Hobbies

Most of my free time is either spent with friends (drinking, usually..) or involved in some aspect of music. Buying records or CD's, or playing my guitar or my Keyboard (It's a lovely piece of equipment called the Nord 2 Virtual Analog Synth, in case you were interested) and recording on my computer. I've also put together a couple of cool art instillations over the years, if your interested, you can ask me about them. I luv rock music mostly, actually I can stand most styles of music except maybe jazz....I really don't like jazz music. But in the world of rock I cherish all types. In my book ABBA and AC/DC are as valued to me as Jeff Buckley or Sonic Youth. For the curious, here's a random sampling of the musical loves of my life......

the cars, beach boys, guided by voices, the flaming lips, electric light orchestra, dinosaur jr., the cure, belle and sebastian, james, massive attack, mercury rev, the monkees, my bloody valentine, beth orton, nirvana, bauhaus, run dmc, apples in stereo, pavement, big sugar, boston, the pixies, abba, chemical brothers, prince, built to spill, draco, s. hotel, burt bacharach, liaka, the ramones, tom waits, sebadoh, t.rex, smashing pumpkins, fu manchu, quasi, sonic youth, the london suede, rufus wainwright, swervedriver, xtc, neil young, matthew sweet, white zombie, public enemy, slint, cibo mato, jeff buckley, big star, judas priest, yo la tango, radiohead, beck, coldcut, death cab for cutie, elliot smith, echo and the bunnymen, cat power, pop will eat itself, swirlies, air, the john spencer blues explosion, love and rockets, rush, any james bond theme songs, donovan, bob marley, sigur ros, luna and lots more.

Well, the list could go on, but I don't want to bore you! Anyway, I hope you see some you like, too. If you hadn't heard of half of these folks, don't be alarmed; I tend to like some pretty obscure stuff.