Raised: in an around Ft. Wayne (Columbia City, Churubusco and finally Ft. Wayne proper) all my life.
Education: Graduated from Ft. Wayne Christian High School in 1996. Earned a National Merit Scholarship because of good SAT scores and went to the University of Toledo. Flunked out after a year and lost my scholarship partly because I wasn't used to being on my own and being responsible for my own education and partly because I was going through some emotional hell my first semester (my parents divorced after 20 years of a seemingly happy marriage and my favorite teacher from high school died suddenly two weeks into the school year) and I buggered the crap out of my G.P.A. I decided after being home that summer that I really didn't want to go back to college so I haven't.
Work: I have spent the last 3 and 1/2 years working at Waterfield Mortgage although that is coming to an end quickly, (read a newspaper if you don't know why) but I have worked for Wooden Nickel, Best Buy and a couple of other places in the last 9 years or so.
Music: I have been writing and performing music since 2000, mostly solo acoustic stuff, but I also had a band, Edmund's Folly (feat. fellow FWM.commer bassjones) for awhile and have performed on occasion with various one time only lineups. In 2002, I won a Whammy Award for "Best New Solo Performer 2001".
Future Plans: After my job ends at Waterfield in the next couple of months I am planning on taking the severance money and moving to Nashville as the City of Fort Wayne is slowly but surely destroying my soul and it's time for me to move on to (hopefully) bigger and better things. I am currently putting together a DVD of some of my live performances to sell at shows. Hopefully I will get it done soon.
Peace Out, Ft. Wayne.
