Traveling to exotic spots and meeting new and interesting people, going to music shows and festivals, music journalism and the art of photographing the rock star. Pondering and creating great art. Community related activities including but not limited to: drinking copious amounts of absinthe (Bohemian style for the true heads), busting gnarly nose grinds on the fresh powder of my indoor snow ski slope, I've also been known to specialize in tubular, aquatic, herbal combustion techniques.
I have a strange ongoing fascination with big, jubulous booties and the art of the booty quake. (It's as though the booty is a completely different animal of it's own accord, with it's own chemistry and agenda.) Aside from that, I love to hit the streets sporting an oversize 70's mustache, pointy goatie, customized chops and the most ridiculous funk/disco gear ever regurgitated by the fashion industry. I believe that I am actually in possesion of a powerful, ancient funk suit owned, blessed and soiled by Rick James himself, which was bestowed upon me by the Funk Gods as some sort of sacred declaration of my funky arrival. I am hereforth commited to a life of preserving the funk arts and funkin' shit up in general. I will forever waive my freaky, funk flag high. Now show me your titties bitches!
My lifelong passion with music is embodied in the music which flows freely from my spirit and my black Gibson SG and my lyrics are the primary vehicles which I utilize to express the hopes, fears, triumphs and tragedies of my life and mankind in general. I've worked in several bands since I began playing at the tender age of twelve and after experiencing considerable frustration with the music scene, I took a four year hiatus from music to pursue my art career with zealous vigor. I am now happily back on my axe and currently working with the prog. rock outfit, The Hour At Hand to produce fresh material to guide the misled masses. Once our intellectual material is completed, packaged and published, we then plan to tour extensively in support of our creative endeavors.
One time co-founder, publisher and creative director of the cult-favorite ezine, ThinkDank.com (2001-2003), I currently enjoy freelancing for several publications. My topics of literary interest include the counter-culture, drug prohibition, pitfalls of the creative process, conspiracy theory, gnostic Christianity and music journalism.
Click here to read my CD review of Clutch's 'Blast Tyrant' for HighTimes.com
Click here to read my stony review of the 9th Annual All Good festival for HighTimes.com
Click here to read my baked review of the 10th Annual All Good festival for HighTimes.com
I'd like to meet:
I'm interested in meeting anyone that is positive, independent or unique, especially other creative minds (artists, musicians, writers,). Either way intelligence is a pre-requisite, funkiness is a plus but not a necessity. Dumb asses, fakes, drama queens, and the generally stupid need not apply.
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Music:
Funk, jazz, rock, hip-hop, soul, R&B, electronica, metal, classical, opera, or any blend of thereof. Things that come from the soul.
Television:
I killed my TV because I thought it was malfunctioning. Everytime I turned the little shit on it was spewing forth some ugly filth that I wasn't trying to hear. Since killing my television (which I might add was hella good drunken fun) I've begun the slow process of re-sensitizing myself to issues that TV once muted. I've found that I actually feel something again when I hear about death and tragedy, not to mention I have realized that there are so many cool things to do and explore in life with the Tube turned off. I've got shows/sports that I'm into which I won't on elaborate here, however I'm just as well going to my friend's house or the bar to watch them vs. owning and watching my own shitbox. It gives me a good reason to get my white ass out of the laboratory to mingle with the rest of the world.
Books:
Counter-culture books, suspense, horror/ freak shit, light sci-fi, fantasy especially mythical creatures for fiction. Non fiction, I'm kind of a history buff, particularly biographies of prominent overachievers, text on spirituality/ religion/ self exploration/ mental consiousness, exotic, distant cultures and information on drug facts/culture books, literature on propaganda is always a hoot.
Favorite authors include: Hunter S. Thompson, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouak, Allen Ginsberg, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Tom Clancy, Edgar Allen Poe, Phillip Dick, Aldus Huxley, Moses, John of Patmos (The alleged scribe of the Book of Revelation... good reads)
Heroes:
God, Jesus, Buddha, the dude/dudette that first smoked cheebs, Confucious, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas King Forcade, Albert Hoffman, Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Ken Kesey, Eddy Lepp, Jimi Hendrix, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, George Clinton, Franky "Kash" Waddy, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Frank Zappa, Maynard James Keenan, Alex Grey, Larry Flint, Hunter S. Thompson...
