Ben Tatar

Highland Park High School, Adams School of Driving, University of Kansas, DePaul University

DePaul University, Attended 2003 - 2005, Class of 2005, Master's Degree, Jazz Studies/Composition

Teacher, Musician, outspoken individual

IAJE, Punch The Elderly bowling team member

Music writing and performing, photography, KU Basketball!, biking, volleyball, cooking, traveling, driving, camping, trying to eat well, people watching, baseball stadiums, art, learning, separating interests with commas

Miles, Siddhartha, Of Mice and Men, The Real Frank Zappa Book, Vonnegut, liner notes with the exception of extended thank you's, the listings of side-effects to medications, nonfiction

Magnolia, Blade Runner, Annie Hall, City of God, Brazil, Jacob's Ladder, Memento, Fight Club, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, 12 Monkeys, Punch-Drunk Love, Spinal Tap, Ghost World, Adaptation, Singles, Traffic, Bikini Carwash Company 2

Steely Dan, Radiohead, Pearl Jam, Morphine, People Under The Stairs, Tortoise, Bjork, Joni Mitchell, The Police, Maria Schneider, Brad Mehldau, Groove Collective, Incubus, Pre-Disney Elton John, Pre-Crack Whitney Houston, Alison Krauss, Wilco, Roxy Music, Donny Hathaway, Pixies, Thievery Corporation, Doves, Vince Mendoza, Queens Of The Stone Age, Philip Glass, Yo La Tengo

Occasional MTV and ESPN programming. Primetime TV does nothing for me.

Cancer

I believe in comfortable socks, a great pair of headphones, enjoying rainy days, and I have a blackbelt in pretending to be busy when a homeless guy asks for money. I love thrift store t-shirts with numbers on the back, songs with interesting chord changes, watching a row of traffic lights change to green, optical illusions, and I have a minor in Useless Information Studies.

I realize I am becoming very crafty in the art of dishwasher space efficiency.

I am already sick of JACK FM, I have grown a bit tired of my favorite 93.1, 97.9 hasn't changed since Lee Roth got dumped for Hagar, and 97.1 is ridiculously self-righteous. that said, I do like the new Q101 and I am actually learning the names of the 780 newsteam. Sad, sad, sad what my daily commute has brought me.

And for the record, Kid A blows away OK Computer. No question.

Music for the Summer:

- Tortoise: Standards
- People Under The Stairs: OST (Wow!)
- Anything by Efterklang, Mum or other similar Icelandic groups.
- Eagles of Death Metal: Death By Sexy (Hel-LO campy!)
- Pelican: Australasia
- Thom Yorke: The Eraser
- Al Green. Anything.

pt anderson (but can we lose the pretentious non-capital-letters thing?)

Donald Fagen

Stewart Copeland

Christopher Lowell. Just to say I did.

Bridgette Fonda (Meow)

and Shadoe Stevens.