This section will contain posts that in some way describe some aspect of me as a person. I don’t really know how to describe myself in any kind of order that makes sense, so it’s just going to land on this page if I think of anything particularly interesting to say which somehow fits into my story. I can start here with a brief summary and let the rest fill in over time.

I was born in Monrovia, CA. a small Los Angeles suburb in 1973. My brother, who was born the next year, my father, my mother and myself lived in a nice little cottage like house at the base of the foothills until I was 7 years old. We moved to a larger house in a much more boring neighborhood in Placentia, CA. in Orange County, the more distant, more suburby suburbs of Los Angeles where I learned to be a hoodlum (more tales of this in the future for sure).

My parents divorced when I was 10, but it had been a long time coming. I lived with my mother for a while, then after a custody battle with my dad for a while. Eventually I dropped out of high school and moved down to San Clemente, CA. on the coast with some friends I met in drug rehab. Eventually I ended up sleeping on the roof of a coffee shop named Fahrenheit 451 in Laguna Beach getting by on a little busking, small time drug dealing, spare changing, and free meals served daily at the local Krishna temple. When I was 22 I bought an old 1967 Dodge Van and drove my mother out to Boston, where her family lived.

I wound up staying in Harvard Square where I met a young hippie girl that wound up being the mother of my son Winter who was born back in San Clemente in 1996. I did my best to straighten myself out and be a father to my son. Winter’s mother and I did not see eye to eye on much and our relationship was tumultuous.

We moved several times over the next 7 or 8 years winding up in Arlington, MA. just outside of Boston. When Winter was 8 or 9 his mother decided to move to Las Vegas and I became a single father. Winter and I had a very strong bond and went through a lot of ups and downs as I struggled with mental illness and often poverty. Despite my sometimes unstable parenting, Winter was very enthusiastic about learning just about anything he could.

We spent a lot of time together whenever he was in Boston. He moved to upstate New York for a few years in high school but then came back to Boston to start working as an electronic technician at the place where I was working, an audio repair shop called Audio Pro. I built the website for Audio Pro and then just stayed on as a kind of assistant/mascot for the owner. The hours were very flexible and the responsibility nonexistent and you could miss a month of work, come back and say you were on a murdering spree, and your job would be waiting for you. So I was there off and on for about 15 years.

During the Boston years Winter and I built a studio in a large house known as the Hive and it was as good as it gets. I played in a band called Crispin’s Lover with my brother and recorded and engineered several albums for some local artists. Eventually, however, all good things must end and the hive was sold to some corporation that built 4 condos in it’s place.

Fortunately we found the Sound Museum shortly after and moved into Allston’s rock and roll ground zero. Crispin’s Lover dissolved shortly after that and Winter and I started Blood Drive, which wound up being the most stable, reliable, fun, and long lived band I have ever been in. We put out 4 multi-track and 6 jam session albums over the next 8 years.

Eventually, however, all good things must end and the Sound Museum was sold to some corporation that demolished the building and built some high-rise biotech bullshit there.

At this point my life took a dramatic turn as I met the love of my life at age 50 and moved to Seattle. My girlfriend, Crystal, is a very talented artist who has been putting together a large body of work which we are currently trying to figure out how to get exposure and ultimately a little income from.

As of the time that I am writing this, July 2025, I have been writing new music, developing a video game, and doing some web development when I can get it. I hope to be putting a new band together soon and start playing shows again. So if you live in the Seattle area and want to make music, hit me up on the form at the bottom of this page.

That brings us up to date, so I will let the details fill in with the posts below.