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I spend as much time as I can writing, painting, drawing, reading, working out at the gym, watching films, working on my poetry blog called "...SUPPOSED TO BE 77 WORDS OR LESS...", taking roadtrips around upstate New York and going to Manhattan, I like to camp and fish, I love music, supporting and caring for friends is very important to me, I used to illustrate a lot but not so much any more... might get into that again, working on a book of Paul Rosin's photography with collaborative writing (he and I)... Like to cook, enjoy probing conversation, love to laugh... love people with a sense of humor, love my lovely Apple computer and reading various blogs... Always trying to learn more about life every moment of every day.
I'd like to meet:
I'm into people with integrity, honest people with pride yet a degree of humility, people who have passion, who want the world to be a better place, people who can keep themselves busy without feeling I have to keep them entertained.
... who look me in the eye with interest
... who turn me on to interesting things
... who have an interest in art and writing
... who laugh (a lot)
... who fight against bigotry, sexism, racism, homophobia, corporate corruption, genocide, religious intolerance, global warming, the ruin of the rain forests etc.
... who realize the valor of our troops at large and refuse to impune them for internal politics.
... who believe the world can be a far better place.
... remain cheerful rather than morose
... who have a sense of design and composition
... who appreciate beauty and the smell of fresh flowers, enjoy a good meal (or at least the attempt to make one), who are calmed by lake vistas and the sound of loons, silent snowfall the smell of a camp fire during a shower of falling stars or under the Northern Lights.
... who don't mind my smoking and high-driven nature...
who like the fact that I love to make art and leave me pretty much alone when I'm doing it.
... someone who will read to me in bed and make up funny voices for all the characters.
... someone who can live without the constant drone of television but loves good film and interesting documentaries a lot.
... someone who makes love like a long, sweet, body-melding, mind-melding meditation without becoming a needy cling-on.
Music:
Underworld, 808State, Aimee Mann, Alec Ounsworth, Annie Lennox, Aphex Twin, Bad Brains, Bauhaus, Beatles, Beck, Bjork, Blur, Dylan, Bob Marley, Bob Mould, Bonnie Raitt, Brian Eno, Bryan Ferry, Chemical Brothers, Chris Cornell, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cocteau Twins, Coldplay, Communards, Bowie, David Gray, David Sylvian, Depeche Mode, Cure, Derek and the Dominoes, The Supremes, Doors, Durutti Column, Earth Wind & Fire, Dusty Springfield, Eartha Kitt, Electric Prunes, Animals, Ella Fitzgerald, Eurythmics, Fiery Furnaces, Flaming Lips, Frank Black, Fred Astaire, Front 242, Garbage, Gary Numan, Grace Jones, Guided by Voices, Gus Gus, Hank Williams, Holly Golightly, Howard DeVoto/Magazine, Husker Du, Iggy, Jamiroquai, Isaac Hayes, Marvin Gaye, J. Joplin, Jeff and Tim Buckley, Jesus And Mary Chain, Jimi Hendrix, John Cale, Nico, Johnny Cash, Lennon, Jonathon Richman/The Modern Lovers, Joni Mitchell, Joy Division, King Crimson, Kraftwerk, Laura Nyro, Laurie Anderson, Le Tigre, Led Zeppelin, Leo Kotke, Leonard Cohen, London Suede, Lou Barlow/Sebadoh, Lou Reed, Marianne Faithfull, Minimal Man, Morrissey, Moby, My Bloody Valentine, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, My Morning Jacket, Nancy Sinatra, Neil Young, Nick Drake, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Noel Coward, Patti Smith, Peggy Lee, Pete Shelley, Pere Ubu, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Gabriel, Peter Murphy, Philip Glass, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Prince, Psychedelic Furs, Psychic TV, Public Image Limited, Sex Pistols, Radiohead, Robyn Hitchcock, Roxy Music, Royksopp, Roy Orbison, Rufus Wainwright, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Scissor Sisters, Sexgang Children, Shins, Sigur Ros, Smiths, Soft Cell, Sonic Youth, Spiritualized, Stereolab, Stevie Wonder, Stranglers, Strokes, Sugar Cubes, Super Furry Animals, Syd Barrett, Marc Bolan/T Rex, Talk Talk, Talking Heads, Todd Rundgren/The Nazz, Travis, Tuxedo Moon, U2, Van Morrison, Velvet Underground, The Soft Boys, Wolf Parade, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Yes, Yoko, Nina Hagen, Xray Spex, Nitzerebb, Donovan, Dionne Warwick, Buzzcocks, Bronski Beat, Al Green, Chet Baker, Union of Knives, of Montreal, Orbital, KLF, Electrelane, The National, Von Sudenfed, Amy Winehouse, Snow Patrol ... Always into new stuff but there's too much more to list....
Movies:
Fassbinder: Querelle, Fox and his Friends, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Werner Herzog: Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man, Wim Wenders: Wings of Desire, John Cassavetes: Opening Night, Alfred Hitchcock: Marnie, The Birds, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Psycho, Rear Window, Rope, Orson Welles: Othello, Touch of Evil, Citizen Kane, George Cukor: Gone With the Wind, The Philadelphia Story, A Star is Born, My Fair Lady, Stanley Kubrick: 2001 A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, Lolita, Martin Scorsese: Taxi Driver, Julie Taymor: Titus, Ridley Scott: Blade Runner, Alien, Thelma and Louise, Tony Scott: The Hunger, Paul Shrader: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Cat People, American Gigolo, Francis Ford Coppola, The Outsiders, Rumble Fish, Apocalypse Now, The Godfather Movies, Elia Kazan: A Streetcar Named Desire, East of Eden, Sicko, Lars and the Real Girl, Into the Wild, Juno, The Mudge Boy... on and on and onDavid Fincher: Fight Club,Ang Lee: The Ice Storm, Brokeback Mountain, Roman Polanski: Rosemary’s Baby, Chinatown, Repulsion, The Tragedy of Macbeth, Other favorites: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Butterfield 8, Night of the Iguana, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff, Suddenly Last Summer, A Delicate Balance, Pasolini’s Salo, The Arabian Nights, The Decameron, The Canterbury Tails, Federico Fellini’s: Satyricon, 8 ½, La Dolce vita, The Nights of Cabiria, and others: Rebel Without a Cause, A Lion in Winter, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, Lawrence of Arabia, The Sheltering Sky, Empire of the Sun, Breakfast on Pluto, Borat, and a lot more...
Television:
I canceled my cable connection because I was spending too much time watching inane bull**** when I should be working on my art, I miss PBS though and may relent and get it hooked up again... Maybe/maybe not... I listen to NPR hours each day and rent a lot of movies. 3-1-07: reconnected.... I've been watching some LOGO, National Geographic Channel, Independent Film Channel, TMC movies, PBS and CNN among other things. Haven't found myself losing space and time watching inane crap.
Books:
Joan Didion, Dave Eggers, Chuck Palahniuk, Dennis Cooper, Cormac McCarthy, Scott Heim, Jerome Sala, Elaine Equi, Frank O'hara, Juan Goytisolo, Robert Hughes, William Faulkner, Jean Genet, William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, Virginia Wolff, Irvine Welsh, Will Self, Anne Sexton, Petronius Arbitor, J. G. Ballard, Alain Robbe-Grillet, William Gibson, Yukio Mishima, Gustave Flaubert, Georges Bataille, J.D. Salinger, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Robert Gluck, Robert Lowell, Antonin Artaud, Franz Kafka, Eugene O'Neill, Samuel Beckett, Federico Garcia Lorca, John Milton, Susan Sontag, Mount Proust, and what's his name?.... oh yes... That Shakespeare fella... like biographies quite a bit sometimes... feel rather unread a lot of the time... I could go on... but that's off the top of my head.
Heroes:
..Those who fight sexism, religious intolerance, homophobia, corporate/political corruption, Those who educate, Those who cure and fight disease, Those with compassion, Those who fight for a better world, those who fight global warming, who invent new engines that don't pollute, Those who grow our food, Those who make art, who write, the poets, the musicians, the playwrites, the moviemakers... who reveal the human heart and soul... who reveal the multiform human condition, mostly: PEOPLE WHO TRY TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE for future generations.... I could go on.
