David Michael Francis Earle

About Me

. What I like: I like books and pirates and cats and alcohol and good food and being done with my dissertation and punk rock and old jazz. I like quirky people with affectations. I like traveling and james joyce and chocolate cake for breakfast and the west side market. I like filling my pockets with cheap candy or bottle rockets. I like paperclips and office supplies. I like pretending I'm a bandito. I like Cleveland. I like creepers. I like words. I like putting words together that have never been together in the history of the English language, like cheese snorkle. I like the (most any) art museum. I like marbles and rubber balls. So does my cat. I like cheese, noodles, and monkeys. I like old things. ......What I don't like: insincere people, non-passionate people; people who are defined by their money, 9-5 jobs, or clothes they wear; television and modern media, that sombitch George Bush (is hate too strong a word? nope), grading papers (I say this with a perpetual stack of essays looking at me all doe-eyed, pining for attention). ......Yarg, but what does that really tell you about me? I'm pretty laid back, I'm very silly once I'm comfortable with the person. I am anti-corporate. I like adventures and making little things into adventures. I teach college, not only because I have an intellectual need to share my passions, but also so that I can instill a critical punk rock ethos into a general public that I see as under the sway of media, of a political machine that propogates sensationalism and a greedy ethos, and of a shallow culture of apathy. ---p.s. If you want to be added as friend, at least email me a bit first... .. Home | Browse | Search | Invite | Film | Mail | Blog | Favorites | Forum | Groups | Events | Videos | Music | Comedy | Classifieds

My Interests

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Music:

old melvins, the for carnation, Brisa Roche, mogwai, do make say think, laughing hyenas, Bjork, fu manchu, touch and go records, old dischord stuff, Will Oldham!, mellow Coltrane, bix biederbeck, Billie Holiday, Stooges, some mod, the who, bjork, slint, codiene, the germs, social unrest. I'm not really into the new rock or punk rock movement (too much fashion, not enough politics). I like music that has a soft / heavy dichotomy.

Movies:

bad 1970's disaster films; japanese cinema; coen brothers; original film noir; german expressionist

Books:

modernist stuff, especially Ulysses and Djuna Barnes; 1950s pulp, especially Charles Willeford; Individual authors: Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Yeats, Malcolm Lowry, Walter Mosley, Nathanael West -- this can go on for ever. I read for a living.

My Blog

Literary Cocktails

This is what the cat and I thought of as we woke up this morning. I suppose it was an exceptionally Nerdy slumber... The Cocktails of Classic Literature, i.e. not drinks that appear in literature (lik...
Posted by David Michael Francis Earle on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 05:09:00 PST

East Coast Tour 07

Post Washington (not Washington Post): Dear imagined reader: Back in Cleveland. I just returned from a week in Washington D.C. where I was a rabid dog in the Library of Congress. D.C. is funny. I...
Posted by David Michael Francis Earle on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:10:00 PST

blather

Dear (imagined) readers: 1) I have a new Cthulhu ringtone. I thought that I would reconfirm my nerdiness by rereading surprisingly entertaining ol' H.P. Lovecraft (inspired by all the 1-18-08 Abrams m...
Posted by David Michael Francis Earle on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:01:00 PST

The Spider in My Mirror

My housey is above Lake Erie, looking down upon it, separated by a hill, a highway, train tracks, industry, a marina, and a soapbox derby course; not a stone's throw -- but close enough to get breeze,...
Posted by David Michael Francis Earle on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:26:00 PST

Cleveland

Cleveland sure is comfortable... Uncomfortably comfortable, like really, really slow quicksand: warm and good between your toes, like spa mud (I suppose), then ... suddenly it is up to your neck. I ha...
Posted by David Michael Francis Earle on Tue, 22 May 2007 10:00:00 PST

I wonder...

Where have all the Flappers gone??? I think I need a gun moll.
Posted by David Michael Francis Earle on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 03:41:00 PST

Go Here! and Hear.

http://www.myspace.com/brisaroche and listen. New Album out soon. I'm busting out all proud and shit.
Posted by David Michael Francis Earle on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:46:00 PST

Martini Manifesto

A Plea for a proper martini This is a plea for the use of dry vermouth in Martinis: I don't mean the pink, blue, yellow, layered or sweet cocktails that sometimes rise above their station and...
Posted by David Michael Francis Earle on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:13:00 PST

Hell is...

Hell is being in the library -- a very quiet library -- and having the hiccups. Especially when you haven't had them since you were 12. Hell.
Posted by David Michael Francis Earle on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 06:19:00 PST

bye Kent. ciao.

No more Kent! I sent in my resignation letter. Instead I'll be part time at Case, writing, and, get this, bartending! guh. Maybe I'll make $$ again. yee. I must say though that I'll miss my regular s...
Posted by David Michael Francis Earle on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:28:00 PST