about me

Triple hyphenate by night: photographer-writer-filmmaker. It was 85 --fresh out of high school, and through a combination of luck and chutzpah I snagged a gig as Kyle MacLachlan's stand-in on David Lynch's Blue Velvet. A seminal experience that would eventually lead to my pursuing a film degree.







BANDS: Queens of the Stone Age, PJ Harvey, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Jellyfish, Adam Schmitt, Jesus and Mary Chain, Brian Setzer, Iggy Pop, U2,



WRITERS: David Foster Wallace, Chuck Palahniuk, James Ellroy, Raymond Chandler, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy



FILMMAKERS/FILMS: Kubrick, Lynch, Godard, Blue Velvet, Vivre sa vie, Breathless. Electra Glide in Blue, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, La Jetee, Repulsion, Eraserhead, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Blow Up, Vanishing Point



PHOTOGRAPHERS: Weegee, Arbus, Joel Peter-Witkin, Corbijn, LaChapelle



GENERAL: high art in low places, surrealism, dada, abstract expressionism, true crime culture, pop art, hamfisted pulp bombast, the lurid underbelly of Hollywood, crime fiction, the Barbara Payton-Tom Neil-Franchot Tone brawl, Warhol, transgressive fiction, absurdist adventures



YOU: Frothing at the mouth enthusiast and iconoclast of a gentle persuasion

THE POLICE REUNION CHICAGO 5/10/08
May 12, 2008
ELVIS COSTELLO CHICAGO 5/10/08
May 12, 2008
BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB 5/1/08
May 2, 2008
THE DUKE SPIRIT 5/1/2008
May 2, 2008
Todd Rundgren @ Music Mill 1/20/08
Jan 22, 2008
The Cult @ Murat 11/16/07
Nov 21, 2007
Niki Barr Band and Action Action @ Murat 11/16/07
Nov 20, 2007
Van Halen @ Conseco Fieldhouse 10/14/07
Oct 16, 2007
Juliette and The Licks After Hours Lollapalooza Gig
Aug 20, 2007
The Stray Cats Verizon Wireless Music Center Indianapolis 7/26/07
Jul 29, 2007
Juliette and the Licks @ The Congress Theater, Chicago, Il 7/18/07
Jul 25, 2007
OURS @ Birdy's 7/1/07
Jul 2, 2007
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ Music Mill 6/5/07
Jun 11, 2007
Dead Combo opening for BRMC @ Music Mill 6/5/07
Jun 6, 2007

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