News Flash: Overfed Suburban White Straight Male Makes A Website
Yeah, that's me. Jean-Keir DuBois. "Designer" because that's how I get a paycheck these days (though I've been doing graphic arts sporadically since high school). I work for a small firm that does print, web, and publicity for oodles of clients. "Wordsmith" is a wretched word, but in this day and age, if you can write and write well, it pays to advertise. "Rockstar" is obviously more a state of mind than reality, since rock star lives are insane and the two bands I've been in, though fun and creative, were never gonna be famous.

So...why? Well, like many other people, over the past decade I've discovered that the internet is a great place to indulge one's vanity. And I am chock-full of that, man. This site is pretty much a link-farm for that kind of narcissistic impulse, as most everything here will point you somewhere else. Even link farms have to look pretty, though.
Contact
"Career"
Bio
Snapshots
Gonzo
Blog
Music
Fiction
Another motivation is probably that same old "it's time to assess your life" feeling that tends to hit people once they're over 30 years old. Which I am, by a few years. In the past four years, I moved to a new place, got a "career," got married, and bought a house. Add to that the facts that my second band went on hiatus and most of my friends live relatively far away, and you might understand why I've become even more insular and self-obsessed than ever before.

So the past two years have been basically dedicated to amusing myself—when I actually have time to do that—while the world burns. It's probably just a phase, like anything else, but it's exerted a powerful pull on my coddled consciousness for some time now, so the damage will probably be permanent no matter how much ego-exorcism may or may not be undertaken.

Good goddamn, I just re-read this whole thing and it's awful. Oh well.