CURRENT MISSION

Perspective. From people, music, or mountaintops.

ABOUT ME

Male humanoid biped.

Interests

Music, writing music, playing guitar, bass and piano, gardening, thinking, woodworking, camping, hiking, dreaming, the Boston Red Sox, and the Green Bay Packers.

• writing
• wine
• gardening
• woodworking
• music
• guitar
• piano
• hiking
• camping

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: Eleven (band), Yasmin Levy, Ben Folds, Nin, Charlie Hunter, Listening to music, Tool, Blind Melon, The Tangents, The Metro Gnomes, Arthur Channel, Sigur Rós, Creature Feature, Jethro Tull, UB40, SRHS Choirs, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Jaco Pastorius, Hangmans Daughter, Jazz, Bad Company, Guns N' Roses, Rock Music, Thelonious Monk, A Perfect Circle, Led Zeppelin, Them Crooked Vultures, Tool, Igor Stravinsky, Primus, Kaki King, Zoe Keating, Tom Waits, The Black Keys, Ani DiFranco, Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, Soundgarden, The Beach Boys, Manzano/McKenzie Group, Sonoma County Musician's Alliance, OAKCREST, Foldback Time, Domestic Electrics, Katy Stephan, David Byrne, Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett, Charlie Hunter, Al Di Meola, George Gershwin, Buddy Holly, a Perfect Circle, Estradasphere, Stanley Clarke, Guns N' Roses, Johann Sebastian Bach, Cafe Tacuba, Blind Melon, Charles Ives, The Beach Boys, Ben Folds Five, Sonoma County Bands, Mitch Hedberg, Coventry Road, Lycaon Music Publications, Leonard Bernstein, Bob Marley, Zoe Boekbinder, Apocalyptica, Danny Elfman, Autobahn da Fe, Foo Fighters, Lisa Hannigan, Weezer, five a.m., Beastie Boys, Alice in Chains, Queens of the Stone Age, Barenaked Ladies, "Les Claypool", Talking Heads, The Mars Volta, Gabriel Kahane, The Quiet, Radiohead, Dave Matthews Band, Amanda Palmer, The Dresden Dolls, Eric Whitacre, Chanticleer, Eleven, Counting Crows, Chris Cornell, John Williams, Modern Mandolin Quartet, Oysterhead, Primus, Moxy Fruvous, Sergei Rachmaninov, The Royal Highness, Anything Created With Passion, UB40, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Scott Joplin, Tool, Soundgarden, Walk the Moon, Maurice Ravel, Leo Kottke, Jethro Tull, Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade, Meat Puppets, Erik Satie, Arnold Schoenberg, Andres Segovia, Mils, Sigur Ros, Stravinsky, Temple of the Dog, Mother Love Bone, Django Reinhardt, Wolfgang Mozart, Stone Temple Pilots, Soul Asylum, Billy Joel, Nirvana, Ween, Sublime, Nine Inch Nails, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Queen, Stephen Lynch, The Toadies, Metallica, Joe Satriani, R.E.M., Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, The Smashing Pumpkins, Regina Spektor, Pink Floyd, Lenny Kravitz, Alain Johannes

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Couchsurfed New Zealand, Peru, Chile, and British Colombia.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can show you around the wine country, the redwoods, to the coast.

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, Chile, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States