Who I Am
I am an artistic kind of a human, living in a small community in south-western
Ohio. My creative ventures span, at various times, music, writing, and theatre
& cinema arts. In recent times my artistic focus has been on music, where
I'm a song writer, a singer, and musician, and a producer of my own work. I
also dabble in playwrighting, and have done some screen writing. There was
a time when I wrote a bit of prose fiction and poetry, and have had both
short stories and poems published, way back in the last millennium. I've
acted on the theatre stage, both
non-professional
and on the local
Equity stage
(the Human Race Theatre Company).
I've also acted in a few movies, mostly in
short-subject films;
though I did get to be a
stand-in
on the set of
The Ides of March
for a couple days. I've also directed a few theatre productions for a very
good local non-professional theatre, and I've directed for the camera,
usually promotional DV trailers for theatre productions. I've been a
frequent producer for non-professional theatre as well as a quite-frequent
sound designer
for such theatre productions. I also do a little bit of graphic artwork.
Am I any good at any of this? Ultimately that's for other people to judge.
Most of the time I'm a pretty harsh self-critic, despite being an egomaniac
in many ways. I will say that I have done some things that I am happy with,
a few I'm even very proud of, and some of what I've done I think just might
honestly deserve to be called excellent, or at least circling such. In the
end, what matters most is that I'm being as creative as I can on any given
day, that I'm "being the artist," for whatever that's worth.
As for that academia stuff, I earned my B.A., with Honors, with a duel major
in English and Mass Communication, from
Wright State University where I've been
support staff at the
Paul Laurence Dunbar Library
(what I "lovingly(?)" refer to as "the rent payer")
since 1994. I'm on the verge of retiring, and will do so as soon as my debt
stops making me anxious.
My loftiest artistic goal is to be brilliant, not to simply be known
as brilliant, but to actually deserve the term laid upon me. I think maybe
‐‐
MAYBE
‐‐ I've almost achieved such perhaps a little bit, a few times,
maybe. But even if I'm being delusional, which isn't far-fetched, even if
some, or much, of what I have done and still do is horrible, I take solace
in these words from a note my favorite novelist,
Kurt Vonngut, wrote
to a classroom of kids:
Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing,
painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no
matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to
experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make
your soul grow.
Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for
the rest of your lives. Draw a funny or nice picture of Ms.
Lockwood, and give it to her. Dance home after school, and
sing in the shower and on and on. Make a face in your mashed
potatoes. Pretend you're Count Dracula.
Here's an assignment for tonight, and I hope Ms. Lockwood
will flunk you if you don't do it: Write a six line poem,
about anything, but rhymed. No fair tennis without a net.
Make it as good as you possibly can. But don't tell anybody
what you're doing. Don't show it or recite it to anybody,
not even your girlfriend or parents or whatever, or Ms.
Lockwood. OK?
Tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into
widely separated trash recepticals [sic]. You will find that
you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem.
You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what's
inside you, and you have made your soul grow.
There MAY be ridiculously verbose elaboration added for much of
what's above, at some point.
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