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A a r o n

Evolution is smarter than you are.

About Me

The bloom is off the rose. MySpace is seeming more and more like a legalized prostitution ring, so I am putting myself into rehab. I'm going to start posting blogs, pics, and other musings at my own site: aarontap.com . I'll still check in from time to time, but why not meet me at a place that truly is MY space, and not the space of porn merchants and dating site advertisers.


Our new friend Nessie


This is a website!
Bands I'm Involved With:
    The Paula Kelley Orchestra Matt Nathanson Fantastic Black Layne

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Our new ant overlords.

Music:

Rooftop Suicide Club, Great Lakes Myth Society, Paula Kelley, Ad Frank, Cathal Coughlan, Frank Shirts, The Smiths, Duran Duran, Adam & the Ants, Fatima Mansions, Microdisney, Ennio Morricone, Judas Priest, Shostakovich, Willie Nelson, Throwing Muses, Bee Gees, Nick Cave, The Damned, The Clash, Bowie, Dwight Yoakam, Frank Black, Hanoi Rocks, Jacques Brel, Louvin Brothers, Marc Almond, The Mopeds, Neko Case, Thin Lizzy, Pixies, Public Enemy, PiL, Queen, Scott Walker, Slade, Stray Cats, Tom Waits, The Weisstronauts, Wire, X

Movies:

All Sergio Leone's films, The Lost Weekend, Dr. Strangelove, March of the Penguins, Murder By Death, Ran, and more.

Television:

Twilight Zone, Home Movies, Good Eats, and The Simpsons

Books:

The Master and Margarita, 100 Years of Solitude, The Lost Weekend, Lies My Teacher Told Me, God: A Biography, Crime and Punishment

Heroes:

Mikhail Bulgakov, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Peggy Jones, Sir Richard Francis Burton, Martin Luther, maybe? I dunno.

My Blog

Gimme Some Money

The trend of licensing "classic" rock songs for advertising (generally aimed at 35 - 50-year olds, I'm guessing) has taken a bizarre new turn. Recent ads for luxury cars, banks, and cell phones have ...
Posted by A a r o n on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:26:00 PST

Some Mad Hope

[Note: I've been posting many a blog at my personal site: aarontap.com]Anyone who's been paying attention around here knows that I've dedicated a good portion of the last two years of my life to makin...
Posted by A a r o n on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:29:00 PST

I’m outta here (sort of)

The bloom is off the rose. MySpace is seeming more and more like a legalized prostitution ring, so I am putting myself into rehab. I'm going to start posting blogs, pics, and other musings at my own...
Posted by A a r o n on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:52:00 PST

The Yiddish Policeman's Union

I recently read this novel by Michael Chabon, after being tipped off by two positive reviews in diverse(ish) publications Wired and EW and it being the first contemporary novel I've read in quite a wh...
Posted by A a r o n on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 11:24:00 PST

Not to flog a dead horse, but...

While it's long since passe to rag on P**** Hilton, I have a tangentially-related beef. It really bugs me when people say shit like "I think Paris Hilton is one of the smartest people in the world. ...
Posted by A a r o n on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:18:00 PST

What I learned from American Idol

American Idol is a phenomenon, that I cannot deny. I never thought it would make it past season 3, and yet here we are, long after anyone really cares about what happens after the show is over, finis...
Posted by A a r o n on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 12:03:00 PST

A bargain at any price?

So, it's been a long time since I've blabbed here.  Much has happened.  I've lost a dear family member, put down a favorite cat, been to Disneyland, worked on two, maybe three new albums, an...
Posted by A a r o n on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 10:55:00 PST

To sleep, perchance to dream

So, it's been a hectic February thus far and shows little sign of chilling the fuck out. I'm not sure if it's because of the pace, or something I have or haven't been eating, but I've been having mes...
Posted by A a r o n on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 07:28:00 PST

Weather Wimp, That's Me

I've spent the past four or five days in Manhattan and Queens, rehearsing with Matt Nathanson - which has been great. What has not been so great is being reminded of what January in the northeast is ...
Posted by A a r o n on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 09:11:00 PST

Mohave, we hardly knew ye

"To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery. Thank Heaven, here is not all the world. The buckeye does not grow in New England, and the mockingbird is rarely heard here. The ...
Posted by A a r o n on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:18:00 PST