Hobbies
I'm working with a friend on a documentary about the effects of Hurricane Katrina. Also, I've gotten interested in 35mm and pinhole photography, and I play the accordion in a band with six other accordion players. For a while I had an obsession with Russia...which ended when I lived there for four months and my naive romanticism was crushed. I do speak Russian a bit. Everyone asks why I studied Russian, but there's no reason really. I just like the way it looks and sounds.
Work History
Right now I work at a nonprofit which helps impoverished kids learn to read. I'm a writer (of sorts) and a video editor. It's the greatest gig ever. In the past I have taught video production workshops at public schools, worked the graveyard shift at a convenience store, projected films, been an independent video store clerk, and interned for a low-budget horror film company.
Plans
Mostly I just want my life to be interesting, productive and aesthetically pleasing. Right now I'm in a dormant phase, paying off debts to society and hatching mad schemes for the future, but while I figure all of that out, I'm literally melting my accordion by practicing so much and attempting to finish at least 50% of my zine/music/film projects.
A Few Pop Cultural Obsessions
Music: The Misfits, Skinny Puppy, The Smiths, The World/Inferno Friendship Society, Secret Chiefs 3, the Germs, Joy Division, Crass, gypsy music, mambo, and Fanfare Ciocarlia.
Movies: All movies about violent female gangs and New York City in its seedy 1980's heyday. Black and white horror films. Psychotronic fare like Liquid Sky, Svankmeyer's Faust and Zardoz. Plus West Side Story.
Television: Carnivale, The Twilight Zone, Columbo and The Adventures of Pete & Pete!