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Nathan

I am here for Friends and Networking

My Interests

Music:

Dismemberment Plan, Cursive, Mars Volta, Rainer Maria, Sparta, Milemarker, International Noise Conspiracy, Manu Chao, Rilo Kiley, Songs: Ohia Air, Soul Coughing, The Rentals, Modest Mouse, Pedro the Lion, Sergei Prokofiev, Hernyk Gorecki, Arnold Schoenberg, Mastodon, Slayer, Motorhead, Sepultura, White/Rob Zombie, Fear Factory, Black Sabbath, Soulfly, AC/DC, Faith No More, Lou Reed, Ry Cooder, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, Tool, A Perfect Circle, X, Pixies, Misfits.

Books:

Dharma Punx, Zen Hardcore

My Blog

Tiejring Doen the Eego

Or, Tearing Down the Ego.So I'm in Amsterdam with fellow teachers, and having a pretty good time. We were at what is the Dutch equivalent of a pub (more than a café, less than a full-blown restaurant ...
Posted by Nathan on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:24:00 PST

Mayans to 'cleanse' site visited by Bush

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/americas/03/12/bush.guatemala/ index.htmlBill Clinton goes ANYWHERE and priests flock to give the guy their sacred symbol. Bright, garrish and sacred textiles are given to...
Posted by Nathan on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 12:18:00 PST

Med-i-ta-tion laid the fuck out

Before I begin, let me give shamelessly plug Kim's blog (http://living-or-dying.blogspot.com). She may be blogging a little too seriously by self-imposing an abundance of strictures onto what I believ...
Posted by Nathan on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 02:55:00 PST

Hardcore Straight-Ahead Vocal Jazz

Why not? Hardcore is short songs with simple lyrics where a a creative musician could infill, riff, and swing. Cut the song in half and add a host of instrumental solos in the middle, or si...
Posted by Nathan on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 08:48:00 PST

Karma explained. Culture too, free of charge!

Happy Thanksgiving. I was over at Kim's aunt's house for it and had a great time. Reconnected with old friends, met some new ones. What should have been the crowning achievement turned out to be the e...
Posted by Nathan on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 07:50:00 PST

Slayer and Cursive's New Albums

I've been loving the month of August with the new Slayer and Cursive albums. Musically, the two are pretty disparate but equally compelling. Both produced much more overtly political albums then I wou...
Posted by Nathan on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:51:00 PST

5 Sexy Butt Moves Trainers Swear By

I found this on the cover of one of my girlfriend's glossy mags the content of which amount to little more than trash. I wanted to see if these headlines actually catch your attention....
Posted by Nathan on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:29:00 PST

Fucking Tourists Support the Leaning Tower

So my g-friend got what must be the strangest conflation of Holiday picture, newlywed schlock, tourist photo. It is, "of course," photo of recently married couple holding up Pisa tower with the messa...
Posted by Nathan on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 08:41:00 PST

Myspace for the dead.

Addendum: Since I was yesterday talking about the meaning of myspace as a revolt against design and good taste and a standard bearer for an adolescent humanity, I have raised a new question. What happ...
Posted by Nathan on Sat, 26 Nov 2005 08:12:00 PST

Importance of MySpace?

Let's back up one step and go through that whole logic of the internet as new media, bringer of great possibilities, improver of life and saver of abused, orphan children. We all know that t...
Posted by Nathan on Sat, 26 Nov 2005 06:55:00 PST