"...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'"
- Jack Kerouac, 'On the Road'
I grew up believing, thanks to my dad, that Shepard's Pie was "Duck Butt Stew," that if I stood in my grandmother's front yard and threw a kickball in the air long enough I would eventually hit the sky, and that the tooth fairy was named Bruce. It wasn't until high school that I learned that Duck Butt Stew was actually Shepard's Pie and that my dad had invented the name Bruce for the tooth fairy because it sounded especially fairy-like. That's where I get my quirks... Here's more about me:
April 1981: Born in Macon, GA.
1986-1999: Raised in Kernersville, NC. Played way too much golf and thought about little else.
1999-2003: Went back to GA to attend Georgia Southern University in Statesboro. Served as editor of the student newspaper, The George-Anne, and broadcasted a weekly radio show entitled "The Rural Electric," which featured Americana, alt-country, indie, folk, and blues artists. Majored in Cultural Anthropology and American Studies.
2004-2006: Moved to Chapel Hill to work on my Master's degree in Folklore. Just finished classes and comprehensives.
Present: Living in Atlanta to be closer to friends, my thesis research interests, and so forth. I am currently serving a contract position in the traditional arts division of the Southern Arts Federation while beginning to write my thesis.
Past, Present, and Future: Beer, bars, live music, recorded music, playing music, books, films, cultural theory, ethnography, labor study and activism, Conan O'Brien, domestic travel, the voice of Jay Farrar, the screams of Neil Young's guitar, and the poetry of Townes Van Zandt.
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"The way to study people is not from the top down or the bottom up, but from the inside out, from the place where people are articulate to the place where they are not, from the place where they are in control of their destinies to the place where they are not. Soldiers in the battlefield, artists in the studio: generously we study some people in terms of their own excellence. All people deserve comparable treatment. Decent, serious study begins on the inside." -- Henry Glassie, folklorist (from Passing the Time in Ballymenone, 1982 and '95)
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