Gender	Male
Industry	Real Estate
Occupation	Assistant
Location	McKinney, Texas, United States
Introduction	Something of a Renaissance Jack-of-All-Trades-Slightly-Off-Center Man. Am now a Real Estate Assistant for my mother (Kay Carlson) in McKinney. Born in Dallas and grew up mostly in Plano. I have a B.A. in Psychology with Philosophy from SWTSU. In addition to photography, I also draw and write. Have traveled, and have lived in San Marcos, Texas, Amsterdam, Manchester, Liverpool, Las Vegas, and Mesa, Arizona before returning to the McKinney area nearly three years ago. Our real estate website is at www.mckinneyhomesforsale.com. I am not a professional photographer, and have taken no formal photography courses (actually when I first started college I was going to major in Painting and Drawing with a minor in Philosophy...). I did grow up with photography, as my mother's father, Wyman Parr, opened a chain of camera stores in Dallas starting in the 1950's (Parr's Camera). By the time he died, both my father (Martin Bros. Cameras) and mother (The Camera Store, Inc.) owned one of his stores. Times change and now the stores are all gone. But what I learned lives on in my photography......
Interests	Photography, drawing, writing, literature, computers, politics, astronomy, cinema, music, poetry, travel, compassion
Favorite movies	O Brother Where Art Thou, Blue Velvet, Trainspotting, Requiem for a Dream, Gormenghast, The Forbidden Zone, Akira, The Princess Bride, Blade Runner, The Jerk, Freaks, A Room With a View, Blazing Saddles,Baby Blue, Last Tango in Paris, Amelie
Favorite music	Peter Gabriel, Tori Amos, U2, Warren Zevon, Steely Dan, Leonard Cohen, Henry Rollins, Eva Cassidy, Yoav, Nirvana, Oasis, Diana Krall, Soundgarden, Lords of Acid, Joni Mitchell, Johnny Cash, Talking Heads, The KLF, Ween, Hildegard von Bingen, Zappa, Shostakovich, Dirty Vegas, MC 900 Ft Jesus, Vast, Coltrane, Sheilia Chandra, Liz Phair, Pink Floyd, Ravel, Shock of Pleasure, Lamb, Bitter:Sweet, Portishead, Danielle Dax, Morphine, William Orbit, Vangelis, The Who
Favorite books	The Critique of Pure Reason, Night, Gravity's Rainbow, The Last Battle, The Stranger, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Tao Te Chi, Love's Executioner, The Dao of Pooh, The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Bhagavad Gita, Silver on the Tree, I Ching, The Hitchhiker's Trilogy, Collected Poems of Sylvia Plath, The Hollow Man, Stuart Little, Harry Potter Series, Selected Poems of Rilke, Le Fleurs du Mal, Four Quartets, The Golden Dawn, The Wasp Factory, Naked Lunch, Threefold Lotus Sutra, Collected Poems of WB Yeates, Pearls Before Swine, Bloom County, The Far Side

Your pajamas have duckies on them. Why did you switch from choo-choos?

Because frogs don't eat ice cream....