William - ProfilesArchive

About Me

i, alone, am as fresh as the morning air, as pure as a babe in its mother's arms, as free as a homeless wanderer. other people are admired and envied for their cleverness; i alone am neglected. am i (because of this) foolish at heart? no! let them be as smart and aggressive as ever; i am content to remain retiring and obscure. let them continue to be as sensible and prudent as ever; let me remain as neglected as a deaf-mute.nevertheless, i am pure as the water in the ocean and as free as the driftwood upon its bosom. let others have their ways of acquiring wealth, i am content to be counted foolish and inefficient. i seem to stand in contrast to common people, empty and foolish, but i am nourished by food from mother tao.

My Interests

baseball, literature, philosophy, writing, art, music, baseball, football, hockey, basketball, soccer, and oh yeah did i mention baseball?

I'd like to meet:

you and you and you and you. and gandhi. and the buddha. and jesus. and guy next door who plays the world's worst meringue records at all hours of the day and night so i could kick his ass. and the 1998 new york yankees. and don mattingly. and the next great visionary in something or another.

Music:

in no particular order: interpol, live, metallica, run dmc, the clash, u2, the church, the beatie boys, the verve, nas, jay z, public enemy, nirvana, pearl jam, depeche mode, new order, joy division, the talking heads, the ramones, the clash, the rapture, echo and the bunnymen, george thorogood and the destroyers, parliament funkadelic, james brown, the motown era, curtis mayfield, marvin gaye, john coltrane, dizzy gillespie, charlie parker, miles davis, horace silver, the wu tang clan, busta rhymes, tupac, the wu tang, biggie, lil jon dmx, incubus, the north mississippi all stars, t.i., a tribe called quest and there's obviously some bands i'm forgetting...

Movies:

pulp fiction, fight club, memento, enter the dragon, kill bill volumes 1 and 2, reservoir dogs, snatch and goodfellas

Television:

the family guy, the simpons, 24, i have a talk show addiction, flavor of love, i love ny, the surreal life, sports, sports, sports and that's about it really. i'm not home a lot to watch much tv.

Books:

henry miller's "tropic of cancer," "tropic of capricorn," and "on the rooftops of paris," jack kerouac's "on the road," "the town and the city," "the subterraneans," and "lonesome traveller," martin amis's "time's arrow," and "london fields," dostoevsky's "crime and punishment," "brothers karamazov," and "notes from the underground," everything by nabokov except "ada," which is simply a terrible book, walt whitman's "leaves of grass," melville's "confidence man" and "moby dick," ellison's "invisible man," wright's "native son," ee cummings, ts eliot, ginsberg's "howl and other poems," the "i ching," "understanding reality," "a buddhist bible," that old beaten up bible i have in my room, and you gotta love langston hughes.

Heroes:

jack kerouac, the 1996 new york yankees, the 1998 new york yankees, don mattingly, buddha, jesus, my mom, tanya.