CURRENT MISSION

Wasting time in academia before I'm forced to enter the real world

ABOUT ME

I write music, and I plan to work on video game or film soundtracks when (if) I grow up.

Furthermore, I am an enormous nerd. Video games, movies, Dungeons and Dragons. Nevertheless, I pride myself on the ability to have a beer with you and not talk about wizards.

I know more about San Antonio than I do about San Marcos. I'd show you around the town where I live, but it'd be a bit pointless as I'd know scarcely more than you do.

PHILOSOPHY

Be a dude, not a dick.

Interests

Music composition and theory, video games, film

• literature
• beer
• movies
• video games
• music
• teaching
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES
Anchorman, Amadeus, Baraka, Blazing Saddles, Brazil, Brick, Dark City, Hot Fuzz, Inception, Life is Beautiful, M, Metropolis, Monty Python and the Meaning of the Life of Grail, The Princess Bride, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Snatch, Start the Revolution Without Me, Up, WALL-E

MUSIC
John Adams, Olafur Arnalds, Samuel Barber, Andrew Bird, Benjamin Britten, Claude Debussy, The Decemberists, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Carlo Gesualdo, Michael Giacchino, Paul Hindemith, Kansas, Josquin des Prez, Yasunori Mitsuda, Queen, Maurice Ravel, Max Richter, Rush, Hitoshi Sakimoto, Sleepers Awake, Jeremy Soule, Sufjan Stevens, Igor Stravinsky, This Will Destroy You, Hans Zimmer

VIDEO GAMES (shut up)
Braid, Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Donkey Kong Country 2, Dragon Age, The Elder Scrolls, Final Fantasy VI and Tactics, Gunstar Heroes, Kirby Superstar, The Legend of Zelda, Mass Effect, Minecraft, Shining Force, 'Splosion Man, Star Control II, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Tactics Ogre, Yoshi's Island

Teach, Learn, Share

I've taught music theory as a class for high school students and as a tutor for undergraduates. Get me drunk and I won't shut up. Music history and literature, too.

Countries I’ve Visited

United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States