Me

Got major love for the Windy City and the Big Easy (for those not familiar.... Chicago and New Orleans). I have played in several bands and now focus on management, music event production, booking, and promoting.

Music

Rock 'n' Roll - along with jazz, blues, hip-hop, acoustic, metal, rap, classical, country, indie, americana, world, samba, folk, pop, funk, electronic, reggae, soul, bluegrass, alternative, zydeco, punk, rockabilly, salsa, ragtime.......do you want me to keep going.......because I can......

What bands you ask.....well....Pearl Jam, All Things Lucid, Coltrane, Weezer, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Neil Young, Miles Davis, The Cold War Kids, Radiohead, Regina Spektor, Modest Mouse, Nick Drake, Matthew Santos,Probably Vampires, Mozart, DJ Paulette, The White Stripes, Wilco, Van Morrison, The Beatles, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Medeski Martin and Wood, Andrew Bird, The Band, Belle and Sebastian, Devil in a Woodpile,Ray LaMontagne, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Blind Melon, Talking Heads, Bob Dylan, Cake, Norah Jones, Sexfist,Califone, Common, The Cranberries, Ravi Shankar, Drug Rug, The Flaming Lips, Kanye West, Jesse Sykes, Ryan Adams, Louis Armstrong, Simon and Garfunkel, Sky Box, and The Streets...just to name a few......

Films

The ones that are the exact opposite of films I don't like. Make sense? Seriously though.... The Shawshank Redemption is the best movie ever made. Ever.

Advice for the day

Love what you do. Do what you love.