my family; writing (poetry,short stories; reviews); baseball; music; beer; true crime; reading; recording; smoking; hangin' out w/ our dogs; film noir; helping to end the plight of the West Memphis Three; Sinn Féin; pulp fiction (the medium, not the movie); pharmaceutical alchemy; cereal; Irish whiskey; clicking things against my glass eye; great, honest, no bullshit lyricists; seeing if the bullet in my head will go off when I pass through a metal detector;
defending Barry Bonds [762 HR and counting; my wife & I saw 759 in person]; avoiding infomercials; throwing rocks at longshoreman who could break me in half and then running as fast as I possibly can; aiming high and shooting low
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Tex Perkins; Crispin Glover again; people interested in publishing my poetry; publishers, printers, agents; Sammytown, Brian & Lillian...again next year.
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**I've underlined the people I've seen live** ... Bon Scott era AC/DC; Johnny Ace; Ryan Adams he releases twice as many songs as are worth releasing, but the good ones are damn good; Adrenalin O.D.; the Adverts; Aerosmith up thru Draw the Line (1977); Albino Assassins; Arthur Alexander; G.G. Allin; Dave Alvin; the Anti-Heros; Fiona Apple 1st album & Limp; Louis Armstrong; Richard Ashcroft; Bad Brains; Bad Posture; 1980's Bad Religion; Dan Baird; the Band; Bauhaus; Beasts of Bourbon; Beethoven; Brent Best; Billy Bullock & the Broken Teeth; Black Eyed Vermillion; early Black Flag; early Black Sabbath; the Blasters; Bluestack; Bomb; Tim Booth & Angelo Badalamenti; Border Radio soundtracK; early David Bowie; Box Tops; Cindy Bullens; Johnny Burnette with or w/o the Rock n' Roll Trio; the Business; Butterfly Joe; Butthole Surfers; Buzzcocks; Cary Caitlin & Thad Cockrell; John Campbell; Carbonas; Neko Case & Her Boyfriends; Johnny Cash; Rosanne Cash; Eva Cassidy; Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds; Exene Cervenka & the Original Sinners; Ray Charles up thru mid-'60's; the Chieftains; Christ on Parade; Christian Death; Circle Jerks; Circus of Power; Citizen Fish; Guy Clark; the Clash; Eddie Cochran; the Commitments; Concrete Blonde; early Alice Cooper; Elvis Costello w/ and w/o the Attractions; Counting Crows; Cowboy Junkies; Cracker; the Cramps; the Cranberries 1st 2 albums; Creech Holler; Creedence Clearwater Revival; Rodney Crowell; Crucifucks; the Crystals; D.O.A.; the Damned; Dave Davies; Ray Davies; Dayglo Abortions; Dead Boys; Dead Kennedys; the Dead Milkmen; the Dicks; the Diggers (Atlanta); Dinosaur Jr; the Diviners (Tampa, FL); the John Doe Thing; the Drams; Drive-By Truckers; Dropkick Murphy's; Bob Dylan; Fred Eaglesmith; Steve Earle; Tim Easton; Egg Hunt; Elvis Hitler; the Enablers; Roky Erickson; the Exploited; the Faces; Fang; Jay Farrar; Fear; Flipper; David Ford; early Aretha Franklin; the Freeze; GBH; Noel Gallagher; Gang Green; Garbage; Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell; Georgia Satellites; the Gits; Green on Red; the Gun Club; Merle Haggard; Emmylou Harris; Wilbert Harrison; Hayden; Gibby Haynes & His Problem; Hell in a Handbasket; Jimi Hendrix; Hickoids; Billie Holiday; the Holloway Brothers; Buddy Holly; Patterson Hood; Brian Henry Hooper; Howlin' Wolf; Hüsker Dü; Iggy & the Stooges; Wanda Jackson; James; Jason & the Scorchers; Waylon Jennings; Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins; Jet; Joan Jett & the Blackhearts; JFA; early Elton John (saw him do a guest app. w/ Ryan Adams); Norah Jones; Spencer P. Jones; Robert Earl Keen; Keith & the Satellites; Bap Kennedy; Dylan Kight; the Kinks; 1970's Kiss; Chris Knight; the Knitters; Jimmy LaFave; Mark Lanegan; the Lemonheads; John Lennon; Leslie Woods & Dark Mountain Orchestra; Ketty Lester; Jerry Lee Lewis; Lonesome Bob; Lords of the New Church; Lou Ford; Lyle Lovett; the Low & Sweet Orchestra; Lubricated Goat; 1970's Lynyrd Skynyrd; Shane MacGowan; Mad Parade; the Mahones; the Marble Tea; Mike Martt; J Mascis; 1st 2 Mazzy Star albums; Clayton McMichen; James McMurtry; the Meatmen; Metallica 1st 3 albums, S&M, stray songs here & there; Mighty Fine Slabs; Buddy Miller; Millions of Dead Cops; Minor Threat; Misfits; Van Morrison; the Most Beautiful Losers; Motorhead; Bob Mould; Mozart; Johnette Napolitano; Ricky Nelson; Neon Christ; Mike Ness; New York Dolls; 999; Nine Pound Hammer did see Nashville Pussy; the Nips; Nirvana; Eddie Noak; Oasis; Old 97's; Roy Orbison (my parents saw him in the '60's at West Georgia College); Orville Brody & Goodfellas; Palomar; Charlie Parker; Gram Parsons; Dolly Parton; Pat Todd & the RankoutsidersTex Perkins; Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers & TP solo; Picture of Health; some Pink Floyd; the Pogues; Iggy Pop; the Popes; Elvis Presley late '60's & '70's; Pretty & Twisted; John Prine; Chuck Prophet; Joey Ramone; Ramones; Raw Power; Reagan Youth; Otis Redding; the Rent Boys; the Replacements; Resistoleros; Reverend Horton Heat pre-Martini Time; Righteous Brothers; Billy Lee Riley; Rolling Stones up thru Tattoo You; the Ronettes; Rose Tattoo; Rotten Gimmick; Matthew Ryan; Samhain; pre-New Wind 7 Seconds; Sex Pistols; Sham 69; Nina Simone; Sisters of Mercy; Slim Chance & the Convicts; Slobberbone; Snakeout; early SNFU; Social Distortion; Son Volt; more melodic bits of Sonic Youth; Southern Bitch; Southern Culture on the Skids; the Specimens; Dusty Springfield; Bruce Springsteen up thru The River & Nebraska; Stiff Little Fingers; Izzy Stradlin & the Ju Ju Hounds; Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros; Dan Stuart; Subhumans; Supersuckers; T'n'T (Tim Rogers & Tex Perkins); T-Rex; Tex, Don & Charlie; Them; Thin Lizzy; 13th Floor Elevators; the .357 String Band; Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers also solo/w/ Patti Palladin/Gang War; Louis Tillett; Stevie Tombstone; the Tombstones; Toxic Reasons; Merle Travis; Truckadelic; Big Joe Turner; Two Cow Garage; U.K. Subs; Uncle Tupelo; Townes Van Zandt; Vandals (1st 3 albums); Tesco Vee & the Meatkrew's Dutch Hercules; Tesco Vee's Hate Police; some Velvet Underground; the Verve; Gene Vincent with & w/o the Blue Caps; Violent Femmes; Wagner; Tom Waits; early Wallflowers; Jon Wayne's Texas Funeral; Gillian Welch; Paul Westerberg; Whiskeytown; Tony Joe White; the White Stripes; early Wilco particularly A.M.; Hank Williams, Sr.; Lucinda Williams; Rozz Williams; Jackie Wilson; Peter Wolf (his Sleepless album was pretty damn good); the Wolfe Tones; Ron Wood; Link Wray; X; Neil Young & Crazy Horse & solo; Jeff Zentner; Zero Boys; Warren Zevon
Movies:
FEATURE FILMS
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) my all-time favorite; After Hours (1985); All the President's Men (1976); Amélie (Fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Le) (2001); American Beauty (1999); American History X (1998); Anatomy of a Murder (1959); Anchorman: the legend of Ron Burgundy (2004); And Now For Something Completely Different (1971); Apocalypse Now (1979); As Good As It Gets (1997); the Asphalt Jungle (1950); the Assassination of Richard Nixon (2004); the Aviator (2004); Awakenings (1990); Badlands (1973); Barfly (1987); Barton Fink (1991); Bedlam (1946); Being John Malkovich (1999); Being There (1979); Best in Show (2000); Beyond Rangoon (1995); Big Fish (2003); the Big Heat (1953); Billy Elliot (2000); Bird (1988); Blow (2001); Blue Velvet (1986); Bonnie & Clyde (1967); Border Radio (1987) the soundtrack more than the movie itself; Boyz in the Hood (1991); Bride of Frankenstein (1935); Bride of the Monster (1955); Bringing Out the Dead (1999); A Bronx Tale (1993); Bugsy (1991); Butterflies Are Free (1972); the Caine Mutiny (1954); Cape Fear (1962); Capote (2005); Casablanca (1942); Catch-22 (1970); Chattahoochee (1989); Chinatown (1974); Chocolat (2000) Depp modeled his character after his pal Shane MacGowan; Citizen Kane (1941); A Clockwork Orange (1971); Cobb (1994); Come Back, Little Sheba (1952); Compulsion (1959); the Cooler (2003); Cry-Baby (1990); Dark Passage (1947); Days of Wine & Roses (1962); Dazed & Confused (1993); Dead Man (1995); Dead Poets Society (1989); the Departed (2006); Desire & Hell at Sunset Hotel (1992); Desperate Living (1977); Detour (1945); Dog Day Afternoon (1975); Don Juan DeMarco (1995); Donnie Brasco (1997); Down By Law (1986); Dream with the Fishes (1997); Driving Miss Daisy (1989); Drugstore Cowboy (1989); Ed Wood (1994); Edge of Sanity (1989); Evil Dead 2 (1987); the Executioner's Song (1982) made for tv; the Exorcist (1973); the Exorcist III (1990); Experiment in Terror (1962); Eyes Without A Face [Les Yeux Sans Visage] (1960); Fargo (1996); Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1967); Female Trouble (1974); Finding Neverland (2004); the Fisher King (1991); Five Easy Pieces (1970); Fourteen Hours (1951); Fracture (2007); Freaks (1932); From Here to Eternity (1953); the General (1998); Girl, Interrupted (1999); Gladiator (2000); Glen or Glenda (1953); Glory (1989); the Godfather (1972); the Godfather, part II (1974); Good Will Hunting (1997); Goodfellas (1990); Grand Hotel (1932); the Great Dictator (1940); the Grifters (1990) based on the Jim Thompson novel; Halloween (1978); Hamlet (1996) Kenneth Branagh's magnificent version; Harvey (1950); Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986); High Plains Drifter (1973); Hotel Rwanda (2004); the Hunger (1983); hurlyburly (1998); the Illusionist (2006); Imitation of Life (1959); Immortal Beloved (1994); In Cold Blood (1967); It's a Wonderful Life (1946); Kalifornia (1993); the Killing (1956); King Creole (1958); Lady & the Tramp (1955); Laura (1944); Leave Her to Heaven (1945); Leaving Las Vegas (1995); the Libertine (2004); Life is Beautiful (la Vita è bella) (1997); Life of Brian (1979); Little Miss Sunshine (2006); Lone Star the Lost Weekend (1945); Love & Death (1975); the Luck of the Irish (1948); M (1931); the Manchurian Candidate (1962); Marathon Man (1976); M*A*S*H (1970);Masked & Anonymous (2003); Misery (1990); Monty Python & the Holy Grail (1975); Monument Ave. (1998); Murder in the First (1995); Mystery Street (1950); Mystery Train (1989); Mystic River (2003); Nashville (1975); Near Dark (1987); Old Yeller (1957); On Golden Pond (1981); One False Move (1992); One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975); Open Water (2003) makes Jaws seem like Finding Nemo; the Panic in Needle Park (1971) truest junkie movie I've seen; Parents (1989); Paris Trout (1991); Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973); Paths of Glory (1957); the Phantom of the Opera (1925); Pink Flamingos (1972); the Pink Panther (1964); Platoon (1986); the Player (1992); the Pledge (2001); the Pride of the Yankees (1945); the Princess Bride (1987); Psycho (1960); the Pursuit of Happyness (2006); Quills (2000); Raging Bull (1980); Raising Arizona (1987); Ravenous (1999); Rear Window (1954); Rebecca (1940); Repo Man (1984); Reservoir Dogs (1992); River's Edge (1986); the Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975); Romeo is Bleeding (1993); Rope (1948); Rubin & Ed (1991); Santa Sangre (1989); Scent of a Woman (1992); Seven (1995); the Seven Year Itch (1955); the Seventh Seal (det Sjunde Inseglet) (1957); the Shawshank Redemption (1994); the Shining (1980); Short Cuts (1993); Shot in the Heart (2001); Sid & Nancy (1986); the Silence of the Lambs (1991); 61* (2001); Sling Blade (1996); Stigmata (1999); State of Grace (1990); Straight to Hell (1987); Suburbia (1984); Sunset Blvd. (1950); Taxi Driver (1976); Tea & Sympathy (1956); Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974); Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) a laugh riot; Thank You For Smoking (2005); Thunder Road (1958); To Have And Have Not (1944); To Kill a Mockingbird (1962); Tombstone (1993) Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday saved an otherwise mediocre film; Traffic (2000); Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) stupid, but it makes me smile; the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948); True Romance (1993); 12 Angry Men (1957); 12 Monkeys (1995); 21 Grams (2003); Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992); the Van (1996); Vertigo (1958); Waiting for Guffman (1996); Walk the Line (2005); What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962); What's Eating Gilbert Grape? (1993); When a Man Loves a Woman (1994); Whirlpool (1949); the Wild Bunch (1969); the Wizard of Oz (1939); Wonder Boys (2000); Wonderland (2003); Yellowbeard (1983); Young Frankenstein (1974); Zodiac (2007); Crispin Glover's character in any film
DOCUMENTARIES
All We Are Saying (2005); Anarchism in America (1983); Bloody Sunday (2002) not a traditional doc., but might as well be; Bowling for Columbine (2002); Farenheit 9/11 (2004); Hearts of Darkness: a filmmaker's apocalypse (1991); Horns and Halos (2002); the Journalist & the Jihadi: the murder of Daniel Pearl (2006); March of the Penguins (Marche de l'empereur, La) (2005); Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001); Paradise Lost: the murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996) WM3; Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000) WM3; Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy; Stoked: the Rise & Fall of Gator (2003); Tom Dowd & the Language of Music (2003); Waco: the Rules of Engagement (1997); the War Room (1993); Wide Awake (2006)
as close I get to MUSICALS
Another State of Mind (1984); Be Here To Love Me: a film about Townes Van Zandt (2004); Blind Eye Sees All - Live in Detroit 1985 [Butthole Surfers] (1985?); Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: God Is in the House (2001); Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: the Videos (1998); the Clash: Westway to the World (2000); D.O.A. (1980); Dead or Alive ~ Johnny Thunders & the Heartbreakers (1986); the Decline of Western Civilization (1981); Bob Dyaln: Don't Look Back (1967); Elvis: That's the Way It Is (1970); End of the Century ~ the Story of the Ramones (2005); the Filth & the Fury ~ a Sex Pistols film (2000); Gimme Shelter (1970); God Save the Queen: A Punk Rock Anthology (2005); If I Should Fall From Grace: the Shane MacGowan story (2001); Ramones ~ Raw (2004); Red Rocks Live: Neil Young Friends & Relatives (2000); Runnin' Down a Dream: Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (2007); Rust Never Sleeps ~ Neil Young & Crazy Horse (1979); Townes Van Zandt ~ Houston 1988: a private concert (2004); We Jam Econo: the story of the Minutemen (2005); Lucinda Williams ~ live from Austin, TX (2005); Year of the Horse (1997)
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Television:
San Franccisco Giants; House, MD; Meerkat Manor; the West Wing; old film noir; King of the Hill; All in the Family; Twin Peaks; Boston Red Sox; Bewitched; Get A Life not that Chris' show ever made it to DVD; Curb Your Enthusiasm; Breaking Bad; Alfred Hitchcock Presents; the original Twilight Zone; Night Gallery the show that gave me an earwig phobia that plagues me to this day; American Justice; Biography Channel; Monty Python's Flying Circus; the Young Ones; Comic Strip; I Shouldn't Be Alive; Kids in the Hall; Dr. Katz; local & national news; the Colbert Report; Freaks & Geeks; the late late show with Craig Ferguson
I appeared on 20/20 in 1992. The segment was shortened to make room for Ross Perot's announcement that he was re-entering the presidential race. The segment was on testosterone studies by Georgia State University's Dr. James M. Dabbs. I was the centerpiece on his studies regarding testosterone levels of those living in a subculture where violence was rampant. I had to appear shirtless in my room, pretending that I had just gotten up for the day & spitting in a vial. I had to leave the living room to watch the segment - it's so goofy to see yourself on TV that you almost have to watch it alone. They said they couldn't pay us when they were filming, but I did talk them into buying a pizza & a few rounds of beer. I guess the pizza & beer makes me a professional actor...or not. Wait just a damn minute here...I did have a supporting role in my older brother's wedding video. He gave me a very nice cigarette lighter for my troubles. So ya see, I am a professional. Anybody know where to go to sign up for the Actor's Guild? Love to stick around and shoot the proverbial shit, but I've got to go prepare some amusing anecdotes in the event that James Lipton calls.
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The Zodiac Killer
You two are so much alike, maybe you can tell us who this guy is. It's been decades since anyone heard anything from him. It's not really you is it?
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Books:
"I've loafed streets sometimes, leaned against a store front with my hat pushed back and one boot hooked back around the other - hell, you've probably seen me if you've ever been out this way - I've stood like that, looking nice and friendly and stupid, like I wouldn't piss if my pants were on fire. And all the time I'm laughing myself sick inside. Just watching the people."
Jim Thompson, the Killer Inside Me, 1952
NOVELS
the Man with the Golden Arm (1949) Nelson Algren; Sympathy for the Devil (1987) Kent Anderson; The Damnation Game (1985) & The Great & Secret Show (1989) Clive Barker; Legion (1983) William Peter Blatty; A Killer Is Loose (1954) Gil Brewer; Halo for Satan (1948) Howard Browne writing as John Evans; Dirty Work (1989) & Joe (1991) Larry Brown; Blitz (2002) Ken Bruen; Post Office (1971) & Hollywood (1989) Charles Bukowski; Junkie (originally published as Junkie by William Lee) (1953) William S. Burroughs; the Stranger (1946), the Plague (1947), the Fall (1957) & A Happy Death (1972) Albert Camus; And the Ass Saw the Angel (1989) Nick Cave; Bringing Out the Dead (1998) Joe Connelly; Every Dead Thing (1998) & the Killing Kind (2001) John Connolly; Heart of Darkness (1899) Joseph Conrad; Robbers (2000) Christopher Cook; All We Need of Hell (1987) & Celebration (1998) Harry Crews; Desert Places (2004) Blake Crouch; One To Count Cadence (1969) James Crumley; Great Jones Street (1973) & Pafko AT The Wall (1st published as prologue to 1997 novel Underworld/released in 2001 as a novella...I read the novella) Don DeLillo; Deliverance (1970) James Dickey; Notes from Underground (1864), Crime & Punishment (1866) & the Brothers Karamazov (1880) Fyodor Dostoevsky; the Three Musketeers (les Trois Mousquetaires) (1844) Alexandre Dumas; the Brotherhood of the Grape (1977) John Fante; the Collector (1963) John Fowles; the Temple of Gold (1957) William Goldman; Dope (2006) Sara Gran; Snow Falling on Cedars (1994) David Guterson; Dia de los Muertos (1997), the American Boys (2000) & the Tattooed Muse (2001) Kent Harrington; Black Sunday (1974), Red Dragon (1981), the Silence of the Lambs (1988) & Hannibal Rising (2006) Thomas Harris; Demian (1919; Eng. trans., 1923) Herman Hesse; True Evil (2006) Greg Iles; the Lost Weekend (1944) Charles R. Jackson; the Metamorphosis (Joachim Neugroschel translation) (1915) Franz Kafka; the Last Temptation of Christ (1960) Nikos Kazantzakis; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) Ken Kesey; the Shining (1977), the Stand (1978); the Dead Zone (1979), the Dark Tower Series (1982-2004), Pet Sematary (1983), Misery (1987), Gerald's Game (1992); the Green Mile serial (1996) & the Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999) Stephen King; Being There (1970) Jerzy Kosinski; I Know This Much Is True (1998) Wally Lamb; To Kill A Mockingbird (1960) Harper Lee; A Drink Before the War (1994) Dennis Lehane; 1916: a novel of the Irish Rebellion (1998) Morgan Llewelyn; Wicked: the life & times of the Wicked Witch of the West (1995) Gregory Maguire; One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) Gabriel Garcia Marquez; the Butcher Boy (1992) Peter McCabe; Blood Meridian (1985) Cormac McCarthy; Leaving Las Vegas (1989) & Assault on Tony's (1996; finished by his sister, Erin, following his 1994 suicide) John O'Brien; Going After Cacciato (1978) Tim O'Brien; Wise Blood (1952) Flannery O'Connor; Animal Farm (1945) George Orwell; Ishmael (1992) Daniel Quinn; A Season in Hell (Une Saison en Enfer) (1873) Arthur Rimbaud; Blindness (1997) José Saramago; KOKO (1988), Mystery (1989), the Throat (1993) & Lost Boy, Lost Girl (2003) Peter Straub; the Talisman (1984) & Black House (2001; mentions Slobberone) Peter Straub & Stephen King; Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976) Mildred D. Taylor; Now & On Earth (1942), Nothing More Than Murder (1949), the Killer Inside Me (1952), Savage Night (1953)A Hell of a Woman (1954), the Nothing Man (1954); the Kill-Off (1957); the Transgressors (1961), the Grifters (1963) & Pop. 1280 (1964) Jim Thompson; A Confederacy of Dunces (1980) & the Neon Bible (1989) John Kennedy Toole; Johnny Got His Gun (1939) Dalton Trumbo; Slaughterhouse-Five (1969) Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.; the Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant (1954) Douglass Wallop [my wife found this gem at an antiques shop outside of Knoxville; the movie Damn Yankees is from this book]; the Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) Oscar Wilde; Down On Ponce (1997) Fred Willard; Pick-Up (1954), Wild Wilves (original title: Until I Am Dead) (1956), the Burnt Orange Heresy (1971) & the Shark-Infested Custard (1993) Charles Willeford
"In love I got but grief that withered my life."
Patrick Pearse (Pádraig Anraà Mac Piarais) from I Have Not Gathered Gold
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POETRY & LYRICS
Any Rough Times Are Now Behind You (1996) Dave Alvin; Pillow in the Kitchen (2000) Unisa Asokan; the Outcast Poets (features Charles Willeford, P.K. Thomajan, Miriam Allan de Ford, Robert Anthony & F.H. Kaler (1947) Oscar Baradinsky, editor; the Days Run Away Like Wild Horses Over the Hills (1969), Love Is A Dog From Hell (1977), Horses Don't Bet On People And Neither Do I (1984), You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense (1986) & Betting on the Muse (1996) Charles Bukowski; the Poems of Catullus (translated by Charles Martin) (1990) Gaius Valerius Catullus; King Ink (1988) & King Ink II (1997) Nick Cave; Lyrics: 1962-2001 (2004) Bob Dylan; Prufrock and Other Observations (1917) T.S. Eliot; A Coney Island of the Mind (1958) Lawrence Ferlinghetti; Mexico City Blues (1959) Jack Kerouac; Poguetry: the Lyrics of Shane Macgowan (1990) Shane MacGowan; Mexican Poetry (translated by Samuel Beckett) (1958) compiled by Octavio Paz; Go Tell the Mountain (1998; half memoir-half poetry & lyrics) Jeffrey Lee Pierce; the Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) Oscar Wilde
TRUE CRIME
In the Belly of the Beast: letters from prison (1981) Jack Henry Abbott; Gilles de Rais: a biography of Bluebeard (1972) Jean Benedetti; Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son: the story of the Yorkshire Ripper (1984) Gordon Burns; In Cold Blood (1966; appeared in '65 as magazine serial) Truman Capote; Confessions of Henry Lee Lucas (1991) Mike Cox; Human Monsters: an illustrated encyclopedia of the world's most vicious murderers (1993) David Everitt; the Boston Strangler (1966) Gerold Frank; Severed: the true story of the Black Dahlia murder (1994, 1998, 2001) John Gilmore; Butcher, Baker (1991) Walter Gilmour & Leland E. Hale; Zodiac (1985), Sleeping Lady: the Trailside Murders above the Golden Gate (1990) & Zodiac Unmasked (2002) Robert Graysmith; the Mammoth Book of Murder (1989) Richard Glyn Jones, editor; Eye of Evil: California's most vicious & bizarre serial killings (1993) Joseph Harrington & Robert Burger; People's Temple People's Tomb (1979) Phil Kearns w/ Doug Wead; the Phantom Prince: my life with Ted Bundy (1981) Elizabeth Kendall - an alias; the Michigan Murders (1976) Edward Keyes; Suicide Cult: the inside story of the People's Temple Sect & the massacre in Guyana (1978) Marshall Kilduff & Ron Javers; Devil's Knot: the true story of the West Memphis Three (2002) Mara Leveritt; Hunting Humans: inside the minds of mass murderers [originally titled Compusive Killers] (1986) Elliot Leyton; the Executioner's Song (1979) Norman Mailer; Killing for Company: the story of a man addicted to murder (1985 UK, US version 1993) Brian Masters; Angel of Darkness: the true story of Randy Kraft and the most heinous murder spree of the century (1991) Dennis McDougal; the Only Living Witness: a true account of homicidal insanity (1983) Stephen G. Michaud & Hugh Aynesworth; Defending the Devil: my story as Ted Bundy's last lawyer (1994) Polly Nelson; Two of a Kind: the Hillside Stranglers (1985) Darcy O'Brien; the Stranger Beside Me (1980), the Want-Ad Killer [written as Andy Stack] (1983) & Green River, Running Red: the real story of the Green River Killer~America's deadliest serial murderer (2004) Ann Rule; Deviant: true story of Ed Gein, the original Psycho (1989), Deranged: the shocking true story of America's most fiendish killer! (1992), Depraved: the shocking true story of America's first serial killer (1994) & Bestial: the savage trail of a true American monster (1999) Harold Schechter; Texas Death Row: executions in the modern era (2000) from the editors of SunRiver Cartel; the Ultimate Evil - the truth about the Cult Murders: Son of Sam & Beyond (1988) Maury Terry; Beyond Belief: a chronicle of murder & its detection (1967) Emlyn Williams;
PLAYS
the Zoo Story (1958), the Death of Bessie Smith (1959) & Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) Edward Albee; Caligula & three other plays (1958) Albert Camus; Some Mother's Son (a screenplay) (1996) Terry George & Jim Sheridan; the Crucible (1952) Arthur Miller; Look Back In Anger (1956) John Osborne; the Flies (les Mouches) (1943) & No Exit (Huis Clos) (1944) Jean-Paul Sartre; Romeo & Juliet (1594) & Hamlet (1600) William Shakespeare; A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) Tennessee Williams
MUSIC
Buddy Holly: a biography (1995) Ellis Amburn; Johnny Thunders...In Cold Blood (2000, updated ed.) Nina Antonia; Ramones: an American band (1993) Jim Bessman in association w/ the Ramones (no surprises, controlled; it's still entertaining); American Hardcore: a tribal history (2001) Steven Blush; Heavier than Heaven: a biography of Kurt Cobain (2001) Charles R. Cross; Rock 'n' Roll Babylon (2002 edition, 3rd) Gary Herman; Lady Sings the Blues (1958) Billie Holiday w/ William Duffy; Cult Rockers (1995) Wayne Jancik; a drink with Shane MacGowan (2001) Shane MacGowan & Victoria Mary Clarke; Please Kill Me: the uncensored oral history of punk (1996) Legs McNeil & Gillian McCain; On the Road With Bob Dylan (1978) Larry "Ratso" Sloman ~ 2002 edition; Make the Music Go Bang! the early L.A. Punk Scene (1997) Don Snowden, editor; Race with the Devil: Gene Vincent's Life in the Fast Lane (2000) Susan VanheckeElvis: What Happened? (1977) Red West, Sonny West, Dave Hebler as told to Steve Dunleavy; I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: the dirty life & times of Warren Zevon (2007) Crytal Zevon
SHORT STORIES & MISC. COLLECTIONS
Liquor, Guns & Ammo (1998) Kent Anderson; Facing the Music (1988) & Big Bad Love (1990) Larry Brown; No More Free Bomb Pops Ed Colantuno; Whores (1988) James Crumley; Doghouse Roses (2001) Steve Earle; Night Shift (1978), Different Seasons (1982) & Hearts in Atlantis (1999) Stephen King; The Things They Carried (1990) Tim O'Brien; A Good Man Is Hard to Find & Other Stories (1955) Flannery O'Conner; Behind the Moss & other great Savannah Stories Murray Silver; Houses Without Doors (1990) Peter Straub
BASEBALL
Five Seasons: a baseball companion (1977) Roger Angell; Ball Four (1970) Jim Bouton 1990 editionCan't Anybody Here Play This Game? (1963) Jimmy Breslin; Inside Baseball (1950) Arthur Daley; Nice Guys Finish Last (1975) Leo Durocher w/ Ed Linn; the Last Hero: the life of Mickey Mantle (1995) David Falkner; Dock Ellis: in the country of Baseball (1976, updated 1989) Donald Hall w/ Dock Ellis; the American League (1959) edited by Ed Fitzgerald; Baseball Complete (1952) Russ Hodges; Baseball When the Grass Was Real (1975) & Baseball Between the Lines (1976) Donald Honig; the Boys of October: how the 1975 Boston Red Sox embodied Baseball's ideals~and restored our spirits (2003) Doug Hornig; the New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (2001 updated) Bill James; the Neyer/James Guide to Pitchers: an historical compendium of pitching, pitchers & pitches (2004) Bill James & Rob Neyer; October Men (2002) Roger Kahn; An American Classic: the World Series at 100 (2003) Ken Leiker; Ted Williams: the biography of an American hero (2004) Leigh Montville; Crazy '08: how a cast of cranks, rogues, boneheads, and magnates created the best year in baseball history (2007) Cait Murphy; Baseball's Greatest Insults: a humorous collection of the game's most outrageous, abusive & irreverent remarks (1984) compiled by Kevin Nelson; Baseball Dynasties: the greatest teams of all-time (2000) Rob Neyer & Eddie Epstein; the Ultimate Baseball Book (1991 edition) edited by Daniel Okrent & Harris Lewine; the Echoing Green: the untold story of Bobby Thomson, Ralph Branca & the Shot Heard Round the World (2006) Joshua Prager; Guys, Dolls & Curveballs: Damon Runyon on Baseball (2005) Jim Reisler, editor; the Glory of Their Times (1966, updated 1984) Lawrence S. Ritter; Unforgettable! the Giants' spectacular 2002 pennant-winning season (2002) San Francisco Chronicle; the Player: Christy Mathewson, Basbeall, & the American Century (2003) Philip Sieb; Where They Ain't Burt Solomon; the Baseball Book (2006) Sports Illustrted; Hank Aaron & the Home Run that Changed America (2004) & Ty & the Babe: Baseball's fiercest rivals (2007) Tom Stanton; the Stark Truth: the most overrated & underrated players in baseball history (2007) Jayson Stark; Cobb (1994) Al Stump; This Gracious Season: Barry Bonds & the greatest year in baseball (2002) Josh Suchon; The Giants win the Pennant! The Giants win the Pennant! the amazing 1951 National League season & the home run that won it all (1991. updated 2001) Bobby Thomson w/ Lee Heiman & Bill Gutman; the Last Commissioner: A Baseball Valentine (2002) Fay Vincent [Fay was the Comish when Bud Selig & the other owners hijacked the office w/ a nast coup]; the Autobiography of Baseball: the inside story from the stars who played the game (2000) Joseph Wallace; the Zen of Zim: Baseballs, Beanballs & Bosses (2004) Don Zimmer with Bill Madden
MEMOIRS, LETTERS, BIOGRAPHIES & AUTOBIOGRAPHIES
On Fire (1995) & Billy Ray's Farm (2001) Larry Brown; Michael Collins: a biography (1990) Tim Pat Coogan; My Dark Places (1996) James Ellroy; Shot in the Heart (1995) Mikal Gilmore; Nightmare of Ecstasy: the Life & Art of Edward D. Wood, Jr. (1994) Rudolph Grey; more letters of Oscar Wilde (1985) Rupert Hart-Davis, editor; Guilty of Everything (1987) Herbert Huncke; Girl, Interrupted (1993) Susanna Kaysen; On Writing: a memoir of the craft (2000) Stephen King; A State of Blood: the inside story of Idi Amin (1977) Henry Kyemba; Angela's Ashes (1996) & 'Tis (1999) Frank McCourt; A Monk Swimming (1998) Malachy McCourt; William Burroughs: el Hombre Invisible, a portrait (1993) Barry Miles; the Last Tsar: the Life & Death of Nicholas II (1992) Edward Radzinsky; Letters to a Young Poet (translated by Stephen Mitchell) (1984) Rainer Maria Rilke; One Day In My Life (1983) Bobby Sands; Ghosts of Kampala: the rise & fall of Idi Amin (1980) George Ivan Smith; Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life (1999) Howard Sounes; Bad Boy (1953) & Roughneck (1954) Jim Thompson; I was looking for a street (1988) & Writing & Other Blood Sports (2000) Charles Willeford; This Boy's Life (1989) Tobias Wolff
HISTORY, PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY
the Irish Civil War (1998) Tim Pat Coogan & George Morrison; A Rebel Life: Murder by the Rich (2006) Peter Kalafatis; Irish Rebellions 1798-1916: An Illustrated History (1998) Helen Litton; Beyond Good & Evil (1886) Friedrich Nietzsche; A People's History of the United States (1980; revised 1995) Howard Zinn
strange ones I enjoy, perhaps more than I should
Rat Catching (1988) & What It Is And How It Is Done Crispin Hellion Glover; the Doubtful Guest (1957) & the Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing (1963) Edward Gorey; Everybody's Book of Epitaphs ~ being, for the most part, what the living think of the dead (1995) compiled by W.H. Howe; the Story of Ferdinand [Ferdinand the Bull] (1936) Munro Leaf (illustrated by Robert Lawson); the Nutshell Library (1962), Where the Wild Things Are (1963), Higglety Pigglety Pop!, or: There Must be More to Life (1979) & Outside Over There (1985) Maurice Sendak
"Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic" - Flannery O'Connor
now reading: Stat One: a new system for rating baseball's all-time greats (2008) Craig Messmer; Billy the Kid: the Endless Ride (2007) Michael Wallis; Selected Poems 1934-1953 (1953, revised edition) Dylan Thomas; Poems 1920 (1919) T.S. Eliot; A Century of Noir: thirty-two classic crime stories (2002) edited by Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins; The First Five Pages: a writer's guide to staying out of the rejection pile (2000) Noah Lukeman;
Heroes:
Thomas Ashe (Tomás Ãghas) Irish Patriot, president of Irish Republican Brotherhood, teacher, co-founder of the Irish Volunteers, public speaker, martyr...hunger strike ended w/ fatal forced feeding 1885-1917; Bobby Bonds major league baseball player (Giants, Yankees, Angels, White Sox, Rangers, Indians, Cardinals, Cubs), coach (Indians, Giants), should be in Hall of Fame...cancer 1946-2003; Michael Collins (MÃcheál Seán Ó Coileáin) Irish patriot, rebel, warrior, author, martyr...assassinated 1890-1922; James Connolly (Séamas Ó Conghaile or Ó Conghalaigh) Irish patriot, rebel; publisher; martyr...firing squad 1868-1916; Michael "Mickey" Devine (MÃcheál Ó Duibhinn) Irish National Liberation Army, martyr...60-day hunger strike 1954-1981; Kieran Doherty (Ciarán Ó Dochartaigh) Irish soldier, Provisional IRA, martyr...73-day hunger strike (longest of 1981 strikers at Long Kesh) 1955-1981; Roberto Duran boxer, pugilist: 103 wins, 73 KO's, 16 losses; 2-time WBA Lightweight title, WBA Light Middleweight title, WBC Lightweight title, WBC Welterweight title, WBC Middleweight title, NBA Super Middleweight title...alive 1951-????; Robert Emmet Irish patriot, rebel, warrior, romantic, martyr...hanged & beheaded 1778-1803; Dr. Gregory House; Francis Hughes (Proinsias Mac hAodha) Irish soldier, Official IRA, Provisional IRA, martyr...59-day hunger strike 1956-1981; Martin Hurson (MáirtÃn Ó hUrsain) Irish soldier, Provisional IRA, martyr...46-day hunger strike 1956-1981; Kevin Lynch (MáirtÃn Ó hUrsain) Irish National Liberation Army, martyr...71-day hunger strike 1956-1981; Terence MacSwiney (Traolach Mac Suibhne) Irish patriot, Lord Mayor of Cork, IRA, poet, playwrite, philosopher, historian, President of the Cork branch of Sinn Féin; martyr...74-day hunger strike (longest in Irish history) 1879-1920;Raymond McCreesh (Réamann Mac Raois) Irish soldier, Provisional IRA, martyr...61-day hunger strike 1957-1981; Joe McDonnell (Seosamh Mac Domhnaill) Irish soldier, Belfast Brigade of Provisional IRA, martyr...61-day hunger strike 1951-1981; Thomas McElwee (Tomás Mac Giolla Bhuidhe) Provisional IRA, martyr...62-day hunger strike 1957-1981; Patsy O'Hara (Pádraig or Peatsaà Ó hEadhra) Irish National Liberation Army, Officer Commanding of INLA prisoners in 1980, martyr...61-day hunger strike 1957-1981; Patrick Pearse (Pádraig Anraà Mac Piarais) Irish patriot, rebel, teacher, poet, martyr, author of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, Easter 1916...firing squad 1879-1916; Bobby Sands (Roibeard Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh) ..Irish patriot, IRA, elected MP for Fermanagah & S. Tyrone, author, songwriter, martyr
...hunger strike 1954-1981; Willie Stargell major league baseball player (Pirates), coach (Pirates, Braves), Hall of Famer...kidney disorder/stroke 1940-2001; Jim Thompson author of crime noir, screenplays, novelizations, true crime,,,stroke 1906-1977; Wolfe Tone Irish patriot, rebel, co-founder of the Society of United Irishmen; teacher; lawyer; martyr...suicide (slit his own throat to prevent the British from getting the satisfaction of executing him) 1763-1798; Tom Williams Irish patriot, IRA; subject of song...hanged 1924-1942
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