I’m an endurance athlete, a heavy-music appreciator and a compulsive greeter of cats. Before I wrote “Lifehouse,” I was a bike messenger, a rock critic for SPIN in New York, a medic at the Berkeley Free Clinic, head of design direction at Nokia headquarters outside Helsinki, and a bunch of other things besides. Currently Visiting Professor at the Sociology department of the London School of Economics.

Agriculture is an ecstatic black metal band from Los Angeles.