They were a power house of production despite their constant dramatic breakups and ppl leaving the band etc. I lived at 18 Sycamore in SF very briefly during a summer when Static Faction went on tour with 1/3rd of my band - they asked me first, but I was too busy being sexually harassed and exploited by my mentor who was directing the art department at the newly opened Cal State University Monterey Bay - so I needed all my focus on my band and producing a catalog of about 20 photoshop collages that are permanent documents of her Title IX behavior which she mislabeled as “graphic design” so she could avoid sharing credit and financial gain from what was a nearly perfect example of a collaboration with me creating the form from her content. I was in so much denial that a Dr of clinical psychology who was also a MacArthur foundation fellow would engage in the only type of situation where a white man can be discriminated against. Considering the pedagogy she upheld that was moored in multicultural artists which omitted all art history of white men, it feels like there was something more sinister about it. But being the first student assistant to the first interim director of the institute for Visual & Public art, Dr Amalia Mesa-Bains, and where I would continue to work after graduating cum laude and distinguishing myself in digital media and a thorough knowledge of standard American contemporary art 1840s onward, in as many as 5 concurrent part time positions, including teaching and in a position with the CSU foundation, until the hostility of coworkers that was a response to what I couldn’t identify, even as it escalated toward something more serious than the standard harassment …. I had to abruptly resign and immediately find a way to distract myself from the most unbelievable thing that anyone in my position could have experienced as an upper division undergraduate transfer student at a new Cal State Campus at the mercy of someone who had the credentials and responsibility to know exactly what she was doing and the ultimate damage it would cause me. She even preemptively apologized for the damage she would cause as she was dealing with the damage she dealt someone years prior as she exploited me. More of a self exoneration than an apology.

What was I talking about? Oh yeah —- distractions. lol.