A performance artist, musician, writer, actress, and film director. She is known for her works including her film "Me and You and Everyone We Know", her book No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories, and her ongoing interactive project, Learning to Love You More, which is scheduled to be published in a book in late 2007.
Many have dubbed Johnson the father of modern rock and roll. Of all early bluesmen, Robert Johnson can be considered one of the more prolific. Although he did not live long enough to become as popular as many of the other earlier blues artists, his music has influenced a number of musicians who dramatically changed music history. Popular covers of his songs have been recorded by Eric Clapton, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Elmore James,The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and many, many others.
mIEKAL aND is a longtime DIY cultural anarchist & the creator of an infoplex worth of visual-verbal lit, audio-art, performance ritual & hypermedia for the Macintosh, all distributed by Xexoxial Editions. His hypermedia works reside at JOGLARS Crossmedia Broadcast (http://www.joglars.org/). Recent work has focused on activating online collaborative workspaces where writers & media artists can create collective digital works in a real time environment. Recent books include "Literature Nation" with Maria Damon, published by Potes and Poets Press and "advancienced snakespeared" published by extant.
He is an American comedian screenwriter, director, producer, actor, and musician. After becoming a popular Saturday Night Live cast member, he went on to become a major Hollywood actor, starring in several $100 million films.
He is best known for his comedic roles, such as in the films Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, and Big Daddy, he has also had success in romantic and dramatic roles, such as in the films Punch-Drunk Love, Spanglish , and Reign Over Me). Sandler is also known by his nickname "The Sand Man".
Maynard has been a member of the band TOOL since 1990. He was also involved in a second project called 'A Perfect Circle,' which concluded in 2005. His album releases for TOOL include:
* 1991 - Tool
* 1992 - Opiate
* 1993 - Undertow
* 1996 - Ænima
* 2000 - Salival
* 2001 - Lateralus
* 2006 - 10,000 Days
Maynard also has his own clothing line known as 'Puscifer' along with additional tracks released under that name. New releases have been said to come out October 2007. He manages his own vineyard as well.
James Douglas Morrison was an American singer, songwriter, writer, film director, and poet. He was best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the popular American rock band The Doors, and is considered to be one of the most charismatic, unique, and influential frontmen in the history of rock music. He was also an author of several poetry books, a documentary, short film, and three early music videos ("The Unknown Soldier", "Moonlight Drive", and "People are Strange"). Morrison died in Paris at the age of 27.
Thome Yorke is the lead singer of Radiohead and also is a solo artist. Several hit Radiohead songs include: "Creep", "My Iron Lung", "Paranoid Android", and "Karma Police". His solo album released in 2006 is titled 'The Eraser'.
Tony Fadell created the iPod.
He is Apple Inc.'s Senior Vice President of the iPod Division, having succeeded Jon Rubinstein in 2006.Fadell graduated from University of Michigan with a BS in Computer Engineering in 1991. While still at Michigan, he was CEO of Constructive Instruments, which marketed MediaText, multimedia composition software for children.
He worked for Apple spinoff General Magic for three years, starting in 1992 as a diagnostics engineer and progressing to a systems architect, where he was responsible for the development of a number of technologies and devices including the Sony Magic Link and Motorola Envoy, both of ...
Chuck (Da Funk) Fishman is in Cisco's Digital Media Practice, a longtime radio producer, and an avid musician and fan, having played and recorded with some of the top funk musicians in the world. Chuck has produced radio shows for everyone from Clear Channel to CNET Radio (where he helped establish the first all technology news radio format), to Dow Jones, (for whom he created the format for and produced "The Wall Street Journal This Morning").
Grew up in Houston, Texas, saw Elvis Presley on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1956 when he was six years old and entered a 50-year journey chasing music of all persuasions. Saw James Brown in a nightclub when he was 13 in 1963 and it changed his life forever. Fell under the spell of 13th Floor Elevators, the world's first truly psychedelic band, moved to Austin just in time for the incredible burst of musical life there called the '70s. Wrote for newspapers, played drums in Lea Ann & the Bizarros, worked at Austin City Limits and discovered there are ...
