RJ

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation Artist & musician / retired high school art teacher
Location Michigan, United States
Introduction Artist and musician. Illustrator for 20 years; high school art teacher for 13 years, retired as of July 2014.
Interests Art, music, reading, tarot, film, etc. Electric guitars, guitar amplifiers, and guitar FX pedals.
Favorite Movies Mulholland Drive, Inland Empire, Lost Highway, Eraserhead, Art School Confidential, Ghost World.
Favorite Music Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Jimi Hendrix, Parliament/Funkadelic, Muddy Waters, Butterfield Blues Band, Portishead, Boards of Canada, Lewis Taylor, ambient electronic music.
Favorite Books Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon), the works of H.P. Lovecraft, The Throat (Peter Straub), L.A. Confidential (James Ellroy), Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace), A Man in Full (Tom Wolfe), The Mission of Art (Alex Grey), The Painted Word (Tom Wolfe).