ABOUT INK BLOT STAFF
In Their Own Words...

Jesse Fahnestock, Editor	Jesse Fahnestock, 4-F on account of his trick ear, stayed home and fought the battle of Bedford Falls. Though he has been called a warped, frustrated young man, he likes a double whiskey at Martini's and knows who does most of the working and living and dying in this town. And now he's the richest man in town. e-mail
Patrick Bennison, Editor, Emeritus	Patrick Bennison is, addlingly enough, an unshavenly babefaced gamboler, a calorically choleric cleric, a virulent apostate, and a midden-minded votary of a virile postulate. He's a malcontented micturating tincturist, the son of an ursine Ursuline, an admirer of things ersenine, and a dutiful pupil of buglery to boot. His position can be purchased for "a hogshead of claret yearly." e-mail
Joanna Lux, Editorial Associate, Contributor	As Ink Blot's Editorial Associate, the temperamental Joanna "Deluxe" Lux hones her already impressive writing skills and has bigwig publicists eating from the palm of her dainty hand. If you're going downstairs to get this sassy little spitfire a cup of coffee, for the love of the Lord almighty, put the milk in first! Apparently, "it mixes better that way." e-mail
Bill Meyer, Contributor	Bill Meyer is a free-lance music writer who has recently contributed to the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Reader, Popwatch, MOE, Magnet, Yakuza, and Speed Kills. He operates Roof Bolt records, which has issued discs by This Kind Of Punishment, Roy Montgomery, Alastair Galbraith, the Terminals, and Brown Velvet Couch. He's not nearly as interesting as his beautiful and talented wife Jessica, who has created the artwork for Roy Montgomery's three solo albums. e-mail
Alexis Scherl, Senior Photographer, Contributor	Hailing from New York, Indianapolis, Detroit, Boston, and Olympia, the ever-intinerant Alexis Scherl has been thrilled to call the lovely city of San Francisco her home for four whole years. An unabashed, late-blooming indie-rock chick, she's spent the last 6 years cramming her brain with useless information about distortion pedals and band trivia. Browsing the features and archives of Inkblot, you'll see what Alexis has been up to since she quit her job as a Research Associate at UCSF. Having traded in her lab coat and goggles for her cool new Canon Eos Elan IIe spy camera, you can see her wielding this impressive piece of equipment at any and all local shows. While she's now experienced rock music as a reporter, photographer, 4-track geek, and performer, she's really just a big happy music fan. While grad school imminently beckons her away from the Bay Area, look for her continued reportage. e-mail
Tim Scanlin, Contributing Editor	Editor Tim Scanlin is a ridiculously opinionated type-A personality and an Aries to boot. After graduating from the University of California with a degree in Art History, he promptly fulfilled his parents' worst nightmare by securing employment at a record shop. In 1995 he founded the internationally distributed and oh-so-clever SnackCake! Magazine and continues to be its editor-in-chief. In addition to freelancing for Raygun, SF Weekly and others, he currently whiles away his days as Editorial Coordinator at SonicNet/Addicted To Noise in San Francisco. Despite being employed by the largest music news website in the world, he takes great pains to remain punk as fuck. When not spewing useless verbiage on the word processor, he can be found doing so on the mic with his band Actionslacks, who don't suck. His life ambition remains to be able to hang up his clothes after he's worn them. e-mail
Dave Rosen, Contributor	Dave Rosen is a resident of Marin County, and a native Californian. He worked for a time in the music industry before realizing that it sucked. Now, he works with disadvantaged boys at a residential treatment center called Full Circle near Bolinas, in the lovely Olema Valley. His writing has been published in Grand Royal Magazine, the UC Santa Barbara Nexus, the Sunny Hills High School Accolade, and thousands of other reputable publications. Mr. Rosen enjoys listening to music a lot, but has yet to muster the patience to learn how to play an instrument. He was, for a magical time, the lead singer in seminal rockers 650 Burtis, who somehow avoided worldwide adulation and fortune during their nine month career. He tends to worship Sly Stone, George Clinton, and Bob Dylan, and has been known to sacrifice animals as tribute to their collective genius. If you enjoy his reviews, please recommend that he be paid more for them. e-mail
Pierre Stefanos, Contributor	Pierre Stefanos leads a double life as a naive, but spirited student at Columbia University by day, and a high-powered international fashion guru and beauty consultant by night. He has developed quick reflexes and professional knife-throwing skills by working for the Arts and Entertainment section of the Columbia Daily Spectator for four years. Turn-ons include ocean breezes, happiness, and British accents. Turn-offs include war, mean people, and British smiles. Pierre has no indie cred and looks forward to the day when he himself becomes The Man so all may sell out to him. e-mail
Marc Greilsamer, Contributor	Marc Greilsamer credits Charles Mingus' Mingus Ah Um as the album that turned him into a fanatic. Based in San Francisco, he writes frequently about jazz, blues, bluegrass, and country music. He is a regular contributor to Acoustic Guitar and Dirty Linen, and his work has appeared in Down Beat, Jazz Now, Blues Revue, and Stanford magazine. e-mail
Christopher C. Adler, Contributor	Christopher Adler is more of a Musician/Listener than a Music Critic, as you'll see if and when you read his reviews. That's probably a good thing - I'm sure you'll agree. With his funny glasses and poor manners, it's best that he review jazz releases from the privacy of his own home.

Other contributors: Jason Dearen, Jackie Hozid, Dave Rosenheim, Carey Head, Lori Latimer, Jim Welte, Peter Hanks and Jay Brancazio.

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