You pretty much know about me by looking at the top of this page. I deal in words and images. I tell stories. For about 15 or so years (from the mid-1980s until the early 2000s), I was a rock journalist. I traveled all over the world interviewing bands, befriending them, and getting into a certain amount of trouble along the way. It was fun! I'm sure I'll have other writing up here eventually, but at the moment, I'm putting up lots of my out-of-print features and reviews. Loads of articles from RIP, some from Creem, BAM, and a few other places. Only the good stuff, though. The run-of-the-mill assignments aren't worth reprinting. (If you want to read my Entertainment Weekly stuff, it's actually still online. My writing for Launch — now Yahoo! Music — is still up, too, as are the handful of reviews I wrote for Amazon.)
I currently have one book out, White Line Fever, which is actually the autobiography of Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister. I am co-author and, in fact, I came up with the idea to have him do the book. (Admittedly, I wasn't the first to approach him, just the one who got the job done.) In addition, I got front cover credit for editing one book, my cat's book, Dear Sparkle: Advice From One Cat to Another.
As for other, non-rock writing, I did a few hundred synopses and reviews of mostly silent films and early sound comedies for the Allmovie Guide, and I run a few websites where I generally write most of the content. The one I'm proudest of ('cause it looks the nicest) is Your Exercise DVDs, where I review exercise and Yoga DVDs, usually a couple every week. And then there's Sparkle's website, which I oversee, and her latest site, Good Kitty Book, a place for her to work on her next book, and to dialog with humans.
If you want to get in touch with me, click on over to my contact page.
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