Shoji
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cephalapod dreaming
Male
33 years old
Los Angeles, California
United States
Last Login: 1/22/2009
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Shoji's Interests
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| General | Music. Listening, experiencing and making music of all kinds. Revolutions... free software, digital, information, communist or otherwise. Changing the world... Dancing with headphones. Science Fiction. Taiko (see music). Identity Crisises. Indie music. Recording software. Microphones. Mic Preamps. | | Music | The groups:
The Bad Plus, Automato, Saul Williams, Sage Francis, Little Plastic Pilots, Mouse on Mars, Autechre, John Hiatt, Quetzal, Anti-Pop Consortium, Esbjorn Svensson Trio, Mum, Shakti, Joe Zawinul and the Zawinul Syndicate, Miles Davis, Boards of Canada, daKah hip hop orchestra, Squarepusher, Semba Kiyohiko etc. etc.
The genres:
underground hip-hop, late 70's free jazz, jazz of all kinds, classical/traditional japanese music, blip-hop, idm, any non house electronica sub-genre, anything with a tabla, anything with a beat, anything in non 4/4 time, anything with a 8 bit video game sample, anything with an 808 cowbell
All-time favorite albums:
Don Cherry/Dewey Redman/Charlie Haden/Ed Blackwell - Old and New Dreams, John McLaughlin/Zakir Hussain/T.H. Vinayakram/Hariprasad Chaurasia - Remember Shakti, Mouse on Mars - Niun Niggung, Autechre - Tri Repetae, Saul Williams - Saul Williams, Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians, Antipop Consortium - Arrhythmia
Current albums in high rotation:
Automato - Automato, The Bad Plus - Give, M.I.A. - Arular, Little Plastic Pilots - Little Plastic Pilots
The last song I heard that took my breath away
Hope by Automato | | Movies | Brazil or anything directed by Terry Gillian, the original Star Wars Trilogy, The Triplets of Bellvue, the Matrix, The City of Lost Children, The Whale Rider, The City of God, Monsoon Wedding, anything based on a Nick Hornby novel that isn't named Fever Pitch, anything directed by Hayao Miyazaki, the Seven Samaura or anything directed Akira Kurosawa, anything staring Toshiro Mifune | | Television | TV sucks. | | Books | Anything by Ursula K. LeGuin, Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert or Isaac Asimov. | | Heroes | My father, my mother, my grandparents.
Serious heroes: Mohammad Ali, Malcom X, veterans of the 442/100th, Frank Emi and the draft resisters of the Fair Play Committee. People of conscious everywhere.
Serious but not in that "angry minority way" heroes: Ursula K. LeGuin, Robert Rodriguez, Richard Feynman, Albert Einstein.
Musical heroes: Miles Davis, Russel Baba, Jeanne Mercer, Kenny Endo, Semba Kiyohiko, Zakir Hussain. |
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Shoji's Details
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| Status: | Married | | Here for: | Networking, Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Mt. Shasta, CA | | Body type: | 5' 6" | | Ethnicity: | Asian | | Religion: | Atheist | | Zodiac Sign: | Taurus | | Smoke / Drink: | No / No | | Children: | Someday | | Education: | College graduate | | Occupation: | Musician |
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Shoji's Schools
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Stanford University
Stanford,California
Graduated: 1998
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: History/Minority Experience in America
Clubs: Stanford Taiko
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1994 to 1999 |
Mt. Shasta High
Mt. Shasta,California
Graduated: 1994
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
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1990 to 1994 |
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About me:
My life is pretty simple. I have my family and my music (www.OnEnsemble.org). I love both dearly.
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Who I'd like to meet:
Anyone interesting. Especially those who have a passion for music. Also geeks, revolutionaries, philosophers and anyone who finds themselves outside looking in.
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