TMI About Anthony Garone

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Stuff I Own

I am materialistic and selfish. It's part of my plight as a human being. Other plights include: having too many interests, being kind-of-a-jerk most of the time, getting anxious about my life every few weeks, and more! Just read my blog to find them all. A prize awaits for the person who can send me a complete list. [Note: if you are my wife, you are not allowed to participate in this contest]

Anyway, here's a list of stuff that I own and use regularly, which will give you more insight as to who I am:

• Apple 20" Intel iMac (with upgraded video card and RAM, and wireless keyboard and mouse)
• Digidesign 002Rack with Pro Tools 7 LE
• Adobe Photoshop CS (waiting for CS3 to come out for my Intel Mac)
• 8 guitars, 2 of which suck
• Two Hyundai cars: 2000 Accent and 2005 Elantra, both of which I love
• A Carvin Vai Legacy combo amplifier
• A Universal Audio 2108 dual-mono solid-state microphone pre-amp
• A Konica Minolta DiMage Z6 6 MP/12x optical zoom camera
• Sonus Faber Concertina speakers

Favourite Things

There's a difference between "this is my favorite" and "this is my favorite." I'll try to cover both. You know... cuz I'm bored. Also, isn't "favorite" cooler with the "u"?

Topic	Favorite	Favorite
Bands	Man Man Lyle Lovett Tommy Emmanuel Dillenger Escape Plan	Gentle Giant Joni Mitchell Steve Vai Lyle Lovett
Albums	Under the Influence of Giants XTC: Skylarking	Joni Mitchell: Hissing of Summer Lawns Gentle Giant: Power and the Glory Man Man: Six Demon Bag Dillenger Escape Plan: Calculating Infinity
Television Shows	The Office (American NBC version) Curb Your Enthusiasm	The Prisoner Magnum P.I.
Movies	N/A...yet	City of Lost Children Magnolia Being John Malkovich Bottle Rocket The Sting High Plains Drifter

Stuff That's Happened

Here's a semi-chronological list of things that've happened in my life. This list will grow continually as I think of new things. Some things are important, most aren't.

Oh, did I mention that it's freakin' exhaustive?

1982

• Born: January 28 in Smithtown General Hospital in Smithtown, NY

1984

• Began using Apple Macintosh computers, on which I learned to read and write

1986

• Began playing toy drums... I wish I continued onto real drums
• Began collecting baseball cards

1987

• Played soccer in kiddie leagues

1988

• Played more soccer in kiddie leagues
• Fractured my wrist in two or three places
  • Actually, I didn't fracture my wrist... some fat girl crushed it under her foot after she knocked me down and ran across it
  • I had to wear an arm-length cast on my right arm for a few months

1989

• Released my first album of compositions using Deluxe Music Construction Set on a Macintosh SE
  • This album might still exist on an audio cassette somewhere in my parents' house/garage
  • No, this is not a joke

1990

• Moved to Carmel, NY
• Dad got an Amiga 500 and tons of games. Good times.
• Stopped collecting cards
• Tried learning piano... failed
• Began intense interest in becoming a Disney animator
• Began collecting comic books
• Drew all the time with my friend Ben
• Began playing alto saxophone
• Some of my most prized/valuable comic books were stolen from me at school

1991

• Starred in an awful play where I had to sing Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah

1992

• Earned my Morse Code operator's license at 10 words per minute
  • This must have happened at some sort of nerd convention because I remember seeing Wolfenstein 3D for the first time that day. There was a big crowd around a computer standing in amazement at the technology.
  • I failed the technical part of the Ham Radio operator's exam
• Saved my dad's life by pulling him out of a pool with ice-cold water at the bottom

1993

• Learned some chords on guitar, but Dad's Favila acoustic guitar was too big for me to play
• Moved to Arizona in December, living in grandparents' home until my parents acquired a house

1994

• Parents acquired home in Chandler
• Attended Goodman Elementary School
• Met Sarah
• Met Niels
• Purchased my first CD after hearing "Juice" on the radio: Steve Vai's Alien Love Secrets
• Purchased my second CD: Spin Doctors Turn it Upside Down"... sad, though not a terrible album
• Graduated from DARE
  • Sarah sang a solo song at the graduation... I had such an unrequited crush on her
• Threw paper airplanes ("darts") across a cul de sac with Niels for hours... laughed til we couldn't stand any longer
• Attended first concert, The Offspring during their Smash tour

1995

• Saw Pearl Jam touring for Vitalogy at Veteran's Coliseum
  • This was the first time I'd smelled marijuana and seen condoms (they were being blown up like balloons and bounced around in the crowd)
  • The show sold out in 4 minutes or so. That's like 20,000 tickets. I had to call a phone number to reserve tickets. You could get 2 at most. It was ridiculous.
• Became obsessed with playing guitar, played an Epiphone guitar borrowed from my uncle

1996

• Received Ibanez RG565 for Christmas/birthday present
• Met Steve Vai at The Mothership
• Met Todd Welstein on AOL
• Attended G3 tour with Adrian Legg, Vai, Satriani, and Eric Johnson
• Pushed Niels down the street in a shopping cart while he picketed with real estate signs. We laughed tons
• Won "Instrumentalist of the Year" at a Chandler, AZ talent competition
  • Played A Day at the Beach by Joe Satriani
• Played at Jethro Tull convention in New York
  • Met Glenn Cornick and John Evans

1997

• Left drawing by the wayside
• Moved to Gilbert, AZ
• Won "Scholar Athlete" award, which made no sense, and some other awards at some 9th grade event
• On last stretch of 800m run at state competition, my hip gave out while I was in first place. I lost the race.
• Attended Gilbert High School
• Met some friends who would become "lifetime friends"
  • Greg
  • Eric
  • Chris
  • Christina
• Released Hansel Vs. Gretel
  • Todd flew out from Chicago with his mother to meet me
• Worked for Creighton School District over the summer
  • Used the money to buy a Johnson Millennium JM150 amp
• Played at another Jethro Tull convention
  • As a consequence of going to this concert, I missed the second G3 tour with Fripp opening the show

1998

• Received Ibanez Jem7vwh for birthday/Christmas/eternity present
• Purchased subdomain: http://anthonygarone.thestud.com for $10/year
• Became webmaster for Jon Finn
• Visited Steve Vai at The Mothership for the second time
• Left saxophone by the wayside
• Released Mytopia

1999

• Helped Dad with his album, Gematria
• Attended Berklee Guitar Week at Berklee College of Music and met Jon Finn in person
• Potentially inaccurate dating: Played at another Jethro Tull convention, this time in Burlington, VT at Nectar's

2000

• Had a big birthday party, played chubby bunny with friends, Eric won. We then watched Space Ghost and Black Adder
• Started giving lessons to Nick Sterling, who was 8, or so, at the time
• Greg, Jon, and I throw "Senior Awards Night"--one of the most catastrophic/memorable events of our lives
• Graduated high school
• Saw Dream Theater at Union Hall/Web Theater/Whatever-it's-called-now and they didn't play Scenes from a Memory in its entirety because the tour bus ran late and they didn't have time to rehearse. Bummer.
• Moved into dorm with Greg
• Purchased Alvarez classical guitar for $1,000 from The Music Store
• Began attending ASU studying Computer Science
• Had a laser-pointer fight with a neighboring dorm while eating pizza one night with Greg and Jordan
  • Easily, easily one of the most fun nights of my life
• Began writing Within

2001

• Purchased Ibanez J-Custom S3040PL on eBay
• Garone.net hits the internet
• Lost 30+ pounds in 8 weeks after gaining over 20 of them on a 2+ week trip to New York
• Met James and Jason, two awesome friends, in a Java class
• Saw G3 with Vai, Satriani, and John Petrucci at Celebrity Theater
• Helped Dad with The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Saw Mike Keneally and Brian Beller perform a Taylor clinic at Guitar Center in Tempe.
• Lived in dorms again, assigned to be a roommate with Mike Belisle
• Hired by ASU Academic and Administrative Documents within hours after my interview

2002

• Purchased Apple Power Mac G4 Quicksilver 867 MHz with 17" flat-screen LCD and Harmon/Kardon Soundsticks... awesome
• Became intern for Steve Vai in January
  • As a result, had to move to L.A.
  • Got to hang out with Steve's engineer, Neil Citron, a whole lot. Awesome.
• Purchased annual pass to Disneyland
• Met Danny Hillis
• Played guitar for (and ate dinner with) Peter Gabriel at Danny's house
  • The next night, I saw Peter at The Staples Center and I had 7th row seats. Awesome.
• Crashed Steve's cargo van
• Went to Club 33 in Disneyland
• Ate dinner with Jeff Bezos while my friend Rosemary was visiting [surreal]
• Saw Adaptation premiere in Santa Monica with Rosemary. I think I'm one of the 5 or 10 people who "got it"
• Went backpacking with friends on Mt. Whitney
• Moved back to parents' house
• Saw Attack of the Clones on opening night with Greg, Eric, Chris, Heather, and more.
• Grandparents give me their 1981 Cadillac Sedan De Ville
  • This car was, quite possibly, one of the largest cars I've ever seen
  • The car was dead when I got it, James and I (well, mostly James) resurrected it
• Saw Dream Theater with Todd two nights in a row with VIP tickets in the balcony above John Myung. Awesome.
  • This was the concert series where they performed Metallica's Master of Puppets in its entirety
• Began recording Within
• Sarah and I have our first date on New Years' Eve

2003

• Became a Christian
• Sarah and I go to Coronado and start dating
• Received Oxygen8 USB keyboard/MIDI interface for birthday
• Car explodes (pictures have existed... don't know if they're anywhere to be found)
• Purchased 1996 Suzuki Sidekick for $2,700 from a friend
  • Originally, I had license plates that said H4X0RZ on the car
  • This car would later be christened "The Suzi" and have THESUZI license plates
• Wrote my first/only OS X freeware app, Delay Calculator
• Saw G3 again at Dodge Theater with Vai, Satriani, and Yngwie Malmsteen
• Worked at Applied Minds as a summer intern
  • Had to move to L.A. again
  • Met Peter Gabriel again
  • Learned PHP and MySQL
  • Had a desk under the world's largest robot
• Healed of cluster headaches by prayer at Morning Star church in L.A.
• Moved back to Arizona into an apartment with Mike and Eric in Tempe, AZ
• Started working again for AAD
• James and I went to Baja Fresh one night and it hailed like crazy in Tempe, AZ
• Built a Beaker costume for Halloween
• Mike and I threw a huge party called "The Heat is On" when the heat was turned on in our apartment complex. That thing was AWESOME.

2004

• Worked for BitWits
• Moved into another apartment within the same complex
• Began learning calligraphy
• Got married to Sarah
• Went to Aruba for our honeymoon
  • This was the first time I'd left the country
  • We went on a great jeep tour around the island after we attended a 60-minute timeshare presentation
• Saw Tommy Emmanuel in Cave Creek
• Built a Pac-Man Costume for Halloween
  • James and I went down Mill Avenue with the Beaker costume and it was one of the best nights of my life
• Ate an awesome dinner at Sarah's dad's in Mackinaw, IL
• James and I saw Michael Angelo Batio at Guitar and Keyboard City in Phoenix for a small clinic.
• Graduated from ASU with Computer Science degree
• Mike teaches me about CSS and the div tag, changes my life forever
• Hired at Creighton School District
• My car was broken into at least 3 times this year.

2005

• Found out that someone had been breaking into our apartment
• Moved into a rented townhouse in Gilbert, AZ
  • We did this mostly out of fear of someone breaking into our apartment again
• Saw Tommy Emmanuel again in Cave Creek
• Saw Revenge of the Sith on opening night alone. Someone broke into my car and stole some things while I was in the movie.
• Went to Vancouver, my first time to Canada, second time leaving the country
  • Found out a (now ex-) family member had been the one breaking into our apartment the night before we left for this trip. We had a rough time dealing with it on this vacation.
  • Visited the suspension bridge, bought an umbrella there, did the tree-walk, saw totem poles at Stanley Park, (twice) ate a sandwich called "The B.E.L.T.CH." (which was totally awesome), stayed at a nice B&B, had a pretty good vacation
• Sold Suzuki Sidekick and purchased 2005 Hyundai Elantra
  • We got the car at Earnhardt's... the worst car dealership ever
• Went camping on the edge of the Grand Canyon
• Sarah and I went to the Verde Canyon Railroad up near the Verde River
• Built a Blockhead costume for Halloween
• Purchased Alvarez acoustic guitar from Guitar Center for $500 (discounted over $1,000 for minor scratching and a missing string peg)
• Saw Dave Matthews Band at Cricket Pavilion... great band, horrible fans
• Began attending Young Marrieds' class at Word of Grace
• Began helping with the youth services at church
• Sarah and I went to Little America for a Christmas getaway

2006

• Purchased Sonus Faber Concertina speakers
• Took a vacation to New York for Spring Break.
• Finished mixing, production, recording for Dad's album, Big Star Way
• Traded in Sarah's awful, balding 1997 Dodge Neon for a 2000 Hyundai Accent for $4,000 - trade-in.
• Saw Karl Denson's Tiny Universe at Marquis Theater with Jason... great show
• Robert Fripp talked about my Frippruary guitar lesson about Fracture by King Crimson
• Played Mexican Dominoes for the first time at Jeremy and Susan's
• Sarah and I drove out to Texas for a wedding. On the return trip, I drove 10 hours throughout the night to make it to Albuquerque. I can't believe we didn't die that night.
• Acquired unidentified guitar from Rob Muller
• Went to Bob's wedding and had one of the best nights of my life
  • Met a great couple, Nick and Jorden
  • The wedding was so casual
  • My first time to Oracle, AZ
• Involved in hit-and-run accident
  • Sarah and I were rear-ended by [presumably] an illegal immigrant
  • We had to go to the chiropractor for 4-5 months
  • I chased the guy going 100+ miles per hour down main roads
• Saw Lyle Lovett at Dodge Theater... possibly the best concert I've ever seen
• Began working at ASU
• Purchased a house
• Saw Snakes on a Plane premiere night before it opened
• We're pregnant!
• Saw Man Man and Asleep in the Sea at Modified Arts... another great show
• Went on Destination Zero weekend missions trip
• Found out Teeny is a boy!
• Got accepted into a graduate school program
• Did tons of work on the house, including remodeling the kitchen, installing new floors, painting the walls, and more.
• Finished Within
• Went to the Navajo reservation in northern Arizona to help some missionaries and visited Flagstaff
• Celebrated New Years' Eve at a Jeremy's house doing karaoke
• Began work on new Worship CD
• Saw Casino Royale... twice
• Hosted a Christmas/White Elephant party with lots of yummy, homemade foods (thanks to my wonderful wife) and our first fire in our fireplace
• Began building a new content management system
• Began seriously studying the whole creationism/evolution debate

2007

• Saw Chris Camilleri (a family friend) perform in the Beatles' Classical Mystery Tour show with the Phoenix Symphony
• Stayed at Camp Tontozona with Sarah... had a great time.
• Began master's degree program
• Jennifer got married
• Received Within CD shipment
• Went live with the new content management system