CURRENT MISSION

To, in Thoreau's words, "suck the marrow out of life..."

ABOUT ME

I am a writer and radio host from the Western Michigan.

Interests

Going to art museums, the symphony, jazz clubs, being a traveler (inward and outward--around the world and in my own backyard), practicing the art of conversation...Interests include culture and the arts, literature, music (of all sorts--see below) philosophy, mythology, the wisdom traditions of the world.

• arts
• culture
• writing
• literature
• clubbing
• music
• jazz

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: 2001: A Space Oddyssey; The Third Man; Wings of Desire; Sunset Boulevard; Fitzcarraldo; McCabe and Mrs. Miller; Blade Runner; Dr. Strangelove; Annie Hall; Ghost World; Lost in Translation; The Last Waltz; Raging Bull; Buena Vista Social Club; The Apartment; The Squid and the Whale; In America; 8 1/2; Scenes from a Marriage; Death in Venice; L'Atlante; Grand Illusion; Koyaanisqatsi...to name a few.

Music: Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground, Sigur Ros, Miles Davis, Maurice Ravel, John Cage, Glenn Gould, Frank Sinatra, Paolo Conte, Caetano Velosa, Townes Van Zandt, The Band, Scott Walker, Tindersticks, Nick Cave, many, many, many more...

Books: the works of Kafka, Beckett, Calvino, Barthes, Canetti, Cioran, Fitzgerald, Salinger, Chekhov, Proust, Baudelaire, Emerson, Thoreau, Nietzsche, Murakami, Michaux...