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Travis

If he asks you was I runnin', tell him I was flyin'.

About Me

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My Interests

History, Politics, and Art of all kinds.

Music:

Jacques Brel, Bob Dylan, Elvis Costello, Woody Guthrie, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Big Bill Broonzy, Maria Callas, Glenn Gould, Martha Argerich, Mike Seeger, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Charlie Parker, Robert Johnson, John Hammond, Ernest Tubb, Doc Watson, The Carter Family, Roy Acuff, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music, Edith Piaf, Tony Bennett, Talking Heads, Hobart Smith, Spoon, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt, and Mozart's Symphonies 35-41 performed by Karl Bohm and the Berlin Philharmonic.

Movies:

Almost anything by Howard Hawks, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Jean Renoir, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Charlie Chaplin, Fritz Lang, Luchino Visconti, Bertrand Tavernier, John Ford, Orson Welles, Anthony Mann, Vincente Minnelli, Roberto Rossellini, Robert Bresson.

Television:

The Colbert Report

Books:

An American Tragedy - Theodore Dreiser, Journey To The End Of The Night - Louis-Ferdinand Celine, The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain, My Life - Leon Trotsky, The Sound And The Fury - William Faulkner, The Ragazzi - Pier Paolo Pasolini, Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Doblin, Rabbit Run - John Updike

Heroes:

Leon Trotsky, Karl Marx, Thomas Jefferson, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Andre Breton, William Butler Yeats, Maybelle Carter.

My Blog

New Edition Of Leon Trotsky's "My Life" Released Today

Dover Publications is scheduled to release today a new edition of Leon Trotsky's autobiography "My Life." This presents an excellent opportunity for anyone not already familiar with the work--which un...
Posted by Travis on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:51:00 PST

Anna Nicole Smith And The U.S. News Media

If the behavior of the news media in the United States this past week does not constitute a "new low", then at the very least we are witnessing a particularly concentrated form of the "old low". The s...
Posted by Travis on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 11:39:00 PST