Current LinkedIn Bio

If you are a talent agent and I "connect" with you. I am NOT going to send you an unsolicited reel. You'd be so lucky. Get over yourself Don (emphasis on Don).

I like to write. No, I have to write. It started in high school with lyrics. Then I started playing guitar and singing to the lyrics. And all that time I was an improvisational actor. But after high school something happened. Well, during high school something happened. I started drinking. This isnt a problem for 97% of people. But if you're an alcoholic, then kiss all those lofty yet very attainable, for those with talent and initiative, goodbye: rockstar, actor, person who is a celebrity for no apparent reason.

The story is always the same with us. Different, but the same. I didn't rise to the top. I became a Marine. The thought of college at that time scared me more than hand-to-hand mortal combat or running through the meat-grinder (think Normandy June 6, 1944 and the very many, very large 50 caliber machine guns that were all pointed down at the beach: that's the meat grinder). Got a high score on my ASVAB (test to see what military jobs you qualify for). I was able to not be a Marine. Some enlist with that branch because is has jobs that require the lowest score, i.e. the guys that run through the meat grinder, but I didn't want to study anything, I wanted to to not think. I wanted to forget. The booze helped with that.

But of course I hated nearly everything about military life almost immediately, except for the amazing friends I met who drank like me.

That first thing you do after high school as far as work, is kind of important. You're drawing a line in the sand. I've been doing jobs I didnt love ever since.

Today I am reinvigorated. I never stopped writing. It's prose more than lyrics at this point. I just always lacked confidence. But I have to write. I have to sing. And I finally have enough self-respect to not completely self-deprecation. Any and all self-deprecation is merely for entertainment purposes. Unfortunately, usually mine, not yours, lol. A nasty lil habit. When someone is shameless enough they don't mind walking away while someone thinks their a freak. I am that shameless.

But, seriously, I need all of you artists out there. Regardless of your medium. Without you none of this would matter. Thank you for making art.

Also, I need those who don't create art. The ones that don't even like it. No man is an island. Please, never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee [John Donne 1624].