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Interested In:
Just looking around
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Member Since:
Jun 2003
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Hometown:
near Chicago, IL
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John's URL:
http://profiles.friendster.com/390043
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College/University:
Purdue University, Attended 1987 - 1995, Class of 2005, Master's Degree, Electrical Engineering
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Occupation:
computer programmer
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What I enjoy doing:
computer music, visiting the Third World, watching obscure films
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Favorite Books:
Guenter Grass: _Die_Blechtrommel_, Kors & Silverglate: _The_Shadow_University_, Kang Chol-hwan: _The_Aquariums_of_Pyongyang_
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Favorite Movies:
Emanuelle in America, Wild Strawberries, Clockwork Orange, The Shining, Putney Swope, Heidi, Ju Dou, The Game of Their Lives, Chicken Hawk
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Favorite Music:
Francis Dhomont, Curtis Roads, Cort Lippe, Severed Heads, Electric Turn to Me, Magnus Lindberg, Iannis Xenakis, Conlon Nancarrow, the Homosexuals, Fat Worm of Error, Nobukazu Takemura, the Hold Steady, the Bran Flakes, Venetian Snares, Kenneth Higney
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Favorite TV Shows:
Richard Bey, anything with Paul Williams (http://us.imdb.com/Name?Williams, Paul (III))
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Zodiac Sign:
Sagittarius
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About Me:
In the above photograph
(http://www.johndavison.com/~jdavison/Vacation%20Photos/
Roll%20877101/022_19A.JPG),
I'm eating some beef stew given to me by a Bangladeshi woman
in a remote village in the Sundarbans. (It was the best
meal I had in all of Bangladesh.)
I usually watch 'art house' films but found myself drawn to
Italian zombie/gore/cannibalism films recently. Most recent
film seen: _The_Legend_of_the_Seven_Golden_Vampires_ (a
star-crossed attempt by Hammer Studios to make a Kung Fu
vampire movie).
Here's some (UNFINISHED!) music I made for a DJ friend to
work on. It features a rant by Pennsylvania robot
sculptor/hitchhiker DeVon Smith, whom I visited in January
2003. Friends damn it with faint praise.
http://www.johndavison.com/~jdavison/HeyDylan/Pyongyang%20Cafe/
2003-03-09-release2003-03-09.mp3
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Who I Want to Meet:
Ahhhh boy...well, I'm drawn to people who are really
passionate about _something_, be it record collecting,
studying math, building models of carnival rides, etc.
I'm dying to go on a road trip or a museum crawl...
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and I hope he realizes just what an honor that
is. He is the Master of Road Trips and
gatherer of obscure sound bites and arcane
facts. He also needs more free time. And
sleep.
one of the few people I met through an
internet email list about 7 years ago
(NER) who was worth keeping as a
friend. Thanks to John I can now
appreicaite different and strange forms
of music (Dhomont), and an even
stranger sense of humor ("thats
cool!") Many proper respects for the
John, now add a testimonial to my
profile ;)
his curiosity and vast bank of
knowledge is what draws me to him, as
well as his incredibly friendly nature
and amazing conversation skills..he
loves sharing his knowledge with me,
which i dig. and he goes to the bear
bars with me! long live john! :)
especially after hearing 138+ techno via
Dylan an hour ago. That said, I met John
quite a while back, and though we've never
spent much time together, he's always been
super nice and easy to talk to. And besides...
How could anyone NOT appreciate
someone who's into the triple-fried-super-
ecclec-ti-fied-dont-hold-the-pickles-cheese-
onions-or-MSG-range of topics he's into? Is
that even physically possible???
think you've got an obscure topic of
converstation that you think is
fascinating but doubt anyone else will,
John will. His curiousity is unbounded.
He is the source from which all obscure
topics of conversation flow.
to the fact that he is a vampire--never
sleeping, always drawing blood for the
Man. He also owns more music that you
have never heard of that anyone else you
know, and he knows more about every
track than you do about the first 12+1
albums you purchased through the
Columbia Record Club. He's as steadfast
and thoughtful in his discerned (read:
often undiscernible) tastes as he is in
support of his friends.
hell out of me.
to places that most people wouldn't
want to go to and done things that many
would not dream of. Legend has it that
he actually drank the water in Mexico
just to see what would happen. You'll
have to ask him about this to see if
it's true. :)