Male

46

I was born in Chicago, Illinois and my family moved to sunny Southern California the very next year. I grew up in Cypress (just behind the Orange Curtain) and have lived in the same bitchen' house in Long Beach since 1992 and until recently with a slightly crazed accordion playing roommate. I have a new seemingly sane roommate who is a so far a joy and a cat named Olive who is more beneficial to my mood than Lexapro, Zoloft, Prozac, whiskey, or weed have ever been.

I am a singer and a trombone player. I spend a lot of time making music with lots of different people. I also do what I have to do to make enough money to keep playing as much music as I do. Sometimes I teach music, other times I work in offices or freelance as a desktop publisher, I occasionally wait tables, go to sea, or bleach my beard and hair white and work as a Santa. I am currently a temp-to-hire (knock-on-wood) publishing specialist for a ginormous Japanese owned auto parts company which is really close to me home. May this job or at least some state of blessed employment continue in perpetuity (I am really hoping that they invited me to be an associate sooner rather than later) and may the road always rise up to meet you.