Hanging out with the deep and beautiful Danelle . I do yoga alot!!I hike (but not enough). I love Thai and and Indian food.
Any chance I get I'll be wading in the Ocean up to my chest !
Music
My tastes are very eclectic. I ,like every one else one the planet apparently ,love the Beatles. I have phases where I will learn how to sing and play one of their tunes almost every other day . I am also thrown into fits of ecstasy listening to the Police's SYNCHRONICITY album.
I love Jazz ... Keith Jarrett, Miles , Monk , Mingus , Sonny ,Nina Simone, Sco etc.
Ever since the age of 15 (or so) Weather Report has been one of my all time favorites.
When I was studying Upright bass with Paul De Nola of the National Symphony I started listening to Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4.The first movement has been known to move me to tears .
Delta blues...Rev. Gary Davis , Skip James , Lightnin' Hopkins ... why that's the truth unvarnished.
Other musicians I love :
Ali Farka Toure ,
Duke Ellington (kills me) ,
Miles ,
Jimi Hendrix ,
Bob Dylan (i think he's a great singer) ,
Frank Sinatra ,
Chet Baker ,
Keith Jarrett ,
Bartok ,
Michael Jackson,
Sly Stone (FRESH is an almost perfect masterpiece)
Stravinsky ( the Ballets )
and definitely Prince !!!!!!!!!
Movies
I used to watch movies passionately and often until a few years ago ,lately it's a rare treat. I seem to recall loving All things KUBRICK ( Barry Lyndon ) ,Scorsese's Mean Streets ,Woody Allen ( especially Stardust Memories , Deconstructing Harry and Crimes and Misdemeanors) ,Miller's Crossing and most Coen Bro.s.
PERSONA really changed the way I saw films' possibilities.
I love, adore David Lynch's tender, brutal films.I think that Mullholland Dr and Lost Highway are great works of pure genius and that Naomi Watts multiple performance in the former is quite possibly the greatest acting on film since De Niro in Raging Bull.
Also Hitchcock,Kurosawa, Fellini etc.
DEAD MAN is one of my faves.
Television
I really don't watch TV except the NBA play-offs, which I tape ( fast-forward the commercials) and watch with a vengeance. It's a guilty pleasure , being sort of the fruit of the very corporate excess which I believe is destroyng the planet.
Books
I have periods where you'd think that reading was all I did and then there are times where reading W. WeeK is rare. Tolstoy is very important to me( I've read all his Major novels ), Bukowski , I recall getting chills reading Michael Herr's DISPATCHES , Pretty timely and just pure brilliance with words... he could probably write a toothpaste commercial that would cut you in half, Hemingway , Conrad ( the Secret Agent is a personal fav), of course, Dostoevsky ...William S. Burroughs letters to Ginsberg (riveting ... almost a blueprint on haw to become an artist)... and other stuff like Phil Jackson's Basketball books, Jack Nicholson's biography, etc.
I suppose I read alot of tough guy macho stuff for someone who isn't too much like that.
Heroes
Harry Dean Stanton , Mother Theresa , Malcolm X , Paul Klee(proof you can be a totally prolific, bad ASS artist and a decent human ) and definitely Kubrick , Woody Allen and Allen Iverson .
About me: I'm a professional musician and music teacher who is proud to say that I've been self employed since 1996. I offer private lessons on Bass ( upright and electric ), Guitar ( electric and acoustic) and beginning Piano !!
I have a blast teaching music to all my students, whom I'm blessed to know and learn from myself.
I love yoga !! I studied for a year @ the Julie Lawrence Yoga Center (www.jlyc.com) and currently I take classes @ the Gudmestad Yoga Studio (www.gudmestadyoga.com) . Associating with such fine institutions has really deepened my understanding of teaching and learning as well as improved my body awareness.
I am passionately anti-war !!!!!!
I love to dance.I can appreciate the challenges my students face as I've done private lessons in Salsa and Blues and also enjoyed samba and salsa classes recently .
I love musical theatre and was in the world premiere of Tonya and Nancy , the Rock Opera . We were on CNN , Good Morning America and the cover of the Oregonian !!!
I was on-stage and Michael Teoli's awesome score was super bass heavy .
I'm lucky enough to be in alot of really cool groups.
Flatland is the band that I've been leading since 1996 .Check us out @ http://cdbaby.com/cd/flatland (or to hear a live recording go to www.citizenproductions.com and click on music and then Flatland).
I'm the Electric bassist for Jujuba (www.jujuba.org) we are a 10 piece Afro-beat band that is one of the most popular live draws here in Portland .
I play with Michael Manning and the Carolina Pump Station . Michael writes and sings in a very pure and heartfelt way .
In the past I've played w/ Jesse Young , Cubaneo , founded Iron John . I've subbed for Cana Son's fat Cuban grooves and I played for 9 years in Chata Addy's band Susuma(www.chataaddy.com) which is a super-funky dance band playing "high-life
" grooves from Ghana.
Who I'd like to meet: Students who love music and want to learn .
I feel very blessed to have been exposed to so much great music and wisdom and I want to share it with others .
At Berklee I studied with the masters Whit Browne , John Neves and John Repucci and graduated Summa cum laude .I played, recorded and performed with a virtual who's who of modern Jazz , Kurt Rosenwinkel , Mark Turner , Scott Kinsey and Ingrid Jensen !!!!I was also room-mates and band mates with Derek Sivers who went on to start cdBaby !!
I'd also welcome meeting people in the enter-tainment and art worlds, who care about the planet, and folks who are exploring alternative methods of healing and living.
Hey brah thanks for the love, I’m diggin’ that Flatland cd you gave me “smoooth”…you see that blazers vs. rockets game on sat. “game 1” oh WoW I was throwing my flip-flops at the tv the whole evening…
Dearest Don, Thank You for being such a bright Light in this world and in my Life!!! It is a ture blessing to have you as my Best Friend!!! Thanks for always making me laugh and puting a smile of my face!!! I love You!! Hugs to you!!
P.S. I hope you have a great show tonight!! Filling the air with the bliss of music...
You've been bad this year! For punishment you are being sent to detention at the Breakfast Club Holiday Brunch and White Elephant Party. Repent amongst fellow sinners, spiked eggnog, and wickedly sweet croissants. WHERE: 3650 SE 26th Ave WHEN: Sunday December 16th @ 11:30 AM PLEASE BRING: Food or drink to share, a wrapped white elephant gift to exchange (for those unfamiliar: a zany, clever, fun, thoughtful, or ridiculous gift-- doesn't have to be new)
