About Me:  2002 graduate of the University of Evansville, professional daydreamer, currently melting in New York City.

Favorite Album: Elliott Smith – Elliott Smith

Favorite Film:  Dr. Strangelove - Dark comedy at its darkest and funniest.

Favorite Concert: Elvis Costello, University of Chicago, November 9, 2002 – The culmination of a year of touring, no highlights of the last 9 months were left out, the Imposters at their best, EC at his most playful and passionate.

Favorite Book:  1984 by George Orwell.  Brilliant distopian nightmare that gets more frightening, more relevant, and more realistic with every read. The last third of the book is like a lesson in futility and probably the scariest thing I have ever read six times. "I love George Bush!"

Top 5 Elvis Costello songs whose title asks a question:

1. (What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love and
Understanding?
2. Daddy Can I Turn This?
3. Honey Are You Straight or Are You Blind?
4. Why Cant a Man Stand Alone?
5. What's Her Name Today?


Articles:

October 2005
Column: Getting To Know: Stanley Kubrick


August 2005
Column: Getting To Know: Peter Sellers
Column: Unearthed: Dr. Feelgood - Stupdity
Book Review: No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Book Review: Sinatra: The Life by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swann
Editorial: A Fond Farewell


July 2005
Feature: Top 10 Rock'n'Roll Movies
Column: Rewind 1977 - Punk, Disco, and the Death of the King
Album Review: Novillero - Aim Right For The Holes In Their Lives
Album Review: Oneida - The Wedding
Album Review: Sadoceanspacebar - Sadoceanspacebar
Album Review: Tracy Bonham - Blink The Brightest
Film Review: Mysterious Skin


June 2005
Column: Indie's Turn: Stiff Records
Column: Been There
Book Review: Complicated Shadows: The Life and Music of Elvis Costello by Graeme Thomson
Album Review: Youth Group's Skeleton Jar
DVD Review: Elvis Costello and the Imposters: Club Date - Live in Memphis
DVD Review: The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
Editorial: Brighid's Guide to Melancholy

May 2005
Feature: With Kaleidoscope Eyes: An Abridged History of Art Under the Influence
Book Review: Nothing's Sacred by Lewis Black
Album Review: Clem Snide's End of Love
Album Review: Gruf's Hopeless
Album Review: Hot Hot Heat's Elevator
Album Review: Kings of Leon's Aha Shake Heartbreak
Album Review: Louis XIV's The Best Little Secrets Are Kept
Album Review: Subtitle's Young Dangerous Heart
Editorial: Minding Each Other's Business

April 2005
Album Review: Layabout's Honest Woman
Album Review: The Way Out's White Lies
Editorial: The Price of Wealth

March 2005
Feature: To Tell The Truth: Bill Hicks as Comedian, Philosopher, Revolutionary
Column: Whatever Happened To Molly Ringwald
Album Review: The Frames - Burn the Maps
Album Review: Lewis Black - Luther Burbank Performing Arts Center Blues
Album Review: Sage Francis - A Healthy Distrust
Editorial: The Truest Patriot

February 2005
Feature: Beyond Belief: Lewis Black and the Comedy of Outrage
Column: The Indie's Turn: Sub Pop Records
Concert Review: Calexico
Unearthed DVD Review: Absolutely Fabulous: Complete DVD Collection
Editorial: Rewarding Incompetence

December 2004
Feature: The Art of Politics, Part II - Film, TV, and Theater
Feature: Greg Proops: Comedy to Enlighten and Frighten
Album Review: Want Two, Rufus Wainwright
Album Review: Von, Sigur Ros
Album Review: Shakin' the Sheets, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists
Editorial: What's So Funny Bout Peace Love and Understanding

November 2004:
Feature: The Art of Politics, Part I - Literature, Music, and Comedy
Column: Battle Of The "Experts": Lucid Dreaming
Column: Getting To Know: Elvis Costello
Album Review: From A Basement On A Hill, Elliott Smith
Album Review: This Island, Le Tigre
DVD Review: Wattstax (30th Anniversary Special Edition)
Editorial: Don't Wait Till 2008

October 2004
Album Review: The Delivery Man, Elvis Costello & The Imposters
DVD Review: Never Scared, Chris Rock
DVD Review: Goodbye Lenin!
Concert Review: Nick Lowe
Editorial: Not Bush, Candidate Superstar

September 2004
Feature: Destroyed By Madness: New York City's Howl! Festival of East Village Arts
Column: Globetrotting - New York City, New York
Album Review: Good News For People Who Like Bad News, Modest Mouse
DVD Review: Outfoxed
Unearthed DVD Review: The Office 1st and 2nd Season
Unearthed Audible Review: Greg Proops - AudibleProops
Editorial: A Little Rebelion Now And Then

August 2004
Feature: The Luckiest Guy On The Lower East Side: Stephin Merritt
Column: Been There: Elvis Costello
Album Review: Franz Ferdinand
Album Review: Give Up, The Postal Service
Album Review: i, Magnetic Fields
Album Review: Stellastarr* - Stellastarr*
Editorial: The Politics Of Fear