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Bowling Green State University, 2004
Ohio, United States

Miami University, 2000
Ohio, United States

I listen to nearly anything but rap, metal, and most contemporary country: Rock, Jazz, Classical, Alternative, early/alt country, indie. Favorite musicians: Andrew Bird, Bob Dylan, Belle & Sebastian, Charles Mingus, Johnny Cash, Jets to Brazil, Leonard Cohen, Mountain Goats, Neko Case, Of Montreal, Guster, Wilco, Weakerthans, Thelonius Monk, Neil Young, Miles Davis, Frank Zappa, The Decemberists, Jenny Lewis, Tom Waits, Wilco, Regina Spektor, Rolling Stones, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Tapes n' Tapes, What Made Milwaukee Famous, Gregor Samsa, Beth Orton, Sufjan Stevens, Dimitri Shostokovich, Aaron Copeland, Fiery Furnaces, Rilo Kiley, Jesse Sykes, Gershwin, Sleepy Jackson, Something For Kate, Midlake, Stars, Bat for Lashes, Headlights, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, A. A. Bondy, Harlan T. Bobo, The Earlies, British Sea Power, Jens Lekman, Pelle Carlberg, Finest Dearest; Loney, Dear, Casiotones For The Painfully Alone, Okkervil River

Flight of the Conchords, The Office, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Six Feet Under, Dexter, The X-Files, The Simpsons, Fawlty Towers, Veronica Mars (Season 1 & 2), The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Wire.

Borat, Office Space, Right Stuff, Fight Club, Platoon, Indiana Jones, Groundhog Day, Wonder Boys, Good Will Hunting, Adaptation, Amelie, Henry V, Hamlet, I'm Your Man, Big Lewbowski, The Castle, Royal Tennenbaums, The Incredibles, Spinal Tap, Casablanca, Rushmore, Band of Brothers, Murderball, Knocked Up,

So many. I read a mix of fiction, poetry, then travel, history, and anything else that is interesting to me. I really like Kafka, Hemingway, Frost, Roethke, James Wright, Peter Carey, Robert Hass, C.K. Williams, e.e. cummings, Robert Lowell, Richard Ford, Tim Winton, Murray Bail, John Berryman, Italio Calvino, Borges, Cate Marvin, Philip Levine, Larry Levis, William Matthews, Milan Kundera, Ivan Klima, Theodore Roethke, Robinson Jeffers, Marieanne Moore, Robert Lowell, Tony Tost (only his first book), Patrick White's Voss, and oh so many others

“Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing.” E.L. Doctorow

"I hate quotations" Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country."

-- President Theodore Roosevelt

"I'm not a hypothetical golfer" -Me

"If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. " Tom Stoppard

"The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon."
- Frank Zappa

"There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either." -Robert Graves

“There are no uncontaminated angels” Philip Roth

“The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything.” Milan Kundera