satori
by mikrosopht
what are all the different names you use, on the computer and in the real world
Paul Grant, satori, isatori, satorirotas, ephemeron, pleomorf
why do each of these names fit you
they don't really. I just like the words and their meanings. I'm gonna stop using satori soon, because other artists are using it. Isatori is like I Claudius. It's just something I made up, so that I could create accounts for various things where the name satori had already been used. The same goes for satorirotas, which is a palindrome. I like palindromes. Ephemeron is something which is ephemeral, or short lived and fleeting, like a butterfly. I feel like one sometimes, because I have so many things I want to do before my life ends. Pleomorf is a misspelling of pleomorph, which is something that constantly changes throughout it's life. I like to think that I am progressing as I get older and don't like to think of myself as being stagnant. I also like to apply this concept of change or evolution to my songs, but it's not always easy.
describe yourself as best you can
Male, caucasian, aged 33 (in the body of a 26 year old), English, easy going, good humoured, occasionally sarcastic, paranoid, positive, loving, generous, quite shy, open minded, trippy, truth-seeking, melancholy, fascinated, liberal, compassionate, artistic.
where are you (brief history)
Born and raised in Birmingham, England. I'm still here.
is anyone dependent upon you
Me and the people I work for.
do you depend on anyone
not really, but I'd miss my friends and family if they weren't here. I suppose I depend on those who pay my wages.
please provide a brief history of your creative activities
Tried graffiti art as a kid, which was exciting and fun. Loved art at school, but one teacher wrongly convinced me that there was no future in doing art for a living. Was a cabinet maker for a while. Bought a pc in 1997 for the sole purpose of producing music. Immediately started making drum & bass. Got bored of drum and bass. Started making any kind of music that sounded good to me.
do you create more often during day or night
night, although I tend to fall asleep mid-creation.
what is your favorite season
different seasons for different reasons.
what is your favorite thing to eat/drink/sleep/dream
That's difficult, because I like so many. Variety is the spice of life, but eat = organic vegetables, drink = fruit smoothies, sleep = my bed, dream = flying over mountains and through valleys.
please tell us about your most impressive dream
my dreams aren't very impressive and usually i don't remember them, because I've been constantly stoned, but this year I gave up smoking orange peel and the dreams are starting to come back. Lastnight I dreamt that Steve Winwood was rumoured to have lived in my flat, so I went on a quest to find out if this was true. Somehow I ended up at this strange womans house and all my mates were there too. We watched this black and white video of an ornate, but sinister looking water fountain, which was overflowing and gushing out lots of water. In the video it was also raining lots and very dull. The music of Can was playing in the background and I kept rewinding it and looping it. I don't know why I kept rewinding it, because it seemed so sinister. The woman whose house it was was about 40 years old, very kind and gentle too. She made us food and told us stories. After the video finished I left and she showed me out through her garden, which was just an untidy looking field, but naturally beautiful. There were children playing in the garden, but trying to hide from me. The woman told me to be quiet, so that I could catch a glimpse of her unusual animals, which were half squirrel, half hedgehog. Then I walked home and my alarm woke me up.
Another recent dream involved me going to some European country, maybe Belgium or Berlin or somewhere else beginning with b, with a bunch of work colleagues. The purpose of the trip was for each one of us to steal a specific item from a specific place. The item I had to steal was a huge, heavy jar of pickled gherkins. Once we had collected all the items without getting caught, we had to place them in strategic positions within a certain building. Once all the items had been placed in the correct configuration a huge vault would be unlocked. I never found out what was in the vault, because I woke up.
what do you think it means
I'm not sure if dreams really mean anything. To me they just seem like a random amalgamation of all my thoughts and memories, but I could be wrong.
are you tired most of the time
no, but I really should get more sleep. Apparently the optimal ammount is at least 8 hours.
do you like anyone (friend/family/love/hate)
I like lots of people, but not just anyone. They must be special for me to like them. I don't hate many people, but Tony Blair and George W. Bush suck ass. I think hate is a very negative emotion. We are all in this together and we gotta try to work it out together.
do you like computers, internet, and technology in general
I love it, but sometimes it's used unwisely or for the wrong reasons. I'm not sure if it's still the case, but at one point not so long ago a third of Britain's GDP (gross domestic product) was military based. Every country has the right to defend itself, but I think that's going too far, especially when you consider how much tax we pay for the priveledge and how much more advanced our society would be if we didn't spend most of it on defence. I also think cars are a bad idea. I love the freedom of travel that they allow, but they are slowly killing us. Obviously car numbers aren't going to decrease, pollution is getting out of control, roads are dominating the landscape and getting more congested, oil is a finite resource. Something must be done about it fast, otherwise we'll make ourselves extinct pretty soon. I think the internet is cool though. It's revolutionised communication. Computers are cool, because you can do so many things with them. Space travel is cool.
do you get music online or at a shop
When I buy music it's from a shop. I'm not allowed to have credit cards anymore :(
what is your most common method of transportation
My legs. I hate to admit it, but I also own a car. A Volvo 460 diesel, which apparently will run on old chip fat. I also ride a bmx when the weather isn't too cold and wet.
what is the nicest place you've ever been
I have to say Cumbria in England. It changed me and helped me appreciate the awesomeness of nature. I also like Berlin lots.
has anything weird ever happened to you or a friend
nothing that wasn't induced by altered brain chemistry, apart from being born, although maybe there are loads of weird things that I've forgotten about due to smoking too much orange peel.
have you ever turned into something else
I turned from a baby into a man if that counts.
last words
"oh yeah..mad props to Bubbs!! teh guy r0x!" My friend told me to say that. Also check out www.metempsychosis.com or http://boards.metempsychosis.com/ . Say hi to all the lovely people making music there and download our stuff. It's all free. And be nice to each other, or at least try.