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Alan

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About Me

Who I am is a working hypothesis... I live in fear of the sound of an open mind slamming shut and the hope of a rusty heart creaking open

My Interests

Tango, Yoga, Ireland, Russia, America

I'd like to meet:

Remarkable Women and Unspeakable Men

Quote of the Week
My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends-- It gives a lovely light!So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the chancellors of God. In the Will work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance, and shalt sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations. A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.

Music:

Radiohead, Stevie Wonder, ZZ Top,

Bjork,

Kate Bush,

The Pretenders,

Blondie,

and of course Tastiskank The Sex SOng

ACDC, Jimi Hendrix,Led Zepplin, The Beatles

Movies:

Three Kings,I Know Where I'm Going, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Dr Strangelove, Withnail and I, Oh Lucky Man, Long Day's Journey into Night, My Darling Clementine

Television:

The Colbert Report,The Daily Show, Deadwood,Curb Your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Father Ted, The Day Today, Doctor Who, Whoops Apocalypse, Agony, Taxi, Soap,

Books:

The Shakespeare Riots, Millions of Woman Are Waiting to Meet You, The God Delusion, The End of Faith, The User Illusion, Beelzebub's Tales to his Grandson, Ulysses, Foucault's Pendulum, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, Poor Mouth

Heroes:

Paul Scofield, Howard Barker,Judi Dench, Peter Brook, Robert Anton Wilson, Stanley Unwin, Spike Milligan,Jonathan Winters, Bill Hicks, Harry H. Corbett, Tony Hancock, Orson Welles, George Bernard Shaw, G.I.Gurdjieff, Eleonora Duse, Vsevolod Emilovich Meyerhold, Anton Chekhov, William Shakespeare

My Blog

All in the name of Passion

Long days involving research topicsNow familiar with the staging of the Wakefield mystery plays, the life of Ronald Reagan, Catholicism in Germany, the routine of a grunt in Vietnam, mushroom picking...
Posted by Alan on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:32:00 PST

I like London in June, how about you

Carrying a bag of 50 books incurring a hundred dollar excess, my travel wear kitted by Bodyworks, Hell's Kitchen. Back to London. Heroically struggling with big bags on the Heathrow express. Firs...
Posted by Alan on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 08:57:00 PST

There was no time

An Easter Break in England. Mckenna frames the dream on station platforms Hitting the ground and doing 4 months admin with a bang bang Soho hangover. Then training up to Scarborough for the Natio...
Posted by Alan on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 03:18:00 PST

The Holy War

The Holy War by René Daumal translated by D. M. Dooling I am going to write a poem about war. Perhaps it will not be a real poem, but it will be about a real war. It will not be a real poem, because i...
Posted by Alan on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:38:00 PST

Clarity of Utterance

Excerpts from a speech given by Tom Stoppard at the New York Public Library in 1999 "...we speak of actors interpreting roles, or directors interpreting authors. I don't think writers are interpr...
Posted by Alan on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:56:00 PST

Life lives

'Translations' is frozen. New York is freezing. Bikram yoga is boiling. Shanti on dudes
Posted by Alan on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:40:00 PST

Domestic bliss

My first Manhattan apartment...in Hell's Kitchen; Daredevil's patch... boiling hot wall pipes....littered with roache traps...dark during the day....exposed at night, as the blinds don't quite co...
Posted by Alan on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 06:07:00 PST

Homage to the Pogues

My first Christmas sans family. A day of grazing on a tub of mixed nuts, some Smartie filled chocolate baubles, six bottles of Heineken, bacon and eggs, a lump of gouda, some parma ham and toast,...
Posted by Alan on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 05:06:00 PST

Enthusiasm IS life- Paul Scofield

From Richard Eyre's diaries-  We should all pay heed to what Paul Scofield said in a letter to a friend of mine: "I have found that an actor's work has life and interest only in its execution. I...
Posted by Alan on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 10:50:00 PST

Special K

Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, nor through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He h...
Posted by Alan on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 09:49:00 PST