Music and the pursuit of freedom

Just finished grad school in NYC - I guess that makes me a master of env science & policy -- which so far has been really great as a conversation starter and as a source of crippling debt but little else.
I am happy to be back in the Bay and have decided to dedicate myself to music for a while and see where that takes me... I play Afro Cuban music and am now learning to play piano, bass, and drums - good times

Ahem (clears throat).. I would say that I have a fair amount of talent and potential as a musician -
I'm also a pretty good basketball player and have a general proclivity for all things athletic and mathematic. I guess that makes me a mathlete.

my brow has a tendency to furrow ...
I also have a prominent proboscis

music - jazz, rumba, timba, reggae, r n b, soul, hip hop - i love it all
-dancing, real listening - partaking in spontaneous freestyle jams and also working on standards out of the real book. I love accompanying singers on the piano or guitar and generally try to cultivate a 'go for it' approach with all things musical and I guess with life in general

movies - uh lets see.. I liked pans labyrinth, children of men, before the devil knows your dead, -- I guess I'll start keeping a running tally
books by vonnegut, karouac, borges, garcia marquez --- really at this stage of my life most of my reading is news and politically related ...I am a bit of a news and politics junkie - and I have a pretty well established PROGRESSIVE political compass - though I genuinely try and sometimes succeed at keeping an open mind

family, music
fresh air, beauty, herbal medicine (4.2.0) and avocados

how we are just drops in a bucket

things are not so typical at this juncture

I can get into some good late night judge Judy

you feel like it