My Obsession

I have an obsession with how people think. What goes on in the mind of a drug addict? What is a person thinking about while they are cheating on their spouse? Why do people turn to selling their bodies when times get rough? 

What is it like to have a real human being growing inside of your womb?

What is the biggest worry of a millionaire? 

Why do we make bad choices?

Why do we make good choices?

If I wasn't so set in photography, I know that I would find myself following the path to become a psychologist. I am a people-watcher. I like to sit in a cafe while drinking coffee, indie music softly playing in my ears, while I sit and sketch the people around me. None of my sketches are very good, but they make me feel something. Something much bigger than myself.


I recently bought a CD from a band that means a lot to me. I used to be in a rock band...I watched the party life go on all around me. I was not tempted to partake, but I constantly watched, listened, and analyzed everything that went on. Often with a puzzled look on my - what they liked to call - "innocent" face. Maybe it's better to be innocent though. I would like to think so. 

Nikki Sixx is the lead singer in the band Sixx AM. I read his first book, "The Heroine Diaries," which was an autobiography of the life of a rock star. The things that I read broke my heart, and even sometimes made me feel sick. How could someone do so much harm to their body and still live? How could someone find happiness in a life they themselves describe as "empty"...? 

These are the thoughts spinning through my head on this summer evening. I sit and listen to my new Sixx AM CD, and try to learn more about regret. Maybe I can learn the easy way from people who were not so lucky...

Maybe I Can Understand

Beautiful lyrics. Beautiful rock melodies (no, not metal). If you are like me - and have an obsession with learning how people think - then maybe you would like to explore something that is just a little out of your comfort zone too.

Skin by Sixx AM

(This is not my video. I do not take credit for it.)

You Are Not Your Skin