Jhon Frederick

Occupation: Stage Hand
Member since: Aug 2005
Forum posts: 5

About me

I hail from Texas, been around a bit, work as a stagehand/roadie. I like reading Harper's, flyfishing, regular fishing, gardening, a little sewing (cause hand bags are so easy to make and everyone likes them as gifts). If I'm not listening to my jazz, Texas Swing, or Indie/Punk records or discs- I become and NPR whore. I only hang out at dive bars- cause that's where the live music's at. I'm rarely outside the downtown vicinity of San Antonio unless I'm fishing or hiking. I love to play with my dog Blue and hang out with my girlfriend.

My work

I'm a stage hand working primarily as an audio/visual tech, though I do my share of gripping, gaffing, rigging, and carpentary. I also pour beer for a German bar in San Antoino, the Beethoven Maennerchor, check it out.

Fast facts

Last movie seen:King Kong, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Eraserhead ( I have netflix now, I see alot of 'em)
Music I listen to:Punk, Jazz, Honky Tonk, Roots, Psych, Folk. Miles Davis, Minutemen, Sonic YOuth, Pavement, Diniosaur Jr., Crass, Black Flag, NY Dolls, Etc.
Best album right now:Spoon "Gimme Fiction"
Favorite author:Vonnegut, Kerouac, Cassady, Raymond Carver, John Updike (more than one and many others)
Last book read:"On the Road" by Kerouac "Goodbye to a River" by John Graves "Practical Ethics" by Pete Singer (I multi read)
Best game right now:Dominoes
Favorite sports team:San Antonio Spurs
I'm passionate about:reading, writing, leftist politics, education, nature and environment, public radion, music
I wish I could:have the abiility to up and take off on a whim with out financial worries
Favorite travel destination:West Texas, Big Bend area Marfa, Marathon Alpine etc.
On my vacation I..:try to become the duck. I'm in fot the local experience not the tourist trap.
If I won 1 million dollars, I would:Buy a nice house in an old downtown neighborhood- invest the rest and take yearly vacations.
If I were a super hero I would:Have the ability to perform advanced mathematics
Food I like:Just about everything, Mexican Greek, Frech, Middle Eastern, American, Thai, Vietmaneese, Sushi
I don't like:Chinese, most fast food although I have a guilty pleasure for Taco Bell and then I think yuck
Software I use:Windows XP

Why I choose the Opera browser

I chose Opera as my web browser because I felt my computer was vunerable to viruses and spyware while surfing with Internet Explorer. I have tried Mozilla's Fire Fox but felt that the web broswer was not as user friendly in terms of ease of use and the understanding of computer language. I don't want to have to be a computer programer to get the type of browser I want. I like the tab browsing as well as the mouse tricks that help speed my internet research. I look forward to seeing what Opera will offer in the future.