berkleebassist
About
I'm an upright/electric bassist living & gigging in Boston, working for Apple, Inc as a Mac Genius, and developing web sites as part of Elative Marketing.
Born in New Jersey, moved to North Carolina when I was eight & spent the rest of my formative years there, moving to Boston for the climate (hah!) and Berklee. Finished up there 2007/08 after 5 years (part-time studentship will do that), but it was a blast. Love to travel, but I have neither a job that sends me places, nor the money to take off myself. I've been with family before, but I suppose I'll have to go at some point & run around in Europe on my own (love it over there, all of it is such a magnificent place.)
I'm always up for playing new tunes, I'm on a number of local & regional recordings, and I'm generally a Nice Guy™, so say hey!
webspaces
Movies
sci-fi, fantasy, thriller, The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Army of Darkness, Office Space, Blade Runner, Cowboy Bebop, AKIRA, Dogma, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, Final Fantasy, Fist of Legend, Legend of Drunken Master, Ghost in the Shell, The Goonies, Kill Bill, Max Max, The Road Warrior, Max Mad: Beyond Thunderdome, The Matrix, Monty Python, Snatch, Spirited Away
Music
jazz, funk, fusion, rock, bluegrass, R&B, Motown, Miles Davis, Jamiroquai, 311, John Coltrane, Bach, Art Pepper, Incubus, Dave Matthews Band, Jaco Pastorius, Stevie Wonder, Muse, Led Zeppelin, Tower of Power, Soulive, Lettuce, The Beatles, Ben Folds, George Benson, Wes Montgomery, Grant Green, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Maktub, Sam Kininger, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, The O'Jays, Curtis Mayfield, The Urge, Graham Central Station, Earth Wind & Fire, herbie Hancock, The Headhunters, Richard Bona, Avishai Cohen, The Bad Plus, Bela Fleck, Bill Withers, Billy Preston, Brad Mehldau, Dave Holland, Diana Krall, Edgar meyer, Esbjorn Svensson Trio, Freddie Hubbard, Gary Burton, The Isley Brothers, James Brown, Jimi Hendrix, Joe Lovano, Jurassic 5, Kenny Dorham, The Police, Shuggie Otis, Weather Report, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return to Forever, VSOP Quintet, Cannonball Adderley, Thelonious Monk, and plenty more
Television
sci-fi, fantasy, thriller, Family Guy, Alias, X-Files, Futurama, Supernatural, Rome, Farscape, Firefly, Heroes, Lost, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, Battlestar Galactica, The Dresden Files
Books
sci-fi, fantasy, thriller, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, anything by Neal Stephenson, anything by Dan Simmons, Brian Jacques' Redwall series, Relic, Reliquary, Brimstone, Diane Duane's Young Wizards series
Interests
music, bass, Macs, internet, web design
New blog post: iPhone as gamepad? Brilliant http://www.jeffbyrnes.net/2009/11/22/iphone-as-gamepad-brilliant/
NovemberNov 22 Sunday Sun 09
iPhone as gamepad? Brilliant
So, I was perusing i use this, one of my daily stops for finding nifty software, and came across WiFiPad. What a brilliant, awesome idea! Works wonderfully for emulated console games.
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New blog post: iPhone as gamepad? Brilliant http://www.jeffbyrnes.net/2009/11/22/iphone-as-gamepad-brilliant/
NovemberNov 21 Saturday Sat 09
here for the Seeking Homer show w/ my friend Megan — at Sweetwater Cafe http://gowal.la/s/zYQ
NovemberNov 20 Friday Fri 09
oh god sleep. So good.
at home, gettin' things done — at Peterborough Gardens http://gowal.la/s/oHz
Just saw my new dentist. Ow. — at Copley Square http://gowal.la/s/4iV
Off to a dentist's appointment. Nasty day here in Boston today. Why can't it ever be warm and NOT raining?
NovemberNov 19 Thursday Thu 09
Ready for the Shakedown! — at Sweetwater Cafe http://gowal.la/s/zYQ
off I go. Gonna be @ Sweetwater tonight for the Shakedown, who's with me?
almost… done…!
time for lunch.
NovemberNov 18 Wednesday Wed 09
retiring from work for the moment. Gonna make a final push in a little while and finish this damn site!
taking a break for a little while
and back to work.
had a craving… — at McDonald's http://gowal.la/s/yZ2
ok, now I really am stepping out for lunch.
NovemberNov 17 Tuesday Tue 09
