About Me
Curt Lindsay is a freelance writer and musician and a student in Athens, Alabama, USA. Born there in 1980, he was encouraged by his parents to be an inquisitive and free thinker from an early age. He began reading encyclopedias and other nonfiction at the age of three and began playing piano by age four. He is a graduate of Athens High School, where he studied music with Dan Havely, history with Carole Patterson, and led the school’s Scholars’ Bowl organization through several seasons of impressive record under the tutelage of Joan Orman. Curt attended the University of North Alabama, where he studied music with Edd and Lloyd Jones, but eventually fell afoul of a college life that he came to view as distracting from his real interests and goals. Since then he has lived and worked in several parts of the United States, garnering experience as a gas station attendant, financial and legal documentation specialist, and furniture mover, for a few among numerous examples.
Lindsay plays the piano, guitar, saxophone, clarinet, and other instruments and writes original music and arrangements for a variety of media and across a spectrum of genres. If you’re interested in hearing a small slice of his musical output, check here for tracks from a 2004 solo project. Curt is fluent in the French and German languages and also has a significant understanding of Portuguese, Italian, and Latin. Other interests include hiking, ecology, planetary astronomy, the history and philosophy of religion and science, and satirical fiction. And frisbee.
His favorite work of fiction is Lord of the Flies by the English novelist William Golding. His favorite piece of classical music is the ballet score Le boeuf sur le toit (’The Cow on the Roof’) by early 20th Century French composer Darius Milhaud. His favorite dish is Thai coconut soup, and his favorite star in the sky is, in fact, the Sun.
In 2005 and 2006 Curt resided and worked in the beautiful city of Portland, Oregon. He is currently thumbing around his hometown once again, just for good measure, but plans to return to the West Coast in 2007 or early ‘08 after completing some work towards a major in philosophy. Because the world needs more philosophers if it needs a damn thing at all.
His principal goal is to help humankind help itself to a heaping helping of humanity, including himself in both helping in the heaping and in the helping of the self to this heaping helping.
