It's No Secret...

My friends are cool! Here's what's up with them...

Artists & Crafters

Bill Barminski

Award-winning artist and pretty funky all around guy coming at you.

Greg Hyatt

Artist extraordinaire behind my 1999 site design--great bass player too! Greg now has a mural business check it out DolciPareti

Dan Harbord

Cartoon Art Vancouver style!

Michael Fowler

If you can tie it--he can dye it! When he's not off gallavanting around the world, that is...

Phaedra
Bath Balls from Bliss of Venice

 

Performers

Allen Barton
Actor, Writer/director and one hell of a pianist

Cathryn DePrume
This funny, warm director/actress is always making movies full of zany
characters

Antonella Elia
My Italian friend--the Bella Antonella

Dave Koff

Comedy only gets better than this when Dave motivates to work more on his pages in between designing web sites for everybody else! With a unique sense of humor stemming from God only knows where--Dave is a writer/actor, quite
gifted at improv and sketch comedy with an unabshed devotion to some of the odder aspects of the human spectrum!


Suzanne Whang

Not just the go-to girl when you want to buy a house, besides being the host of the fabulously sucessful HGTV show "House Hunters", Suzanne is a gifted actress and stand-up comedian. And better still, a stand-up person, which in the end, is what really counts.

 

Filmmakers

Jon Lawrence, Film Director

David Straus

A former filmmaker, who is now one of the founders of Without a Box, a film festival submission service that is makes the lives of filmmakers around the world easier every day...

Roger Blonder

A poet/animator/filmmaker who fills his Poemation site with the Common Sense of the Wisdom Tree...

Writers

Marc Weistein/Shred Lexicon

A poet, novelist, screenwriter, MC, and also my cousin, he performs his
poetry and rhymes with the hip-hop group Regenerated Headpiece in and around
the New York hip-hop commmunity and literary scene.

Timothy Leary

Hectic life, gentle spirit. I'm glad I got to meet him not just before he died, but before his condition had deteriorated to the point that he wasn't himself. I will treasure the few times I spent with this man--he may not be here anymore, but his thoughts and I hope his energy live on at a web site kept most ably by some others of my generation that Tim had brought into his life in later years. Tim said he liked hanging out with younger people because he liked the energy--plus I think he knew that the future was in our hands. Some day I may put up a story about that on the web. He was so much more than LSD--check out what he was all about.

Musicians

Dan + Vicki Dubelman/Betty Dylan

Alt country band--banned by some clubs in Nashville for being too "out there" but then again, they like it like that...

Joey Shalita
My cousin, oboeist in the Mexico City Woodwind Quintet

Bennett Cale/The BCP

California soul.

Steve Kimock

Guitarist for the band Zero and the band The Other Ones, made up of surviving members of the Grateful Dead.

Marc Dauer/The Jukebox Junkies

"Doc" Dauer tours with the Trampoline Records crew as part of Jukebox Junkies, recently produced Minnie Driver's new CD, and tours with her band as a guitarist.

Steve Schub

Lead singer/personality for the band, The Fenwicks with enough leftover energy and talent to be an actor to boot!

 

Inspiration

Rich Yaker

My best friend and partner for life...Rich has started working on his home page--hard for a guy so shy--about his life's interaction with Technology and Music, detailing the series of fortuitious coincidences that led him to be on the cusp of a space that is only just starting to explode--poised at the brink of a revolution. His site is far from being done, but he told me I could put up this link as a sneak peek for those who happen by...

Francis

He's man's best friend. An even better friend to the ladies. He "rollerblades". He rates CDs. He's very cute. What more could you want? Besides, he would never forgive me if he were not included, as he likes to always be in on the same action as everyone else. At 90 pounds, and a winning personality that easily surpasses several of some of the men/women my friends have dated, it's not that hard to see why he considers himself an equal...

Hope these friends o' mine can hook you up with some fun. Happy surfing.