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Which means I'm: a professional reader

I'm interested in how we work together to make the world a better place. Yes, strange, but true.

How we keep dirty rotten scoundrels from destroying too much...

The mind, music -- and art in general.

So: words, literature, history, more later...

My latest piece, on a subject close to my heart, TECHNO MUSIC and one of the founders of the sound and one of my fave artists, Derrick May, in the recent Village Voice is HERE

I get to interview fun fun awesome people about what they and I love: MUSIC: NEW: INTERVIEW with Gilles Peterson Other Village Voice pieces here and here. I used to write and produce for TechTV and Soma Magazine. I've been able to meet and interview people I admire, enjoy and play in my DJ sets: Sasha and Digweed, Richie Hawtin, Underworld, Groove Armada, Willie Nelson, the founders of the Blue Man Group and on and on.

And I come to music journalism from inside of music. I've been DJing since ages and ages (93)... I made progressive trance or house or whatever you want to call it as half of The Activity, for SF's modest lunimaries of beat hedonism, Looq Recoreds.

http://www.looq.com/artists/theactivity.htm

Before during and after and now I DJ. Techno house progressive trance good sounds and beats....but then I also do classic funk and disco, party party fun and 80s and 70s and then ALSO lounge music. Which covers like 75 years of jazz and jazz influenced sound. DJing is quite clearly the most fun a person can have witht heir clothes on... But I really love most all music. Found my way through classic and acid rock to the post punk diaspora and all that. love this that and the other thing.

Most TV programming and the system that exists for its production is so mind-bendingly sick and shallow, and based on the sickest shallowest parts of what people do that it's a damn wonder we can still find beautiful delightful and educational things made for it. But they are there. Just look at the Simpsons...

Just don't blame the box, the TV set. It's an innocent in all this.

but yeah, sure OK, in addition to The Love Boat and Fantasy Island (kidding!) I'm a life-long lover of Carl Sagan's Cosmos, James Burke's various shows: Connections, The Day the Universe Changed et al, and yes, find PBS, Discovery, History channels to hold the best programming. That's of course when I'm not glued to MTV and VH1 or one of their bastard children in the higher channels...

but back to the Simpsons...

Who do YOU like? Joyce -- Pynchon -- Calvino -- and the sheer ecsatic luminescent poetry prose of Borges, but ya gotta lighten up with Tom Robbins. "Empire as a Way of Life" by William Appleman Williams, about American foreign policy since 1776 is simply a must read as well. This section will surely get beefed out in time. Go read a book! Currently reading: Jitterbug Perfume (novel), The Heart of the World: A Journey to the Last Secret Place (non fiction about a Canadian buddhist Scholar who trecked to a VERY hard to get to place in Tibet/China that was the seed of the legend of Shangri La), Europe Central (novel) by William Vollman and The Red Queen (non fiction about sex and genetic reproduction)

--an organic farmer who really means it

--a post doc working on how to better map the cancerous side effects of our industrial wasteland

--a mother of two, trained shrink, lover of people

--a hyper-focused dynamo who has achieved much of what he wants for the right reasons

--a filmmaker who does what he can to push the envelope in this capitalistic fuckfest of greed and surface

--a deep thinking lay therapist who pays the bills with WebDev

--an investment banker, father of three, who took the American Dream by the balls to his own valhalla

--musicians musicians musicians who have enlivened me, who are brilliant, who are self-taught

--a bon vivant eccentric who is a walking dreamy dreamer and maybe a mirror

--FANDANGO!

--Shabba!

--parents lovers

--members of the True-to-Self Club, those who found new chapters