John BTS.WRKNG Goelzer

pixel pusher, wax turner, golden throat

music, movies, design, cats, reading, good conversation, collage, video games, Japan, BBQs, photography, live theater, cribbage, existentialism, Apple Macintosh, travel, Sanrio, all manner of gadgetry that goes bleep and bloop and has der blinkenlights

Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Neuromancer, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Catch-22, 1984, Last Night a DJ Saved My Life, Flat Stanley, Making History: A Novel, Futura, Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists, The Plague, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Heart of Darkness

Star Wars, Blade Runner, Repo Man, The Warriors, Apocalypse Now, Adaptation, Tron, Donnie Darko, Pootie Tang, Jarmusch, Lynch, Kubrick, Carpenter, Burton, Coens, Gilliam, Kurosawa, Miyazaki, Hughes, Aronofsky, Mamet, Altman, Soderbergh, Anderson, Pixar

The Orb, Trevor Horn, New Order, Boards of Canada, David Holmes, Fugazi, Verve, J. Saul Kane, Luke Vibert, Kraftwerk, Annie Lennox, Spacemen 3, Happy Mondays, Andrew Weatherall, Dr Dre, Ersatz Audio, The DFA, DJ Premier, Ninja Tune, Soviet, Wobblyhead fam

Simpsons, Homicide: Life on the Street, The Larry Sanders Show, Twin Peaks, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Blackadder, Mr. Show, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, Oz, People Like Us, The Muppet Show, Kids in the Hall, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Pee-Wee's Playhouse

I play records in clubs, at shows and on Milwaukee's WMSE
91.7
FM, and am usually billed as some surprising new
combination
and spelling of the names "John" and "BTS.WRKNG"
(or "beats
working" if you got a thing for vowels). I'm a graphic
designer, both for
my day job and for various friends and side projects. I
have
two cats,
one of whom (cue violins) is currently dying a protracted
death
from kidney failure. When I'm not out on the town taking
in some
of
the
amazing music being produced/played/performed here in
MKE, I'm
usually at home playing more records, reading or watching
a
movie.
I
turned 33 on 3/3/03 but am not yet sure whether that's
given
me any
special powers. Having blagged my way onto friends' gear
by
collaborating on tracks with them, I'm
more than a little eager to get gear of my own and create
create
create. Other
near-term goals include getting into voice-over work,
launching a
long-planned all-7" 45 record label and winning the
lottery.

Anyone who's read this far.