I suck at almost everything. Seriously, it can be embarrassing. But thankfully, I do have one superpower. I’ve been coming up with trippy, original and hilarious shit my entire life. In fourth grade I wrote a short story called The Nose that Sniffed Up Christmas. My mother talked about that story for decades. In high school, there was a debate in the school paper whether or not I should be suspended for the “inappropriate” Mr. Rogers I wrote for the school assembly. In college, I had a skit comedy TV show Mastercheese Theater (before YouTube) that was broadcast all over campus. I graduated with a degree in advertising, where I learned that I didn’t want to work in advertising. So I moved to LA to work in the entertainment industry, where I learned I didn’t want to work in the entertainment industry. But I got to read screenplays by writers with big agents that were horrible. So I started to write my own screenplays that were also horrible. And it worked! I started to option and sell them… eventually selling the biggest piece of crap I ever wrote to MGM. But then my brain literally went on strike. I was supposed to write this script with a big time commercial producer and I literally couldn’t think of anything. My brain forced me to write only ideas that I was passionate about. So I co-wrote and directed my first feature film Everything Will Happen Before You Die. The cast was amazing and I got to direct major league talent like Academy Award Nominee John Hawkes and Marc Boone Junior (Sons of Anarchy). It was a dream come true. However, there’s a big missing part of this story… MUSIC. It all started when my roommate asked me to be his vocal sidekick in this rave rock psychedelic lounge funk band called The Serotonins. The idea was I would be a cow and he would be the farmer. Well, he never dressed as a farmer, thus The Mad Cow was born. I became a bit of a counter-culture hero in the Burningman scene and played to packed clubs for years. Later, I became the lead vocalist of The Warlords of Rock n’ Roll Thunder & Lightning. Later, I was Hunter S. Hip Hop in the comedy/hip hop group Mexican Pharmacy. And TODAY… I’m beyond excited to be publishing my debut comedy/satire/sci-fi novel MR. TAFFLE’S PANTS OF INSANITY. It’s an incredible feeling to have written my first book but even more of an incredible feeling to know that I’ll be writing them for the rest of my life. Oh and yes… the MUSIC. A couple of pals and I wrote an EP of songs based on the novel. I will be performing this at bookstores and weird stages all over North America (to start). I hope to see you there!

For more information on Daniel Eric Finkel please visit the artist's web site at: http://www.danielericfinkel.com