K A R L   H.   C O R Y A T

I am a writer/musician/editor living in the San Francisco Bay Area. Here's some of what I've done with my life. Biocentricity My current main interest is biocentricity, a theory of the universe. In answer to the question "Is reality analog or digital?" I entered an essay in the physics competition sponsored by the Foundational Questions Institute and Scientific American magazine, exploring some of its ideas. (The essay did pretty well, but it didn't win.) Science Writing I write opinion pieces about mainstream physics and other issues in my blog (written under a pseudonym). Music Journalism As a staff editor for Bass Player magazine for 13 years, I interviewed many well-known musicians, including Sting, Metallica, Brian Wilson, Flea, Phil Lesh, and Geddy Lee. My favorite story was probably an interview with Prince. Music Books (all published by Backbeat Books) Guerrilla Home Recording, Second Edition The Frustrated Songwriter's Handbook, co-authored with Nicholas Dobson of the Immersion Composition Society The Bass Player Book (editor only) Jeopardy In 1996 I appeared on three episodes of the TV game show Jeopardy. Afterward, I wrote So You Want to Be a Jeopardy Contestant, my treatise on how to prepare for and do well on the show. Since then, a scoring method that I mentioned on that page has become popular with Jeopardy enthusiasts; they call it the Coryat score. Thanks, fellow Jeopardy fans! Here's a clip from my appearance. Comedy I have over 85,000 subscribers as an occasional comedian on YouTube. Music I have made several videos of myself performing covers of songs, playing all of the instruments myself, with the clips synchronized together. Other Web Pages Commuter Traffic Education Page, where I ranted for paragraph after paragraph about how we could clear up rush-hour traffic if only we used our brains. This was the first Web page I ever did, back in early 1996, so cut me some slack.

Shit You Don't Need To Know •  Born in San Rafael, California. •  Raised in Vermont, upstate New York, and Connecticut. •  Attended Brunswick School in Greenwich, Connecticut, grades 10-12. •  Attended U.C. Berkeley; B.A. in Biological Sciences, 1988. •  Currently Consulting Editor of Bass Player magazine. •  Pants size: 32 w / 32 l. •  Find life relatively meaningless in the grand scheme of things. •  Interests include the Oakland Athletics, digital video, photography, home improvement, barrel-making, hole-digging, and self-touching. karlc@pisspoor.com