PHILOSOPHY

People are creative and loving creatures experimenting with the new and strange experience of life and at the deepest level require one's respect and forgiveness and the decency required to feel this way about others.

Interests

I love reading, writing, talking, thinking, listening and as many of my friends will tell you, arguing.

• writing
• reading

Music, Movies, and Books

Grapes of Wrath, Cannery Row, East of Eden, Red Pony, Of Mice and Men, Grace Lee Boggs, James Boggs, C.L.R James, Brothers Karamazov, anything by Kurt Vonnegut, SciFi, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Sutree, the Road, All the Pretty Horses, Myth of Sysiphus, The Stranger. Battle of Algiers, The Third Man, Citizen Kane, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Sleeper. Skip James, Blind Lemon Pete, The Black Keys, The Rolling Stones, Caetano Veloso, Mississippi John Hurt, Leadbelly, Etta James, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Dr. Dog, Modest Mouse.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've spent a month in the Oregon back-county near Crater Lake fixing trails 10 miles from the nearest dirt road. It was the most beautiful time in my life. During those nights the noisiest thing in the woods was my heart beating within my sleeping bag, and my farts (which may have been partly responsible for the northern lights during that time of the year).