CURRENT MISSION

To live and learn. To create.

ABOUT ME

I don't enjoy obligatory things - though discipline may be good, self-discipline is better. I write or think about writing almost always. I'm always eating, but don't seem to put on weight very easily. I love all of my family. I'm a student at the University of Indiana, Bloomington, on a 1-year program in Bologna, Italy. I am studying in college to improve my writing and to study italian and the world. I have 3 majors: English (creative writing track), Italian (Literature); International Studies (Arts & Culture).

PHILOSOPHY

Keep an open mind. Be pro-active. Wastay. Woosh.

Interests

It interests me to write music, lyrics, poems, short stories, (planning) novels, and to travel. following baseball. playing basketball and golf every year or so. maybe some calcio.

• arts
• culture
• writing
• literature
• poetry
• traveling
• music
• baseball
• basketball
• track and field
• golf

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES: 8 1/2, Giulietta degli spiriti, Le Mépris, Les Quatre cents coups, Vertigo, Notorious, Le Notte di Cabiria, Indiana Jones Trilogy, Pulp Fiction, Rear Window, My cousin Vinny, Three Amigos, Andrei Rublev, Monty Python & the Holy Grail, Bridge on the River Kwai, Mononoke-hime, La Vita è bella, Kill Bill Vol. 1&2, The Princess Bride, Die Hard, Edward Siscorhands, Bride of Frankenstein, Young Frankenstein, The Hustler, Scent of a Woman, Scenes from a Marriage, Wild Strawberries
MUSIC: Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Frank Zappa, Beatles, John Lennon, Ray Charles, Sublime, Igor Stravinsky, Tchiakovsky, Rachmoninoff, Ravel, Radiohead, Paul Simon, Smashing Pumpkins, Songs:Ohia, Spoon, Charles Ives, Phish, SquarePusher, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Primus, The Roots, Joanna Newsom, Ben Folds, Jeff Buckley, Buena Vista Social Club, Wilco, Wallflowers, Wonderful Smith, Tribe Called Quest, Mahmoud Ahmed, Animal Collective, Antony and the Johnsons, Bacata, Devandra Banhart, Beck, Smokey Robinson, Rolling Stones, Talking Heads, James Taylor, Velvet Underground, Violent Femmes, Stevie Wonder, Counting Crows, Damien Rice, Dave Mathews Band, Dr. Dre, Eels, Jeremy Enigk, Feist, Flaming Lips, Freakwater, David Gray, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Juanes, King Crimson, M83, Manu Chao, The National, Neko Case, New Pornographers, Magnolia Electric Company, Elliot Smith, Sufjan Stevens, Super Fury Animals, Ween, Weezer, Pazz Jop Flop, Theif in the Night, Allman Bros., Blind Willie McTell, Jimmy Buffet, Fats Domino, Muddy Waters, Harry Nilson, Pink Floyd, Otis Redding, Robert Johnson, Kinks, Lead Belly, Paul McCartney, Led Zepellin, Carole King, Elvis Costello, Marvin Gaye, Buddy Holly, Jimi Hendrix, Billy Joel, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Medeski Martin & Wood, The Band, The Beach Boys, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Van Morrison, Beethoven, Chopin, and Dvorak.
BOOKS: The Art of Memory (Yates), Rememberance of Things Past (Proust), Invitation to a Beheading (Nabokov), Arabian Nights, Meditations (M. Aureleus), Consolation of Philosophy (Boethius), The Gambler (Dostoyevsky), The Struggle for Europe, Catch a Fire, Faust (Marlowe), 38 Short Stories (Checkov), Up atop an Underwood (Kereuac), War & Peace, Guerrillas (Naipal), Old Man and the Sea, Short Stories (Hemingway), Journal of a Novel (Steinbeck), Homage to Catalonia (Orwell), Tale of Two Cities, Instance at the Fingerpost, The Stranger, Diary of a Nobody, Huckleberry Finn, Fereinheit 451, Subterranians, Novecento

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I've seen the good-natured smiles of dozens of poverty striken youths.

Countries I’ve Visited

Chile, Dominican Republic, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Italy, United States