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Don

Gentle Ribbing

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I would like to meet people who enjoy Punch and Judy.

Actually, I'm more interested in visiting new places than meeting specific people, famous or otherwise.

Music:

Bright Eyes, Mirah, The Microphones/Mount Eerie, Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley, Patty Griffin, Bruce Springsteen, and innumerable othersI go through phases. Right now I'm in a melancholy acoustic phase. Go figure.

Movies:

The last four movies I acquired are The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things, A Scanner Darkly, Pan's Labyrinth, and Monster Squad.

Television:

Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, Top Chef, all Chris Carter's conspiracy/end of the world malarky (X-Files, Millennium, Lone Gunmen, etc)

Books:

Joan Didion's Slouching Toward Bethlehem, Ian Frazier's Great Plains, Augusten Burroughs Running with Scissors and Dry,William S. Burroughs Queer, Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild, the Harry Potter series, anything by Clive Barker (grew up reading his brand of fantastical horror), various plays by Tennessee Williams, Oscar Wilde and Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Moliere

Heroes:

I'm not sure that "heroes" is the right word, but...Tennessee Williams, William S. Burroughs, Derek Jarman, The Grazianos (Raina, Sara, Peter, and the Kids, McKenna and Tuan), Les and Jon, Kat and Jeff, Simon, Amy and Kevin, Aaron, Will, Jen, Michele, and everyone from Albany who had an impact on my life, Leon Trotsky, Lady Caroline Blackwood, Patti Smith, Bruce Labruce, the book Guess How Much I Love You, the moose in the yard that ate Kat's tulips, my family, and the people who are nice to me in real life(friends, acquaintances, and relative strangers).

My Blog

Your Life as an Artist’s Statement (aka PoMo Madlibs)

Whether carved out of space or expressed by marks on a two-dimensional surface, [insert your name here] grasps for something beyond his/her reach. He/she is successful insofar...
Posted by Don on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 01:11:00 PST

Fading...

I dreamt last night that my body was a boat. Arms laid at my side, eyes closed, I was a vessel lilting on an ocean of colorless air. My shiney metal skin radiating the indigo of a nightsky and do...
Posted by Don on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 08:37:00 PST