Occasional DJ
Usual beard

I'm from Chicago originally, but currently working on an MA in Studio arts in Holland. I have six months to go. Yikes. I spend the other parts of the year in New York where I was living previous to my move abroad. Not sure what I'll do after I graduate yet, I guess I'll let the comforting illusion graduate school provides evaporate a bit more before I plan my next move.

I like finding better ways to know myself intellectually, physically, socially. Mostly learning through conversing with people. Mostly trying new yoga poses. Ya know.

I recently spent time doing a project in Tangier inspired by the writers working there when it was an international zone in the mid 20th century.

Exploring
Arranging
Listening
Looking
Chewing
Finding
Holding
Shaping
Multiplying
Dividing

To read:
Camus' essay 'Create Dangerously' , Kafka on the Shore (fish fall from the sky!), Labryinths , Naked Lunch, Poems by ms Gertrude Stein, Ever read Graham Greene's 'Destructors'?, Arendt's The Human Condition , big Bens Illuminations, dluze gttris A Thousand Plateaus, Molloy (people say I dress like Beckett, no lie), Sebald The Emigrants, It a lo Cal vi no, Ray Chandler, Lydia Davis, G Agamben, John Giorno's Balling Buddha

To watch:
Agnes Varda (Vagabond!), Chris Marker , Chantal Akerman, Peter Greenaway (A Zed and Two Noughts), PP Pasolini (just watched Mamma Roma-amazing), Herzog, Errol Morris docs, Lynch, anything with Carl Sagan, Scripts by Charlie Kauffman, Humphrey Bogart anything, Apichatpong Weerasethakul

To listen:
Sublime Frequencies (Cambodian Cassettes!), Hank Williams, Arthur Russell, Alan Lomax's folk music archives, Wim Mertens, Sam Cooke, James Brown, Liliput, Glenn Gould, Anything classic house or italo disco... and the mighty Alex Chilton, because if you love this song as much as I do well little lady you gotta special place in my heart: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf4cVBKHJng

To eat:
Strange vegetables, Cured meats

I was a vegetarian for a year, but started having way too many cheeseburger hallucinations and had to stop. Funny it wasn't the good meat that brought me back.

here and elsewhere

very groovy

the jurassic park theme song may be one of my favorite pieces of recorded music, ever

you feel a conversation happening