PUBLISHED

LA and OC WEEKLY ARTICLES
Articles I wrote from 1997-2000, when I wrote for these two papers in Los Angeles and Orange County.

LA and OC WEEKLY REVIEWS
CD reviews and show previews.

DAILY BRUIN (UCLA)
Interviews, columns and reviews from when I was a writer and the Art and Music Editor at the UCLA paper from 1994-1997.

OTHER MAGAZINES
Stuff for other magazines I'm not even sure exist anymore.

ACADEMIC

Masters Paper
An Evaluation of Online Museum Databases (August 2004).

Music Paper
The Impact of Communist Ideology on the Folk and Gypsy Music of Eastern Europe (May 2004).

ESSAYS

Rants about how I would change things if I were Queen of Everything... or just creative blurbs no magazine would probably buy, so I put them here.

Jumping the Picket Fence - Waking up from the American Dream.

An Open Letter to Advertisers - I'm not above auctioning off my body to the highest bidder.

Car Commercials - If you think you are what you drive, your mind needs to be rotated and realigned.

Fight Club - The Search for an Authentic Life - "We are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world." Throw out your Hammacher Schlemmer catalog and start painting your face.

Christmas Consumerism - "All I want for Christmas is... on my Amazon wishlist."

Sing Your Life - When it comes to belting the blues or celebrating existence, Americans have a sad case of laryngitis.

Quantum and Mangum: Science, god and a flying victrola - How Neutral Milk Hotel and astrophysics are complimentary doorways to the infinite. Or something.

Women's Magazines: The New Pornography - The most misogynistic thing in Hugh Hefner's mansion is his girlfriend's copy of Cosmo.

Beauty's Where You Find It - Defining Art - If a painting falls in the forest and no one is there to throw a gala, does it make a sound?

An Ode to the Puppet King - Why the Flaming Lips are the bestest live band ever... in 300 words or less.