Billy Sommer

St. Louis University High School, University of MIami

University of Miami, Attended 1998 - 2001, Class of 2001, Bachelor's Degree, music

musician, tutor

music, sports, movies, reading, writing, LEARNING, philosophy, any sort of casual recreation like darts, pool, or bowling

For Kings and Planets, by Ethan Canin, All the King's Men, The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test, Invisible Man, Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates, A Fine Balance, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

The Sweet Hereafter, the Big Lebowski, Adaptation, Garden State, Meet the Parents, Zoolander, Pulp Fiction, The Ice Storm, Mystic River, Old School, too many others

the Strokes, the Shins, Cursive, Radiohead, Beck, Wilco, Death Cab for Cutie, Elbow, the Black Crowes, Hot Hot Heat, Ben Folds Five, the Gabe Dixon Band, Zeppelin, Coldplay, Hey Mercedes, Miles Davis, Keith Jarrett, John Coltrane, Bill Stewart, Joe Lovano, Hot Hot Heat

none, really, but I've liked Arrested Development the couple of times I've seen it. Maybe some Law & Order here and there, and of course, football.

I like to do lots of different stuff. I would like to think of myself as some sort of Renaissance man, metropolitan, contradictory. I do not think badly of people who do stuff that is different from the stuff I like to do. (Tolerance, you could say.)

I want to be really good at things.

I laugh a lot and try to find humor in the mundane.

If I had a mantra, it would be as follows:
Live life with an intensity that lends meaning to all your actions, while having fun.

In no particular order, some of the things that really get me going are:
music (playing drums in particular), sports, women, writing, a good movie, a vibrant personality, smart people.

People with something intelligent and interesting to say, who like to laugh and help others do the same; who like to go out and have a good time, and invent fun if necessary.