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About Me

I write music. I play it sometimes. Usually on my guitar. I have that dry sense of humor that comes from writing and playing too much music.
I am into the idea of human beings doing wildly human things, like things that might not work but are worth trying anyway, or anything that seems like a wild and frantic reaching beyond the 'self.'
I'm part of a collaboratively-run art space in Brooklyn calld the Bushwick Department of Public Works. We do a lot of community-based things, like cook meals for 75 or so people in our living room, and help organize local arts festivals. We also have concerts in our common space and on our roof, and these are all produced by a group I help direct called the Addtract Consortium.
Addtract started off as a composers' collective because, well, I am one and a lot of people I know are composers, too. Now it's turned into something pretty amazing and wild. Stop by and check it out some time.
I am always making something out of nothing. I have a lot of ideas.
And a lot of freakishly red hair.
If for some reason this is exciting to you, you can learn more about me here .
Oh, and here's some artsy stuff for you to enjoy, courtesy of my band, the Suite Unraveling:More of this sort of thing on Youtube if you know my whole name and type it in the little box next to the Search button. Dig.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

People that can do personal, intense things. Like play music or create great art. People with opinions about anything. I like to talk shop and I like to talk philosophy. A lot.
Oh, and fellow beer snobs, too.

My Blog

Fear of the Other... Cedar Rapids, Iowa

Fear of the Other& Cedar Rapids, Iowa Of course it is a universal truth (and beauty?) that none of us is really like any of the rest, and that despite this fact we tend to group ourselves into tribesm...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 21:55:00 GMT

letter to press agent

So, in three days I leave for a 4 1/2 week tour of the US, partly with this band called the Lascivious Biddies, but largely on a solo performance and education tour of my own design.An old friend of m...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:47:00 GMT

flood

...woke today to find the city flooded, a tornado touched down in Brooklyn, a lake beneath the city obstructing trains.New York is an urban tropic fraught with buses and gridlock and people traveling ...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 18:58:00 GMT

different trains

I am returning from a week away from New York to find my life - as usual - changed and yet unchanged. After life in the big city, time spent in Montreal is time spent in slow motion - late mornings t...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 19:41:00 GMT

paying dues...

This has been one of those weeks when the city has decided to show its face. I'm beginning to feel like I have things more or less worked out. I know where the music is and where the music isn't...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:32:00 GMT

we could be so happy, you and i...

Today has been a day that crystallized my loneliness in this city into a thing so tangible and easily discerned between these pebbles of success.It is morning and I am in Brooklyn, waiting for the tra...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:48:00 GMT

schfifty five

...So my band played at the 55 Bar in Greenwich Village last night and right as we started to soundcheck my trusty guitar freaked out and died. Now when I plug it in all I get is a nasty buzzing...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 13:43:00 GMT

...crossing back (my life in further review)

...years ago I took a horse-drawn wagon ride against my will and discovered that I have the ability to open people up. I grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico - home to mountains, mysticism and a sea of...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 22:47:00 GMT

...crossing the bridge (year in review, i guess)

...so yesterday I got up (late), put on a sweater, hat, scarf, gloves, 2 pairs of socks, my now-ratty walking shoes and made what turned out to be a six mile journey across the Brooklyn bridge and int...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:48:00 GMT