fixed gear single speed track bicycles, bike commuting, letterpress design & printing, hoppy ale, growing orchids, medium format portrait photography, old FJ40 land cruisers, macintosh computers, web design & development, indian food, high quality adult films, erotic literature & illustration, vinyasa yoga, 420, shiva, ganesha, the temples at khajuraho, vintage guitars & tube amps, old girlie mags, bettie page, pinups, agent provocateur, typography, high weirdness, travel, balinese architecture, sex on the couch, naturism, non-fiction books, reading, napping, tattoos, collecting shit.
professionally:
bands and individuals who require and appreciate well designed, typographically oriented packaging and paper communications, finely printed. i have a very large collection of rare, vintage hot metal and wood type that's poised to be pressed into service for the right projects. I also run linotypesetting.com to "efficiently" set larger amounts of copy for relief printing AKA letterpress. think book(lets) and liner notes, that kinda thing.
personally:
smart girls who ride bikes and make things. pin-up girls with tattoos. a muse. please know how to spell.
extracurricularly:
letterpress and design geeks who like to drink beer, talk about type and technology and make stuff.
musical types interested in making acoustic fingerstyle math rock.
other:
Cindy Rene Volk
beatles, stones, zeppelin, hendrix, the stooges, shellac, do make say think, guided by voices, david bowie, mothers of invention, tortoise, june of 44, the damned, slint, radiohead, wu tang, gang of four, 27, redman, hüsker dü, yo la tengo, charles mingus, neil young, souled american, king crimson, nirvana, dr. dre, zz top, the replacements, the who, beck, the birthday party, can, black sabbath, cream, the glands, pj harvey, snoop dogg, james brown, uncle tupelo, flamin groovies, harvey milk, velvet underground, come, spoon, lynyrd skynyrd, pink fairies, heldon, sonic youth, soul asylum, t rex, green river, buzzcocks, joy division, smashing pumpkins, pixies, x, spore, halo of flies, run westy run, magnolias, suicide commandos, ssdecontrol, the freeze, gang green, white stripes, the guess who, red hot chili peppers, beastie boys, helms/mcarthy, dave brubeck, miles davis, black flag, real kids, allman brothers, the celibate rifles, john fahey, bob dylan, the clash, the scientists, pink floyd, rage against the machine, indian classical, serial music, folk, bluegrass, blues.other than that, i hate music.
the point. brazil. rebel without a cause. wings of desire. clint eastwood's spaghetti westerns. pee wee's big adventure. holy grail. clockwork orange. apocalypse now. tommy. rear window. song remains the same. taxi driver. pulp fiction, one flew over the cuckoo's nest. marathon man. beetlejuice. animal house. city of lost children. citizen kane, yellow submarine. help. sympathy for the devil. who's afraid of virginia woolf. dr. strangelove. most any godzilla/japanese monster movie. anything by andrew blake.
PBS. DVDs.
short stories. underground comix. do magazines count? no? uh. tough. ad busters, eye, national geographic, tape op, leg show, etc. etc. type specimens & books about books and printing. poe. salinger. apollinaire. bukowski. burroughs. almost anything published by taschen.
ben franklin. ottmar mergenthaler. linn boyd benton. frank zappa. rudolf koch. neil young. leo fender. bucky fuller. tim berners-lee. apple computer.