Bjart Sod

[Bjart Sod]

Reintroducing myself for the newbs.

Music
I'm Bjart, once upon a time the songwriter, guitarist, banjoist, etceterist of The Sods, ye olde celticfolkpunkabilly band best known for not getting caught drinking at the Art Factory. I also engineered some at Burning Trash for a while, but the place was already in decline and debt by then. I also played guitar for Them Ashtray Lickers.

Currently, I'm down with playing some funk, soul, or some sort of world fusion anytime. And I'm hoping to put together an old time hot string band over the summer. Gigs could be lined up instantly. (If anyone knows Hugh the fiddler, tell him I'm looking for him.)

I play: guitars, tenor banjo, and mandolin passably well. I sing an ok backup vocal, but I sound too much like Mike Mills to ever sing lead.

education
I graduated from Snider back in the days when grunge wasn't nostalgic yet and Weezer only wore blue. I graduated from Ball State with a degree in English Education and have since moved on to study Linguistics at IU. I'm probably going to work mostly in theoretical HPSG and non-concatenative morphology, if that means anything to you, though I have no computer science background.

politics and religion
I'm more liberal than Ghandi. As an example: I don't think the immigration debate is worth the time because national borders are arbitrary.

I'm a practicing agnostic at the intermediate level.

favorites
People like to list favorites these days:

Music: every genre I can find, even country and rap. Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Joe Venuti, Eddie Lang, Django Reinhardt, The Smiths, The Pogues, Tom Waits, Andrew Bird, Gillian Welch, Goran Bregovic....the list just goes on and on. Recent discovery: The Ditty Bops.

Books: reading time gets cut during the school year, but here are some perrinials: Thomas Pynchon, Donald Barthelme, Toni Morrison, Louise Erdrich, E. Annie Proulx, Wallace Stevens, T. S. Eliot, Neil Gaiman and lots of nonfiction on culture and history. Recent discovery: China Mieville

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politics and religion
I'm more liberal than Ghandi. As an example: I don't think the immigration debate is worth the time because national borders are arbitrary.

Bingo!

[Bjart Sod]

Arbitrary and increasingly outdated, I should say.

[Big John]

Bart, I need to borrow you for a recording session. I need your accordian and your mad skill.

[Bjart Sod]

Oh yeah

[Big John]

yeah call me jerk