CURRENT MISSION

Currently on a solo tour with my music project Real Live Tigers

ABOUT ME

i tour and record music as real live tigers. sometimes it's a band and most of the time it's me traveling solo, currently in a volvo station wagon, but in the past it's been hitchhiking, by greyhound bus, or on amtrak.

as an adult i've lived in austin, portland, milwaukee, chicago, and most recently fayetteville, arkansas.

Interests

accountability, old postcards, friends as family, living in cars, coffee with brown sugar, circuses, swimming, small towns at dusk, becoming an old man, giving yourself to others, accordions, breakfast tacos, drums, beekeeping, the language of love letters and suicide notes, magic, ghosts, clairvoyance, old blues songs, air hockey, trains, hitchhiking.

• breakfast
• coffee
• traveling
• cars
• magic
• music
• drums
• blues
• hockey
• swimming
• hitchhiking

Music, Movies, and Books

music: fugazi, black sabbath, paul simon, nirvana, jackson five, r.e.m., david dondero, the weakerthans, little wings, woods, madeline adams, low, mount eerie, nana grizol, smog, damien jurado.

movies: amelie, return to oz, bottle rocket, into the wild, all the real girls, the assassination of jesse james by the coward robert ford.

books: life after god, travels with charley, in watermelon sugar, in the skin of a lion, coming through slaughter, the winter of our discontent,
so the wind won't blow it all away.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Carlsbad Caverns can make you cry.