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What are you up to tonight?
I’m just hanging out with friends.

Do you live on the Hill?
No, I’m actually from Reno, Nevada.

“The Biggest Little City in the World”?
More like, “The Biggest Little Shithole in the World.”

So, I assume your life is just like on that show “Reno 911”?
Yes, only we don’t have palm trees. You’ll notice on the show, there are palm trees, because it’s actually filmed in L.A. or wherever.

What brought you to Seattle?
My best friend and life partner. Continue reading →

This week, the crow learned where to score good vegan food up north.

What did you learn?

What are you up to tonight?
I’m with my friend shopping, and I’m going to go to the show upstairs [The Highline on Broadway]. I’m one of the promoters here.

Do you have any good shows coming up?
On July 7, I have this show at Barboza, which is below Neumos. There are six bands on the bill and only $8, or $10 at the door.

Spoken like a true promoter! Are you a Seattle native?
No, I’m from Miami, Florida. I live on the North End now.

Do you hang out on the Hill very often?
I do, as much as I can.

Other than promoting shows, what line of work are you in?
I was selling cars for a while, but I really love booking shows. I love helping musicians.

What was the hardest part about being a car salesmen?
Convincing people that I wasn’t an asshole or dishonest. It was hard because I was young, too.

Are you a musician yourself?
I was in a punk band for a long time, but now I’m solo.

What are some of your influences?
A.F.I., Incubus, Misfits, Glenn Danzig. I’m also a huge fan of Davey Havok because he’s straight edge and vegan and doesn’t consume any animal products. I really look up to that.

Are you straight edge?
I was for seven years, then something happened to me and I broke edge, but I want to go back to it. I’ve been vegetarian for ten years. In Seattle they support that a lot—there are a lot of vegan and vegetarian restaurants.

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The crow will have to try out this whole wrapped rock thing.

What are you up to today?
I’m wrapping rocks and selling them for food and money and other things.

Are you a native Seattleite?
No, I was selling magazines across country, and Washington was beautiful, so I stayed.

Selling magazines across the country—how does that work?
It’s like a door-to-door salesman. You walk up to somebody, and you ask them how they are, and if they’re nice and friendly, you sell them a magazine.

So, it’s like interviewing random strangers—only, I promise not to sell you any magazines. How did you get into wrapping rocks [to make jewelry]?
It’s a hobby. It calms you down. It wasn’t really for profit, but I got told that it could be for profit. I figure if you can make money for it, why not.

Where are you from originally?
From Montana. Missoula, Montana. Continue reading →

This week, the CHS crow memorialized a few things. You?

What are you up to today?
My friends are in from D.C., and they have a garden there, so I’m showing them my garden.

What are you planting this year?
Everything. Two of the cooler things we have is an artichoke plant and a kiwi.

This may be my gardening ignorance talking, but I always think of kiwi as a tropical thing.
It’s what I think of, too. These are a little different from the ones you see in the store, you just bite into them, and you don’t have to peel them. Ours are mate dyed, and I don’t know which ones we have, male or female.

Um, I hate to admit this, but I have no idea what “mate dyed” plants are. Could you explain that?
Well, you need male and female to produce fruit. Kind of like humans…

This is new to me. I went to a public schools in the South, so I think teachers were forbidden to talk about fruit & vegetable sex. Do you have to go down to Babeland to get stuff to help them out?
Hey, there’s an idea!

And you play some Barry White for the kiwi?
Yeah, they weren’t feeling it before that.

How long have you had this garden?
About three years. This space used to be a parking lot. I wasn’t the original planter, but I was involved early on.

Have you had other city gardens before this one?
No, it’s my first one.

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