I'm a lifelong musician. I learned Viola when I was four, and could read the staff before the written word. I also got familiar with piano as a supplemental instructional tool to teach theory. In middle school, I joined the school band and picked up the alto saxophone. I was accepted into the competition jazz band, where I moved from alto to tenor sax, and the district orchestra, where I played baritone sax. I added soprano sax to my list in high school, performing award-winning solos in a nationally competing group. I began teaching myself stringed instruments, eventually learning under the tutelage of my father. I became a very competent guitarist, and applied my decades of training in theory to learn bass guitar. I continue as a versatile bassist to this day after over a decade of experience with that instrument.

Throughout adolescence, I became more of an outcast, and was increasingly persecuted for my cultural upbringing (I suppose you could say I'm a second generation Goth) and lack of theistic absolution. My musical taste tends to reflect a darker, more haunting and sometimes sinister flavour.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Alien Quadrilogy, Addams Family Values, Repo! the Genetic Opera, Silent Hill, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, True Romance, Galaxy Quest, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Session 9, To Kill A Mockingbird, Airplane!, Apollo 13, Apollo 18, Daybreakers, Interview With the Vampire, Queen of the Damned, Lesbian Vampire Killers, "Manos" the Hands of Fate, Let Me In, Let the Right One In, The Lost Boys, Once Bitten, Paul, TED, Revenant, Slaughterhouse Five, SLC Punk, Slither, Spirited Away, Suck, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Forsaken, The Mist, Tropic Thunder, Zoolander, Mystery Men, Wir Sind Die Nacht, Prometheus, the Paradise Lost documentaries, Near Dark, Innocent Blood, Go, Fright Night, Cargo, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Corpse Bride, Die Hard 4.0, The Pirates of Silicon Valley, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Just Like Heaven, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, This Is Spinal Tap, Grandma's Boy, Argo, Pieces of April, From Hell, Grass, Wag the Dog, The Stuff, Theatre of the Bizarre, Donnie Darko, The Craft, Little Miss Sunshine...

Carl Sagan, Galileo, Steven Lynch, Felicia Day, Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev's mother...