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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