Writer, marketing guy. Sell stuff for hire, today thankfully it's IT.
Boho, jazz junky, saxist prefer polyphonic melodic playing--Getz, Mulligan, Lacy. Ornette okay in small doses. Play in nontraditional settings, acoustic, standards and free improvisation.
Poet on some occasions, having the sheepskin making it official if nonessential.
Words made musical the end in mind.
Truth is farcical. It's not fair, though it may be fun.
All stories are comic in one way or another. The joke is as the enemy. It is us.