SIXSTRINGcpa

I am currently...

...writing, hiking, or busy around the house making music, meals, or muscles* and, therefore, any rumors of my digital hibernation have NOT been greatly exaggerated. Furthermore, I've no plans to fully wake until 2021, although email is being checked and acted upon ASAP.

* I'm admittedly arriving embarrassingly late to the routine exercise party but I am now here and, since circa Sep. '17, have been having a blast with daily workouts.

...still ashamed at just how easy and unhindered voting in my precinct was. Every person should enjoy the '2018 (and now 2019) voting experience I did.

Moniker and man

[MONIKER] Silhouette reminiscent of SHAW's unreasonable man admiring the acerbic wit of TWAIN, an anthropomorphized I-IV-V (rock 'n' roll) barre chord progression: simple & imperfect.

[MAN] Writer. Fighter. Candlelighter. A curious observer, a guitarist, an honest analytic, an average kayaker but a n00b sailor. A passionate explorer of life that paid his own way through university, graduated with honors, and began his career as a Certified Public Accountant, performing the rare accomplishment of passing all four parts of the exam on the initial sitting; he loves the irony given that he does not practice any longer and he calls himself a Recovering Accountant. While participating as a member in the proverbial alphabet soup gang he worked his ass off in order to fulfill youthful dreams and promise. He still works his ass off, writing and publishing under pseudonyms, and volunteering for the grassroots children's literacy outreach charity he co-founded with his wife and for other organizations, too. His style of guitar playing is aptly described as Dr. Frankenstein-esque: he mulls about his basement laboratory composing rock guitar instrumentals that occasionally come to life and wreak (beautiful, meaningful) havoc. He enjoys dabbling in the culinary arts, and he'd love to be able to call himself a sailor while keeping a straight face. He's committed to lifelong learning and possesses an uncanny ability, willingness, and stamina to linger in museums and art galleries for extended periods of time: so long, in fact, he has been escorted off premises by security personnel for lingering beyond closing time.

And, like the moniker, simple and imperfect.

I believe there's a subtle but important difference between pretending and make believe. I love being creative and engaging in make believe. I do not, however, pretend! ✒

Dedication: For my wife, these and all things

"particles on a piano"

by Geoffrey Allison | SIXSTRINGcpa | Limp Dickinson. Copyright 2017.
Inspiration: "Together We Will Live Forever" by Clint Mansell

dearest love,
i never mind that we are so small.

do i ever tell you?

of my wish for nothing, nothing but to do it all over again — to share it all over again — with you. two motes, each applauding the other's performance atop that black-lacquered stage.

do i ever tell you?

in that polished surface, how i search for reflection. and you are always there. the instrument grander still.
you are never not beautiful.

do i ever tell you?

of my admiration, how your spirit resonates when hammers strike thunderous chords composed by unseen hands and melodic keys twist and turn. life unlocks surprises.
and you are never not kind — never not brave.

do i ever tell you?

about the pulsing, the vibrations drawing us closer. how we resonate. remain bonded. move through crest and trough.
until quiet returns.

do i ever tell you?

about my ancient memory, what i have always known:
together we will live forever.
and we have.

"This is hunger. I am Hungary."

a bear witness-style poem of words and photos.
by Geoffrey Allison | SIXSTRINGcpa. Copyright 2015.

Accountants Anonymous
A 12-step program for Recovering Accountants
Original program developed by SIXSTRINGcpa, circa 2004

Enjoy life from 01-January through 15-April now
Do not give tax advice, offer in-depth quantitative analysis, or create spreadsheets; however, feel free to educate people working cash registers on how to make correct change
Recognize numbers cannot—and do not—love you back
Forgive the inventors of the green visor and over-sized attache
Remember your freeloading neighbor is not a 'dependent' for tax deduction purposes
The words amortization and depreciation shall not be spoken for at least six months, preferably not spoken for twelve
Find hobbies not requiring calculators, spreadsheets, or maths
Purchase a dress shirt in any color other than white
Stop insisting your children calculate the future value of the $1.89 they want to spend on a soda
Sell the sedan and buy a Vespa scooter and wear really bitchin' sunglasses, even in winter
Practice saying the following until you no longer laugh out loud, or vomit in your mouth, when you hear them spoken by the Gibberati: synergy, crushing it, thought leadership, pivot, engagement, and guru
Define ROI inappropriately, like many marketing [and Social Media] types, where return can mean something other than actual profit and investment can mean anything as well—say like the amount of time wasted listening to people incorrectly define or use the term ROI

Shaped and guided by the following

Books

To Kill a Mockingbird
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Cannery Row
Slaughterhouse-Five
Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered
This Side of Paradise

Music

Ace Frehley's "Fractured Mirror"
Bach, Mozart & Beethoven
Buckethead (especially the album COLMA and the songs "Disintegration Mirrors", "The Bellman", and "Passageway 5")
"Cause" by Rodríguez
Inspector Morse theme composed by Barrington Pheloung
RUSH (entire oeuvre)

Films

Dead Poets Society
Little Big Man
The Mosquito Coast
Raiders of the Lost Ark
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Sunset Limited (likely not a Top 10 for me but its important and good — All those conjunctions and that missing apostrophe done in your honour Cormac)

Quotes

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. --G.B. Shaw
I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's. --Mark Twain
Everyone appreciates the mountains but it takes someone with a soul to see the beauty of the plains. --trail sign, author unknown