Where did you get that limp?

I have a limp due to an old train injury. I jumped off a freight car in the middle of a hobo fight unknowing it was mid-bridge. Beans were flying everywhere.

What about that scar on your forehead?

Got that in church. The holy spirit moved me and threw me at a pew.

Any other scars?

I have a scar on my left side from a knife fight in Jackson. They have some mean 12 year olds out there.

I also have a missing tooth due to a bar fight in Mexicali. It was over a girl. I said she was ugly and her husband disagreed.

Are you a difficult person?

My wife got more than she bargained for when she married me. I'm part Irish and part English. I fight with myself all the time. I check my car for a bomb every morning before I leave work. One day I'm gonna get me.

What's one thing every person must do?

Everyone ought to own a dog. Well, everyone ought to let a dog own THEM. That's how it ends up working out. We think we train them, but who's runnin' around for who?

What happened during your flashforward?

During the 137 seconds of my flashforward.....I was naked, drunk, and sitting with Keira Knightley and Marisa Tomei. We were on a yacht called the Mickey Rourke in the South Pacific. Strange Wreslter/Domino tie in there, but it's true.

Is there any humanity left in the world?

Humanity died a long time ago. Along with Kennedy or Lennon or someone important like that. If, say, Britney Spears died, what would we lose? Class? That's been going down the drain lately anyway. Since about the time she got a record deal. All the important people died off with the all the important qualities.

Are there any role models in the world worth looking up to?

I think there are very few good role models anymore. Most ball players are all jacked up on something. Pop singers...most are fabricated lip synchers. I wouldn't want my kid looking up to a barbie doll with an auto-tune voice. And actors and actresses? Do you really want someone in the same religion as Tom Cruise being your kid's role model? Give your children a copy of the Bible, a book on the Dalai Lama, and The Zombie Survival Guide and let's just hope for the best.

Do you like music that's being played on the radio today?

I think I grew up in the wrong time period. Sure there were world wars and the depression back when my grandparents were around, but they had such good music. They had style back then. Class. What does Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers have to offer to our culture? Our grandkids will look back and laugh at what pop culture left behind in the decades we were alive.

Name some of your musical influences.

Tom Waits, William Elliot Whitmore, Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, Otis Redding, Hoagy Carmichael, Bettye LaVette, Willie Nelson, Leadbelly, Johnny Cash, Ray LaMontagne, Patty Griffin, Lissie, Murder By Death, Lucero, Bruce Springsteen, Faith No More, Sigur Ros, Antony and the Johnsons, Dresden Dolls, and Flogging Molly.

If you weren't writing, photographing, or creating, what would you be doing?

It was this or drywall installation. I chose this. Less dust.

What influences you to write?

Slot machines. Death. Women. Love. Booze. Weather. Things like that. I open my eyes in the morning and the first thing that moves me, pisses me off, or makes me smile...I write about.

What is success?

People all too often measure themselves in fancy cars, clothes, and homes. Success is in the consistency of family, love, and spirituality. Not gonna lie, I would really love a mega-yacht, but I would take a happy marriage over that.

If you were stuck inside Mobile, what would you be stuck with?

The Memphis blues. It's happened once before.

Favorite places to eat?

Truckstops and diners. Hands down. There's nothing more intriguing, nothing more American, nothing more fulfilling then being served a cup of coffee and a sandwich next to shady individuals hauling ass on the interstate, robbing banks, selling dope or whatever it was they were doing prior to dinner time. You never know if there's going to be a gun fight after dessert. You can't get that at an Applebee's or Perkins.

Can the world be saved?

Too many people waste time looking at the big picture. I think God has that under control. The big stuff will fall into place by itself. It's a pretty romantic thought thinking about a bigger picture. Like you actually have some clue. We should work at a smaller level. Noticing smaller moments. Helping people one at a time. Grunt work always gets it done. Dreaming big gets you amusement parks and television shows. We ought to mircro manage our efforts into real changes. All that stuff builds up to the big stuff God was working on anyway. It's nice to give him a hand for a change. I think we owe him.

Are you sinful?

Sin is great. We all got vices. Dirty little things we shouldn't be doing. It's natural. And they're important. It's good to show off what we got to all those self righteous bastards. "Hey look at us down here. Look at all the fun we're having with our booze and women." We'll be in Heaven with them one day having had more fun than them and they will be jealous wanting a do-over.

What would you consider to be your heaven?

Traveling across country listening to music, stopping at diners, taking photos, sleeping in shady hotels, and pulling over in various rest stops to write.

What is difficult for you?

Math. Trust. Being able to completely relax. Following directions. Remembering things. Patience with people. Anxiety. Time.

Favorite scenes in a movie?

The frog scene in 'Magnolia'. The Infinite Abyss scene in Garden State. When Glen and Mar first play with each other in the music store in 'Once'. The last match in "The Wrestler".

Favorite songs?

There are so many and will most likely forget a few......

'Somewhere Over the Rainbow' (Iz), 'House Where Nobody Lives', 'Fish and Bird', 'On the Nickel' (Waits), 'Bolero' (Moulin Rouge), 'We'll Meet Again' (Cash), Nessun Dorma (Puccini), 'Hallelujah' (Buckley), 'For Crying out Loud' (Meatloaf), 'Light as the Breeze' (Billy Joel), 'Empty' (LaMontagne), 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door' (Zevon), 'Angel Flying to Close to the Ground' (Willie Nelson), Glosoli (Sigur Ros), Wake Up (Arcade Fire).

What's wrong with the world?

We think we are better than everyone and everything. We are merely a fart in the wind in the grand scheme of things. I once heard if we were to take the world's existence….and put it in a time frame comparison of 24 hours….human existence would be about a minute.

What do you consider scary?

Heights. Tight spaces. Oncologists. Funerals. Hospital tests. Darkness. The ocean. Not making something of myself. Life.

What fascinates you?

A lot of things. I watch a lot of National Geographic and History Channel. I love learning about things. Religion really pulls me. I research a lot. Most men are online looking at porn. I'm Googling singers, killers, writers, and religions. I like weird facts. I pay attention to the oddities. The mysteries of life. UFO things. Cults. Serial Killers. People say I know a lot. My wife makes fun of me because of it. "Of course you would know that", she says. I don't think I'm smart. I just like to absorb things and share them. I write some of those weird facts down. I don't know why. I just do.

What is A Mad Mud Water Jam?

In 2009 I printed and sold two poetry chapbooks. I really enjoyed that. Brought me back to the days of doing fanzines. A very DIY effort. I wanted to present something like that for free online for people to read. And this new site is a product of that idea. A Mad Mud Water Jam is a poem I wrote in the summer of '09. I took it and expanded on it a bit and turned it into the website's new theme. In creating this new site, I combined my love of writing with my love for music. I presented the collection of writings in an album format and it tied together with the poem. A majority of the site is like an album release, as if I were a recording artist. Every so often I update my site and this time I just wanted to confuse people a bit and dive deeper into my creativity and imagination. In the past, the site was presented more so as a company. This is about me now. As an artist. I put myself out there a lot more and found it to be very difficult. I like it more behind the scenes, but this new effort has been rewarding. This site now features more of my own work. My art. My photography. My writing. More pieces of me. Personal things for people to see and read. It was awkward but I learned a lot from it. You can easily hide behind a graphic or a photo, but words are harder to hide behind. I had to learn not to care how people were going to take me and understand things. I really tried to present it as art and as a story tying in elements of things I love most.

Any ideas for the next site update?

It's gonna be cross between punk cabaret and Latino house with Scientology undertones. Like a slutty Hispanic Amanda Palmer with L. Ron Hubbard views.