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About Me

I am a contradiction. For example, I will boldly wear my Lance Armstrong LIVESTRONG cancer awareness bracelet while chain smoking through a pack of Marlboro Ultra Lights. I am working on that..... I'm not very good at poker, you can tell exactly what I am thinking by the look on my face. My sense of humor can be pretty dry and I can be sarcastic as hell, but I also genuinely like to hear people's stories. I have always been fascinated by the human condition. Corporate America sucks, but until I write that book that has been swirling around in my head for years or make that documentary, I am just gonna have to tough it out. There are a million things that I want to do, that I haven't done yet, like learn how to play the guitar or spend some time outside of the US... I think about that a lot. I think I think too much, oh yea, keep me away from Tuaca...it is an ugly thing.

My Interests

Music:

Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, [DARYL], Slobberbone (RIP), Brent Best, Ryan Adams, Counting Crows, Whiskeytown, Van Morrison, Two Cow Garage, Slick 57, The Shins, Sparrows(RIP), Sorta, Will Johnson, Centro Matic, Bob Schneider, Patty Griffin, Billy Harvey, Matt the Electrician, Boys Named Sue, The Drams, Travis Hopper, Sunday Night Brent Best solo shows at Barley House, Guster, Neil Young AND Neil Diamond (blame that on my mother.) Old school country, influenced from my Dad...70's era. Old school rap...Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash, The Barkays, Earth Wind and Fire.

Movies:

Scorsesi, Coppolla and Van Zant. Almost Famous, Royal Tennenbaum's, Rushmore and Bottle Rocket. American Beauty, I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Singles, Reality Bites. Paradise Lost 1 & 2. Every Vietnam War movie, especially The Deer Hunter. Clerks, Chasing Amy, Munich, Syriana, the list is never ending, I am a movie junkie and docs have a special place in my heart.

Television:

HBO original series, Looking forward to The Wire in Sept. Can't wait for Spike Lee's 4 part film about Hurricane Katrina, "when the levess broke". Everything else I watch is garbage, but like a train wreck I can't look away.

Books:

Too many to list here... they are all over my house. I have run out of room, and got sick of tripping over them so some are in storage. I do love Pat Conroy, Maya Angelou and generally have a soft spot for Southern writers. Check Brian Andreas out...storypeople.com- I discovered him in SF in 2001, he is from a little town in Iowa and has several books that are a collection of stories and drawings, they are simple, but amazing!