My name is Dakota, but I rather enjoy many pseudonyms, and as it turns out, I am really bad at making them up... I've discovered recently that my heart holds so much love, this is one way to empty it out. This is the art that I create that I share. I create this music not to participate in a fad, not to co-opt a culture, and I am not doing this to gain status, get money, and be rich. Motives most impure. I do this because there is so much love, hatred, anger, animosity, joyfulness, joylessness, in my heart most of the time I don't even know wha to do with it. The emotion running through my heart keeps me alive. However, like most containers it can only hold so much. In the summer of 2006 I grew a lot as a person. I started seeing beauty everywhere! Beauty in people that I never thought possible. I saw beauty in people that continually are victims of societal conditioning, the ones that mindlessly continue to celebrate fallacious holidays, the ones that continue to opress others in and out of the classroom. I think most important in my personal growth, I started seeing beauty in myself. I stopped caring as much about what others thought about me, still open to others opinion, but I don't leave my heart out for others to destroy. My faith in humanity was destroyed countless times in that manner. I wouldn't be making the music that I do today if I hadn't spent so much time with such wonderful, beautiful people in the summer of 2006. Seeing beauty everywhere I leave you with this. peace and love - dak