The interesting process of playing with other human beings and bringing new music into the world, playing with other human beings and bringing old music into the world, playing with other human beings in non-musical settings, entrepenurship, disruptive technology, religious studies, politics.
Debussy, Maria Scheneider, Ravel, Don Ellis, Aphex Twin, Bill Evans, Squarepusher, Brahms, Boards of Canada, Nat King Cole, Nirvana, Billy Strayhorn, J Mark Scearce, Duke Ellington, Reid Anderson, Roy Hardgrove, Roy Haynes, Jaleel Shaw, Marcus Strickland, Charles Mingus, Gil Evans, Art Blakey, Conrad Herwig, Billy Cobham, Reggie Workman, Ron Carter, Paul Chambers, Tin Hat Trio, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Jaco Pastorious, John Coltrane, Joe Zawinul, Andrew Rathbun, Stanley Clarke, Primus, Bad Plus, The Roots, Greenhouse Effect, Dangerdoom, Michael Franti, Spearhead, Stevie Wonder, Gershwin, Satie, Chopin, Brad Meldhau, Astor Piazolla, Glover Gill, Tasco Tango Orchestra, Art Baron, Ornette Colman, Charlie Haden, Don Cherry, Jim Black, Chris Speed,
Movies
I ♥ Huckabees, Brazil, Robinhood Men in Tights, Life is Beautiful, Shine, Yellow Submarine,
Waking Life!
Television
Television is a contraption that allows you to forget things like who sold arms to what nation and who is allied with whom.
Books
"Toxic Sludge is GOOD for you!" by John Stauber and the Public Relations Watch;
"1984" by George Orwell
"Cat's Cradle" by Kurt Vonnegut
"House of Leaves," by Mark Danielewski
"The Grapes of Wrath" by John Stienbeck
"Stupid White Men" by Michael Moore
"How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office" by the League of Pissed Off Voters
"Anthem" by Aynn Rand
University Of Southern Maine
Portland, MAINE
Graduated: N/A
Degree: In Progress
Major: Jazz Performance
Clubs: International Association of Jazz Educators, Composer's Forum, University Student Activists, Student Senate, EnviroCitizen,
2001 to Present
Rockwall H S
Rockwall, TEXAS
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Clubs: Debate, Ap Art, Art National Honor Society
1998 to 2000
Orono High School
Orono, MAINE
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
I play upright and electric bass. I'm the Principal Bassist in the USMSO, but I play jazz as well. I love Jazz.
I also compose and have some experience arranging for small and large ensembles. I'm still learning, and hope to never stop learni
It is our Duty to Fight.
It is our Duty to Win.
We must love each other and protect each other.
We have nothing to lose but our fear.
Okay... So...
I worked for Dennis Kucinich's presidential campaign as an intern. Because of the small size of the staff, I did more with that campaign, and had more access to the staff and candidate than I ever dreamed possible. I got to meet people from all across the nation, from all walks of life, and I'm now convinced, that if we can get up the conviction, we can achieve things we are told are impossible.
In my youth, I tried to escape Texas in the hopes of escaping the clutches of right-wing conservative "Christians" but then I found out it doesn't matter where you live. They're everywhere.
I'm almost done with a degree in Jazz Performance at USM, and I have no idea what I'll do after this. Law School? Учусь Русски языка?
I really have no idea how impossible things turn out to be, but manage to achieve them anyways, with varying levels of success, and I'm hoping that my idiocy ends up being an advantage in the long run.
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revoloutionary act." -- George Orwell.
"There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!" -- Mario Savio
Who I'd like to meet: Maria Schneider (to take composition and arranging lessons), John Sullivan (to take bass lessons), Ben Street (I've met him twice, but again, to take lessons), Kurt Rosenwinkel (also to take lessons)
People who like playing music or want to change the world for the better.
People who dislike injustice and want to do somthing about it.
"DJ Monkey …soul-stirring, excitingly edgy music…just disturbing (read ‘mind-f**king’) enough to demand attention. There is a whole spice rack of auditory flavors here, served up like fractured poetry on a collection of intensely listenable Hallmark cards from Hell." Bill Margold, Cinema Seen, L.A. X..Press
Tonight
on 2012 and Beyond I will be talking to Bruce Gagnon the coordinator of
the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space..the show
will air at 1am Eastern Time:http:http://wslr.org/listen-live/
In spite of the ban, I intend to continue blogging. I set up a Wordpress blogpage, and posted a new blog, but there is a problem with the footnotes (better luck next time):
Some Change at Last: The Final End of Star Wars, Iran’s Options and Afghanistan??? (22 September 2009)
"DJ Monkey …soul-stirring, excitingly edgy music…just disturbing (read ‘mind-f**king’) enough to demand attention. There is a whole spice rack of auditory flavors here, served up like fractured poetry on a collection of intensely listenable Hallmark cards from Hell." Bill Margold, Cinema Seen, L.A. X..Press
Tonight on 2012 and Beyond I will be talking to lawyer Andrew D. Basiago as he recounts his experiences in Project Pegasus; a secret government project involving teleportation and time travel. Andrew is the founder of the Mars Anomaly Research foundation and the author of the discovery of Life on Mars. The show will air live at 1am EST at:
Tonight on 2012 and Beyond I will be talking to Rosalind Peterson about weather modification programmes and contrails. Rosalind is the California President and Co-Founder of the Agriculture Defense Coalition (ADC), formed in 2006 to protect agricultural crop production from uncontrolled experimental weather modification programmes, atmospheric heating and testing programmes, and ocean and atmospheric experimental geoengineering programmes. The show will air at 1am on 96.5fm or online at: http://wslr.org/listen-live/ ; and will podcast later at: http://2012andbeyond.podomatic.com/
Hello, I am a band
representative for Wide Eye Panic, and part of my job is to make sure
everyone has a chance to hear it and join the panic. Fans of metal
music will love Wide Eye Panic, they are an up and coming band with a
fresh, and unique sound that will blow you away. I encourage all of
you to take a listen, and if you like what you hear join in and
spread the word.
Subject: Please Pass this far and wide, this will be taken into account tomorrow....
Please pass this on!!
On Tuesday, the Senate health committee voted 12-11 in favor of a two-page amendment courtesy of Republican Tom Coburn that would require all Members and their staffs to enroll in any new government-run health plan. It took me less than a minute to sign up to require our congressmen and senators to drink at the same trough! Three cheers for Congressman John Fleming of Louisiana!
Congressman John Fleming ( Louisiana physician) has proposed an amendment that would require congressmen and senators to take the same healthcare plan they force on us (under proposed legislation they are curiously exempt).
Congressman Fleming is encouraging people to go on his Website and sign his petition (very simple - just first, last and email). I have immediately done just that at: CLICK HERE
Please urge as many people as you can to do the same!
If Congress forces this on the American people, the Congressmen should have to accept the same level of health care for themselves and their families.
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