: About Me

Oh, nothing much to say, really: I'm the third child of a French chef and an Costarican English teacher. Born and bred in Costa Rica, a small central American country, I had a beautiful childhood, a not so great teenage and a somewhat rocky adult life so far, but I keep on trucking.

I have a BA in Political Sciences, but I've only had limited experience in the field because it is very difficult to find spaces to move. I've worked as customer service rep, language teacher (English, French, Spanish), website article writer and for the last two years as a support and implementation tech.

Music is my life and my life is music: if not listening to it, thinking about it, playing it or writing it, it's probably because I'm sleeping. If I could have just one wish, I'd ask for an opportunity to have career in music: I don't need to become the next big thing, as long as I could support myself doing what I truly love, I'd be fine with it.

When I'm away from my guitar, writing is the one other thing that keeps me busy. I've always done it, and people really seem to get a kick out of my writing style. I'm told that I'm quite funny, but I wouldn't know about that. I'm not trying to be intentionally funny, I just speak my mind and write just as I speak, and for some reason, people seem to find that very funny, even going as far as to tell me that they can actually imagine my face and my gestures just by reading my pieces...peculiar...

Long Live Rock n' Roll

My passion is ...

music

I know too much about ...

Star Wars

My parents always told me ...

that they would always love me, no matter what

My childhood ambition ...

become an astronaut

My favorite memory ...

when I saw my first love the very first time

Why I write ...

I love it, always have

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

listening to rock: all the time, everyday

My first job ...

selling shoes

My best moment ...

recording a song in the studio with my highschool band

My inspiration ...

love and hate

Entertainment > Music Business Music piracy: Is downloading music ethical?

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Now this is a burning question! The debate has been on for the better part oflet's say 10 years, give or take. I still remember when in 1998 "Psycho Circus", Kiss' first album with the original lineup in 20 years, leaked to the internet a couple of months before its official release. In those days, MP3 technology wasn't yet widely spread, so that album and a few others that suffered from similar leaks were available in poor quality audio files. Very few people saw a threat there. After all, music piracy had existed pretty much since there was music to be pirated. They didn't see it coming,...

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