A native Washingtonian with a perpetually voracious appetite for music and popular culture, Marcus Dowling is one of Washington, DC's rising freelance journalists. Sitting comfortably at the confluence of the underground and mainstream, Marcus uses an evocative writing style to advocate for spotlight worthy ideas and sounds. With a present schedule that includes regular freelancing for his own blog True Genius Requires Insanity (tgrionline.com), the Washington City Paper, DC cultural megablog Brightest Young Things, leading urban alternative site The Couch Sessions (thecouchsessions.com), NYC clothier Mishka's Bloglin, 93.9 WKYS FM, and a plethora of other sites, it is a certainty that Marcus' viewpoint involves viewing an issue from what is a rare and/or unexplored side of the prism of opinion.