Contact me here if you're so inclined! If you want to hear what I'm listening to, go here!

A bit difficult to meet people here except as a way to trade business cards, but that's alright...

I came to about.me many years ago when it was just starting up, and I used the site as a digital business card of sorts. Seeing how creative others have been with theirs, I feel a bit silly for putting up what sounds like a stodgy page.

Now, for a simple introduction, though broken down a bit because I do a lot of stuff...

First I'm a small label owner (CLCX). This came from serving as an A&R agent and licensor for Tone Casualties (a record label owned by 'Rugrats' animator Gabor Csupo) and Aprelevka Sound, a now-defunct U.S.-Russian company which took some of the titles from the former Soviet state label, Melodiya. The label's a digital labor-of-love for me, where I promote music from Armenia, Russia and Belarus. I work with avant-garde music, contemporary classical, some electronic music (if it's dark), and would like to spend more time with ethnic music, jazz and improvisational stuff.

My blog for music (A Miscellany Of Tasteful...) is another passion. I like promoting interesting music, art, lit and culture in general.

I was a teacher for about a decade as well, working in the Los Angeles area, as well as in Skopje, Macedonia and Naples, Italy, teaching online classes for English as a Second Language. I enjoyed the challenge of helping those struggling to learn English, a VERY difficult language to master, though it's relatively easy to communicate with on a basic level. Given the right circumstances, I'd consider doing it again.

Finally, I participate when I can with my local Eastern Orthodox Church, talk philosophy now and again with good friends, and travel frequently to the Balkans, a place I consider to me my home away from home.

Always looking to relocate, as I still have East Asia, South America and Africa to explore!