog i include the first poem i wrote. or the first real poem at least. it occured on a train in France, after having just arrived in Europe for...
Posted by el douje on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 02:02:00 PST