Mark experienced culture shock in the years between grade school and high school when he moved from the inner city to a small town suburb and there encountered many lily white blue eyed blonde haired hockey jocks and their cheerleaders.
He eventually stumbled on to others of his own mind and in the years from 1978 to 1982 with one in particular (Michael James Gray) he took 'vacations' that became journeys and homes away from home. Along the way he discovered multiple ways of opening a beer bottle without an opener (this was before twist off caps), to roll with one hand and how to flirt without even knowing it.
Oh, and as a side benefit he experienced freedom, friendship, life, love and all the subtle sounds within.
Written with humor and poignancy and recalling some of the politics of the times, what they also have in common is the spontaneous adventure of being on the road with little money, going where fate or mechanical mishaps take you and the amazing people/characters you meet when you leave yourself open.
His songs and lyrics are experimental, eclectic, sarcastic, sad and problematically poetic.
These are his stories, his first without sound; about sound. Take a read/listen.
Dedicated to my Mom, her Mom and all fellow travelers in life.
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Mark A. Garcia is a drummer, keyboardist, songwriter, story writer, and performance artist, who drives vulnerable adults to work and back home for a living (barely). He resides in Pine City, MN near the Snake River with his wife Patricia McQuarry, dog Yuffie, cat Eddie and other less tame wildlife. They have two daughters Jamie and Riva who live in St. Paul and Minneapolis respectively. Mark has had songs played on local college radio, CD write ups in local rags, performed in venues/bars as a drummer/keyboardist, performed short pieces and plays of his own creation with/without his family, had a couple stories published in Whistling Shade and has written two e-books (taking place about thirty years apart) recalling his travels out west first as a single stoned man in his late twenties and then as a sober but still poor and crazy married man in his mid fifties.
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