The Cliffnotes: I am a writer, producer, designer, ghetto-turned enlightened negro, married, techno-geek. I’m a laid back, comedic (but not funny), intelligent (but not smart) musician (but not musical) who (in the right light) can be non-hideous by today’s ostentatious standards.

Other Thoughts: I’m a person with a lot to say and do, but too shy to really put it all out there. I grew up pathologically shy, so just communicating on an everyday basis can be a bit of a task.

Writing: I love writing. Not in the sense that i’d like it to be a job. But I love trying to translate my thoughts and feelings to paper. More times than not, it comes out totally different and I learn more through the process.

Music: I listen to music all the time. I created music from samples. It’s what I am. Music is my first love and rules my every thought, hope and dream. I can’t understand how people don’t live with a soundtrack constantly playing in their head. To me it sounds frightening, like losing your site or hearing. You can take anything away from me and I will recover. Take music from my life and you’ve destroyed me.

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  Give It 2 U

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  Rolling Stone Cover Mock up

  An old mock up of a Rolling Stone cover. Fun with photoshop.

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  The Fader Magazine Cover

  Mock Fader magazine cover. i was trying out a new digital camera at work and took some snapshots of myself. i had just got back from Vegas a few hours before and had a serious hangover and a need for a shower and some sleep. The picture looked so grimy and I ha...

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  Music: Chance Of Rain (Vocals by T.J. Brown)

  This is an incredible track i did a few years ago, working with soulstress, T.J. Brown. This was an older song i had done years ago, that T.J. said she loved and wanted to use. So I re-mastered the track and rebuilt it around an accapella she sent me and the result was golden.

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  Music: Da Hell (Vocals by Dantrel "Fave" Robinson)

  This is perfect example of how a person can write lyrics and turn a throw away song into something special. This version is kinda short, but we're working on a full length track to be released next year.

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  Music: Stand (Vocals by Doyle Robinson)

  I've been working on a collaborative project called The RhythmTeachers with Doyle Robinson. It's a spiritual / urban music project that's spawn a good number of songs between us. This is one of my favorite.

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  Music: Blue Kinda Grey (Rainy Day Mix)

  This is the title track off of my 2006 CD. Recently, my collborative partner, Dantrel "Fave" Robinson took my mininalistic song and added some instrument goodness to it. I love the new sound. And it's spawned us doing more collaborations in Logic Pro.

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  Music: Emoticon

  This is a new beat i'm working on. I don't care for it that much, but most people who hear it love it more than i do. To me it sounds like something is missing, but it's growing on me.

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  Music: Goodbye

  I originally made this track when I was moving in with my 'then' girlfriend. I was currently living in San Jose and moving 40 miles north to San Francisco, California. The early morning before I made the transition, I walked through downtown San Jose before the sun came u...

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  Rant: Oppression, You, Me And Her Friend The Lesbian

  In this incredible day and age, ask yourself this: Where do the most intense philosophical debates originate? — Classrooms? — Lectures? — Parole Board Hearings? Nope! The most intense philosophical debates occur in back-alley pubs, with at least two p...

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  Short Story: The Eulogy

  He could feel the Minister staring at him. So, he fought to keep his head down; his eyes buried on the Bible resting in his lap. He had to squeeze every second he could into that moment. Because he knew, the second he looked up, it would be his turn. And he would have to...

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  Short Story: The Darkness

  The pain is still there. Has it always been there? I can't remember a time without it. Like roaches, gnawing away at my stomach... or are they in my stomach? This is where I exist. I want to shed what I am. I want to run away naked, stripped of all existen...

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  Short Story: Gun

  PART I: ALL I WANT TO DO IS PULL THE TRIGGER I stared at it for what seemed to be hours. I studied it; observed its black contours, contrasted against my light wood dresser. It was so small. How could something so small do what I wanted i...

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  Poem: Dreaming With A Broken Heart

  I lay here, half sleep. Sideways and legs crossed. In that perfect spot, the warm spot surrounded by the rest of the icy cold mattress. A King-sized mattress with plenty of room to stretch out and get comfortable. But this was my spot. It had always bee...

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  Poem: Sleeping

  Intertwined, Your heartbeat and mine My soul attached to yours like part of some grand design So many times I stumbled on my grind But the love i feel for you has grown stronger, it seems I find I think of corny lines when you come to mi...

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  Poem: Rage

  Rage is the absence of self control of morality and common sense. Of feelings and caring. No family, friends, No people, places or things. It is the abandonment of social obligation. A moment where humanity is stripped from the human form. It i...

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  Poem: Nobody

  I use to be a nobody. I use to think it was wonderful. Existence in the essence of invisibility. Standing there, but not there in the eyes of those around me, nowhere. Just another mediocre man to the masses. Oh the sweet, sweet transparency Th...

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  Poem: Depressive Recessive

  Depression breeds, to where suicide leads. My heart's crusted over with scabs of pain and sorrow, Emotion, leaving my soul feeling hallow. When the bullet finally claims me, ends me, cures me, Will you follow me...

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  Poem: Funnel

  Thoughts spread out through my mind like an endless sea of particles; Forcing their way out of my throat like a funnel. I can't express what I feel. I feel too much. I have no explanations for my feelings. They are scrambled...

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  Music: Oh, Mona (Early Version 3)

  This is a track I'm currently working on with Dantrel "Fave" Robinson. We're putting together a collaborative project to be released early next year. He lives in Houston, Texas and I'm in Oakland, California. We've never met face to face, but communicate online and wor...