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About Me

Professional musician currently on mandatory sabbatical to perform governmental make-work in a distant and none-too-friendly locale. Someday perhaps, I will be allowed to resume my normal activities. Insha'Allah.

All the sordid details of my life on-hold:

MY REAL GIG

Who I last toured with (and will again soon!):

RATHKELTAIR
I live in South Carolina, with the most awesome wife and kids anybody could ever ask for. I am extraordinarily lucky and grateful.

I have some music available:

"Revenge of the Antipypr" on iTunes:
Rathkeltair's "Everybody" on iTunes:

My Interests

many and varied

I'd like to meet:

Mark Twain, Jimi Hendrix, Hunter S. Thompson, Warren Zevon, John Lennon, Kurt Vonnegut, Christy Moore, Bertrand Russell, Coleman Hawkins, Syd Barret, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Robert E. Lee, Chet Baker, Beethoven, Kafka, Alice Cooper, King Kong, and your mom.

Music:

I'm into just about anything except stupid plastic top 40 pop singers and grand opera.

Movies:

Repo Man is the greatest movie ever made. Slapshot is up there too. Oh, and The Outlaw Josey Wales.

Television:

History Channel, Discovery Science, Animal Planet, and The Flintstones. Not much else on there worth watching...

Books:

Kurt Vonnegut, Charles Bukowski, Joseph Conrad, Faulkner, Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Aldous Huxley, Harry Crews, Norman Mailer, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, Hunter S. Thompson, any history (esp military), true crime when I'm bored.

Heroes:

I have a few. They are too personal to mention here, but I'll tell you about them face to face sometime.