CURRENT MISSION

To be Jack Kerouac.

ABOUT ME

I am all about balance, balance between the intellectual and the social, and everything else. I laugh, sometimes for 15 minutes without stopping and usually it is not about anything funny at all, there are only a couple of things I take seriously, mostly finding people & finding thoughts.

I have a sweet blog with fellow CU writers. You can find us at www.urbanagora.com. Don't be shy about commenting. Also, we're always looking for new and talented writers, so ask me about it.

You can challenge me in chess at gameknot.com, my username is onemanbandbjm.

I love to write. Recently I have ventured into songwriting. I write everywhere. I write in my journals, on my blackberry, on the walls in my head, and in two google docs.

When people ask me how I'm doing, I say, "I'm always good."

When I was a freshman in high school the honors counselor asked me what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. I told her that I wanted to live in the woods.

I smile brightly when I realize that I am alive.

I want to be a Believer, a columnist, an author, a lawyer, a natural born world shaker, a songwriter, a painter, a policymaker, a sword for good, a saver, a baseball player, a rock climber, a smiler, a poet, an artist, a photographer, a traveler, a rock star, a friend & a Lover.

Interests

• writing
• chess
• blogging
• baseball
• law

Music, Movies, and Books

Books & Authors: Mark Twain, Walden, RW Emerson, JS Mill, EA Poe, OW Holmes Jr., Frankfurter, 1776, The Thomas Jefferson Bible, Tennyson, Will Durant, Profiles in Courage (Original), Steinbeck, Whitman, Anton Chekhov, Songwriters on Songwriting (Zollo), Susan Sontag, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg

Music: Bruce Springsteen, U2 (Joshua Tree is the best album of all-time), The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Bobby Dylan, Jimmy Taylor, Chapin, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, OAR, Pearl Jam, The Who?, Neil Young, Cream, Velvet Underground, Chuck Berry, either Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Leadbelly, Phil Ochs, Ray Charles, Jethro Tull, Peter Paul & Mary, Janis Joplin, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Johnny Cash, Joe Cocker, Doris Day, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitz, Jim Croce, Donovan, The Beatles, Grace Potter & the Nocturnals, Grand Funk Railroad, Humble Pie, The Rock Bottom Remainders, Simon & Garfunkel, John Lennon, Moody Blues, Blood Sweat & Tears, Traffic, The Band, America, Joan Baez, Rod Stewart (& the Faces), Lou Reed, Thelonious Monk, Buddy Miles, Beach Boys (maybe only Pet Sounds), Vince Guaraldi, Bill Evans, Motown, Blues, Jazz (basically my musical interests are going backwards in time, rather than forward, with the starting point being 1967), Oren Lavie, Kingston Trio, Spooky Tooth, The Black Keys, Robin Trower, Jeff Beck w/ Rod Stewart, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Joss Stone, The Easy Beats, Steve Winwood, Richard Thompson, Bobbie Gentry, Andrew Bird, Nick Drake, Loving Spoonful, Guy Davis, Richie Havens, Cameron McGill, Leonard Cohen

Movies: Citizen Kane, Fight Club, Braveheart, A Clockwork Orange, The Last Samurai, Big Fish, Cool Hand Luke, Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, Old School, 40-year Old Virgin, Wedding Crashers, Free Enterprise, Pale Rider, Stranger than Fiction, Babel, 300, Patton, Glory, Jeremiah Johnson, Charade, The Last of the Mohicans, All the President's Men, The Quiet Man, Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid, nearly anything with David Strathairn, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Into the Wild, The Painted Veil, Once, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Sweet and Lowdown, High Noon, The Hunt for Red October, Bound for Glory, The Great Escape