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chance

everybody knows the dice are loaded,. everybody rolls with their fingers crossed

About Me

music.,,.,.,art.,.,creating.,reading.,.a few of the beat generation but also more contemporary writers. oldschool country,punk, garage, forgive my ADD.,.and lack of thereother., .,.,you get it you get it,. in 92 i grabbed my pack and started out on the road..,started buskin and squattin and hoppin abouts.couldnt help it.,,. when you get somethin in your blood,.,. you get that itchin heel.. to see the place., to meet people,. to learn.,.thats it,.,. the world tends to be me school..,when youre on a grain car on a freighttrain goin across areas that dont have roads,.,.much less fences.,.i was in a rain storm and the lightnin was dancin sideways., and me friend blu was hoppin over from car to car over me head., i realized i was alive,.

My Interests

workin on my house lately,.,.and my garden.,.on a professional level,.,.hehe.,.if there is one.,..,carpentry, welding, travelling, was what i did for the last 15 years.,mostly, hitching, driving my truck, hopping freight trains,airplanes unfortunately convincing others i needed a ride.,.,etc

I'd like to meet:

my son,.my greatgrandmother steven jessie bernstein,charles bukowski, janis joplin,bill hicks, jack white,ned kelly,chopper reid, reed,.dunno,,che guevara,hank williams,. nina simone, john steinbeck,lou reed, the coen brothers,john waters,.friends are good ,.,.no religious zealots aloud.,.,bad bad bad.,musicians,.,.,.,people into playin blues,.,.,and old school country.,,. really anything bruce springsteen, tom waits,.gypsies,. muso's,. busker's,.,. howler's,. vagrant's,.,. tramp's,.,.and transient ramblers

Music:

this is where it gets thick.junior kimbrough,.jolie holland,. the pogues,the devil makes three.,tom waits,.modest mouse,.old 97's. nick cave.jeff buckley,nina simone,the heartless bastards, steve earle ,cat power{like a motherfu**er}.the velvet underground, john cash,loretta lynn,bob dylan's bootlegged album {in the basement}with just his guitar.,,.itll change your ideas about what and who he is.listen to "sally girl",.i guess a sally girl was the cook on a boat back in the day.,or a salie or saley was a pirate from biscayne?,,. methinx as well as "cocaine blues" and "landlady blues" a underestimated and relatively unknown texas songwriter rickey cardwell.he ran with the likes of blaze foley, townes van zandt,, farm aid, back in the day.talk to me i go up to east texas and see me dad on occassion.we play music. it aint nothin professional just all night fun.. me dad and i never knew each other until i was about 20., but i am proud of him. we are just alike.genes are a freaky thing. to not know someone. but follow in their footsteps that accurately is strange methinx. anyway,. white stripes, iggy,scott H. biram, i play harmonica,,.blues., old school country.,.anything fat possom records puts out runs a hard first,.townes van zandt,.dylan of course,.,. its gettin old huh.,.,black keys jimmy martin,.,. MANU CHAO!!!.neil young,.,.girls place. and she still comes and plays a once a year gig for the natives.i love it,.bury me with my harp., but i just heard an amazing hawaiian man named "isreal kamakawawiwo'ole that will bring tears to any hardened road tramp.he sings an amazing version of"what a wonderful world/over the rainbow" i know it sounds a little risky but im telling you., do it.! a man that is also under estimated alot of the time is "blind willie mctell" another favorite is memphis minnie., mississippi fred mcdowell.,and if you dont know hasel adkins you better get his "lonesome " record., its his best ,.,.back in his rockabilly days,.,.he gave billy idol his scowl,.., he was from west virginia? methinx,.,. he lived in a trailer with his dog ,.,. he was a one man band like "scott h biram" from buda tx. and he was known to toss his giddy box at the crowd,.,. and lived on commodity meat and had a peanut butter fetish,.,.skip james,.,., bukka white, if youre down in new orleans go see me pal jimmy horn down at the apple barrel on frenchman street or "19th street red" hes another one man band,.,.leanord cohen, check out bruce springsteen "nebraska",. thats the motherfucker,.,. tis truly a monumental album,.., but just as well "small change" tom waits,. either way you aint losin

Movies:

the coen brothers,harmony korin,"santa sangre",., "cabeza de vaca"..,., "amores de perros"., "the adventures of tom thumb".,., ferlinghetti,.?,.,.chaplin,.those three brothers.,.,marx.,.dyslexia what a bit*h.dennis hopper isabella rossalinni?.,.,. gummo,.delicatessan, sling blade,big bad love, black cat white cat dunno

Television:

? discovery.,.,history..,forensics,.,. true crime,.,. mass murderers

Books:

.julie doucette., love and rockets comix,. bukowski he had insight as well as balls some beat generation.,william burroughs,.,sylvia plath. right now.,,.albert camus,. frank mcCourt "Tis" is real good,. Hunter S. thompson..,isreal regardie,idries shah,.,eastern thought.,,. khalil gibran,.,.john steinbeck.,.,jean genet, tim robbins, anthony bourdain,.,. katherine dunn,pablo neruda,flannery o'connor,upton sinclair,vonnegut,dashell hammett,raymond chandler,jim thompson, anthropology

Heroes:

woody guthrie., cisco houston ,.Hunter S. Thompson., Chaplin.,Burroughs{in a sense},.nina simone.,jeff buckley,.johnny cash. my mother.bob dylan.the brave who scalped custard.native americans nomadic self sufficient non dinominational peoples. it was my dream for the longest to fly to the siberian steppes and hopefully .,.hehe.,.,"blend in" with the nomadic reighndeer herders.livin in a yurt,.yert.,yort.,no yert methinx,. my grandparents were cotton pickers in the lower mississipi delta area., in the early 1900's,. theyre name was cotten,.i guess the spelling was different at times,. they moved some friends here to texas right before the depression hit and got stuck here financially,.,. and had to stay.,. good for me.,my grandpa mr. earl cotten/cotton he spelled it different., was a carpenter and my ma was a cotton picker and his better to do family wouldnt let him mary her for she was a "destitute river rat cotton picker" but thankfully he disobeyed and ran with her., we keep some of the furniture he made over his life., tables made with furnace legs., pie safes,. with punched metal plates., pretty pretty.,he was of the old school., very respectable., anyways ill hang it up.,

My Blog

fall

my knuckles upon my forehead,. staring down,. out the corner of my eyes a shred of sunlight,.   the autumn leaves hangin on by a thread., not to change their colours instead,. a cool wind pic...
Posted by chance on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:21:00 PST

common kind

as we wake on the banks of this thing we know as love you hold in your hand my heart in true form i struggle but you wear your kid gloves,. in true form i fight,. not ever knowing any one who woul...
Posted by chance on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:44:00 PST

resolution

my words they echo and the crash never to find their target we dance in empty halls,.,. and maybe we forget ,. what we came here for,. and one day the sun will shine,. and me and you we know our ki...
Posted by chance on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:56:00 PST

farsighted

one day when we come in from our bad days,. and trust is runnin with us,. just as much as this blind mans haze,. there are walls and hardwood floors,. that bind us to our fears and as we stand &...
Posted by chance on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:11:00 PST

harmony

open up your coat., let me in, its cold outside. and we dance better close,. we sway and lean upon one another , with our wild eyes ,. and wicked smiles,. pitter pat,. pitter pat,.  ...
Posted by chance on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 10:43:00 PST

serenity

he was a small man,. his hands were open and square,. had a cap upon his head and a greasy curle into his hair knew all the ins and outs of a days journey and knew an evil mans stare,. with ol dirty...
Posted by chance on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 07:58:00 PST

bell jar

the jar was half full,. as well as our hearts,. when mine eyes met youres,. and we rounded the towns,.,. it was sun up,. and sun down,. playin piano with your heart on your sleeve,. singin me songs ...
Posted by chance on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:25:00 PST

leapfrog

comin in the backdoor.,,. his hands are dirty standin under the porch light a halo of light covers up what he cant the kitchen counter is her anchor and its all she has lookin into eyes she long ago ...
Posted by chance on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 05:57:00 PST

heel and toe

your brown hair,. cool white wrists,.,. in a field of gold we walk,. flowing dress.,,. and angels kisses,.,. we sit down to talk,. the clouds fly by with their grace., your eyes they hold mine,. the...
Posted by chance on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 06:23:00 PST

fast train a comin

been runnin for a long time., not enough to make this train stop,. being a creature of habit dont make it easy,. dont give me another mans luck,. and when i lay down my guard,. will you find me,....
Posted by chance on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:49:00 PST