Bio

Hometown:	Woodstock, NY
School:	Old Dominion University , Brigham Young University
Employer:	Chronogram Magazine (music/art s journalist ) , Hudson Valley Green Burial As

Cocteau Twins is the VOICE OF GOD. Then, and only then: David Bowie, Nick Cave, Thelonious Monk, Kate Bush, This Mortal Coil, Jazz Butcher, Clan of Xymox, Sam Rosenthal, Cramps, Chrome Cranks, Tori Amos, Pixies, Billie Holiday, Bach, Vidna Obmana, David Darling, Richard Butler, Hayden, Bjork, Swans, Steve Roach, Sigur Ros, Dark Muse, Innocence Mission, Portishead, Nitzer Ebb, Red House Painters, Telemann, Stephin Merritt, Bob Dylan, Talking Heads, Jimmy Scott, Lou Reed, Jacqueline DuPre, C. Lastovicka, Kidney Thieves, Ani DiFranco, Handel, Florence Foster Jenkins, Prince, Frank Sinatra, Wolfgang Press, Cabaret Voltaire, Edith Piaf, Jelly Roll Morton, Joy Division, Esquivel, The Cure, Killing Joke, Count Basie...

4AD, Projekt, Mute, Factory, Beggar's Banquet, intoxicating hazy dream pop, new wave, shameless '80s, britpop, shoegaze, art f*g, avante ghetto, bloke folk, big band, psychedelica, ambient, new romantic, industrial, goth, punk, experimental, trance, jazz improv, classical, krautrock, post-punk, house, techno, disco, space age bachelor pad, kazoo choir... ad infinitum.

I have worked in music since 1990, so i dig almost any groovy grooves from darkwave to discopunk. I'm very open-minded about music, unless we're talking about 21st century mainstream. If it's current Top 40, don't be surprised if I haven't heard of it. Most of it rips the very fabric of space and time with the sheer force of its mediocrity. Oh, yeah, and it sounds like A**.