About Me
1-15-08 I live in Houston. Messengering again. Bicycle love. Spring rolls. High fives. School! Different than when I left. Spending too much time cooking and doing dishes to go out during the week. Besides, I live too far, out by EZ7. Got a new skateboard. Gram Parsons. Backyard with my friends and their kids, who seem to keep multiplying.
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=======================================08-28-06 Welcome to my page. I do not live for Myspace, so don't take it personally when it takes me a while to get back to you. I don't add every person that sends a friend request either-the rule is, IF YOU WANT AN ADD YOU MUST AT LEAST SEND A MESSAGE MAKING CLEAR SOME KIND OF CONNECTION. I don't add bands just because they pointed and clicked. If you don't send a message along with your request, and there is no obvious connection, like bicycles, veganism, punk rock, The Northside, family, friends, or otherwise, CONSIDER YOURSELF DELETED. ........................................................That
said, here is a little about me these days: I live in the small town of Charlottesville, Virginia. The population here is about 45,000, but if you take away the students, and I wish you would, the number drops to about 20,000. It's a college town, which normally is a good thing, except for the fact that this is the most conservative bunch of sheep that I have ever seen. This is not a "college town" like Austin, or Chapel Hill. The kids that attend the University of Virginia are what the greasy haired heroes of the movie 'The Outsiders' called "soc's". So what does a big city punk do when faced with a bunch of pastel-shirted, flipped-up-collared, khaki-skirted tools? Answer: He evolves and overcomes. He brings his own tools. He sees past the pastel sheep to the background, the underground. With so many people dying and vying for the inside track, the outsiders slowly become evident. They are here, and I am finding my way into the outside. I am bringing the rock and roll, punk and country sound of my beloved Texas to the Bluegrass and Old Time sounds of Virginia. I bring my love for Houston's great mix of internationality, and my formative years growing up in a Mexican nieghborhood, and my ability to pick a perfect avocado, to the moonshine, homemade wine, and Old South history of some of the oldest dirt known as America......It is very hilly here-I am not kidding. If you are a cyclist, you are in for it. I used to ride with a 48/17 on my fixie in Houston, but after some knee problems and the desire to actually enjoy a simple commute I have switched to a 46/18. As many of my friends know, I was a messenger in Houston for 7 years, the best job af my life. I am proud of my time served and of the crew that makes up Htown's Courier Scum. I am true to all o' ya'll down there-my best stories start with'In Houston as a messenger' or 'Riding bikes with my friends one night'.....But although my heart is in Houston, my life is now here, and I gotta keep looking forward. I am making music with friends, acoustic guitar, banjo, mandolin, acoustic bass. I hang out with older locals and learn about the history of Albemarle County. I catch whatever shows I can-believe it or not, we get some good ones. I cook alot with Emily. .....Emily is the reason I am here. She is my partner in crime, my backup; I cut the veggies and she stirs the pot...............I am goin to school for the first time in years, this time with a goal. Wish me luck. ...............Thanks for your part........................................................
...................................... This is as of 8-18 05--I am a fish out of water, a native Humidity dweller, A downtown Htown, National Beer of Texas Drinker now living in Charlottesville, VA, with my girlfriend Emily. She is in med school and gettin her Phd while I commute to Whole Foods on my fixed gear to make sure the peaches are stacked and the peppers are rotated. I don't have any friends here yet, except for the people I work with. There is a really transient vibe here in this town because of the University. People are always coming and going. I have been reading alot. Of course, I always read alot...I just depend on it more. There is not much to do here. There is a good deal of fresh air and pretty nature scenes and fireflies giving way to cicadas and crickets you can hear even with the doors and windows shut. On saturday mornings we go to the farmers market an buy local wine and vegetables and the best bread I've ever had. I miss my home, but there are some things here that Houston doesn't have, and there are things about Houston that I am happy are not here. There are still yuppie piglets everywhere, and the town is growing faster than it can accomodate all the newcomers, and it seems like if you build something in America these days it is prefab crap...but, y'know...if it ain't one thing it's the other. I miss my giant posse. I miss my family. I miss comfort too, I guess. I love the new Willie Nelson Reggae album--It Fuckin Rules!!-----------------------------------------------------
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--------------I am a full time life liver. I love songs that make me feel like I should have written them myself. I grew up with my gramma. She's still around, but not the same...I miss her. At my job, I get to do what I like the most...talk to strangers, or be quiet, feel the weather, think alot about whatever is on my mind. The corporate friendly atmosphere here is Houston makes me sick. I hate that speaking my mind could cost me my job. I believe that all ALL of America is a free speech zone, not some fenced in location blocks away from self important, paranoid, guilty politicians. This president fucking sucks, and so do all his sheep. I hope somebody with some brains, or at least the ability to tell the truth gets elected. Then we'll watch George's followers disappear like Nazi officers at the end of WW 2. Keep your gods and religion in general out of my constitution. Fuck all these giant SUV's, too. Reduce , reuse, recycle. It's not just some hippie mantra, it's good sense. Let's do something that makes the USA something more than a joke, a bully, a selfish narrow minded child of a nation. Let's be a global friend. ----I like lots of good music. I hate the heat, but love the way the humidity hugs me at 730 in the evening when the sky is all the best colors.--I am not scared of noise or ugliness or homeless people. --I am pro ne to getting so mad that I break things...I'm sorry. I really want to be happy, with all my friends and family. Sometimes I feel more in tune than usual with what's going on in my life and the lives around me and I am affected...don't look at me like I'm crazy, I'm just feeling it out.---I can't believe we only get one chance to be here because it's JUST NOT ENOUGH. I want to take the high road AND the low road. I hope hope that all of you with any feeling left will keep on trucking because I need you here. ------------------------------------------------------------
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-----------------------------------If you don't really know me, or if you are just collecting friends, please don't send requests. If you send a request, send a message too, please. If I can't remember why I know you, or if I don't know you and don't see anything on yr page that strikes a chord, or you don't tell me why you are sending a request, I'll probably just do nothing. I'm sorry if this seems unreasonable. Thank you for your consideration.***********************************first there was the big wheel, then the bike. then at 12 came the sk8brd. then at 24 the bicycle again, this time with a paycheck. i love my friends. i love houston. i have a friend named emily, i love her too.-- my first live music experience was wille nelson at the rodeo when i was 7 or 8. in february 1989 i saw blind ignorants (spunk!) open for 7 seconds at the axiom, and that was that. local music and punk rock happened to me at the same time and it has been a steady love affair ever since. in 1993 i joined a band with some friends from high school and we called ourselves 30footFALL. a year later we got to open for 7 seconds in dallas, and while the show was just a show, i had the feeling that life should always be this cool. houston has been the best place, heat and pollution aside. thanks to all of you who have come out to fitz to participate in so many of the best times of my life so far.--in june 98 i needed a job and had a bike so i became a bike messenger. a new love affair. i was socially retarded before i fell in with this crowd, but they made me feel like a brother and they are my best friends, my family on wheels. ---i have been without meat, chicken or fish for 13 years. i have been fully vegan for 7 years. it makes me happy. i cook alot. i am doing my best to decrease my impact on the earth. try it out.---i have a mom, a dad, a stepmom, a sister,two brothers, a gramma. i love them all.---i live in a warehouse north of downtown with 4 other guys, 5 cats and a dog.
