BORN: 1985 JOINED THE DV STAFF: December 2008 HOMETOWN: Phoenix, AZ NOW LIVING IN: Tempe, AZSPOUSE / KIDS?: Single without children. FAVORITE ARTIST: Thelonious Monk OTHER ARTISTS I LIKE: Alice Coltrane, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Charles Mingus, Motown and Staxx, Simon and Garfunkel, Nina Simone, The Clash, Wu-Tang Clan, and others.  Mostly jazz and soul. BEER: Oyster Beer at The Porterhouse in Dublin, Ireland. OTHER HOBBIES: Fighting tyranny and exercising. PERSONAL MOTTO: No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid.—George Orwell I WRITE MUSIC REVIEWS BECAUSE: …somebody needs to tell people why the Duke Ellington Trio recordings are SO hip!