Whoa is me. My first CD is out. Roo is the title of the disc. Download it now or get the real hold-it-in-your-hands CD by following the links at the top of this website or going to roo forrest at CD Baby or iTunes. If you're looking for my music dancing down other corridors on the web, search roo forrest. If you ‘re already listening to a track and thinking “what in tarnation is he saying?”, you can download lyrics on my page at Reverbnation .

All proceeds of Roo Music go to support the Girls of Afghanistan. You can read more about my buddy, Ian Pounds, and his amazing work in the Afghani Orphanages here.

Huge big boom thanks to Ari Zucker and Hans Brehmer for making the CD happen. I could not have done this without their inspiration and guidance…..And a jumbo warm arms-stretched-wide-to-heavens thank you to the incredible musicians that joined me on this first project. That’s Paul Anastasio of Pearl Djengo and Asleep At The Wheel fame, fiddling his way in, over, around and through the melodies. Hans Teuber, previously with Ani Difranco and now on the Origin label and making the magic happen nightly at Teatro Zinzanni, infuses smoke and spice on the sax. Patrick Mcdanel of Red Hot Blues Sisters, on bass guitar coating your insides with buzz and fuzz while Rick Azim, long time ax-man for Pat Boone (Pat Boone? – Yes Pat Boone), pours his Fender and tube plasma over the top. Cody Rahn, on his last days in Seattle, glued it altogether on drums. I played acoustic guitar and sang and the folks in the room made it all sound even better than it ever sounded in my head. Thank you. The cover art on the Roo CD and all the delicious illustrations inside, are the work of my brilliant cousin Tanna Moontaro.

If you want to get on the Roo Music mailing list and find out how and when you can use Roo Music for deep penetrating pleasure and life-affirming transformation, email me at rooforrest@hotmail.com with the subject line: Yo! Mailing list me.

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Nov 2nd
Roo & The Few at Egan's Ballard Jam House. Double Bill with Val D'Alessio! - 1707 NW Market St. 7pm

Nov 3rd
Roo & The Few at C&P Cafe in West Seattle - 5612 California Ave. SW. 7pm All ages.

Nov 16th
Playing in-the-round with Val D'Alessio, Steve Church, and Kimberly Newland - 8310 Greenwood Ave. N. 7pm All ages.

Nov 20th
Roo & The Few at Locöl Barley and Wine, 7902 35th St. SW, West Seattle, 7:30pm. Kevin Finney the Conga man, Laurie Lynne on Cello, Cripin Faget on Lead. 21+

Nov 30
THAT THING cabaret and Salon in Ballard 7:30. 21+

December 1st
Singer Songwriter Showcase at The Couth Buzzard - 8310 Greenwood Ave. N. 7pm All ages.

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This open cabaret and salon is an intimate evening of wildly diverse offerings. Come with a song, oration, cooking lesson, taste-treat, rant, powerful perspective, or other sharable THING under 7 minutes. Or just come and enjoy. Acts are drawn from the hat, punctuated by strange happenings and blow-your-mind special guests. Seating is extremely limited. Vibe is so damn cozy its downright intimate.

• Last Wednesdays of every month. 7:30 pm. Come early, we close the doors when the room is full.
• $3
• Coppergate in Ballard, featuring hand-crafted cocktails and excellent Viking food.
• 6301 24th Avenue NW, Seattle (206) 706-3292

At left, Seattle genious mad scientist inventor Kim David Hall's lasers - "Rorschach the Movie". From the very first THAT THING ever.

For info on the next THAT THING go to CALENDAR

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If you want to get on the Roo Mailing List, contact Roo, hear about upcoming shows, events, cool things and hep times....but not too frequently I promise, then email me at rooforrest@hotmail.com with the subject line: Yo! Mailing list me.

I guess there is some cool plug in that I could use to collect names and emails - and if you know of a good one let me know - but for now I'm going to do it the old fashioned way. And by old fashioned, I mean like the way people did it about 14 months ago

So email me.

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Forrest Pruzan Creative (FPC) is a product invention studio with expertise and artistry in the realm of games – all types of games.

After creating ENTROS in the 1990’s, the creative team at FPC went on to invent most of the early product line for Cranium Inc. Since then FPC has invented, developed and designed hundreds of published games for publishers such as Microsoft, Disney, Hasbro, Mattel, Chronicle Books, Jakks Pacific, Cardinal Industries, Gamewright, Wonder Forge, and many others.

A sizable chunk of board games entering the U.S. mass market are incubated and developed in the FPC studios. The company marries a cross-disciplined workforce with observational-based consumer testing to create great games.

Watch a 3 minute movie about how FPC creates award-winning games by Seattle film maker Douglas Horn
Visit the Forrest-Pruzan Creative website

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What do you get if you mix the passion of youth with the power of creative collaboration? For us the answer was ENTROS.

I started ENTROS in 1992 with Stephen Brown and a handful of wildly imaginative people, like: Alan Pruzan, Bill Moore and Rob Hyman. The place became a creative entertainment magnet attracting the writers, film makers, artists, musicians, photographers, bakers and boy geniuses who could wire a circuit board or build a porch swing out of duck tape. ENTROS was the Bauhaus of late-20C Seattle.

Our vision was to create entertainment that you could not experience sitting down – hence the upside-down chair. We wanted to turn spectators into participants. We wanted to transform the audience into players. While the world around us became obsessed with “interactive” entertainment, we wanted the entertainment to be interactive AND interpersonal. We resisted the temptation to erect giant media screens and mesmerizing CGI graphics and instead created human-guided experiences where people teamed up, collaborated, dipped a brush into paint or navigated through a sensory maze. The L.A. Times called ENTROS a safe acid trip.

All good things eventually come to an end. ENTROS San Francisco closed its doors in 1999 and ENTROS Seattle dimmed the lights in 2000. Much of the creative team still works together at Forrest-Pruzan Creative. The other 3000+ folks – yes there were over 3000 who worked at ENTROS at one time or another – are scattered throughout the entertainment diaspora, occasionally telling stories of the glory days and smiling every time they describe their travels through that magical land.

You can see photos of ENTROS games and installations on the Forrest-Pruzan Creative website. Just follow the links to "ENTROS".

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First I need to say that Ian Pounds is remarkable. Amid the pervasive hypocracy of Western civilization, I cannot find any gap between Ian’s values and his actions. He has given all of himself; he left not one shred behind when he left America to work directly with the children of Afghanistan.

After Ian arrives at the Kabul orphanage, he doesn't leave the compound. An American male like Ian, teaching native girls at an Afghani orphanage, would make a desirable target for assassination. The dedication of Ian and his co-workers to the care and education of these children, make the 11 orphanages of the Afghan Child Education and Care Organization (AFCECO), a rare and startling success story coming out of Afghanistan today. These orphanages seek not just to provide refuge for displaced children, but through their teachings of tolerance, compassion, leadership, inspiration and world knowledge, they seek to raise the leaders of Afghanistan's next generation.

Read Ian's blog and journal posts.
Check out the amazing work of the AFCECO orphanages.

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These are things that keep me happy, make me laugh, cry, or get me worked up. Scroll through and click on one that looks good to you. They're in no particular order.

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This is the secret of life part. It's coming. I'm still working on it, but it's coming soon. Check back in a few.

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