What
Pays the Bills (One of the Reasons
I Wake Up Each Morning)… Creative Direction, (Marketing/Advertising)—specifically communication arts and identity, design and copywriting, off and online—for clients around the globe. I brand, draw, and photograph
all sorts of things you might see or hear, while managing to stay current (I've a love/hate relationship with pop culture). Did my agency
time for cred and went out on my own 25+ years ago (wow)! I've a six-billed
hat on but it fits. Art/photog and writing are deep loves, and I'm thankful
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The
Other (More Important) Reason I Wake Up… Music — everything
about it and all kinds of it. As you'll learn elsewhere on this site,
I'm partial to rock and funk. The brighter stars in my own personal music universe include The Beatles, BRMC, Cake, The Carpenters, Chris Cornell, Commodores, dada, Doves, Earth Wind & Fire, Fleetwood Mac, The Hives, Jerry Riopelle, John Faye Power Trip, The Old Ceremony, Parliament, Radiohead, Refreshments/RCPM, Rickie Lee Jones, Soul Coughing, early Springsteen, The Stone Roses, Stone Temple Pilots / Scott Weiland, Tom Petty (w/ the Heartbreakers), Van Halen.
See the Top 100 if you want more. I also sing, play keyboards and
used to be a club DJ… read: obsessed. Rules my life, keeps me
young!
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A Bit on This Space… This
site started out as a six-paragraph joke in late 1996, when I felt the need
to publicly question the relevance of a website for Peeps (yes, the marshmallow
chicks). It was a different internet back then. Two months later it became a means of providing music leads for friends
who were always asking me what new music I was listening to and would suggest
they buy. Two years later it became a means of providing images for family
and friends in one central spot—waaaay ahead of mostly creepy personal blogs, and similar to today's social networks—and providing concert reviews for my live-music-loving friends. It's
honestly not changed much since! Save minor organizational changes, it will
likely always look this way, regardless of my prowess on the job. Don't look here
for snazzy web design; my attention's on the real world and I'm lucky if
I get in here to update things more than once a year. There
will also never be a blog for countless reasons. As Facebook continues to get more hostile and annoying, it's possible I'll go back to offering my two musical pennies here to feed my old DJ jones, or to supply silly
downloads and snapshots of life—likely password protected. I've always done it all for friends and family scattered
across the globe, though I've appreciated you outer-circle visitors and some
of your kooky comments! (Makes the time I've spent here worth it.) If the site
ever looks better than this, you'll know I have way too much time on my
hands and am probably looking for work. Or I retired! :-) |
