Music, peace, family, literature, social justice, friends.
Music
Bob Dylan, Devendra Banhart, Sonic Youth, Woody Guthrie, Bright Eyes, Tom Waits, The Mountain Goats, Neil Young, Sufjan Stevens, The Velvet Underground, Neko Case, Pete Seeger, Nick Cave, Jeffrey Lewis, The Fugs, Leonard Cohen, Kimya Dawson, Lou Reed, The Flaming Lips, Gillian Welch, Nick Drake, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Tyrannosaurus Rex, Jose Gonzalez, Townes Van Zandt, Wilco, Cat Power, John Lennon, etc., etc.
Movies
I love music documentaries. Patti Smith: Dream of Life, Be Here To Love Me: A Film about Townes Van Zandt, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, You're Gonna Miss Me (about Roky Erickson), Jandek on Corwood, etc., as well as other well-made indie films.
Television
Kill it!
Books
Rumi, Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats, Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Thoreau, Emerson, Hemingway, Steinbeck, William Carlos Williams, Thomas Merton, Howard Zinn, Gary Snyder, Noam Chomsky, Wendell Berry, etc., etc.
Missouri State University
Springfield, MO
Graduated: 2006
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: English Literature
Minor: Philosophy
Clubs: Philosophy
2000 to 2006
Camdenton High
Camdenton, MO
Graduated: 1997
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Art & Drama
About me:
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." - E.F. Schumacher ..
