If someone were unfamiliar with the Violent Femmes, how would you describe your music in one sentence?
“ It’ s a mixture of a lot of forms of American music, a lot of people like it. I think you will too.”
Is this what you always dreamed of doing? What other career paths might you have pursued otherwise? This is the only thing that I ever wanted to do. Recently I had it suggested to me that if it wasn’ t this, I would be in some kind of literature linguistic comparison studies. I think that’ s because I like to do that in my spare time. I never went to a university or college, but I really love languages and literature.
Can you speak any other languages? I speak a little bit in I guess a few. I am certainly not fluent in any. However, I enjoy reading and trying to work in poetry. This brings up another connection that I have to Spokane, which is to the Church. I enjoy and benefit from reading scripture in other languages. This is because there is scripture that I was raised with and that I am very familiar with, yet when I attempt to read it in another language it slows down the whole process and I discover that there are other words that give new meaning. Sometimes I find it very illuminating and inspirational.
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