square plastic bread bag tags, graphic design, art, music, home recording, camping, ecology, equality, reading, writing, painting, pacifism (but not passivism), creative cooking, giving/receiving mix CDs, various other nerdy stuff.
I'd like to meet:
Modest, honest, creative, comfortable people.
I'll design posters, CD layouts, tour fliers, T-shirts etc. for any musician, artist, or progressive non-profit organization. Musicians, venues, organizations, and labels I've done work for include: A.M. Syndicate, Asociación Andar (Honduras), Auburn Lull, Chris Bathgate, Nathaniel Bartlett, Canada, Calliope, Sam Corbin, Joshua Davis, The Detroiter (Detroit), Earthwork Music, The Empty Bottle (Chicago), Environmental Journalism magazine, Great Lakes Renewable Energy Association, Kinetic Stereokids, The Hard Lessons, Honest D & The Steel Reserve, Jenny Hoyston's Paradise Island, It Takes A Village To Make Records, Lower Peninsula Records, Mac's Bar (Lansing), Magdalena's Teahouse (Lansing), Medicine Crow, The Novel Citizen, Oh My God, The Painted Lady (Detroit), Pete Robbins, Ryman Auditorium (Nashville), (SCENE) Metrospace (East Lansing), Stare Into The Sun, Steppin' In It, Jen Sygit, Tartufi, The Temple Club (Lansing), & The Ten Pound Fiddle (East Lansing).
Here are some upcoming shows I'm involved with:
Music:
Wendy Atkinson, Blonde Redhead, The Books, Brainiac, Broadcast, Nels Cline, Clogs, Deerhoof, Dos, Eluvium, fIREHOSE, Fugazi, Grandaddy, His Name Is Alive, Husker Du, Jessamine, the Jesus Lizard, Joy Division, Mark Lanegan, Les Savy Fav, Low, Magnetic Fields, The Melvins, The Minutemen, Mission of Burma, Morphine, Mudhoney, Polvo, Portastatic, Pram, Rachel's, Seam, Sonic Youth, Superchunk, Tartufi, Tarwater, To Rococo Rot, Two Ton Boa, Unrest, Unsane, Wire, etc...
Here are some artists I really don't like -- might even be allergic. If you like them, well, I guess that's OK. But you should really consider not liking them: Jimmy Buffet, Coldplay, Death Cab For Cutie, The Eagles, Ben Folds, Billy Joel, Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews, Rod Stewart. Sorry if I stepped on your smurf.
Movies:
Being John Malkovitch, Pan's Labyrinth, Waking Life, Dark City, Wall-E, independent and experimental films. I'm way behind on my movie list.....
Television:
the drug of a nation..
Books:
One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Life of Pi, Pastwatch, The Little Prince, Job: A Comedy of Justice, Freedom From the Known, Evasion...
Heroes:
Clyfford Still, Robert Motherwell, Donald Sultan, Gerhard Richter, Peter Saville, Malcolm Garrett, Mike Watt, my family, my old friends, my new friends.
