American ex-pat living in the UK. By day, quiet, unassuming office worker, by night, fashion extraordinaire who plays trumpet and bass. It's a crazy life but somebody has to live it. At the moment it's all about having fun...

June Christy, Anita O'Day, Gene Krupa, Roy Eldridge, Duke Ellington, The Skatalites, Don Drummond, Louis Prima, Sunny Day Real Estate, Jets to Brazil, Jawbreaker, Guided By Voices, the Makeup, Public Enemy, Wu-Tang, Tribe, Nas, Guns'n'Roses (this is not ironic)... I could go on for ever

Gone With The Wind, The Big Lebowski, The Apartment, The Maltese Falcon, The Trouble With Harry, Vertigo, Rear Window, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the ORIGINAL), the early Bond films...

Anything by Garrison Keillor, Brothers Karamazov, EVERYTHING by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the Brontes, The Constant Nymph, Tropic of Cancer, On the Road...