Influences

Jeff Littner, Charles Bukowski, Hunter S. Thompson, Plato, Taoism, Tori Amos, sobriety, Emily Dickenson, Jen Mullet, Eminem, Sylvia Plath, Bret Easton Ellis, trauma, books, undergrad, abuse (mental, physical, and emotional), mental illness (mine, my mom’s and the many clients/patients I’ve served), Marilyn Manson, Walt Whitman, addiction, Missoula, Friedrich Nietzsche, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jacques Derrida, my mom, heartbreak, blood relatives and lovers who have successfully broken my heart and spirit, Socrates, the Philosophy Department at the University of Montana, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, my dad, Madonna, Woodstock (the original, not the 90s event you poser), late 1960s, early 1970s, 1990s, LSD, Philosophy, Manson Family, debauchery, innocence.

In no particular order, aside from Jeff (I’ll miss your voice for the rest of every lifetime).