• I helped start a tech support division for a PC company in Costa Rica.
• I attended training in Taipei, Taiwan.
• I rode the metro in Paris when I was three, but have no recollection of it.
• Went to Disneyland for graduation.
• A+/Win95 certified.
• Kicked out of the California State capitol building for not wearing shoes.
• Drank hundreds of cappucinos at the Mad Hatter in LA.
• First job was building boxes and packing them with filmstrips for learning disabled children.
• Been to many Grateful Dead concerts.
• Flown a glider.
• Worked in a building that got levelled the morning of the Northridge quake in LA.
• Got dropped by hostile entity onto a tent in Parker, Arizona.
• Saw the first three Lollapaloozas.
• Built a six foot high water pipe in plastic shop in high school.
• Once met the actor that played Freddy Krueger in a Utah bar.
• Shook hands with Eddie Van Halen.
• My girlfriend takes me on occasional photo safaris.
• Asked Detroit DJ Juan Atkins what his name was to his face at a party he was headlining.
• Wore my "Snoopy Red Baron" pajama top to school in 5th grade on accident.
• First used a computer at 9 years old.
• Fell asleep at a Ministry concert.
• Read Dune in it's entirety within 24 hours of opening it when I was 12.
• I am left handed.
• Seen King Crimson play live three times.
• Had chicken pox when I was eight.
• Thought Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker got married during the ceremony at the end of the first Star Wars.
• Was standing almost right where JFK got shot before I realized that he was in fact assasinated in Dallas.
• I grew up watching only an hour or two of television per week on a 13" black and white Tatung.
• Accidentally walked in on DJ Assault in a bathroom stall.
• Got pulled over driving 105 by an LAPD officer and didn't get a ticket.
• I am miserably addicted to dark chocolate.
• Once drank three gallons of BASS ale in one day while working ren faire.
• Saw the Smashing Pumpkins play at the Whiskey a Go Go when nobody loved them.
• Worked at Renaissance Pleasure Faire for two years.
• I quit working for 6 months as an experiment. It's running into overtime now.
• Got my records stolen once at a party.
• I speak Polish.
• When the clock struck midnight on New Years Eve 1999 I was waiting outside a bathroom.
• Once built a coke can that took off and beaned a friend in the leg.
• Used to play a lot of HORSE with my sister and grandmother (who shot underhanded but was very good).
• My hand appears in the Doors movie.
• I'm learning to play the cello.
• Went to the stinkin rose for dinner with DJ Rush and some friends.
• For New Year's Eve 2000, I quit smoking cigarettes and played a techno set right after John Selway.
• I lived in Salt Lake City, and had Gila Monster beer shipped in occasionally for house parties because it was not available locally.
• I'm a strong swimmer.
• I have actually seen the apartment complex that Ralph Macchio's character from Karate Kid lives in.
• Met Johhny Fiasco and DJ Dmitri of Dee-Lite waiting to get paid at a New Year's party in 1998.
• Play guitar and sometimes even sing in a fledgling band.
• Once dropped a brick right onto my own hand.
• I try to play the tablas at least once a week but am no good at it.
• English is my second language.
• Started out getting bookings as an ambient DJ.
• Once bit through my bottom lip after jumping off a swing.
• When I lived in Utah, there were roaches in our basement.
• The first time I had a Texas steak, I got horribly ill.
• I have most of Shaft committed to memory.
• In junior high, I started a fight with this guy and he knocked me out.
• Almost took off my nose boogieboarding when I was a kid.
• A current passion of mine is creative uses of beat juggling and layering unlikely tracks together.
• Rode BMX bikes as main mode of transportation until age 18.
• There is a 10/100 switch in my bedroom.
• I have had one operation.
• The only time I ever attended Comdex, I got alcohol poisoning.
• I weigh 190 pounds.
• I have done sound design for several independent and college plays.
• Once picked off five little Lego men in order off a fence at 40 feet with a Crossman 760.
• My photo was used by the 'groove' film crew as a casting pointer for what rave technical staff look like.
• I keep the records in my closet alphabetized.
• I was in boy scouts.
• Attended one burningman.
• Been to several AA meetings.
• My first electric guitar and amp were stolen out of my room.
• Years ago I helped Thomas Trouble learn to beatmatch.
• My younger brother and father are both black belts.
• In a childhood playground dispute, I caught a rusty shovel between my middle and ring fingers (7 stitches!).
• Seen Rocky Horror Picture Show in four different cities.
• Once blew the speakers on my stepdad's stereo by plugging the headphones in as a microphone and performing feedback experiments.
• Rocky the cat loves to sleep on my clothes.
• I have done sound for over 80 all night parties.
• On my last trip to Las Vegas, I had a 40 pound bulldog bitch in my lap the whole way there.
• Two roles models I remember from my childhood were a Catholic priest and a Lithuanian bomber navigator who served in world war two.
• I have never fired a shotgun.
• Used to fall asleep with my electric guitar and wake up to feedback.
• My favorite artificial flavor is grape.
• I live in the same room as a couple thousand records, and know most of them pretty well.
• I refuse to use new computer hardware, and prefer using multiple slower systems across various operating systems (that way i remember them).
• One of my favorite foods is a gardenburger with cheese and bacon on it.
• I occasionally share a bed with a rare species of dinosaur
• Sour candy is the bomb.
• I apply priniciples of music production to my stirfry.