Music is my life. Playing music, listening to music, finding new music and musicians. My trademark piano style is ragtime.
Currently I write original music for my own edification, belt out torch songs, and play the hell out of my keyboards.
Designing websites and creating graphics is also a big part of life; am therefore compelled to do the backgrounds on this page.
Love to ski. Downhill. Fast.
You can find me at Mt. Rose every weekend when there's snow.
In summer I hike, swim and bike and travel.
Hmmm, what else can I reveal without fear of possible imprisonment?
Member of Mensa but don't attend meetings. Retain my membership for use as a tool.
In the words of Groucho Marx...
"I'd like to join a club and beat you over the head with it."
Fave Musicians and Influences...
Living: Iconoclasts Harlan Ellison, Randy Newman, Madeleine Albright, Kate Bush
Dead: Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane), Catherine I of Russia, Peter the Great, Tycho Brahe, Louise Brooks, Isaac Asimov, Mae West, Tolstoy, Niels Bohr
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I design sites for a living and too much clutter, over-sized images, or tacky references make me stark raving berserk.
Unless, in a fit of madness, I place them here myself.
Ben Folds, Elliot Smith, Dresden Dolls, Randy Newman, Kurt Weill, Death Cab For Cutie, Dandy Warhols, Belle and Sebastian, Scott Joplin, The Ramones, Elvis Costello, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Our Dead, Warren Zevon, Joe Jackson, David Bowie, Jellyroll Morton, Tom Lehrer, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Steely Dan, Elton John, Beethoven, Weird Al, Grover Washington Jr, Richie Cole, Tom Waits, Frank Sinatra, Boomtown Rats, Sparks, They Might Be Giants, Stan Freeberg, Yo-Yo Ma, Cole Porter
Local Reno Faves:
Ordinary , Brant , Obscured , Pushbox , 5Thirty5 , Love's Proxy
This Calendar Year , Delusions of Grandeur , The Atomix , Frankie Ferreira
Pulp Fiction, Princess Bride, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, High Fidelity, Grosse Point Blank, Doctor Strangelove, Garden State, The Stunt Man, Shock Treatment, Citizen Kane, The Coconuts, Hairspray, Tapeheads, Donnie Darko, Crash, Blazing Saddles, Bagdad Cafe, Fish Called Wanda, Amelie, Kill Bill, Buckaroo Banzai, Failsafe, The Rutles, Harold and Maude, Dogma, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Brazil
Dexter, House, Seconds To Disaster, X-Files, Red Dwarf,
Confederacy of Dunces, Tourist Season, Into Thin Air, Ellison Wonderland, The Fabric of The Cosmos, Winter's Tale, Danse Macabre, Stiff, Hitchhikers Guide
(except the last book which is atrocious. WTF were you thinking Douglas?), Fahrenheit 451, First You Build a Cloud: And Other Reflections on Physics as a Way of Life, The Illuminatus Trilogy,The Aspern Papers
Authors: Flannery O'Connor, Kurt Vonnegut, Mary Roach, Al Franken, Bill Bryson, Hunter S. Thompson, Harlan Ellison, Issac Asimov, Dorothy Parker, Brian Greene, Stephen Hawking, Mike Resnick, James Thurber, Mark Twain. Thomas Wolfe, Gore Vidal, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Richard Matheson, Henry James, Ray Bradbury, Kilgore Trout
My Mom, My Dad, Ellis Schweid, Spalding Gray, Noam Chomsky, Mae West, Bettie Page, Coco Channel, Aquaman
I collect vintage Ouija and Talking Boards. If you want a smirk and some good historical and hysterical info visit
my Ouija site
ouija at damnedgames.com