CURRENT MISSION

mission(s) impossible

ABOUT ME

I am good with directions. My lung capacity is excellent. I am not afraid of heights. Try me. I teach art history for Bard College: a satellite program here in New Orleans. I ride a bike, live with friend/bandmate/ace fiction writer Michael Lee, keep sea salt in the kitchen, books in piles... We go out, sleep in, spend money on records; repent, juice vegetables, sing along to late Dylan; repeat.

PHILOSOPHY

Here's a quote by Nick Cave: "The Love Song must be born into the realm of the irrational, the absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane, for the Love Song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness. Whether it be the love of God, or romantic, erotic love – these are manifestations of our need to be torn away from the rational, to take leave of our senses, so to speak. Love Songs come in many guises and are seemingly written for many reasons – as declarations or to wound – I have written songs for all of these reasons – but ultimately the Love Songs exist to fill, with language, the silence between ourselves and God, to decrease the distance between the temporal and the divine."

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

too many couches and sleeping bags to list

Interests

Reading slowly, listening carefully, walking across bridges, running for no good reason; discovering things I wasn't looking for, getting mail, cultivating a dream life; playing old guitars, swimming in cold water; the first step, any ol' woods with a few birds in it...

• birds
• arts
• writing
• books
• singing
• running
• walking
• reading
• cycling
• swimming
• art history
• history

Music, Movies, and Books

Currently... Leonard Michaels stories (from his first two books), Paul Bowles, Grimm's Tales, essays by Eliot Weinberger and John Jeremiah Sullivan, philosophy/criticism of Georgio Agamben, and paintings by John Currin.
On or near the record player: Blind Willie Johnson, Iggy Pop (The Idiot), Will Oldham, Sun City Girls, King Tubby dub, a couple old european industrial comps.
I like film. Most recently viewed Lars Von Trier's "Melancholia"

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I have hiked solo across Tasmania.

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