Becky and Dave Fine-Firesheets are two Brooklyn-based artists wishing they could make music, write and paint all day instead of do things like work and wash dishes. They live in a menagerie full of rescue animals: two cats, the evil Blacula and the mentally challenged Frida, and two dogs, a particular mutt named Basil and a ridiculous boxer named Bear. Outside of their art, they like to cook, bike, go to the beach, hike and take vacations (who doesn’t?).
Becky recently received her MFA at Fairleigh Dickinson University and is working hard to finish her first book, a futuristic, dystopian mess that explores what would happen if the survivors of an attack on the U.S. were forced to live in a military city-state where the creation of art is outlawed. She works as an ESL teacher and a babysitter. She also sings, plays sax and tries to play keyboard for local band Hurry Up and Wait (though she finds most of the songs she writes to be too metaphorical and poppy).
Dave has been drumming for twenty years now, having played in Boston-based punk band Muy Cansado for a decade before moving to NYC. Here he has played with Big Grin, Black Tabby, Trigger City and Hurry Up and Wait, along with dabbling on various percussive instruments and even the saxophone. He has big dreads and can’t bear cutting them. He works as a freelance sound engineer, alternating between night clubs and strange day jobs setting up interpreter’s booths for meetings at places like the UN. He enjoys writing poetry and reading history books.
Basil the brindle and Bear the boxer.
