About Me

I have had several people asking me questions about myself, so I figured I'd go a little off-topic and address these questions.

What I do for a living: I am a web designer. And I work cheap! So, if anyone needs a web page, let me know :)

A couple people have asked about my writing and education:
I have a bachelor's degree in English from UTSA. Took a few classes in creative writing. I have only had one piece of writing published, a short story in Cactus Alley, UTSA's literary magazine. The same story was also published in an online e-zine. That's it. So I don't quite qualify as a "writer", but I like to write.

A couple people have asked if I'm a musician:
I'm a musician about as much as I'm a writer. My mother taught classical piano. She had a masters from Eastman school of music and did some time at Julliard. She was an excellent pianist. She did her best to teach me and I can play piano some, but she never could get me very interested in learning music theory. Same with guitar...I took guitar lessons and I can play some guitar. I have an Oscar Schmidt acoustic (cheap $100 guitar) and a BC Rich Mockingbird electric. I'm not a "musician", but I like to play.

Several people have asked me exactly what kind of music I listen to. Simply, I would answer "rock", but I guess I'll get more specific. The only way I know to do that is to give some examples, so here's just a very small sample of my Napster library:

311 - "Down"
A Perfect Circle - "Judith"
Adema - "Freaking Out"
Aerosmith - "Kings and Queens"
Afroman - "Because I Got High"
Alice Cooper - "Steven"
Ann & Nancy Wilson - cover of Led Zeppelin's "Battle of Evermore"
Anthrax - "I'm the Man"
Bad Company - "Rock Steady"
Barenaked Ladies - "One Week"
Beck - "Loser"
Better Than Ezra - "Desperately Wanting"
Billy Thorpe - "Children of the Sun"
Black Sabbath - "Fairies Wear Boots"
Blackfoot - "Train, Train"
Blind Melon - "No Rain"
Blue Oyster Cult - "Godzilla"
Blur - "Song 2"
Bob Dylan - "Rainy Day Women"
Bush - "Everything Zen"
Butthole Surfers - "Pepper"
Cake - "Rock 'n Roll Lifestyle"
Candlebox - "Far Behind"
Chevelle - "Mia"
Collective Soul - "Shine"
Coolio - "Gangsta's Paradise"
Counting Crows - "Mr. Jones"
Cracker - "Low"
The Crystal Method - "Trip Like I Do"
Danzig - "Mother"
Deep Purple - "Perfect Strangers"
Def Leppard - "Wasted" (the only good song they ever had IMO)
Default - "Somewhere"
Dishwalla - "Counting Blue Cars"
Disturbed - "Stupify"
The Doors - "People are Strange"
Dope - "Everything Sucks"
EMF - "Unbelievable"
Everclear - "Father of Mine"
Extreme - "More Than Words"
Faith No More - "Epic"
Flaw - "Whole"
Foo Fighters - "Everlong"
Fuel - "Jesus or a Gun"
Godsmack - "Serenity"
Gravity Kills - "Guilty"
Green Day - "Brain Stew"
Guns & Roses - "Sympathy for the Devil"
Heart - "Dog & Butterfly"
Helmet - "Unsung"
Hole - "Violet"
Incubus - "Stellar"
Iron Maiden - "Flight of Icarus"
Jane's Addiction - "Been Caught Stealing"
Jesus Jones - "Right Here, Right Now"
Jet - "Are You Gonna Be My Girl"
Jimi Hendrix - "Star Spangled Banner"
Jimmie's Chicken Shack - "High"
Joe Cocker - "Can't Find My Way Home"
Joe Walsh - "The Confessor"
Judas Priest - "Desert Plains"
Kid Rock - "Cowboy"
Korn - "Freak on a Leash"
Krokus - "Ballroom Blitz"
Lenny Kravitz - "Fly Away"
Limp Bizkit - "Break Stuff"
Lit - "My Own Worst Enemy"
Lita Ford (w/ Ozzy) - "Close My Eyes Forever"
Live - "Lightning Crashes"
Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Wino"
Marcy Playground - "Sex and Candy"
Marilyn Manson - "Coma White"
Matchbox Twenty - "Bent"
Meat Loaf - "Paradise by the Dashboard Light"
Meat Puppets - "Backwater"
Megadeth - "Sweating Bullets"
Metallica - "(Anesthesia) Pulling Teeth"
Montrose - "Rock Candy"
Motley Crue - "Live Wire"
Nine Inch Nails - "Down In It"
Nirvana - "All Apologies"
No Doubt - "Just a Girl"
Oasis - "Champagne Supernova"
Oleander - "Why I'm Here"
Orbital - "Satan" (from the Spawn soundtrack)
Ozzy Osbourne - "Revelation (Mother Earth)"
Pantera - "Walk"
Pat Travers - "Crash and Burn"
Pearl Jam - "Black"
Phish - "Frankenstein"
Pink Floyd - "Brain Damage"
Powerman 5000 - "When Worlds Collide"
Presidents of the United States - "Lump"
Puddle of Mudd - "She Hates Me"
Queen - "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Queensryche - "Silent Lucidity"
REM - "Drive"
Rage Against the Machine - "Killing in the Name"
Rainbow - "Man on the Silver Mountain"
The Ramones - "I Wanna Be Sedated"
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Suck My Kiss"
Red Rider - "Lunatic Fringe"
Ritchie Blackmore - "The Temple of the King"
Rob Zombie - "Living Dead Girl"
Robin Trower - "Brigde of Sighs"
Rush - "Jacob's Ladder"
Saliva - "Click Click Boom"
Sammy Hagar - "Heavy Metal"
Sanctuary - cover of Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit"
Scorpions - "In Trance"
Seven Mary Three - "Cumbersome"
Sevendust - "Denial"
Slayer - cover of Iron Butterfly's "In A Gadda Da Vida"
Smash Mouth - "Walkin' on the Sun"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Disarm"
Soul Asylum - "Somebody to Shove"
Soundgarden - "Spoonman"
Spacehog - "In the Meantime"
Spin Doctors - "Two Princes"
Sponge - "Plowed"
Stabbing Westward - "What Do I Have to Do?"
Staind - "It's Been Awhile"
Static-X - "Push It"
Steppenwolf - "Magic Carpet Ride"
Stone Temple Pilots - "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart"
Sublime - "Santeria"
Sugar Ray - "Fly"
System of a Down - "Sugar"
Tantric - "Astounded"
Taproot - "Poem"
The Tea Party - "The Bazaar"
Ted Nugent - "Great White Buffalo"
Temple of the Dog - "Pushin Forward Back"
Tesla - "Signs"
Third Eye Blind - "Semi-Charmed Life"
Thursday - "War All the Time"
Toad the Wet Sprocket - "Come Down"
Toadies - "Possum Kingdom"
Tom Petty - "Here Comes My Girl"
Type O Negative - "Christian Woman"
Ugly Kid Joe - "Cats in the Cradle" (orig by Harry Chapin? is that right?)
Uncle Kracker - "Follow Me"
The Union Underground - "Revolution Man"
Uriah Heep - "The Wizard"
Van Halen - "Unchained"
Ween - "The Golden Eel"
The White Stripes - "Seven Nation Army"
White Zombie - "Thunder Kiss '65"
Whitesnake - "Slow an' Easy"
Yngwie Malmsteen - "Black Star"
ZZ Top - "Tube Snake Boogie"

I have tons of music on my computer, including local bands and I just added Spoonfed Tribe too. This, like I said, is a small sample of what I listen to. And it doesn't include some of my favorite stuff that I haven't found for download yet, like Tool, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin...