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About Me

I'm a serious musician - I play alto & tenor saxophone, and am beginning on keyboards. I'm open to many types of music, most of which cannot fit into any specific genre, and I'm about to start writing my own music as soon as I get a new keyboard (very soon). I moved to San Diego from Chicago in the fall of 2005 to get my Master's degree in saxophone performance, and will move to Rome by the time I turn 30 to promote my music. If things don't work out in Rome, I will move to Milan, and if things don't work out there, I will move to London. I have traveled to Italy in the summer of 2000, and to England in the summer of 2004, and they were the two best experiences of my life. I have fallen in love with European culture, and I believe this is where I will succeed with music. I'm very close with my family & friends, and always will be. I have been very fortunate to have such inspiring people in my life, and I hope that in some way I have inspired them as well. I've chosen to dedicate my life to music, although I would very much like to raise my own family someday. What is most important to me, though, is that my music gets out there and hopefully touches people's lives in one way or another. If I have to give my music away for free, than I will have no problem with that. I am willing to make sacrifices to persue my dream, and nothing will stop me. Hopefully I can find a good woman that understands my passion and who is passionate about something herself. Even if I never get recognition for my music, I will be able to die happy knowing that I gave it my best shot.

My Interests

Music, movies, art, nature, the ocean, sunrise, sunsets, Italia & all of Europe, European soccer, beautiful intelligent women with a good taste in music.

I'd like to meet:

Beautiful intelligent women. All the musicians that have influenced me in a positive way. Anyone with a good taste in music. Anyone who appreciates any form of art, European culture, or European soccer. Anyone else that doesn't fit into any of the above that is down to earth.

Music:

Thievery Corporation, Massive Attack, Daft Punk, Underworld, Ladytron, Vitalic, Justice, MSTRKRFT, Air, Goldfrapp, Prefuse 73, Savath & Savalas, Portishead, Boards of Canada, Nightmares on Wax, DJ Shadow, Sneaker Pimps, Morcheeba, Kruder & Dorfmeister, The Presets, Fischerspooner, M83, Kraftwerk, Tricky, Out Hud, Junior Boys, Thunderball, Federico Aubele, Ursula 1000, Orbital, Prodigy, Gorillaz, 311, Sublime, Incubus, Jack Johnson, Bob Marley, Damien Marley, The Rum Runners, Cleanray, Spare Parts, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Santana, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Jethro Tull, Cat Stevens, Van Morrison, John Coltrane, David Sanchez, Galactic, Groovatron, The Vandermark 5, Medeski Martin & Wood, Michael Hedges, VAST, The Mars Volta, Mogwai, Radiohead, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Type O Negative, Nine Inch Nails, Beethoven, Chopin.

Movies:

American Beauty, American Psycho, The Beach, The Big Lebowski, Blade, Blow, Blue Velvet, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Clerks, Dark City, Dazed and Confused, The Devil's Advocate, Donnie Darko, Doom Generation, Dracula, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Fight Club, Frailty, Go, The Godfather 1&2, Goodfellas, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Interview With the Vampire, Irreversible, The Island, Jackie Brown, Juice, King Kong, The Life Aquatic, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Lost Highway, Matrix Trilogy, Memento, Mulholland Dr., Natural Born Killers, Pi, The Pianist, Pulp Fiction, Requiem for a Dream, Resivoir Dogs, The Rules of Attraction, Sin City, Snatch, Taxi Driver, Team America: World Police, Thirteen, Total Recall, Training Day, Trainspotting, Underworld, Underworld: Evolution, Vanilla Sky, Videodrome, Zoolander.

Television:

Sopranos, Nip/Tuck, Lost, South Park, Family Guy, Seinfeld, Chappelle's Show.

Heroes:

My Dad, all of my family and friends, every musician who has made an impact on my life, every musician who stays true to the music and not the money.