Travis

Rice University (M.M.), USC (B.A.), Stillwater High School

Violist/Punaholic

Hyperion String Quartet, Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival, Montana Chamber Music Workshop, American Viola Society, Aspen, Banff, and Bowdoin Music Festivals, Music Academy of the West, The Quartet Program, Violists Anonymous, CMA

playing and listening to most music, Sudoko, travelling, FOOD!!! (from everywhere!, the New Yorker (esp. the cartoons) and Sunday NY Times, Drinking Margaritas, George W. bashing (but it's oh so easy!), ultimate frisbee, science and technology, half-finished crosswords, hiking the Rockies, kayaking and rafting (ocean and river), movies of all kinds good and bad, drinking coffee, wasting time on friendster, listening to NPR, Scrabble

Krakauer, Sedaris, Augusten Burroughs, The Namesake, Tuesday Next Novels, Middlesex, Novels by Ha Jin, The Time Traveler's Wife, Snow Crash, Ender's Game, Good Omens, Prey, Neruda's Poetry, Fast Food Nation, East of Eden, Guns Germs and Steel, Coetzee, anything science fictiony

I watch WAY too many....In the Mood for Love, Brick, Thank you for Smoking, Match Point, Schizopolis, Saving Face (Hilarious!), The Squid and the Whale, Jesus is Magic, McLibel, Motorcyle Diaries, Team America: World Police, I Heart Huckabee's, Million Dollar Baby, Garden State, The Royal Tenanbaums, Rushmore, Kinsey, Wet Hot American Summer, Crash

Whatever's playing on Morning Become's Eclectic, The Killers, Ok Go, Van Hunt, Josh Rouse, Ben Harper, Snow Patrol, Radiohead, Aphex Twin, Interpol, Matisyahu (only their live album), Postal Service, Howie Day (only his solo stuff), Bjork, Damien Rice, David Oistrakh, Shostakovich 4tets with St. Petersburg, Hagen 4tet, Roberto Diaz and Co. Playing Paganini Quartets

Anything on MTV (as sad as that is), The Office (I LOVE IT!!), 24, Grey's Anatomy, The Ali G Show, Project Runway, South Park, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Daily Show, Seinfeld, etc.

Pisces

I have a talent for finding sexual innuendo in nearly any phrase, no matter how dry it may seem.