CURRENT MISSION

Creation & Connection

PHILOSOPHY

"...none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars."

Interests

alternative medicine, animation, archeology, cities, coffee, bumbershoot, cognitive science, etymology, documentaries, edward hopper, existentialism, film scoring, fitness, video game music, guitars, gustav klimt, heidegger, henry darger, hieronymous bosch, humanism, imdb, incandescent light, independent films, intp, infp, indian food, interstices, james lileks, kexp, medline, mellotrons, microbrews, museums, phenomenology, psychopharmacology, seattle international film festival, subtlety, wilderness, wine, words

• documentaries
• festivals
• dancing
• dining
• wine
• indian food
• coffee
• fitness
• movies
• music
• animation
• archeology
• etymology
• medicine
• science

Music, Movies, and Books

aimee mann, albert brooks, ambient music, american beauty, amon tobin, amélie, andrei tarkovsky, arvo part, billy collins, bjork, black adder, camel, cee-lo, coltrane, daniel johnston, david lynch, david sedaris, deerhoof, djivan gasparyan, douglas coupland, edward gorey, elliott smith, eno, firesign theater, fred frith, futurama, gamelan, garrison keillor, gavin bryars, goldfrapp, halou, jan svankmajer, jeff greinke, jeunet & caro, jim jarmusch, john cage, julee cruise, kate bush, king crimson, kliban, krzysztof kieslowski, kurt vonnegut, lars von trier, legendary pink dots, lorrie moore, lustmord, maakies, michel gondry, momus, monty python, nabokov, nicholson baker, nick drake, of montreal, oliver sacks, pink floyd, portishead, quasi, rapoon, red dwarf, repo man, reverend horton heat, richard thompson, robert rich, sarah vowell, simon fisher turner, snakefinger, spinal tap, stereolab, steve reich, terje rypdal, terry gilliam, the beatles, the brothers quay, the onion, the simpsons, the twilight zone, thomas koner, tim burton, tom stoppard, tom waits, tuxedomoon, under byen, underworld, wayne horvitz, wim wenders, woody allen, yo la tengo

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Saw a stranger give birth and saw a stranger die, both in Walla Walla, Washington.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Malta, Mexico, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United States

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