Art, film making, theater, dance, comic books, pinup art, film noir, history, religion, surfing, and martial arts. And... of course flying monkeys.
Music
Miles Davis, Buddy Holly, The Beatles, Fountains of Wayne, The Gear Daddies, The Replacements, The Butthole Surfers, Dick Dale, Bobby Vee, Mozart, Glenn Miller, Elvis Presely, Dean Martin. Outkast, The Birthday Suits, Black Eyed Peas, Blondie, The White Stripes, The Raconteurs, House of Pain, Snoop Dogg. NWA,The Ramones, The Cramps, The Distillers, The Smiths, Nerf Herder, Nouvelle Vague, Pat Benatar, Patsy Cline, Patti Smith, Beck, T-Bone Walker, Elmer Bernstein, Pee Wee Crayton, Jimmy Witherspoon, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground...okay, suffice to say -I like music.
Movies
It's a Wonderful Life, Gone with the Wind, Murder My Sweet, Double Indemnity, Blackmail, Murder!, The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, Foreign Correspondent, Notorious, Rebbecca, Rope, Dial "M" for Murder
Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble with Harry, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, The Birds, Marnie, His Girl Friday, All About Eve, Citizen Kane, Miller's Crossing, Dracula, House of Dracula, Pan's Labrinyth, Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, The Wolfman. Dracula, The Mummy....
Television
H E R O E S, Hell's Kitchen, Whitest Kids U know, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Doctor Who (wonderful chaps, all of them), Robin Hood, Charmed, Smallville, My Name is Earl, So You Think You can Dance, Don't Forget the Lyrics, Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, Jekyll, Torchwood, Angel, Justice League Unlimited, I love Money, Dexter, John From Cincinnati, Supernatural, and virtually anything with William Shatner in it.
Books
Harry Potter, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Mark Twain, Laurel K. Hamilton, Christopher Golden. I also read a lot of non-fiction, usually history or biographies. I like to try and reason out what the biographers were thinking knowing full well that that they don't have a bloody clue about what Amelia Earhart was really like..
Heroes
George W Bush (and friends) and his complete disregard of the constitution and point of law. The sooner we admit we are fascists the better off we'll all be.
About me: I was born in Appleton, Minnesota. I shortly thereafter moved to Seattle, Washington. I lived there until I was 13 and then moved to Minneapolis. The transition was not easy.
I began my professional art career in 1983 designing and illustrating menus. This was before computers, so all of the type setting was done by hand. Chartpak anyone? Tedious at best.
I wanted to draw comics from the time I was small and Adam West was was playing Batman on TV. I had my first professional comic work published in 1988 in Caliber Presents #9. I worked on and off in comics until 1999. The highlight of my comic career thus far being inking Rick Veitch in Alan Moore's run on Supreme. Issue #49.
In 1990 I took a summer job at Mike Jones Film Corps. I worked my way up from the Ink & Paint Department (fastest cell inker they had ever seen!) to assistant animator and finally to animator on Spider-man for Marvel Productions. I've worked for Warner Bros on Pinky and the Brain and Animaniacs. I spent a few in years in the trenches doing commercial animation and storyboards for film, television, and animation.
1994 I went back to school to learn about computers. I went into corporate training or what is now called eLearning for the next 10-15 years and still do it occasionally.
In 1995 I began working in film. I began with Kevin Smith's Mallrats when a flower delivery for my father's floral shop lead to me becoming the Art Director for that movie. I also worked on Grumpier Old Men, Feeling Minnesota, and Overnight Delivery. And bunch of other crap I can't remember.
From there I moved to San Francisco for a few years and then to Los Angeles. I worked in film and television for a few more years until 1997 when I moved back to Minnesota on a whim.
In 1998 I met Mary in an acting for camera class that Andrew Hunt and I were teaching. I honestly didn't believe in love at first site. But that's what happened. Luckily she felt the same way. Consequently we were married in 2000 and shortly thereafter moved to Las Vegas on a dare (not recommended!!). From there we moved to Orange County. That's when we learned to surf and discovered our mutual love for the ocean.
Mary and I have four children between us. Three intelligent, artistic, and beautiful daughters. And one handsome talented son. We now have an outrageous grand daughter named Sadie Belle ('cuz we're Southern at heart) who is obviously the most beautiful child ever conceived.
Weird but true...
I also act. Mostly in live theater. Although I've done voice over for about ten years as well. My favorite role thus far was Prospero in The Tempest. Lately I've been acting in short films.My favorite scene partner is my talented. beautiful, social scientist/actress wife Mary.Lately I've been acting in short films (less rehearsal, and less stress).
I tend to work in many different mediums and styles. So far gouache has suited me best and I'm about to start playing around with acrylics.
I'm currently doing a massive amount of corporate work (uh...that's where they keep tha' "money" yo!).
Who I'd like to meet: Freakin' anyone....that isn't interested in offering me No-Pay...until it sells dudework...Cuz ya'know... that never happens...*ahem*...
Seriously: Artists, writers, actors, apes with a dislike of humans, you know the usual....creative genuine people.
THANK YOU.. for welcoming me ....i will learn N enjoy...your present with in the Links...of Friendship.. be well ...be happy....God bless U n Family...
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