CURRENT MISSION

Busk on a pyramid.

PHILOSOPHY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8Szl_JyCUQ

Interests

Playing music, writing poetry, painting, talking.

• writing
• poetry
• painting
• music
• teaching

Music, Movies, and Books

POETRY, etc:
Gertrude Stein
Lyn Hejinian
John Ashbery
Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Ben Lerner
Frank O'Hara -- Lunch Poems, et al.
Sarah Kane
Suzan-Lori Parks
Jean-Paul Sartre -- Huis Clos
Albert Camus
William Faulkner -- The Sound and the Fury
Virginia Woolf -- To the Lighthouse

MUSIC:
MAD NOISE.
Gogol Bordello
Tom Waits
Death Grips
P-Funk -> G-Funk -> Hyphy
OutKast
The Roots
Why?
Bright Eyes
The Dead Kennedys
Nouvelle Vague
Andrew Jackson Jihad
Miles Davis
Charles Mingus
Ima Robot
Best Coast

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

September 2011: I was recently was applauded by the cops at Sacré Cœur. They are most known for confiscating musicians' instruments without warning.

October 2011: I've received tips from gypsy children several times while busking in Paris. And I mean Euros, not what Mr. Marley sang about.

Teach, Learn, Share

I've been busking since 2010 around the San Francisco Bay Area with my band MAD NOISE on upright bass. In the Fall of 2011 I busked in Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, and London while studying in Paris.

I'm also a writing tutor and teacher.

Countries I’ve Visited

France, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

France, United States