I'm a professional musician and teacher. I'm currently starting a new internet-based teaching bizness, which I'm pretty excited about!
I guess that's not a self-summary...it's just what I do. How do you sum up yourself? It's not easy. Umm..I like rainy weather and strong coffee, old blues music, the Rolling Stones, I'm not very good at chess, but I admire people who are, I prefer European food and social space to American. But I love the wilderness here.

I'm a bohemian at heart, but I don't always act like one...

I don't play video games, but I enjoy watching others do it. (Play video games, you letch, you.) I'm a big fan of trickster figures, you know, Loki, Bugs Bunny, Br'er Rabbit, Coyote, GW Bush etc, and while I don't imitate them in real life, my friends and I seem to have a lot in common with them spiritually, existentially, what have you. I think it translates into, among other things, being iconoclastic and politically skeptical.

On the other hand, I'm a traditional guy in some ways and I can say I'm completely out of whack with the 21st century! In a good way, of course... -- it's not just because the zeitgeist has undeniably morphed into some odd and freakish cultural behemoth or Kraken, beyond the most garish and obscene imaginings of David Lynch or Andrei Tarkovsky or Stan Lee! :P It's more that I think I've spent a lot of time mentally in classic literature, history books, old movies, psychological and philosophical speculation etc, so I'm sort of in a different headspace, I guess you could say.

However, I am consistently intrigued by the 21st century, as much by what it will become as by what it is. When you've been around more than 3 decades, you start getting an idea of when the air is changing and it doesn't always follow logically on what came before. But hell, it's always surprising. Whether that's good or not,,,I'm not sure. Who could have thought there could have been someone more reactionary and bizarre than Ronald Reagan? And yet, there was and we ain't out of the woods yet.

Wow, this might not be the kind of thing that is supposed to go in this section... *does shot*

It's official.,,I can't write a self-summary and I ain't gonna try! You'll just have to get to know me...the old fashioned meet and talk way.

Starting a new web-based tutoring company, recording and mixing a ton of music, playing gigs....

Listening. Croquet with hedgehogs.

I'm stunningly intelligent-seeming and handsome and humble!!

Books/Authors:
Anna Karenina, Voltaire, Hugo, Barbara Tuchmann, Maupassant or Simenon. Elmore Leonard. Herodotus. Carl Jung. NOT Faulkner. Styron. European, English and Middle Eastern history.

Current faves: Keith Richards' memoir, Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, and a travel book about Eastern Europe between the wars, "Between the Woods and the Water."

Movies / TV:
Fantastic Mr. Fox, Bourne movies, Marriage, Italian Style. Treasure of the Sierra Madre, LOTR, The Hobbit, Newsradio, Big Bang Theory, BBC Sherlock Holmes, Who Shot Liberty Valence?, Maltese Falcon, The Lion in Winter, Original Star Trek, Star Wars (IV), Nights of Cabiria, ETC!!

Directors: John Huston, Billy Wilder's films, Kurosawa, Sergio Leone, the Marx Brothers, Hitchcock, Vittorio de Sica, Antonioni, early Fellini, Mel Brooks

Music: Jimi Hendrix, Marvin Gaye, jazz from the 50's and 60's. James Brown, En Vogue, Curtis Mayfield, Al Green, Rolling Stones, JS Bach, Sly and Parliament, Amadou and Mariam. All the classic Blues players, especially Muddy Waters, BB King, Albert King and Albert Collins. Bobby Bland. Chopin. The Minutemen. Debussy. Satie. Late Mozart. Stevie Wonder. Marin Marais and that Lully guy. Joy Division, Cheb Khaled, a lot of Middle Eastern and African music. A lot of Latin Jazz recently .

Food: Middle Eastern, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Italian, Mexican and Indian. I'm mostly into Korean and Indian these days.

Music, nature, friends, good drummers, my magic penny from the reign of Edward II, strong coffee, yoga, mythology. oops...that's 8.

My next recording, SF fog, Jung, Hinduism, how I stopped liking alcohol recently, how cool English history is until the 17th century. And most importantly, if there's a Batman, is there also a WombatMan?

Reading, recording something, seeing a movie, hearing a band, playing a gig, fine-tuning my OKCupid profile, of course!~

I strongly dislike electronic music.

If you know a good sake / izakaya joint. Or if you have good stock tips. Or if you want to impress me with your knowledge of jazz trumpeters of the 1960's who were from outer Uzbekistan. :P