LOCATION
Kansas City, MO

HOMETOWN
Estes Park, CO

OCCUPATION
Restaurant Monkey

FAVORITE MUSIC
The three baddest bands in the world you've never heard of: Red Bennies, Grandpa's Ghost, The Conformists.

Stuff you're familiar with: Richard Buckner, Ryan Adams, Black Flag, Mission Of Burma, The Replacements. Afghan Whigs/The Twilight Singers, Shellac, Faith No More, Phil Ochs, Juno, Johnny Cash, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, DJ Shadow, Idaho, Engine Kid, Calexico, The VSS.

FAVORITE MOVIES
Anything in which Meg Ryan is crying.

FAVORITE BOOKS/AUTHORS
Milan Kundera is my life coach. Other custodians of my wellbeing include: Jack Kerouac, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Conrad, Charles Baudelaire, Allen Ginsberg, Russell Edson, Herbert Marcuse and Soren Kierkegaard.

FAVORITE TV
In lieu of cable, my intake is limited to Conan O'Brien, pro and college football, and the near-daily dismantling of the Kansas City Royals.

FAVORITE ANYTHING ELSE
Public radio (especially Democracy Now with my breakfast), garage sales, Paleolithic nutrition, whackin' golf balls, an $8 bottle of merlot, New York Times crossword, writing poems and hacking them to pieces.

ADDITIONAL TIDBITS
Wealthy benefactresses please apply within.

CURRENT RAVES
These dudes haulin' ass down my street on razor scooters.