Art. Music. Computers (Apple Mac!). Politics (liberal!). Vegetarian (health & animal rights!). Flying. And I have a patent for a cam operated clamp that I designed.
Audio: producing, engineering, recording. Video: production. Graphic design: fine & commercial art, photography, web design - Trimordial Studio Las Vegas - Audio Video & Graphics .
Santa Fe, New Mexico; Sedona, Arizona; Fredericksburg, Texas (near Austin), see my website, Hill Country Scene and my MySpace page, Hill Country , about the arts and music of the central Texas Hill Country.
Feng Shui, and music and color therapy, see my website, DeStress Spa - Music, Color, & Aroma Relaxation & Stress Relief Alternative Therapy Facility .
Farrah Reizana and I also developed a computer themed nightclub, see our website, Hackerz Niteclub or The Neght Club .
And I help my brother put on his annual Public Defender Las Vegas Retreat every year.
They should put solar collectors over parking lots, then we could park in the shade and make electricity too.
There are some people that I haven't seen for a very long time that I am curious about. From Banfield: Peggy Sherman, Gail Williams, and Bill Helgeson. From Winona: Rick Brunberg and Jeff Gappa.
Pet Peeves: People who don't use turn signals (I flash at them), people who run red stop lights (I honk at them), and people who litter (that's butts too). And also people who use programs to add friends, that's really lame! I add friends one at a time because I like you, or think you might like me.
Quote: "One of the things that really upsets me is when people say, 'I'm not political.' It's upsetting because what do they think politics is? Politics is about who you are, where you stand, what your responsibility is. It's about being part of the world and part of the community. So when someone says 'I'm not political,' I feel like what they are saying is 'I only care about myself. In my bathtub. Me and my bathtub is what I care about.'" -- Julianne Moore
I'd like to meet:
Sarah Jessica Parker (5'3"), Lisa Edelstein (vegetarian 5'6"), Melina Kanakaredes (5'7"), Marla Sokoloff (5'3"), Stevie Nicks (5'1"), Paula Abdul (5'0"), Tori Amos (5'2"), Carmen Electra (5'3"), Eva Longoria (5'2"), Rhona Mitra (5'6"), Kim Basinger (vegetarian 5'7"), Julia Roberts (5'8").
(I did say hi to Paula Abdul before she was famous, while she was recording her first album. My band at the time was recording a couple of songs across the hall from her in a Minneapolis recording studio.)
Music:
I play bass and do audio, video, and graphics for my Las Vegas based original indie sunshine pop band, Poppermost , with Alex Oliver. See my bio on the Poppermost website here (at the bottom of the page).
I personally like pop, rock, new age, folk (including bluegrass, world, and slack key), smooth jazz, some country, and classical music. Pretty much anything I haven't heard before, which means that I don't listen to much commercial radio (except KPFA in Berkeley CA or KCRW in LA), and I don't buy too many CDs for that same reason either.
Influences: ABBA, Aimee Mann and 'Til Tuesday, Alex Oliver, Andreas Vollenweider, Aretha Franklin, Beatles, Bing Crosby, Box Tops, Bruce Springsteen, Bruce Swedien, Cream, David Bowie, Deep Purple, Eagles, Erik Satie, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Zappa, Garrison Keillor, George Frideric Handel, George Winston, Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, John Cage, John Cougar Mellencamp, Kate Wolf, Led Zeppelin, Mannheim Steamroller, Maria McKee and Lone Justice, Moody Blues, Neil Young, No Doubt, Otmar Liebert, Paul Simon, Peter Kater and R. Carlos Nakai, Pink Floyd, Pretenders, Prince, Roger Nichols, Rolling Stones, Santana, Scandal, Steely Dan, Stevie Nicks, Teena Marie, The Byrds, The Kinks, The Who, Todd Rundgren, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Tori Amos, U2, and Yanni and Chameleon (Yanni's old hard rock band in Minneapolis)
Movies:
The Wizard of Oz (1939), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Long Long Trailer (1954), 1984 (1956), The Spirit of St Louis (1957), The Blob (1958), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959), The Time Machine (1960), It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963), Mary Poppins (1964), Doctor Zhivago (1965), Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 hours 11 minutes (1965), Fahrenheit 451 (1966), 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968), Woodstock (1970), Star Wars (1977), The Blues Brothers (1980), Indiana Jones (1981), Purple Rain (1984), This Is Spinal Tap (1984), 9 1/2 Weeks (1986), English Patient (1996), Contact (1997), Titanic (1997), Pirates of Silicon Valley (1999), The Matrix (1999), Erin Brockovich (2000), O Brother Where Art Thou? (2000), Enough (2002), The Notebook (2004)
Television:
Cosmos, Connections, Austin City Limits, NOVA, Soundstage, Are You Being Served?, Monty Python (all PBS)
Sex and the City, Practice / Boston Legal, West Wing / Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Alias, CSIs, Dark Angel, Monk, Two and a Half Men, Everybody Loves Raymond, Criminal Minds, Law and Orders, Medium, NCIS, My Name Is Earl, Watch Mr. Wizard
Books:
"The 4th Dimension – Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality" by Rudy Rucker, "Color Psychology and Color Therapy – A Factual Study of the Influence of Color on Human Life" by Faber Birren, "Healing with Music and Color – A Beginner's Guide" by Mary Bassano, "Vibrational Medicine – New Choices for Healing Ourselves" by Richard Gerber MD, "Vibrations – Healing Through Color Homeopathy and Radionics" by Virginia Maclvor and Sandra LaForest, "Color and Personality" by Audrey Kargere, "The Feng Shui Handbook – A Practical Guide to Chinese Geomancy and Environmental Harmony" by Derek Walters, "Living Color – Master Lin Yun's Guide to Feng Shui and the Art of Color" by Sarah Rossbach and Lin Yun, "The Power of Color – The Art and Science of Making Colors Work for You" by Dr Morton Walker, "The Elements of Feng Shui" by Man-Ho Kwok and Joanne O'Brien
Heroes:
Steve Jobs (Apple, Pixar, iPod), Thomas Alva Edison (light etc), Alexander Graham Bell (sound), Carl Sagan (Cosmos PBS), James Burke (Connections PBS), Leonardo da Vinci (flight, art, engineering, etc), Rembrandt (art), John F Kennedy, Hugh Hefner, Roy Rogers, Charles Darwin, and the Flying Spaghetti Monster (He doesn't punish the worship of other, false gods, but He really wishes you got some sense and worshiped Him, so you can spend eternity in Heaven, near the Stripper Factory and the Beer Volcano.)
