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THE DUKE

Godspeed Balance

About Me

First and foremost, I am the Midwest Regional Manager for OneDomain Inc. , a software company that processes Nielsen ratings analysis into proposals for TV stations.I'm a type 1 diabetic, as is my wife. We do drugs with needles.I have an ongoing musical project called Blip , and used to play in such acts as Stone Weasel, Soul Orbit and Spread Eagle. While I still make music occasionally and have been known to regularly come out of retirement for a gig, most of my time is spent travelling the midwest visiting television stations for my job and worshiping at the feet of my wife when I'm home. I counted it up and was on the road 45 out of 52 weeks last year. Because of the unusual (some might say masochistic) amount of time I spend in hotel rooms I've become hopelessly addicted to EVE online . Welcome to deepspace.During football season, there is but one topic of converstaion worth engaging me in: the Roll Tide. Saturday afternoons at my place: BBQ, beer and Coach Saban's squad!You'll find me sitting in the corner talking about some new band, comic book or website I'm working on but probably won't finish.Roll Tide Roll

My Interests

Music , software , single malt scotch, comic books, snowboards, hockey, baseball, college basketball, the Alabama Crimson Tide, college radio , international travel, science fiction, Eve online ,deconstruction, modernism, cats. In that order.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who wants to talk about Alabama football, eveonline, music, single malt scotch or TV advertising sales.

Music:

EVOL INTENT, spor, computer club, Wired All Wrong, Chavez, Swervedriver, Shiner, Peter Gabriel, Failure, Year of the Rabbit, Hum, Jawbreaker, Supersuckers, Superchunk, Catherine Wheel, Camper van Beethoven/Cracker, Built to Spill, Muse, Radiohead, Crowded House, Melvins, Bis, Sunny Day Real Estate, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Andrew Bird, Crooked Fingers, NOFX, the Life and Times, Anders Parker, Guided by Voices, Atom and his Package, Call Florence Pow, Self, Tomahawk, Harvey Danger, Rocket from the Crypt, KMFDM, Chixdiggit!, John Vanderslice, Motion City Soundtrack, the Jealous Sound, the Darkness, the Smiths, Smashing Pumpkins, Pinback.

Movies:

Sunshine, Tron, Fight Club, One Crazy Summer, Strange Brew, any Monty Python, Chronicles of Riddick, Dune, all 3 LOTR, Matrix, Big Fish, Serenity

Television:

Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, Boston Legal, the Daily Show, sportscenter, Family Guy, Teen Titans, Justice League Unlimited, Numbers, Lost, any time Alabama football or basketball is on TV

Books:

Anything by Orson Scott Card, Douglas Adams (even the Dirk Gently stuff), Kurt Vonnegut, Ben Bova, Tom Robbins, David Weber, Jack McDevitt, Neil Gaimen or Warren Ellis.Idlewild- Nick Sagan, Angels and Demons- Dan Brown, Secret History- Donna Tart, You Shall Know our Velocity- David Eggers, Spin- Robert Charles Wilson,

Heroes:

Warren Ellis, Rob Dickinson, Ken Andrews, Kurt Vonnegut, Bill Sienkiewicz, Matt Talbott, Allen Epply, Frank Black, Adam Franklin, Lewis Black, my dad.

My Blog

The 2 week bachelor

My wife is out of town for 2 weeks, and it has opened my eyes to a new perspective on our marriage.  I now have a little window into her life alone in the house when I have to travel for business...
Posted by THE DUKE on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 12:46:00 PST

Myspace vs LJ vs Multiply

In taking inventory of my myspace presence, I've realized that I never blog here.  Its all on Livejournal, or my newfound blogging/internet lust Multiply.   Most anyone reading this knows to...
Posted by THE DUKE on Thu, 25 May 2006 02:23:00 PST

www.myspace.com/blip

If I directed you to www.myspace.com/blip with the promise of new tunes up there, please be patient! Myspace barfed on the 1st attempt at upload and we're still pending on attempt ..2. If you ha...
Posted by THE DUKE on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST