I was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma and grew up in rural Oklahoma. Constantly battling wanderlust, some of the cities I've lived in are London, Seattle, Tulsa, Dallas, New York City, and Los Angeles. I currently live in downtown Kansas City, Missouri.
All photography was created with a variety of analogue film cameras without any digital manipulation whatsoever. The images were made by a camera, not a computer. In 2012, I was selected as an emerging artist by the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition. To see more photographs, go to TUMBLR or INSTAGRAM. The Tumblr is dormant (but there are a lot of posts to go through!) but Instagram has new things posted semi-regularly if you want to be my digital friend. Although, I find I’m posting less and less there too w/ all the recent anti-photographer changes to the site.
I've worked as an archivist and librarian, self-published numerous zines, and before I promptly retired from the music making world in 1999, was involved with a bunch of lo-fi releases ranging from ambient, electronic drone scapes to raw, literate folk that usually included magical cassette tape hiss. In 2013, I came out of musical retirement and create minimal electronic music under the names Centuries of Monochrome and Telegrafs. Go to my BANDCAMP page to hear or download my music. If you prefer to stream it, all five Centuries of Monochrome full length releases and three Telegrafs EPs can be found on all the major streaming sites with a simple search.
For a number of years I was a film programmer at the historic movie theatre Circle Cinema in Tulsa, Oklahoma and have written about cinema for print publications and online for over two decades. I currently write a monthly documentary column for Library Journal. In 2023, I created a Letterboxd profile and if you want to peruse my viewing habits and read some short reviews, go HERE. From 2005-2012 I helmed the film blog CineRobot and in 2014, I edited some of my favorite humorous essays that appeared on CineRobot and the book 24 Frames Per Second emerged.
I've written a couple of comedic novels [Unpaved Road, Say Hello to Wires], which I dreamt would become cult classics and beloved by a small group of readers. Instead, they appear to be drifting toward oblivion. Go over to the books page or click the following link for more information on getting a copy of Say Hello to Wires.
I am generally a friendly fellow and can be reached digitally at nostalgiclibrarian@gmail.com, which I check every so often.
