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About Me

MY SITE WITH ART & POETRY: www.marcolmsted.com I'm 5'8, 160 lbs, 489, gay poz single male writer who spends a a least an hour a day with his trash picker making sure the six blocks around his apartment in Little Armenia are the cleanest streets in Hollywood. That explains my my space name but hardly captures my life. I'm a writer who used to be a drug addict and dealer. I went to prison for it in 2004 and have been sober and actively in recovery since then. My life has become a grand adventure of the spirit. I laugh alot and pursue a wide range of creative endeavors. I consider myself an interesting person, but much more than that, I'm an interested person. The world is mostly fascinating-if often tragic--but never boring. I like hiking, movies, TV, the theater, picking up trash, (it's actually fun, you should try it) and have a slavish devotion to dog and blog, as well as a play I'm writing. I speak French fluently, listen to NPR and read the New Yorker--where I grew up, btw, went to college and spent my 20's but have no accent--thank God. I love the New York Times and researching the archives for hours just to learn new things about old things. I'm single and open.

My Interests

Politics, News, Languages, Good TV, Art, Hiking, Being of Service, Googling, Research, History, Humor, Travel, Reading, Graphic Design, Poetry.

I'd like to meet:

I like all sorts of interactions with original, creative people. If some sort of romantic chemistry sparks, hooray. But if you just want to start a conversation, whatever your sex, orientation, HIV status, sobriety, etc, I'm completely game. I enjoy my life immensely and part of that is never knowing who I'm going to know next or where it's going to take me. So please feel free to say hi or ask for an add.

Music:

Denver's LANNIE GARRETT (also a good friend), Sam Harris (check out SAMVLOG.COM-he's great, Irina Menzel. I love many kinds of music as long as its not abrasive. Prefer R&B to R&R. But unlike most people, if I have $50 to spend on entertainment, I'll chose theater or the movies over a concert every time. I'm also more like to have the TV on than the stereo.

Movies:

So many, but for now: Top 5 - Gone With the Wind, All About Eve, Cabaret, Network, Mildred Pierce. Next 5- Sliding Doors, Now Voyager, Shakespeare in Love, Brokeback Mountain, Now Voyager.

Television:

The Daily Show, Colbert Report, History Channel, This Week With George Stephanapoulous, Ugly Bette, Sundance Channel, The View, ABC Soaps (I know they're silly but I'm an addict) TV5 (that's French TV), the History Channel.

Books:

Maugham, Maupassant, Wilde, Cunningham, Zola, Flaubert, Mary Renault, Primo Levi, Khaled Hosseini, David Sedaris, Paul Monette, James Baldwin, Thomas Mann and SO SO many more.

Heroes:

Oscar Wilde, M.L. King, Ghandi, Alexander the Great, Frederick Law Olmsted, Ariana Huffington, Mary Renault, Michael Cunningham, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, my Mom, my Aunt, my sisters.

My Blog

A Favor

I added my blog to MySpace to see what kind of reach that might entail, but as far as I can tell, I have about a dozen regular readers here. I'm wondering if I could get you to follow me over at...
Posted by Marc on Mon, 05 May 2008 04:45:00 PST

Slip n’ Slide

I've always loved this street scene by Caillebotte. As for the ice-skating vicar by Raeburn, well, why the hell not? They had their share of eccentrics in the 19th century, and may...
Posted by Marc on Sat, 03 May 2008 08:12:00 PST

Terminally Unique

This matching works on two levels for me; as a woman's sexual fantasy, and as a mirror of limb placement, his legs and her arms in a sort of parallel akimbo. (That is one of the oddest sentences I'...
Posted by Marc on Fri, 02 May 2008 11:51:00 PST

A Walk on the Beach

Mondrian is very well-known, particularly this work; Kroyer, the depictor of the women on the beach, less so. Some Hy-Arts have more impact than others, it's an inherently subjective thing...
Posted by Marc on Thu, 01 May 2008 09:46:00 PST

Si Se Puede

A friend sent me a link to the work of Charles Steeler, said to be of the "Precisionist School," of which I had not heard but which appeals to me as I like geometric lines and New York in the 20s and ...
Posted by Marc on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:13:00 PST

Sacred Creation

The woman in blue are from a Swiss painter, Ferdinand Hodler, the men are from Velasquez. This, for me, is what Hy-Art is all about. I feel like I'm creating love children, plucking one artist from...
Posted by Marc on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 12:11:00 PST

A Suspicion of God

Many months ago, Rebecca, my Etsy mentor, (or womantor, if you prefer) asked me to do a Hy-Art using one her favorite works, Daumier's The Collectors. I immediately had this idea, but did no...
Posted by Marc on Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:40:00 PST

The Karate Kid

This is a picture I took of a gondola in the "canal" in The Venetian in Vegas, right next to where, post-wedding, the happy couple (Croat-Bosnian ex-pats) hosted one of the best meals I've every ...
Posted by Marc on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:46:00 PST

What Happens in Vegas, Gets Blogged

Okay, here are the pictures from Vegas, and several of them I have doctored so that there are two different things in one frame. But some explanations: The Four Queens was the name of the h...
Posted by Marc on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:39:00 PST

The Hope of Audacity

I actually have a fair amount of photos from my Vegas trip, but this Rockwell/Bosch Hy-Art of a snowman and his traveling companion in hell does an excellent job of telling the story of my weekend....
Posted by Marc on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 10:27:00 PST