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Adam a.k.a. Pip
"It's not my revolution if I can't dance to it."
Known to host: Lyrical Origami, Regular Format, Out with the Oldies,
KCPR Executive Position: Air Staff Instructor
DJ since: Fall 2003
Age: 21 and growing
Hometown: Half Moon Bay, CA
Ideal Occupation: Lobbing sacks of gravy at Dick Cheney.
Favorite Dinosaur: Sauroposeido.
Unique trait or talent:  check out my pinkies
Top 5 things you may or may not have already known:
 
            1: san luis obispo has an unusually high rate of bubonic plague infections.
             2: walmart in texas will take a piece of your soul.
             3: the craziest kind of porn is "ass-flower" porn.
             4: Watership Down is a book about pretentious rabbits.
             5: about the same number of adults who thinks it's an advantage to be a woman in American society would                  eat a live rat on television.
Favorite KCPR show: This Ain't No Disco, Bandwagon, Miles Ahead, Screen Scene, Club 91, Wiretap
If you could fight/make sex with anyone dead or alive: Napoleon De Bonaparte.
One of life's simple pleasures: louisiana
Complete this sentence: KCPR is my long-lost older brother.

Alex S
"How can we expect anyone to listen if we're using the same old voice?"
Known to host: New Noise Manifesto
DJ since: Spring 2004
Age: 20
Hometown:
The Box, by way of San Diego
Major: Art/Design
Occupation: Unemployed/Musician
Unique trait or talent: I make good pizza and am a mediocre bowler
Favorite KCPR shows: Slaytanic Carnage, This Aint No Disco, Fudge Pack, I like them all, those just come to mind.
Why you love KCPR: To be honest, I'm in it for the chicks.

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A-Minus  picture!
"Not sushi... more like if a chocolate donut could poop"
Known to host: The Beat Down, Ska show, Hawaiian show
KCPR Executive Position: Mobile DJ Admin (Equipment Loading Boy)
DJ Since: Summer 1999
Age: 25
Hometown: LA, then Napa
School status: About to gradurate
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Occupation:
Self-employed in many a field.
Unique trait or talent: Scar on my back that is the image of Fidel Castro...no, don't really have any of those.
Top 5 sleeping experiences:
    1 - Warehouse floor
    2 - Carpeted stairs
    3 - 13-106
    4 - Toyota Comry
    5 - Oak Tree
Favorite KCPR Shows: Miles Ahead, The Family Show, Nava Rasa (off-air)
Wny I love KCPR: We've had our ups and downs, KCPR and I, but whatever happens we can't seem to break up.  Don't know what it is...
Personal website: http://www.aminus.us/



Andy
"I'm great, I'm wonderful, everybody likes me!"
Known to host: Regular Format
KCPR Executive Position(s):
Fundraising & Underwriting Coordinator
DJ Since: Winter 2004
Hometown: Santa Barbara
Major: Business Administration, Accounting & Marketing
Favorite pick up line: "So... You want a beer?"
Top 5 Drinks:
    1 - Beer
    2 - Vodka
    3 - Whiskey
    4 - Rum
    5 - Water
Favorite KCPR Shows: Better Before You Were Born

Angela Watkins a.k.a. Lolita picture!
"There's a big difference between a cold penis and a cold vagina"
Known to host: Regular Format
KCPR Executive position: none... yet, muwhahaha!
DJ Since: Winter 2006
Age: 21, and no, I will not buy you berr.
Hometown: I don't have one
Unique Trait or Talent: I'm cuban, yeah, i know, that's a race not a talent, but it's pretty darn cool and I'm sick of being called "white". Other than that, I crochet and cook really well, I can run for long periods of time without stopping, and I have green eyes but the invention of colored contacts has kinda killed the uniqueness of this particular trait.
Top 5 Rockstars I want to Bite Me:
    1. Trent Reznor
    2. Billy Corgan (without any facial hair, it makes him look like a pedofile)
    3. Courtney Love
    4. David Bowie
    5. Anthony Kedis (circa 1994) and/or Perry Ferrell
Favorite KCPR Shows: Cute, Single, and Twee , club 91, classic indie, rasta revolution, i like pretty much everything on KCPR

B Ben a.k.a. Benito
"Enough with the quotes"
Known to host: 100% Azucar, The Bluegrass Show
KCPR Executive position: News Director
DJ Since: Winter, 2004
Age: 24
Hometown: Atascadero
School status: 6th year senior
Major: International business
Occupation: reporter/editor for Newstalk 920 KVEC
Unique talent: Fluent in German
Top 5 ways to spend the weekend:
    1 -  Wine tasing in Paso
    2 - Biking
    3 - Movies at the Palm
    4 - Burgers and pool at the LSJ
    5 - Swimming in Franklin's Pond
Favorite KCPR Shows: Urban Landscapes, The Family Show, Polka Dots and Moonbeams
Wny I love KCPR: It's so fresh and unique.


 

Brian a.k.a. Mark Twain
Known to host: Burn't Dog Blues Lounge
Known to say too Frequently on Air: Titiies
DJ Since: Winter 2005
Age: 20
Hometown: Sacramento
Major: English
Top 5 Blues Musicians:
    1 - Son House
    2 - Blind Wilie McTell
    3 - Muddy Waters
    4 - Taj Mahal
    5 - T-Bone Walker
    6 - Mike Bloomfield
Favorite KCPR Shows: Miles Ahead, New Releases, Table Manners, and Yours!

 

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DJ Calyx
Known to host: Urban Landscapes, WEFUNK
DJ since: 1998
Age: 10/13/1979
Hometown: Topanga, CA
School status: Grad Student
Major: Agriculture, Plant Protection Science
Occupation: Agricultural Biologist

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Cerena
"I'm not very good technically, but I can make it f*ckin' hown and move" - John Lennon
Known to host: Burnt Dog Blues Lounge (3 years)
DJ since: Fall 2001
Age: 22
Hometown: Templetom, CA
School status: Sustained
Major: English
Occupation: Lonely Heart Therapist
Unique trait or talent: Irresistable Day Dreamer
Top 5 Blues Artists that always bring what they've got:
              1:Lightnin' Hopkins
              2:Mississippi John Hurt
              3:Dirty Dozen Brass Band
              4:Robert Belfour
              5:Albert King
Favorite KCPR show(s): Jimm's Jazz Happening, 8 Years or BS, Democracy Now!
Why I love KCPR: Continued commitment to personal hygene

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Charlie
This no ordinary person you are dealing with.
Known to host: Musica Americana and Regular Format
DJ since: 2004
Age:  A young-thinking and active 67
Hometown: Paso Robles, Calif.
School status: Professional Development (A graduate division)
Major: Biology with Botany emphasis
Occupation: Current: Interim Botanist at Vandenberg AFB as Student Conservatrion Assn. Associate.  Former: Retired US Air Force Surgeon
Unique trait or talent: Wide range of interests and a reasonably good memory for details, both musical and natural history
Top 5 Folk, blues, Jazz, etc. musicians:
              1: Odetta
              2: Ray Charles
              3: Peter, Paul, and Mary
              4: Dave Brubeck
              5: Willie Nelson
Favorite KCPR show(s): Rasta Revolution and Burnt Dog Blues
Why you love KCPR:  Creative people with wide interest ranges, learning about new music,  and the freedom to explore and share music I like with the public.

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David a.k.a. DJ RedLock
"'Family oriented college town' my ass."
Known to host: Rasta Revolution
Executive Positions Held: On knees in front of a New Orleans police car
Age:  23

DJ Since :  Spring 2004
Hometown: Indiana, PA
Unique trait or talent: Frighteningly coherent lucid moments
Top 5 Folk, blues, Jazz, etc. musicians:
              1: Odetta
              2: Ray Charles
              3: Peter, Paul, and Mary
              4: Dave Brubeck
              5: Willie Nelson
Favorite KCPR show(s): Rasta Revolution and Burnt Dog Blues
Why you love KCPR:  Creative people with wide interest ranges, learning about new music,  and the freedom to explore and share music I like with the public.

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David D.  
Known to host: Stargazers' Gallery, Regular Format
DJ since: Spring 2003
Age: 21
Hometown: Chula Vista, CA
School status: Graduating June 2005
Major: City & Regional Planning
Favorite KCPR show(s): The Darkened Hour, This Ain't No Disco, Audioscapes, Teeth & Fur
Why I love KCPR: Enough oddballs to have our own convent.

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Diego Baptista. a.k.a. Nessie, a.k.a 2D2F
"I don't like the way your thigh spreads my buttcheeks."
Known to host: Regular Format, Dance Attack Five Million!, New Releases, Stargazer's Gallery, Electronic Immersion
Executive DJ Position's Held: Program Director, Wannabe Love Slave, Nakedness/Orgy Initiator, Music Director
DJ since: Fall 2004
Age:  One Year Until A Rapid Descent Into Alcoholism
Hometown: London/Cresent City/ Elk Grove
Ideal Profession:Chemistry Nerd and Professional Music Critic.
Unique trait or talent:I Can Eat Twenty-Four "Chicken-Style" Nuggets And Drink A Forty Of Olde English In Eight Minutes And Thirty Six Seconds.
Favorite Food: Avocado.
Top 5 Songs To Have Sex To:
            1:  Goldfrapp - "Twist"
            2:  Beats Beyond - "Army Of Me (Bersarinplatz Mix)"
            3:  Out Hud - "It's For You"
            4:  Basement Jaxx - "Get Me Off"
            5:  Death From Above 1979 - "Romantic Rights (Dahlback Remix)"
Favorite KCPR show(s): This Ain't No Disco, New Releases, Electronic Immersion, The Red Spot, DJ Christ and the Psychedelic Gospel, Club 91, and Wiretap!
If you could fight/make sex with anyone dead or alive: Sex It Up With Johnny From The Blood Brothres.
One of life's simple pleasures:  The Smell Of Fresh Laundry.
KCPR Is Harboring My Unborn Robot.

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Dr. James B. Cushing a.k.a. The Disgusting Old Hippie
"Without music, life would be a mistake" -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Known to Host:
Miles Ahead since 1997, Lunch with Bob (Dylan), Lunch with Jimi (Hendrix), Lunch with Lou (Reed), Lunch with Bowie (David)
Executive DJ position: Seated and Upright
DJ since: 1981(KPFK, Los Angeles), 1986-1997 (KCBX, SLO), 1997-present(KCPR)
Age: older than you
Hometown: LA
Occupation: English professor
Ideal Profession:College English Professor (yes, I'm a lucky guy)
Unique trait or talent: Only member of Cal Poly faculty to appear in punk-doc "The Decline of Western Civilization"; have published three books of poetry.
Favorite living poet: John Ashbery.
Top 5 Writers on the Subject of Rock:
              1. Griel Marcus
              2. the late Lester Bangs
              3. Dave Marsh
              4. Harvey Kubernik
              5. Clinton Heylin
Favorite KCPR show: Other than my own? Burnt Dog Blues Lounge, Urban Landscapes, Red Spot, reggae, and does anyone remmber Nava Rasa, a program of Indian Classical ragas that played in the mid-90s? It was great.
If you could make sex with anyone dead or alive: My girlfriend Marnie Parker is the only one I get frisky with.
One of life's simple pleasures: Listening to the sounds around you as you walk from place to place.
KCPR isthe Central Coast's strongest argument against suicide.
Personal website URL: www.cahuengapress.com

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Devon, a.k.a. Formerly Statch, Nancy Reagan, Pharaoh Fawcett
"Sometimes people confuse me with Anthony Hopkins. Here is how you tell the difference: I'm the one nailing Mrs. Hopkins." - Michael Caine
Known to host: Regular Format, Reaganomics, The Oracle of Bacon
Any Positions Held: Center Forward, Midfield
DJ since: Summer 2005
Age: 18
Hometown: Here, soon to be Los Angeles (specifically Westwood!!!)
Unique Trait or Talent:I can rap Jay-Z's "Public Service Announcement" verbatim; ceramics
Top 5 Conan O'Brien Quotes:
              1: "People of Quebec: I am an albino jackass."  
              2: "'I'm sensitive in the eyeball'. Does that line work with the ladies?"
              3: [after Uma Thurman tells him that she sometimes eats in the nude] "I tried that once, but I was kicked out                 of Denny's."
              4: [about renouncing Satan at his daughter's baptism] "I wish I had sprouted devil wings and said, 'I do not! I'll                 be baaaack!' and gone off to my mountain lair.
              5: [while playing 1864 baseball, Conan spots a passing plane] "What, ho! What is that? Demonry?"
Favorite KCPR show:Ride My Pony, This Ain't No Disco, Burnt Dog Blues,
Reaganomics was the bomb!!!!
One of life's simple pleasures: The snuggly feel of toasty slippers on a blustery winter eve.
KCPR is: crazy/sexy/cool a la TLC (R.I.P. Left-Eye!).

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Dwayne a.k.a. Wolfman
"Because you know you like it deep and hard."
Known to host: Regular Format, The Fudge Pack!
DJ since: Fall, 2003
Age: 24
Hometown: Corona, CA
Occupation: Full-time and Half-ass
Major: Architectural Engineering
Unique trait or talent: Stealing things and selling them on ebay
Top 5 Mid Century Modern Chairs:
              1: The Egg, Arne Jacobsen 
              2: The LCW, Charles and Ray Eames
              3: The Barcelona, Mies Van Der Rohe
              4: The Panton, Verner Panton
              5: The Diamond, Harry Bertoia
Favorite KCPR show: Audioscapes, Democracy Now!, The Red Spot, Metropolitan Opera, Miles Ahead, Wiretap
Why I love KCPR: Because it's everything this town isn't.
Personal website URL: www.thefudgepack.com

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Erik a.k.a. DJ Christ 
"This week's #1 threat: BEARS. "
Known to host: DJ Christ & the Psychedelic Gospel, White Noise
DJ since: January, 2004
KCPR Executive Position: Music Director
Age: 23
Hometown: Tucson, Arizona
School Status: Super Duper Senior
Major: Landscape Architecture
Occupation: I water plants for money!
Favorite hangover cure: A bowl, then High Street Deli
Unique trait or talent: I make unusually loud snapping noises with my mouth. Also, I have been known to dismatle a nuclear warhead in less than 30 seconds... so what i have a secret life in the KGB
Top 5 Pretentious Habits:
   1 - Eating vegan
   2 - Attending art shows and complaining about the wine
   3 - Only listening to 'concept albums
   4 - Smoking cigarettes outside of a club DURING the show
   5 - Buying anything on 7" vinyl
Favorite KCPR shows: Single, Cute & Twee, Stargazer's Gallery, the Wiretap
Why I love KCPR: Because it proves that awkward people have way more fun than the rest. Also, because everything else in this town is clearly inferior.

 

  Emilie a.k.a. Dinah... meow   picture!
"I'm fighting for the freedom of mixed martial arts"
Known to host: Unrequited Love Songs After Dark with Miss Gucci
DJ since: January, 2003
Age: 21
Hometown: East Bay area
School Status: Senior
Major: History... minors in Ethnic Studies and Psychology
Occupation: Student, Arts and Crafts leader for the Boys and Gilrs club of America
Favorite hangover cure: A good romp, a bowl, and bikram yoga
Unique trait or talent: I have naturally curly hair and I can walk on my hands :)
Top 5 songs to fall asleep to:
   1 - Everest by Ratatat
   2 - Agoetis Byrjun by Sigur Ros
   3 - Whipping the Horses Eyes by Calexico
   4 - Cold Cold Water by Mirah
   5 - The air you breathe is full of ghosts by Lovers
Favorite KCPR shows: Lyrical Origami, Sessions, Fudge Pack
Why I love KCPR: Super nice alcoholics, errr... I mean people, awesome music, fun parties, good times.


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Felicia a.k.a. DJ Dew Rag   picture!
"I can't tell you who to sock it to."
Known to host: C-86, Two Thirsty Djs, Wreckradio, Nine Inch Nails Bandwagon, Cabaret Voltaire Bandwagon, Aphex Twin Bandwagon
KCPR Executive Position: Air Staff Instructor
DJ since: Summer 2002
Age: 21
Hometown: Bakersfield,
School status: College dropout
Major: Journalism
Work status: Culinary aspirer, full-time UPS Store employee
Uniquer talent: Guilt trips.... oooh I'm good.
Top 5 song lyrics:
1. I never wanted to kill/I am not naturally evil/ Such things I do/Just to make myself more attractive to you/ Have I failed ?
2. Tonight the music seemed so loud /I wish that we could lose this crowd/ Maybe, it's better this way/We'd hurt each other with the things we want to say/ We could have been so good together/We could have made this last forever / But now, who's gonna dance with me?/ Please stay...
3.Electric shocks? I love them!/with you : dozen a day/ but after a while I wonder/where's that love you promised me?/ where is it?
4.and more each time you ignore me/this jealousy is starting to bore me/ you can have him and I'll have my own/or maybe I'd just rather end up alone.
5.Got you going on again /Around my smile/And I've got a thoughtless feeling inside Why don't you take a friend/In the shade/ Somewhere all the minutes stay around
Favorite KCPR shows: The Fudge Pack, The Darkened Hour, Urban Landscapes, Shaken not Stirred, Club 91, 100% Azucar
Why I love KCPR: I can force millions to listen to my pretentious indie sh!t.
Personal website URL: fallacy3side.diaryland.com

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Foniks  
"If it tastes like ass, well..."
Known to host: Table Manners (Mon. 5-6pm), Audio Obscura, Regular Format
DJ since: Winter '03
Age: immortal
Hometown: San Jose, CA
School status: Third Year Studio Art
Occupation: DJ/ Professional Bad-Ass (I wrestle sharks w/ chainsaws attached to their heads) 11.)
Unique trait or talent: I'm omnipresent; yes, I know what you're wearing.
Top 5 reasons you should listen to my show
:  1. I mix
   2. I scratch
   3. I remix
   4. I play Arnold Schwarzeneggers Total Body Workout
   5. DJs downtown suck
Favorite KCPR shows: Club 91, Family Show, The Beatdown, Wefunk, Shaken Not Stirred
Why I love KCPR: It makes me feel tingly down there.

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Gino a.k.a. Lincoln Hawks, Montessi, Hary Bosco, Capabillity Brown
I realize now how she's just like the others--cold and distant.  A lot of them are like that, women for sure, they're like the Union.

Known to host: Regular format, Stargazers Gallery
DJ since: Winter 05
Age: 21
Hometown: The Land of Brad Stone
School status: Junior at Cal Poly
Major: City And Regional Planning
Occupation: Student, Unsexual Devient
Unique trait or talent: Tongue Triple Role, Quoting Home Alone In Entirety, Inducing Catharsis, OAA (other Anal Abilities)
Top 5 Favorite Bad Movies
   1) Monster Dog
   2) Jack Frost 2: The Revenge of the Mutent Killer Snowman
   3) Dr. Moreau's House of Pain
   4) Battlefield Earth
   5) Vanillia Ice is) Cool As Ice
Favorite KCPR show(s): Anything of which sparks visions of Garden Gnomes...there are no favorites contained within a station of such paramount quality.
Why I love KCPR: The Smell of the MCR (Regurgitated River Rat Flesh), and all it stands for.

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Graham a.ka. 3-Holes, Mugatu, Tigger
"Let's get Wasted!"

Known to host: Regular format, Cute, Single, and Twee
Executive Positions Held: Gerneral Manager (2006-2007)
DJ since: Fall 2005 (Best Trainee Class Ever!)
Age: 20
Hometown: Reno (This Explains Most Things I Do)
Major: Journalism
Unique trait or talent: Cannot make it past minute 58 of power hour. Able to digest paper.
Top 5 Things People Should Forgive because I am from Reno.
   1) Chain smoking like a 60 year old at the slot machines.
   2) Some of that wonderous pant sagging.
   3) The fact that I have seen the following concerts: Disturbed, 3 Doors Down, Marilyn Manson, POD, Adema (3 times), Chevelle (4 times).
   4) I find shoplifting minor items (especially batteries from grocery stores) a justifiable crime.
   5) Any numerous things that have happened when I blackout.
Favorite KCPR show(s): Cute, Single, and Twee, Ride my Pony, DJ Christ and the Psychedelic Gospel, Minds of Jeremy and Jeremy, Dance Attack 5 Million, and I already know I will love Music History.

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Gucci aka The Crimson Auro aka DPA (Dance Party Annie)  picture!
" Everybody's dying just to get the disease... "
Known to host: Regular Format, >(*.*)< Unrequieted Love Songs After Dark... meeow!, DJ Christ and the Crimson Aura, Red Hot Funky Fresh Electroclash Dance Party
DJ Since: Winter 04'
Age: 20
Hometown: Redding
School status: 3 years of frolicking... 1 more to go?
Major: Nutrition
Occupation:
I bring home the dough! :/ quite literally (Baker)
Top 5 Indian Positions:
    1 - Ustrasana Camel
    2 - Dandayamana-Dahanurasana
    3 - Ardha Chandrasana with Pada-hastasana
    4 - Dandayamana -Biphaktapada Jarushirasana
    5 - Savasana
Wny I love KCPR: It reminds me of cheese... isn't it just perfect how cheese and please rhyme so beautifully together.

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James a.k.a. James St. James, designated dancer
"Your mom really should have gotten that abortion."
Known to host: Regular Format
DJ since: Fall 2004
Age: 20
Hometown: The PQ [ san diego ]
School status: Year deux
Major: Biological Sciences
Occupation: tennis warehouse.
Unique trait or talent:  with a blood alcohol content level of 0.1 i morph into jesus christ or gollum. i also do an impressive teri schiavo impersonation.
Top 5 Historical Villains:
   1) Ann Coulter
   2) Rasputin
   3) Elizabeth Bathory
   4) Czar Ivan IV 
   5) Ilse Koch
Favorite KCPR show(s): Red Hot Funky Fresh Electro Clash Dance Party, DJ Christ and the Crimson Aura, The Darkened Hour, Democracy Now!, The Fudge Pack
Why you love KCPR: it gives me hope for our vapid generation.


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Jay James
"Too Many Cheifs and Not Enough Indians"
Known to host: Lyrical Origami, Mover La Colita
DJ since: 2003
Age: 21
Hometown: Kensington CA
School status: Third year
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Favorite KCPR show(s): Brain Dance
Why you love KCPR: It plays hard to get
Personal website URL: www.blunks.net

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Jefferson a.k.a. Cousin Jeff a.k.a. DJ Redbeard
""Nothing is true. Everything is permitted." -last words of Hassan I Sabbah, Old Man of the Mountain
Known to host: Teeth & Fur
DJ since: Summer 2004
Age: Time is imaginary
Hometown: Santa Barbara
School status: Resident (ie lab is my home)
Major: Architecture
Occupation: Well I dabble in necromancy, but I'm still learning
Unique trait or talent: Compulsive dvd collector/addict
Top 5 books:
           1: The Western Lands - Burroughs
           2: Radical Reconstruction - Woods
           3: Philosophical Investigations - Wittgenstein
           4: American Psycho - Ellis
           5: 100 Years of Solitude - Marquez
Favorite KCPR show(s):
Burnt Dog Blues Lounge, Miles Ahead, Slaytanic Carnage, everything else
Why I love KCPR: Music is necessary

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JEN a.k.a. Jen G. Jenerator, Jenerific picture!
"Liebe meine abst-monkey."
Known to host: Regular Format
DJ since: Winter 2005
Age: 19
Hometown: SAN DIEGO!
School status: Slow going
Major: Journalism Geek (Broadcast Communications etc.)
Occupation: Roxanne's Birkenstock aka my life.
Unique trait or talent: "I wear my sunglasses at night..."
Top 5 Dinosaurs and Marine Mammals:
             1 - Velociraptor
             2 - Narwahl
             3 - Brontosaurus
             4 - Sperm Whale
             5 - Velociraptor riding a Narwahl
Favorite KCPR shows: New Noise Manifesto, All Tomorrow's Parties, This Aint No Disco, Darkened Hour
Why I love KCPR: I thank KCPR for giving me the ability to dance really bad to really good music... and being able to trick people into thinking im cool.

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Jenny aka DJ Bobbi Sox aka Iesha
"Boys got to Jupiter to get more stupidder"
Known to host: The Red Spot, Ride my Pony
DJ since: Fall 2003
Age: 23
Hometown: Sacramento & Bay Area (The Peninsula)
School status: Back on the Saddle/On My way out of Dodge? Please.
Occupation: Collageaholic
Unique trait or talent: I make the best chocolate chip banana pancakes ever!
Top 5 reasons to get more angry:
             1 - It's a blessing
             2 - To recharge the soul for more sk8ing
             3 - YOU CAN WRITE IN ALL CAPS
             4 - Christ and money
             5 - Black eyes are sexy
Favorite KCPR shows: Urban Landscapes, Down the Rabbit Hole, Miles Ahead and Bandwagon
Why you love KCPR:Sex on the dancefloor

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Joelle
"Yes that is a knife in my pocket, and I am not happy to see you. "

Known to host: Regular format! Woo!
Executive Positions Held: News Director
DJ since: Summer 2005
Age: Born September 1984
Hometown: Cobourg, Ontario,CANADA (eh!)
Unique trait or talent: My 20 year old Honda turns off whenever I push in the clutch, but I can still drive it!
Top 5 X-Files Episodes.
   1) Gesthesmene.
   2) Arcadia
   3) Irresistible
   4) Milagro
   5) The Truth
Favorite KCPR shows: Club 91

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Juan Ramirez
"Juan, quit walking like a bitch... you're turning me on"

Known to host: Regular Format!
Any Positions Held: dance party organizer at club meinecke
DJ since: Spring 2006
Age: 21
Hometown: Vista, CA
Unique trait or talent: I look better in booty shorts than most women
Top 5 X-Files Episodes.
   1) The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
   2) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
   3) Brian Eno - Taking Back Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
   4) Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
   5) Godspeed You Black Emperor! - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
Favorite KCPR shows: I Smell Funk, Club 91, Stargazer's Gallery

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KCPR Executive Position: Production Director
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Last thing I've built: Liquid rocket engine
Favorite hangover cure: Special recipe home-brew breakfast burritos
Mental Illness: Clinically Depressed
Top 5  movies:
    1 - Lupin II: Castle of Cagliostro
    2 - Millennium Actress
    3 - Battle Royale
    4 -Pulp Fiction
    5 - ???
Favorite KCPR Show: Polka Dots & Moon Beans
Personal website: http://sloaero.blogspot.com/



Kate   picture!
Known to host: All Tomorrow's Parties, The Darkened Hour, Regular format
DJ Since: Summer, 2002
Age: 26
Hometown: Maryland
School status: Graduated, Dec 2004
Major: Electrical Engineering
Top 5 favorite elective college courses:
    1 - Welding
    2 - Creative Writing
    3 - Women in Russian Culture
    4 - Microelectronic Materials Processing
    5 - Bowling
Favorite KCPR Shows: This Ain't No Disco, The Darkened Hour, Delinquent Teen Scene, The Fudge Pack, Urban Landscapes
Wny I love KCPR: The music, the parties, the cute DJs.


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Katy  picture!
"Life is too short to stuff a mushroom."
Known to host: Regular formatI See a Darkness
DJ Since: Winter 2005
Age: 19
Hometown: Los Angeles
Ideal Job: Owner of a Cupcake Shop!
Unique talent: I like to make creme brullee when I'm bored.
Top 5 Songs that Cheer me up:
    1. "Everybody's Gonna Be Happy"-The Kinks
    2. "Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Games"- Of Montreal
    3. "Send Me On My Way" -Rusted Root
    4. "Mr. Grieves"- The Pixies
    5. "They're Red Hot" - Robert Johnson
Favorite KCPR Shows: Club 91,New Releases, Rasta Revolution
If you could fight or make sex with anyone dead or alive:
   I would make sex with Jason Scwartzman...but everyone already knew that one.
One of life's simple pleasures: Live Music...and tofutti cuties!
Complete this sentence: KCPR is my secret lover.

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Kimi 
"Sh*t is the tofu of cursing..." - David Sedaris
Known to host: Regular format, Better B4 You Were Born
DJ Since: Fall 2002
KCPR duties: one of the female DJs over 5'10", historian 
Age: (2x10)+1
Hometown: Fremont (southern-most stop on BART) 
School status: One year left
Major: Developer of Children
Occupation: Developing 3, 4, 5, and 6-year-old children (part time), Developing the content of what will make an interesting autobiography someday (full time) 
Unique traits or talents: I can perform an incredibly large number of intricate car-dancing and "phantom instrument" (i.e. air guitar, air drums) moves, empathizing and "I-message"-delivery specialist 
Top 5 food-related Utensils:
    1 - Chopsticks (well varnished with no splinters)
    2 - Metal 4-pronged fork and slightly serrated butter knife (when used as a team)
    3 - Plastic spatula (rubber, non-slip grip handle) 
    4 - Wooden wok utensil (commonly used for the stirring of stir-fry)
    5 - Metal Cheese grater (old-skool, with as many specialized grating surfaces as possible) NOTE: see KCPR "Cheese Grater" shirt 
Wny I love KCPR: It's like the sibling I've never had; always there for me, but still secretly loved by Mom and Dad more


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Lauren a.k.a. Evie
"We don't have to wait in line, we pay their 401K!"
Known to host: The Delinquent Teenscene, Gravest Hits
KCPR Executive Position: General Manager
DJ since: Fall 2001
Age: 23+
Hometown: Monterey, CA
School status: year # 6+ in college
Major: Masters in Industrial and Technical Studies, done in June
Unique trait or talent: Welding/Casting (it smells good too) & creator of the world famous "Sally Lamps"
Top 5 words:
    1. Midge
    2. Doot
    3. Eek
    4. Quazi
    5. Yoohoo


Lawrence
Known to host: Slaytanic Carnage, Regular Format
KCPR Executive Position:  Booking Director
DJ Since:  Spring 2003
Age: 20
Hometown: Thousand Oaks
School status: 3rd year at Cal Poly
Major: Architecture
Unique talent: Speak French and can play every instrument poorly
Top 5 anything:
    1 - Love
    2 - Noise
    3 - Sleep
    4 - Food
    5 - Big City Culture
Favorite KCPR Shows: New Noise Manifessto, Slaytanic Carnage, Fudge Pack, Punk is Dead
Wny I love KCPR: I'm part of it, we play the good music you don't know about, we rule, we're cooler than you


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Lewis! a.k.a. DJ!
"stupid babies need the most attention "
Known to host: New Releases, Regular Format
KCPR Executive position: Music Director
DJ since: Fall 2002
Age: 23
Hometown: San Francisco
School status: Recently graduated
Major: Physics
Occupation: Cook
Unique traits: I am not a beautiful or unique flower
Top 5 prime numbers:
    1 - 93,354,689
    2 - 2
    3 - 3
    4 - 5,227
    5 - 5
Favorite KCPR shows: Table Manners, Stargazer's Gallery
Wny I love KCPR: It's the only place in this town where you can find independent music


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Marcus a.k.a. Mawkus  
"Extra-ta-lest, you know we tha best!"
Known to host: Club 91
DJ since: Fall 2004
Age: 19
Hometown: Ventura 
School status: First year
Major: Environmental Engineering
Occupation: Student
Unique trait or talent: Remembering what happens under the influence. Yeah, DJ Woodchips...
Top 5 Rejected Baby Names:
            1: Zoltar
            2: Laser
            3: Turbo
            4: Cobra Commander
            5: Lexical Closure
Favorite KCPR shows: Urban Landscapes, Table MannersClub 91
Why I love KCPR: House parties and the comical randomness that asserts itself through our undying love for music.


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Matt Brown
Known to host: Matthew William
Any Positions Held: DJ
DJ since: Winter 2005
Age: 19
Hometown: ORINDA son
Unique Trait or Talent: Ghost riding the whip...
Top 5 Something:
   1. Brazil
   2. Japan
   3. Germany
   4. Peru
   5. Xhile
Favorite KCPR shows: New Noise Manifesto

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Matt Valentine
Known to host: Regular Format
DJ since: Fall 2003
Age: 22
Hometown: Sacramento
School Status: year four
Major: architecture
Talent: making things
Favorite beer: Newcastle
Top 5:
   1. green
   2. 1729
   3. wolf house
   4. m. b. denel
   5. spring .07
Favorite KCPR shows: Table Manners, Keytarded, graveyard shifts.
Why I love KCPR: It scares my friends.

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Max Reid a.k.a. Teddy Bear, a.k.a Will's Twin  picture!
Known to host: Regular Format
DJ since: Spring 2006
Age: 20
Hometown: Kodiak, Alaska
Major: Biomedical Engineering
Occupation: Whaler
Unique trait or talent: Consuming unhealthily exorbitant quantities of caffeine
Top 5 Reasons Why I Will Never Be Music Director:
    1. Panic! at the Disco
    2. Halifax
    3. Inability to listen to an entire song
    4. Constant Shaking
    5. My State won't let me have a job here
Favorite KCPR shows: Global Grooves, Slaytanic Carnage, New Noise Manifesto
Why you love KCPR: It's like a franternity, but with way more guys.


Meagen C.
"You got served mother f*cker!"
Known to host: Regular Format
KCPR Executive Position: Traffic Director
DJ since: Winter 2003
Age: 21
Hometown: Westlake Village, CA
Major: Nutrition Science,  Psychology Minor
Favorite hangover cure: Sprite + Fritos + cottage cheese
Favorite beer: Newcastle
Top 5 alcoholic beverages:
    1 - Long Island Ice Tea
    2 - Irish Car Bombs
    3 - Saki Bombs
    4 - Buttery Nipples
    5 - Mimosas
Favorite KCPR shows: Family Show, Hang the DJ

Meghann a.k.a. Goon, a.k.a Snakebites, a.k.a. Otterpop, a.k.a. Ether   picture!
 "Ugh, I can't believe I ate that!" -- Me, in my sleep
Known to host: This Ain't No Disco, The Darkened Hour, Regular Format
KCPR Executive Position: Business Director

DJ since: Winter 2004
Age:25
Hometown: Baltimore, Maryland
Major: Environmental Engineering
Occupation: Full-time student at Cal Poly
Unique trait or talent: Making up words, Sleeping through Saturday, Surviving for weeks on minimal sleep, Not washing my hair forever, Convincing everyone I'm human (hahaha, I have you all fooooooooled!)
Top 5 Words I Made Up Today:
    1- Skeewhomped
    2. Flootdoogle
    3. Narfled
    4. Ixodixis
    5. Fleep
Favorite KCPR shows: All Tomorrow's Parties, Function Junction, I See A Darkness, Lyrical Origami, Table Manners, Delinquent Teen Scene
Why you love KCPR: Free Javelins! Oh, and all the hot bitches I get when I say I'm a DJ.



Michele  
 "If you're illiterate, you can't read this."
Known to host: Regular Format, Kinfolk

DJ since: Winter 2005
Age: 20s
Hometown: Maine
Major: Theatre
Occupation: Full-time Denial
Unique trait or talent: I exclusively use only nickels as currency.
Top 5 Noises:
    1. Crying Babies
    2. That sound of an over-heated computer unwillingly shutting down
    3. The slap of a large, forceful hand on a newly sunburned back
    4. White Noise
    5. Audible-only-to-yourself chewing
Favorite KCPR shows: Red Hot Funky FResh Electro Clash DAnce PArty, Fudgepack, Regular Formats
Why you love KCPR: KCPR always puts out.

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Miguel  
 "It smells like pitchfork threw up in here."
Known to host: Regular Format

DJ since: Spring 2006
Age: 21
Hometown: La Puente, CA
Favorite KCPR shows: RNew Noise Manifesto, Punk is Dead, some ofher stuff I'm forgetting about

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My Nguyen (Magellan, Partytown USA)
 " 'Course I'm an excellent driver"

     ("\(;'';)/")

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Nam, aka Charlie In The Trees
"A man of genius makes no mistakes.  His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery."
Known to host: Regular format, Anything Less Than Five Minutes is B.S.
DJ since: Spring 2004
Age: 20
Hometown: Gardena, CA
School status: Still in it to win it
Major: Computer science/ Philosophy
Occupation: Mooch
Unique trait or talent: I cook better Chinese food than all of San Luis
Top 5 books:
    1 - Ulysses
    2 - Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
    3 - Slaughterhouse Five
    4 - 1984
    5 - The Stranger
Favorite KCPR shows: This Ain't No Disco, Euphoria, Regular Format, Met Opera
Why I love KCPR: So avant garde that it's post indie.

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Nate Cramton aka Le Fout Loud picture!
"Yo! Mark just put the f--king snaps down on your f--king a--!"
Known to host: Screen Scene
DJ since: 2001
Executive DJ position: Seasoned veteran who tells stories of the Byron/Rodolfo era.
Age: 24
Hometown: Santa Cruz Bi-atch!
Ideal Job:Bajillionaire
Unique Trait or Talent: Yo-Yo-ing, Rubik's Cube-ing.
Favorite Cheese: Brie
Top 5 Batman Foes:
    1. Joker
    2. Two Face
    3. Riddler
    4. Bane
    5. Superman
Favorite KCPR SHOWS: Lo Extranjero, Bandwagon
If you could fight/make sex with anyone dead or alive:
          Fight: Andre the Giant
          Sex: Left Eye Lopez, provided they stay dead.
One of life's simple pleasures: Proccessed Cheese Food
KCPR is my Fraternity.

 

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Nathan a.k.a. DJ Mudflaps
"Eat my mudflaps "
Known to host: The Fudge Pack
DJ since: 2001
Age: 24
Hometown: Philpot, KY
School status: Senior
Major: Architecture
Occupation: Slacker
Unique trait or talent: Fudge packing
Top 5 white foods :
    1 - Ranch
    2 - Egg whites
    3 - Tapioca pudding
    4 - Mashed Potatoes
    5 - Turnip
Favorite KCPR shows: The Red Spot, The Fudge Pack, Bandwagon, New Releases
Why I love KCPR: They keep it to the left, it's the most unique musical smorgasbord this side of scandanavia.
Personal website URL: www.thefudgepack.com

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Noah SImmons
"How much chuck could a woo chuck chuck if a wood chuck could Chuck Norris "
Known to host: Regular Format, New Noise Manitfesto (co-host)
DJ since: Winter 2006
Age: 19
Hometown: Desert Hot Springs "The Dirty-D"
Unique trait or talent: I can sing like a cricket
Top 3 Samurai Movies So far :
    1 - Seven Samurai
    2 - Sword of Doom
    3 - The Twilight Samurai
Favorite KCPR shows: Miles Ahead, Burn't Dog Blues Lounge, Slaytanic Carnage, New Noise Manifesto

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Olga a.k.a. Kielbasa
"the only reason to have a huge house is to have sex really loud and nobody hears you."
Known to host: Global Grooves, Live 'N Raunchy
DJ since: Spring 2005
Age: old enough to be your sister
Hometown: Poznan, Poland
School status: 4th year with 6th year standing, but on the 6 year plan
Major: Architecture
Occupation: Architecture slave and new frontiers baggin expert
Unique trait or talent: Can fold into a human pretzel, multilingual, foreign country fashion ripp-er off-er.
Top 5 Travel Destinations:
    1 - France
    2 - Iceland
    3 - Senegal
    4 - Lebanon
    5 - Thailand
Favorite KCPR shows: Better Before you were Born, I Smell Funk, Miles Ahead, This Ain't No Disco, Club 91
Why I love KCPR: I'm surrounded by awesome people and amazing music, not Bush-loving motherfuckers.

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Paul, a.k.a. Sasquatch
"The yeti isn't so much mysterious as he is misunderstood."
Known to host: Electronic Immersion (by many names), Regular Format, Digitally Darkened, Democracy Now!, Metropolitan Opera, and a few Bandwagons.
KCPR Executive Positions: Program Director, RPM Director
:Former Executive Positions: Fundraising Director (03-04), Music Director (02-03), General Manager (01-02).
DJ since: Spring 2000
Age: 25
Hometown: Santa Barbara, CA
Major: City & Regional Planning
Unique trait: General dislike for shoes and long pants
Random 5 songs I've become fixated by:
    1. "Easy Boom" by Drumagick
    2. "Love Rhymes With Hideous Car Wreck" by The Blood Brothers
    3. "The Fear" by µ-Ziq
    4. "Myxomatosis" by Radiohead
    5. "Making Days Longer" by Rjd2
Favorite KCPR shows: Crikey .. isn't that why I'm here? The variety is beautiful.
Why I love KCPR: Provided me hours of entertainment, and lets me submit my musical preferences upon others.

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Paul Wall picture!
"I want that inside of myself ."
Known to host: Selected Moments of Music History, Regular Format
KCPR Executive Positions: Website Director
DJ since: Fall 2005
Age: 19
Hometown: Washington D.C.
Major: Architecture
Unique trait: Able to fall asleep in any social situation
5 Fonts that People Often Mistake as Tasteful but I Know In fact are Not:
    1. Papyrus
    2. Desdemona
    3. Matisse
    4. Wide Latin
    5. Matura M7
Favorite KCPR shows: Electronic Immersion, Club 91, Cute, Single, and Twee, Minds of Jeremy and Jeremy
Why I love KCPR: The music, the people, and glowing Joseph.

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RJ a.k.a. DJRJ  
"I'm pumped as fuck right now ."
Known to host: Keytarded, Sax Appeal for Keytards
DJ since: Fall 2003
Hometown: Roseville, CA
Top 5 Fish :
    1 - Atlantic Salmon
    2 - Halibut
    3 - Red Snapper
    4 - Filet Minon
    5 - Lion Fish
Favorite KCPR shows: Table Manners

  Rosa a.k.a. Alice   picture!
"We know what we are, but know not what we may become."
Known to host: Down the Rabbit's Hole
KCPR Executive position: News Director
DJ since: Winter 2003
Age: 21
Hometown: Which one?
School status: Fourth year
Major: Journalism major, English minor
Occupation: News editor at KVEC
Top 5 bands:
    1 - Pinback
    2 - Toad the Wet Sprocket
    3 - Eve 6
    4 - Ugly Casanova
    5 - Watershed
Favorite KCPR shows: Democracy Now, Down the Rabbit's Hole, Electric Jamboree
Why I love KCPR: We are the only station for miles and miles with good music, real DJs and good taste.  Yay KCPR!  What would I do without you?

Russel Kreindel aka DJ BJ 360
"witty/lame/intelligent quote"
Known to host: Regular Format 4 Life!
KCPR Executive position: None
DJ since: Winter 2003
Age: 22
Hometown: Manhattan Beach
Ideal Occupation: Professional traveler, something in movies would be sweet
Complete this sentence, KCPR is: pretty much amazing.

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Sarah Garza a.k.a. Garza Polarzapicture!
"What happened, Carol? I feel hollow inside. my heart is black, and i hate cha....SWEET JESUS"
Known to host: Regular Format
DJ since:
Spring 2006
Age: I heard 19 is the new 21
Hometown: Huntington Beach, CA  
Unique trait or talent: I may or may have memorized everyword in "The Wedding Singer."
Top 5 words that make meshudder:
          1. Moist
          2. Discharge
          3. Tender
          4. Penetrate
          5. Crusty

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  Stacey a.k.a. Moster Truck  
"Square... the shape of EVIL!"
Known to host: Regular Format, Better Before You Were Born
KCPR Executive Position: KCPR Publicity Director
DJ since:
Fall 2002 (Jesus, I feel old!)  
Hometown: Gilroy, CA
Occupation: New Times Calendar Editor
Major: Journalism, music  
Unique trait or talent: Squealing
Top 5 trainees (in no particular order):
          1. Monti! (Black Bangles)
          2. Jenny! (Red Spot Diva)
          3. Jordan! (Corporate Pants)
          4. Diego! (Man Whore)
          5. Nikki! (in Alaska, and missed)
Favorite KCPR show(s):  whatever The Disgusting Old Hippie is playing
Why you love KCPR: Innappropriate relations with plastic sheep

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Steven
"Change is inevitable, except from vending machines"
Known to host: Anything Less than 5 Minutes is B.S.
KCPR Executive Position: Stacks Director
DJ Since: Fall 2003
Hometown: Long Beach
Major: Computer Science
Favorite hangover cure: 2 Excedrine & 30 gallons of water
Top 5 favorite things:
    1 - Sushi
    2 - Sushi
    3 - Sushi
    4 - Sushi
    5 - Sushi (...in that order)



Susan Cooper a.k.a. DJ Babaganoush  
"I love my country , but I think it is time we see other people "
Known to host: Global Grooves
KCPR Executive Position: Historian, stacks?
DJ since:
Fall 2005
Age: 20
Hometown: San Diego
Unique Trait or talent: Grignard reactions
Top 5 Countries to Visit:
      1. Ghana
      2. India
      3. Brazil
      4. Thailand
      5. Senegal
    
Favorite KCPR shows: Lyrical Oragami, Red Spot, Dance attack five million, i smell funk, Club 91

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Tyler a.k.a. Slutface, a.k.a. Rob Gordon, a.k.a. DJ Mr Little Jeans  
"I wanna dip my balls in it!"
Known to host: I See a Darkness, The Seven Inches Show, Regular Format, The Cacophony Society, Instrument of Destruction
KCPR Executive Position: General Manager
DJ since:
Spring 2002
Age: Born in the year of the Dragon
Sign: Pisces
Top 5 names for groups of animals:
      1. shrewdness (apes)
      2. business (ferrets)
      3. rable (butterflys)
      4. pieousness (doves)
      5. unkindness (ravens)
      [bonus] 6. nerds (DJs)
Favorite KCPR shows: Delinquent Teenscene, Democracy Now, The Family Show, Table Manners, Teeth and Fur, This Ain't no Disco.
Why I love KCPR: Because it represents so many of the things I love in life, because all of this is done for the love by volunteers, because the people who choose to do something like this for free are passionate and interesting, because I love music, because I'm a contrarian, and just because.
Personal website URL: www.fotolog.net/zibbo

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Velanche   picture!
"That's between them and God. It's my job to arrange the meeting"
Known to host: Urban Landscapes, Wheels of Steel, Acid Test (somewhere between Urban Landscapes and Braindance), WEFUNK
KCPR Executive Position: Exec-At-Large
Former KCPR Executive Positions: Alumni Director & RPM Director
DJ since: 1997
Age: 41 years young
Hometown: Irvine (before 1992), now SLO
School status: Graduated from Cal Poly, 1999
Major: Business Administration
Occupation: Information Technology Consultant, College of Liberal Arts at Poly, music reviews contributor for XLR8R Magazine, and DJ-for-hire
Top 5 Albums in Velanche's Vinyl Collection:
    1-  Marlena Shaw - Spice of Life (Cadet/US)
    2 - James Mason - Rhythm Of Life (Soul Brother/Expansion/UK)
    3 - Break Reform - Fractures (Abstract Blue/UK)
    4 - Rotary Connection - Hey, Love (Cadet/US)
    5 - Two Banks of Four - City Watching (Sirkus/UK)
Favorite KCPR shows: Delinquent Teen Scene, 100% Azucar, Miles Ahead, Burnt Dog Blues Lounge, Teeth & Fur, Global Grooves, Lyrical Origami, Stargazers' Gallery, Shaken, Not Stirred, Table Manners, Family Show, Jazz, Roughly, Euphoria, Down The Rabbit Hole, Club 91
Personal website: http://www.urbanlandscapes.org/


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The Wookie 
"This thing? Yeah... This thing is f*cked."
Known to host: Regular Format, 7" show
KCPR Executive Position: Chief Engineer
DJ since: Winter 2004 
Age: 24
Hometown: Benicia (pronounced Buh-neesh-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHH!!! with just a little "There is no God!"-accent on the last syllable)
School status: Graduated
Major: EE
Occupation: Broadcast Engineer
Unique trait or talent: Can grow a beard that makes Iron & Wine look like Ian MacKaye circa 1982
Top 5 Automotive Experiences:
             1: Dropping the bolt keeping fluid in the transmission (US 101 near San Ardo), having the car towed to
                Paso Robles, then duct-taping a towel in the hole, refilling the transmission, and driving back to
                SLO. The shop said the car had a 99% chance of being toasted. I drive it today. Said shop hates my
                guts.
             2: Blowing out a tire at 85 mph (US 101 near the Lockwood exit)
             3: Driving from SLO to the northern Bay Area (Benicia) with a dead battery (go diesel!)
             4: Shredding my fan/water pump belt at 2am, then spending the night in my car (somewhere outside
                Nipomo)
             5: Not having a Reverse gear for over 2 months.
Least Favorite KCPR shows: Those random baseball games that come on with no announcement.
Why you love KCPR: It's the opposite of suck.
Personal website URL: I'm on MySpace, but so are several other Wookies.

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