Musical Influences:
Andon and Paul, Edgar Meyer, Charlie Haden, John Taylor, Geddy Lee, XTC, Sting, Peter Tork.

First Record Bought:
Billy Squier In the Dark and maybe 90120 by Yes. I can’t really remember. Don’t judge me.

Favorite Record:
I have to say Leo Kottke’s 6 and 12 String Guitar because it was the first time I had ever heard anyone do anything that complete with a solo musical instrument. Plus I was whacked out on drugs.

What’s in your CD player right now?
Arling & Cameron, Radiohead, Kind of Blue, Minutemen, London Calling.

First concert attended:
Styx Paradise Theater Tour, Rosemont Horizon. I was eleven. The very first time I smelled pot smoke and saw people French-kissing.

First band you were in:
Buddha’s Belly. I played guitar and a local college reviewer called my playing "tinsel-strummed."

Your ultimate rock moment:
Skinning a dead goat in a car in Austin.

Favorite Trigger Gospel gig?
Opening for Peter Himmelman at the House of Blues. He appropriated us (Andon, Paul and I) as his back up band. We made up song on the spot in front of some 1,000 people. "Give me a Mingus groove."

Favorite Food:
Smoked salmon. Morning, noon and night.

Favorite City:
Chicago, dammit!

Favorite Author:
Douglas Copland Micro Serfs, Girlfriend in a Coma, Miss Wyoming

Last Book You Read:
The last book I read was actually a manual. Roland VS-880 Hard Disk Recorder and Expanison Effects Card User’s Guide.

Favorite Condiment:
I’ll eat anything with Pesto. Fish, pasta, cornflakes.

Favorite Quote:
"The best way to get rid of a temptation is to succumb to it."
Yeats

Non-musical Pastimes:
Collecting skulls, building models cars, offending people, loving my girlie.

Last Movie You Saw:
I saw Heist. It was not very good.