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About Me

I am a creative consultant, artist and music producer. (I'm really a lot of things but those fit what I do to make money.) The most important things I do are help people and listen. To make me better at that I'm studying at Metro State College of Denver for a counseling degree. My art is in a wide cariety of media - animation, drawings, tons of art done with computers, photography, music, song, paper cutouts and more. I do body art (henna art and tattoo design) professionally, mostly at tables at conventions and by appointment for private clients. I worked for many years in the animation industry in Japan. Here is my bio dealing with anime. I go to about a dozen anime conventions in various places per year, where I do panels, talk to a lot of people, see my extended family and have fun. Sometimes I plan and bartend events. Some of my parties are literally legendary, with people telling other people about them years later. Sometimes people hire me to work with creative people. I bring their creativity out and enhance their productivity. I produced Voices for Peace , an album for charity. Animation voice actors did the vocals and a great band in Chicago did the music. I sing and play the harmonica and guitar. I do spoken word performances, weite magazine articles and speak at schools about GLBT issues, Asia and animation. When I lived in Japan and Thailand I was very lucky to be able to travel to most countries in Asia, India and a bit in Europe and the UK. I'm fluent in Japanese (albeit rusty) and I used to speak decent Thai and marginal Mandarin. I was married for 10 years and have no children nor do i desire to have any. (It's not that I dislike them.) I like the desert and the mountains. I love road trips. I travel a lot, often any chance I get. I've been to 42 states and 18 countries. I have 2 cats, named Hank and Dean.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

!!!Gentlemen - do not mail me with your romantic messages. I am NOT ROMANTICALLY OR SEXUALLY INTERESTED IN MEN and I WILL flag your message as SPAM or ABUSE!!!People who are relaxed and centered enough to be themselves. I don't judge anybody but I like to spend time with people who are real and who live life to the fullest. It's difficult to be around people who live as characters or personas rather than themselves.

My Blog

Voices for Tolerance available for download

Voices for Tolerance available for download!!! You NEED Voices for Tolerance Voices for Tolerance will make you happy : )
Posted by on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT

Voices for Tolerance Press Release

Chicago, IL, June 12, 2008 - Following on the heels of the success from their first album Voices For Peace, the Voices For organization is proud to announce the release of their follow up album,...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:54:00 GMT

Voices For Concert @ Anime Central

Posted by on Mon, 12 May 2008 22:44:00 GMT

update

After calling upon sorcery learned long ago, some good spurts of luck and a data transfusion I have moved from "sporadic" to "limited to one source" of the Internet. I have to be sitting at my desk a...
Posted by on Mon, 12 May 2008 22:42:00 GMT

Communication Problems

Hi folks, Because of a few things of no import, I will have sporadic access to the Internet until sometime in September or October. My apologoies if I fall out of touch until then. My Voices For...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 17:53:00 GMT

Oh, that one little word...

I've been playing at an open mic night on Tuesday and tonight I was looking for a few 80's songs that might work for a solo guitar and some effects and were in my vocal range. I found some lists of 8...
Posted by on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:14:00 GMT

Dale, the Guitar God of the Midwest

If you haven't seen it already - Dale is the Fan's View Personality of the Week! Tippett is in the middle of the music, leading and pushing the performers to levels they could never imagine. Amen. :...
Posted by on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:59:00 GMT

2008 and 2007

Happy New Year! I hope that all of you have a great 2008!!! I was going to do the end of the year survey but I normally base it off my LJ entries, which have been the way I keep track of my pha...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:05:00 GMT

Anime Central and Chicago

Too bad MySpace doesn't have lj cut. You'll have to put up with my extensive music ramblings... It's hard to believe that it's been 10 years since the first Anime Central. It seems so much longer. I t...
Posted by on Sun, 20 May 2007 14:48:00 GMT

Voices For Charity Concert at Anime Central!

Voices For 2nd Annual Charity ConcertAnime Central8:00 pmSaturday May 12, 2007Hyatt Regency O'Hare HotelGrand Ballrooms B & CCome enjoy the vocal talents of:Mike McFarlandGreg AyresChristopher Ayr...
Posted by on Wed, 09 May 2007 14:32:00 GMT