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[Dan Schmidt]

Oh, why not:

Dan Schmidt emerged Flag Day of '69 with a serious stare.  Started
looting his parents' bookshelves pretty early on (has been told but
doesn't remember the story of his reading No Exit at 7 or so, perhaps
a mite early to be exposed to existentialism); junior high was
probably a bit young to fully appreciate Barth (Giles Goat-Boy),
Pynchon (Crying of Lot 49) and Grass (The Tin Drum), though they were
nonetheless devoured.  Encountered Gravity's Rainbow the summer before
college (the tiny paperback; anyone else have that edition?  You can
only find the trade-size these days) and was totally enthralled; that
was trip one of three to date.

Proud recipient of two B.S.'s from MIT: computer science (one of many)
and music (composition) (one of few) [of course, over there,
everything is a number, so to the natives it's VI-3 and XXI].  Pianist
since the age of 4, and currently salivating over the probable
acquisition of a piano following a September relocation from
Somerville to Cambridge MA.  Guitar/vocals/songs for Honest Bob & the
Factory-to-Dealer Incentives, so far has resisted the temptation to
cover "The Sanjak of Novi Pazar".  Writes computer games for a living;
there is no finer profession (humbly-opinioned).

Faves?  Very well - WRITING: Pynchon (natch), Gaddis, Barth (though
samey these days), Nicholson Baker (early), Erickson (what an awful
last book), Wallace (what a great last book), Tolstoy, Dickens,
Austen, Auster, Vollmann, etc.  OLD MUSIC (chronologically): Scarlatti
(Domenico, not Alessandro, if you care), Haydn, Beethoven, Chopin,
Bartok, Berg, Messiaen, Scelsi, Pettersson, Feldman, etc.  NEW MUSIC
(a random sampling): Pere Ubu, John Zorn, Everly Brothers, Loud
Family, Soul Coughing, Guided by Voices, Frank Black / Pixies, Meters,
Bill Frisell, Fugazi, Muffs, etc.  Lotion is ok.

Dan Schmidt  |  dfan at lglass.com  |  http://www2.lglass.com/~dfan
 Honest Bob  |  http://www2.lglass.com/~dfan/hbob.html