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About Me

The year I decided to quit eating meat my parents bought a steakhouse. That was twenty years ago. I still don't eat red meat, and I'm still working at the steakhouse. That pretty much sums up how my life has worked up till this point-- When I'm not working off my sentence of indentured servitude at the ole family grindstone, I'm an artist. I paint primarily for children. Murals, canvases, furniture, etc. I like the fact that my art makes people smile, and I long for the day when I can devote myself to it full time.

My Interests

I like to paint, and I love art in any form. My favorites are outsider artists like Howard Finster and Margaret Kilgallen. Some of my other current favorites include Liz McGrath, Mark Ryden, Eric White, The Clayton Brothers, and Camille Rose Garcia. I love Basenjies and couldn't imagine life without my handsome Basenji boy St.John or his two cat brothers Leopold and Atticus. I adore plants and I work in my garden whenever I have the time.I'm also kind of obsessed with letterboxing at the moment. I just can't seem to get enough. Check it out at Atlasquest.com.

I'd like to meet:

Music:

The Floating Men--Jeff Black--Johnny Cash--Loretta Lynn--John Coltrane--Miles Davis--The Beatles--Billie Holiday--Nina Simone--Jane Monheit--Ella Fitzgerald--Leonard Cohen--Tom Waits--Jimmy Smith--David Bowie--Miss Deringer--Joni Mitchell--Kate Bush--This Mortal Coil--Peter Gabriel--Cure--Tori Amos--David Gray--U2--Van Morrison--etc...

Movies:

The Nightmare Before Christmas, or any movie in which Tim Burton is involved--Basquiat--Pollock--Songs for Drella--Junebug--Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula--Ghost World--Near Dark--Raising Arizona--Harold and Maude--Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind--Who the #@*! is Jackson Pollock--

Books:

I love to read. Art books--children's fiction--Southern authors--history--conservation--etc. Some of my favorite authors are Poppy Z. Brite--Anaiss Nin--Raymond Carver--Jeffrey Eugenides--Gregory Maguire--Pat Conroy--Tony Horwitz--Stephen Ambrose--some Anne Rice--Phillip Pullman--Janet Fitch--Umberto Eco--Steve Berry--and Jerzy Kosinski.(but I could go on)

Heroes:

My basenji, St.John. He is an amazingly accurate judge of character, he understands the power of unconditional love, and he has never once hurt my feelings.