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UKRuss wrote: Smutek, how accurate was The Wire from your experience of actually being involved in that scene? We totally loved that programme me and the Mrs!

Prop Joe, East Side Mutha Fukaz!

i was immediately about to ask the same question. . so they were accurate you say... damn. best series ever.

besides.... i'm living in berlin, germany. born and raised in jerusalem, israel. have been into music since ever. played instruments since 3 y/o, went to music high school and such (but honestly, not a great virtuoso till this very day). moving image is what i make for living. i'm a cameraman. so i'm like a double headed dragon in that matter, switching audio to visual back and forth and gave up on deciding what i like more. but i think nothing makes me happier than making music really... this and walking in the park hand in hand with my 1.5 y/o child.. although making music can make me miserable too, at times. well, my kid can too i'm vegetarian since 3.5 years and vegan since 6 weeks (yay!!). i try to be happy but can't giving up on melancholy. and espresso's.

smutek wrote:

ewistrand wrote:Basically the same thing I do here. I'm a consultant for various software companies and local studios, and I play live every once in a while to keep it all in balance.

@ smutek- more power to you. Recovering alcoholic (38 years since my last drink) and crackhead (11 years clean) here.

ew

Right on man!

10 years C&S here this coming November!

you guys are an inspiration. I have a few demons I am tying to let go of my self. Hoping to close in on a year soon.
The wire rules!

I prefer South Park to the Wire. I find it more realistic.

Chaos Technichian

By day I am mostly being a postman (although I have been also a chef, a flooring technician, a site labourer, a post-production audio engineer, a barista...etc. etc in the recent past...)

By night I am a songwriter, singer, musician and producer. When I'm not being all clever and reading lots of books, that is.


Oh, and when needed I are also a mysterious and shadowy crime-fighter.

I'm Welsh.

Though live in Swindon



I think I win this thread.

aisling wrote:I am a balding unemployed looser with 2 kids and 2 college degrees I never really used because I thought I'd make it in music.......

I'm a bit like Aisling only with less kids, less degrees, and probably less hair, and less talent.

I work for a German company called Meinl. We manufacture cymbals and percussion. I work in the US office which is in Nashville, TN. I sell these products to music stores in TN, GA, NC, SC, AL, MS, and KY. I also have a Cd on iTunes (I've tried to make it my job but it's just not paying all the bills).

I am 35 years old software developer from the Montreal area in Canada. I live in the suburbs and take the train to work too. No wife, no kids, but I still got my hair. I'm into electronic music as well. I think Jesus must have been a cool dude, but I never attend church as it bores me to death. I won't discuss my rebellious past here, but I will say I live a very quiet life now (VERY quiet). I stay home, make some music, and spend several hours a day on forums like this one.

Didn't I just read this story?

Cheers

First off, congrats to the sober guys. Srsly - good for you, that's awesome.

I work for MTV, nothing too crazy. I scan, tape and file footage as it comes in. I've been with MTV for about 4 years now, it's a good gig. Apart from that I don't do too much. Music of course, avid hockey fan, but that's about it.

Oh yeah, forgot-married for 6 years and have 2 kids, another one on the way.

Middle aged dude but I still have most of my(own) hair. By night I'm suppa cool writer/producer making breakthrough electric music on my pc laptop. I'm rich so I have alot of plugins and stuff. I have a bedroom studio but I got lazy and do most of my stuff while sitting in bed watching HDTV trash. It inspires me.
By day I'm a dentist and I play chillout/electronica at my patients while they wait and during the procedures. I sneak in a few of my tunes and they can't tell the difference! There's nothing like having a captive audience.
Oh yeah forgot, married with a daughter that likes Coldplay

I'm 24. I've spent the past five years of life as a uni bum, which is a proud danish tradition. I've been studying arabic, persian and lately linguistics. I'm and planning to stay as long as they let me. So hopeful I'll get a PhD when I get my master's in ~2 years and then edge my way into teaching and researching.

After graduating from gymnasium at 18, I took six months off everything and live with my parents just making music. At around new year's in 2004, I took a step back and looked at how it was going and decided to get an education...

I recently broke up with my girlfriend of three years and I'm now living with a bearded death metaller (he studies literature and is really easy to live with, but calling him a bearded death metaller sounds better) and a plush tapir and my 18 computers. It's OK but I miss the girl a lot.

I've given up drinking more times than I can remember, and also decided to let everything go and become an alcoholic more times than I can remember. I've never succeeded at either.

i still drink and still do drugs. i have 2 degrees but im unemployed except for some design work i do as nixers. i also make smalltime cash playing poker. im moving in with my girlfriend this week. eeeehs.

last time Surgeon played here, he opened with one of my debut tracks. ive 2 more 12"s coming out this month.
i really want to go to asia

Great responses! Always fascinating to see the diversity of responses in threads like this! I'll bite - here's 25 for me:

1 pushing 54, third generation Los Angeleno

2 live in the historic "rock & roll neighborhood" Laurel Canyon (Hollywood Hills) with my wife & two cats

3 have worked in finance/accounting for 30 years, the last 16 at a Glendale-based telecom firm

4 play winds/reeds/keys/tuned percussion - began piano at 6, flute at 7

5 studied music composition at Chapman University in Orange, CA - 1972-1976

6 constantly attempting to master new instruments - 2009 is "The year of the AxiS 64 MIDI controller"

7 home recordist since my first PortaOne in '83 - use Sonar, Live, Reason & Notion and variety of hardware/software

8 studio goal for 2009 is to master Live 8 and make it my principal DAW

9 listen to/write primarily progressive rock, jazz/fusion, modern "serious" music (Zappa & Steely Dan are my "musical cornerstones")

10 love modern progressive - Flower Kings, Frost*, Spock's Beard, Porcupine Tree, echolyn, IZZ, etc.

11 recently listening to/trying to write more electronica, urban and pop - fascinated with re-mixes and what makes a great "3-minute pop song"

12 second creative focus is photography - Nikonian (D2x, D2h), I shoot boardsports (primarily vert/pool skateboarding), landscapes & concerts

13 skateboarding photography has appeared in numerous magazines including Thrasher, Concussion, Concrete Wave, etc.

14 dabble in dv filmmaking (primarily to have something to score to) and 2D/3D digital arts (primarily Bryce, Vue D'Esprit & Mojoworld)

15 continue to skateboard (48 years), surf (45 years) and snowboard (31 years) - it keeps me young!

16 collect 1960s rock art, with a focus on the San Francisco (Fillmore/Family Dog) era - specifically the work of the late Rick Griffin

17 was a principal photographer for the "Rick Griffin's Transcendence" exhibition catalog at the Laguna Art Museum in 2007

18 love Northern Europe - back to Holland (based in Amsterdam) in July for a week, then to Loreley, Germany for the "Night of the Prog" festival

19 attempting to master the Dutch language (VERY difficult!), got the basics down before last year's trip - learning grammar, etc. this year

20 hope to retire in 5 years to Ojai, California and do some form of commercial photography

21 played with Mike Pinera & The Blues Image ("Ride, Captain Ride") from 1984 to 1986

22 "stoner bud" friends in high school with David Lee Roth

23 the Doors lived in the home next to ours, we now have "The Door's Door" as our front door

24 addicted to low-brow reality television, the cheesier…the better!

25 think that Live is the best thing since sliced bread!