John Manini
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Mobile Audio Producer |
| Location | Olympia, WA, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | If I can't charm you into liking me, I can punch you the hell out while swearing. Oh wait, you want to know the formal stuff maybe... John graduated from The Evergreen State College with a B.A. in Audio Engineering/Music Composition and Production. He has been employed at RealNetworks for the last 3 years where he is often heard slamming his door because he still can't get over the fact they gave him an office with a door. John sings, plays sax and drums reasonably well, guitar and bass adequately and anything else he can get his hands on quite amateurishly. His love of sound knows no genre or key. If given enough time, he will ruin your ability to listen to and appreciate music as you know it thereby making him your sworn enemy. |
| Interests | Audio engineering, live sound reinforcement, sound design, graphic design, performing of all sort |
| Favorite movies | Punch Drunk Love (masterpiece), So I Married An Axe Murderer, Battle Beyond The Stars (great sound design!), My Neighbor Totoro, Miller's Crossing, Wrath of Khan, John Woo/Chow Yun Fat, Danny Kaye (GENIUS!), Harold Lloyd's silent movies, Busby Berkeley musicals, all the Old Hollywood stuff, Early Peter Jackson horror, great films I watch for the score/soundtrack: Usual Suspects, Rocky, Little Shop of Horrors, Popeye, Heavenly Creatures, Triplets of Belleville, Star Wars (Ben Burtt rules!), Rushmore. |
| Favorite music | Indie rawk, POP, avant-garde crap, sappy/schmaltzy anything, vocal music, noise, choirs, anything with a decent melody and boy/girl harmonies, Neutral Milk Hotel, Guided By Voices, Yo La Tengo, Pavement, Sonic Youth, Sebadoh, Air Supply, Harry Chapin, Roger Whittaker, Letters to Cleo, Velocity Girl, Dear Nora, Magnetic Fields, Harry Nilsson, The Mountain Goats, New Pornographers, Randy Newman, Zappa/Mothers, Rockapella, Steve Martin/Steep Canyon Rangers, Statler Brothers, Heart, John Cage, Conlon Nancarrow, Samuel Barber, Journey, Lady Gaga, Philip Glass, Pauline Oliveros, Ned Rorem, Galaxie 500, John Vanderslice. |
| Favorite books | Kurt Vonnegut (Slapstick/Man Without Country), Paul Auster(Moon Palace/NY3), John Irving(Owen Meany/Garp/Widow), Mary Karr (Liar's Club/Cherry), Stephen Pinker (Language Instinct/The Stuff of Thought), David Sedaris (everything), Jane Austen (everything) Philip Pullman(His Dark Materials trilogy), Mamet plays, Eggers (Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius), Bob Barker's "Priceless Memories", on audio book, read by the author, is a literary gem. The Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Handbook, Practical Art of Motion Picture Sound (Yewdall), This is Your Brain On Music (Levitan), Mastering Audio The Art and Science (Bob Katz) |