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Last Updated: 12/19/2009

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City: Sacramento and Galt
State: California
Country: US
Signup Date: 1/22/2006

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September 19, 2009 - Saturday 

Current mood:  amused
Category: Life
I'll say it again. Dear electronics companies, fuck you. We, The People, despise you for your inferior components, warranty rapings, overpriced products, and time bomb programming AKA the hidden self-destruct sequence inside all integrated circuitry that makes good times crash from the blissful Heavens to the cold, cruel scorched Earth, in a fire and brimstone-reminiscent office wreckage of smoldering irritation. Go fuck yourselves until the backlash boils to the riot point, allowing me to bludgeon you with your inferior gadgetry. Until then, I'm going to go to build a laptop out of pinecones.
May 26, 2009 - Tuesday 

Current mood:  mellow
Category: Music
With a live and creative incarnation manifested, we will dissolve genre walls by mingling Rock with Dub, Electro, Funk, and dark Ambient and Psychedelic music to simply make music. Pure, quenching music, unwavering in the face of a browbeating industry obsessed with classification.

Or somethin' like that. If you agree with the paragraph above, keep reading:

I'd like to hook up with people that are down to make and record music to eventually perform live once all the pieces are into place. I'm looking for a project that's reasonably free of genre restriction. I've been in bands that are fairly specific in their sounds, but I need to voice something different. The common argument against a band that plays outside of conventional boundaries is that the masses can't get familiar with a sound that constantly changes. I feel that if the right pieces are together, a band can have their "sound" and create hook-laden songs while mixing up genres and/or reinventing themselves whenever they see fit. Too many musicians follow the current trend, ultimately leaving them behind the times by half a step. And they wonder why they're through in a few years?


My creative inspirations include:

Radiohead,

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club,

Kula Shaker,

Barry Adamson,
The Doors,

Head Automatica,

Faith No More (and everything else Mike Patton),
Portishead,

The Clash,
Nine Inch Nails,

Lee “Scratch” Perry,
Mute Math,
Prince,
The Living End,

UNKLE's "War Stories" album,

MF Doom,

Queen,
Dr. Dre,

Beck,

Gov’t Mule,
Parliament Funkadelic (their music and their versatility),

Yeah Yeah Yeahs,
The Funk Brothers/Motown (most classic soul, really),
Wilco,
VHS or Beta's "Night on Fire" album,

Morphine,

and Pink Floyd.




My bass influences are:

John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin),

Drew Roulette (Dredg),
John Entwistle (The Who),
Flea,

Robert DeLeo (STP),
Allen Woody (Gov't Mule),
Rex Brown (Pantera),
Paul Barker (Ministry),

Tye Zamora (Alien Ant Farm),
Les Claypool,
Jeff Ament (Pearl Jam),
Aston "Family Man" Barrett (The Wailers),
Billy Gould (Faith No More),

Duck Dunn,
and James Jamerson.




No shortage of bass equipment or experience, I also have a theremin, and started writing on piano recently, as well. Plus, I can make beats.

I just thought I'd throw everything out there so as to speed up the process. Hope to hear from you soon. Take care.



- Michael Pratt





Currently listening:
The Biz Never Sleeps
By The Diabolical Biz Markie
Release date: 1997-01-24
December 22, 2007 - Saturday 

Current mood:  full
Category: MySpace

It's time we stop with the retarded bulletins.

The repost this shite or you'll have bad luck bulletins? It's a damn chain letter. They weren't fun decades ago, they sure as hell aren't fun in their internet form now. The "please comment on my new pics 'cause I crave attention from complete strangers worse than a bored housewife craves a cute pizza delivery boy?" Also sad.

Another classic is the move where some dumb internet tart bitches about somebody that flaked on them or pissed them off, so they use the bulletins as a way to guilt trip the person. Be a fucking adult and cuss the person out like a savage. Save that tripe for your high school. 90210 has been off the air for quite some time. Grow up. Even worse when the person that does it is over 21. Makes me realize why tigers eat their young.

Oh, and I hates me some questionnaires. They're never short, mu'fuckers are longer than the paperwork at an automotive dealership. With society (myself included) having the memory of fish, forgetting things 10 minutes after the fact; I don't really need to know who your first kiss was and that you like the Used. While on the subject: QUIZZILLA IS STUPID. Like, really stupid. Somewhere between retarded cocker spaniel puppy and Evander Holyfield lies Quizzilla and the fucks that created it. I don't need to know which Napoleon Dynamite character I am, you people are distracting me from training to be a cage fighter and chatting with babes all day. Can I get a "gawd" from the congregation?

And the best, drum roll please, is when these goobers complain about how bored they are. Get off your ever-expanding lame ass and get out there and do something. Call your real friends and get some tall cans and get out the damn house (or blunts, or heroin, or confused young men, whatever) instead of staring at this upgraded idiot box (far more addicting to the weak minded than TV ever was) while pleading for other saps that don't really give two monkey turds whether or not you live or die to amuse you. And if you can't get out because of kids or house arrest, which are the same thing in my book, get a hobby. Guitars are under a hundred bucks for an ok beginner jammie. Arts and crafts are dirt cheap, especially if you jump the neighbor boy and take his crayolas. READ! And blogs do not count as reading. Don't get me going again on blogs. Cooking, you waddle into the kitchen, so do something besides nuking a hot pocket for once. Hell, even video games are a better waste of time than this godforsaken site and the drivel that spews from the majority of people's minds. At least with video games, you're practicing more hand-eye coordination than flogging the dolphin to the internet broad you've got a crush on. Which reminds me, I gotta go........cheers.

Currently listening:
Can’t Get Enough
By Barry White
Release date: 19 March, 1996
December 22, 2007 - Saturday 

Current mood:  contemplative
Category: Music

Much like the Cheers love-fest I reposted on this page, here's another chronicle I felt like sharing that got me all nostalgic from Friday, November 17, 2006:

 


One of the great voices of our generation has died.


And I JUST found out.


Why wasn't this all over the news? I know the blood type of Britney's trailer spawn and news of a massive loss to the music community is just getting to me?!?!? Sure, his sales weren't that of some of the glossy pop shite out there. But, name a better R&B singer that's around and I'm going to look at you with that look of wondrous confusion like when the family dog catches you masturbating. There isn't one. D'Angelo? Nope. John Legend? Nice try. That little dude that looks like a turtle from Boyz II Men? Nope. Maxwell? Nope. Bobby Brown? Are you fucking kidding me?!?!?


Gerald Levert had the raw power and pure force behind his voice that this generation hasn't seen. He was truly old school and belonged in a generation where any tart with a canyon-esque vagina couldn't fuck her way into a studio and use high-priced Pro-Tools and DP plug-ins and pitch correctors to appear to have talent.


Why he didn't get the praise and love Luther Vandross got, I'll never know. His voice was stalwart enough to lipo off Luther's man-boobs. If you actually need evidence of his talent, check out how much wreck he caught on Standing In The Shadows Of Motown. That's what converted me. Aside from Chaka Khan's epic "What's Going On," he destroys everybody else's performances.


He is already missed.

 

Currently listening:
Private Line
By Gerald LeVert
Release date: 15 October, 1991
December 22, 2007 - Saturday 

Current mood:  awake
Category: Life

I was goin' through some old chronicles and enjoyed this one from Friday, April 21, 2006. So, I felt like posting it here:



Came home with a few in me the other night, flipped on the tv, landed at Cheers. Not quite sure of the episode exactly, I passed out........ER........fell asleep soon after hearing brilliance. Yeah, fell asleep, that's it. Cliff Clavin explained the "Buffalo Theory" to Norm:


"Well ya see, Norm, it's like this. A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members. In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. But naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first. In this way, regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine! That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers."


Don't let the legwarmers and big hair fool you, the 80's supplied some great philosophies. Cheers.

Currently listening:
Streetcore
By Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
Release date: 21 October, 2003