Origins
Bulkington aka Max Lemanowicz was born in Cleveland, Ohio, raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, spent many a youthful summer in Morgantown, West Virginia and currently lives in San Diego, California.
When the music aficionados of his elementary school came looking for talent, he failed his recorder audition. After whining to his parents about this abysmal performance, his mother made sure that they opened a seat for him in the school band. His first instrument? The Clarinet. All that whining and he only played for 6 months-with a bare minimum of practice. he didn't play another instrument for nearly a decade…
But all throughout his adolescence he maintained an artistic & passionate inclination. he was a voracious music listener-particularly rock n' roll-usually playing the family DJ & Mixtape creator. He also became obsessed with movies-often, he was so engrossed with a film, that he'd repeatedly watch it (he still practices this habit today).
Still most of his attention during this time was on sports. he dreamed of being a professional athlete. A Baseball Player. A Designated hitter. A Pitcher. A First Baseman.
around his sophomore/junior year he started playing guitar or was it sooner? buddy sent him tapes of recordings. But soon he realized that his emotions and feelings couldn't be conveyed by throwing or hitting a baseball.
(especially ones of interest that were repetitively watched, later influencing his passion for musicianship) He did drama all through middle school and high school except the last year to focus on football. Until moving to san francisco to seemingly become a fiction writer...
Sometime during high school, about halfway through it, he began playing guitar, inspired by a friend of his who'd send him recordings of him playing. But sports were his main focus in school and oddly enough they usually made him mad--particularly baseball. he had no place to channel his emotions through these activities and often found himself isolated and alone. but then slowly, near the end of his college years, the gift of his les paul from his parents and an acceptance into a master of Fine Arts in Writing program opened up the necessary door of possibiilties for him. slowly guitar and the arts took over more of his life, he studied english for his undergrad years which prepared him for the rest of his life…it was till sometime in high school, it's hard to remember the exact time but sometime, let's say in the middle of it, in medias res of high school, he started playing guitar and that led to his artistic birth.
AFter years of subconscious searching the true artistic birth finally came after graduate studies The gift of his treasaured gibson les paul sealed the deal his artistic journey.
Then came Middle School & Drama class. This signaled a shift in his passive to active approach to art.
then came
At This point sports were more of a focus in his life, they were the dominant force actually but lack of exposure to the arts might be responsible for that. but the arts slowly started creeping in and by picture below, the journey had begun even though it was still uncertain a year off at home. Sports he always just got mad and didn't have a place for all of these emotions or feelings. and then came the time to graduate college what was it to be a masters in literature or a masters in creative writing? study others lives passivevly or actively try to take on the phase of his life?
"My artistic birth occurred near the end of my graduate creative writing studies in San Francisco. I emerged from my training as a novelist wanting more than anything to be a Musician. As an ode to my newfound curiosity, I selected Bulkington, a rarely-mentioned micro-character in herman melville's novel Moby Dick, as my Artistic & Intellectual masque. although he's mentioned only twice--and briefly--his courageous willingness to trek unabatedly into the unknown deserves my enduring admiration." -Bulkington
