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Cairo

Art must be convulsive or not at all. --Breton

About Me

I'm just...me...say hello.

My Interests

Gestalt: New York's Free Press for Poetry & Art (www.gestaltnyc.com); Buddhism, particularly Zen; 20th century lit and art; computers in general; graphic design; publishing; editing; college...lotsa stuff

I'd like to meet:

Cool hip smart fun groovy beat kids

Music:

I like everything...classical, jazz, folk, triphop... lately I've been listening to Jonatha Brooke, Elliott Smith, Gotan Project, Mouse on Mars, Keith Jarrett, Massive Attack, Radiohead, Orbital...a slew of things

Movies:

I love a lot of stuff...hmmm...the postmodern films: Bladerunner, Dark City, Koyanisqaatsi, and then the costume dramas like Wings of the Dove...I dunno...list goes on forever. For pete's sake, I work at Blockbuster :P

Books:

there are too many to name. Lately I've been reading the Sutras and a lot of Aitken and DT Suzuki, finishing a grant I received on Beat and SanFrancisco Poetry Renaissance poets and their religious influences... and the standards: Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand), the Harry Potters (I know, I know), the Surrealist French poets--Apollinaire, Breton, et al, and lately the Spanish poets--Roberto Sosa, Neruda, Octavio Paz, Borges...oh yeah...and postmodernism...Auster, Eco, and a lot of theory that would otherwise be boring if I weren't such a dork ;)