i'm a little intense and i'm probably overly idealistic. i'm more concerned with some lofty pursuit of art & music than with anything particularly practical.

a native new yorker, i now haunt the ridgewood/bushwick border. i like flaneuring, musicking, and organizing things. i'm open-minded and curious, but also skeptical. my passion is music. i also enjoy dabbling in painting, acting, video, and philosophy. my sense of humor is based in accents and physical comedy. i also like puns and wordplay.

i don't drink or do drugs anymore, but it doesn't bother me if you drink or smoke pot.

in essence, i'm looking for a companion with whom to have fun, intellectual discussions, and musical experiences. i'm not looking for anything too serious, but if i find it, then okay. i am, however, looking for something meaningful.

composing and performing music.

i work in a recording studio by day (and night).

i recently started learning the banjo and the fiddle. so far, so good.

trying to make sense of it. going to shows. navigating the creative process. trying to start oil painting again.

me on the internet: music, website, tumblr, and band

listening
my fake tap-dance
opening jars
napping
playing devil's advocate
turning people on to arthur russell (and other cool music)
making eyes with you on the L train
procrastinating

i look like a white mr. t

books: understanding media, steppenwolf, nausea, a lover's discourse, silence, raymond carver, allen ginsberg, in griot time, critical theory.

oh, and this belongs somewhere on here.

movies: alien, blade runner. cronenberg, malick, lynch, brakhage. horror movies from the 80's and thrillers from the 90's, the new german cinema. my best friend is a filmmaker, so i love talking film with him.

music: current explorations: jeff buckley, mountain banjo & fiddle, traditional irish fiddle and bagpipes, west african (mande), delta blues. always: radiohead, the velvet underground, arthur russell, the talking heads, joy division, brian eno, philip glass, miles davis, john coltrane, javanese and balinese gamelan, hindustani music, experimental, electronic, and so on and so forth, let's talk about it!

artists: rothko, smithson, pollock, francis bacon, h.r. giger, schiele, thiebaud, hopper

food: ys pls.

geographical feature: isthmus

music + john cleese + people + inspiration + nature + the seinfeld theme

music: culture, texture, feeling. artistic creation. mysticism. women. entropy. time. impermanence. language. words. how the mind works. meaning and lack thereof. chance encounters. chance operations. james chance and the contortions....

playing music, spinning vinyl at home, dancin', searching for inspiration

i never could get into neil young (but i still respect his work)

go ahead, subvert the norm, i'll like it, you'll like it, and it's the way things are going anyway, may as well be ahead of the curve.

you play music, you like to listen to music, you want to make history together, you want a concert buddy! you wanna help me pick a tattoo/piercing, you like intellectual discussions, you're creative, passionate, and cute.

or if you want to show me some cool spots in ridgewood or bushwick.