Nic Warmenhoven
Family
Kristen (my wife), Japhy and Edan (my sons) and I live in Columbia City, and I have a father and two mothers in the greater Seattle area.
Education
Lakeside High School (1988-1992); Reed College (1992-1996); Burning Man (1999-2006); Landmark Education (2000-2002); and, of course, ongoing every day!
What is your favorite thing to do in Seattle?
I get really excited about going to my local farmers' market. When May comes around I'm bursting out of my skin to go see all the vendors that I've come to know, and get their great food! On market days during the school year, I rush home after school so I can get down to the market before it closes.
If you could live anywhere in the world for a year, where would it be?
If money were no object, I'd probably choose one of the great cities of the world that I've already been to, like Paris, Buenos Aires, or New York. (I'm conservative like that -- I stick with things that I already know. I'll often order the same dish every time I go to a restaurant.) If I were to step a little further out of my comfort zone, I might try some place high in the mountains in Mexico. I also have an unusually romantic curiosity about Peaks Island, Maine. Heck, I could be talked into going just about anywhere if I knew I got to come home after a year. As long as it was relatively temperate and there weren't too many mosquitoes.
Which do you prefer, sunrises or sunsets?
Sunrise! It's so exciting to watch a brightening horizon, not knowing exactly where or in how long the sun is going to appear, and then: BAM! Blazing gold twice as intense as you imagined it would be.
What’s your favorite concert you’ve ever attended?
Back in the mid-90s, seeing Man... or Astro-man? at the now-closed 3B Tavern in Bellingham. Close runners-up would be seeing U2 (with the Pixies opening) at the Tacoma Dome my senior year in high school; one of the Jason Webley "death" shows at the University Theater; and what I remember as Sicko's last show, on Pier 62/63, with some other incredible band (Sleater-Kinney? Fastbacks?) on the bill.
Which book would you pick to live inside for a week?
I'd like to see the raging river around the Stamper place in Sometimes A Great Notion, but I'm not sure I would want to hang around the rest of that book's energy. The Monkey Wrench Gang would be pretty fun.
What is the strangest thing you have ever eaten?
You tell me: either llama brain ravioli, or a big bowl of raw sea urchins, with nothing on the side but baguette and lemon?