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Ian

Go Green

About Me

rough at the edges and rarely on time, but these aren't affectations. I don't bet on horses too much. my modesty will excite and astound you.

My Interests

music, storytelling, surfing, poetry (see blog)

I'd like to meet:

the self-possessed. writers. thinkers. travelers. anybody with a smart mouth.

Music:

lately been diggin: tv on the radio, stephen malkmus, damien marley, bowie (again), radiohead (yet again), clap your hands say yeah

Books:

Power & the Glory, 100 Years of Solitude, Brothers Karamozov, All the King's Men, Picture of Dorian Gray

Heroes:

I'd like to live like: Graham Greene, but it may be too late in history. arthur craven, but I'm too compassionate. black bart, but I'm too ethical. neal cassidy but I'm too sane.

My Blog

salt in my eyes

yay but i have plungedinto the shallow depths of thematerial world, amassive hole, inthe shape of a planet, but encrusted in plastic, and utterly, inanely disposable, much like a material life woe, th...
Posted by Ian on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 02:26:00 PST

The People Behind the Stares

This is the last short story I finished, if anyone feels like taking the time to read it (ten minutes or so...). Part of a series of stories inspired by monster myths and sort of reinterpreted to ref...
Posted by Ian on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 02:39:00 PST

Ululation

Ululation by Ian Scott Anderson Drenched in the pale naked light Of innuendo and sublime decay The cavorting teens would court every possibility left in the dwindling night capering their w...
Posted by Ian on Fri, 24 Feb 2006 05:17:00 PST

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens I Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the black bird. II I was of three minds, Like a tree ...
Posted by Ian on Fri, 03 Feb 2006 07:28:00 PST

THE DEATH OF AUTUMN

by Edna St. Vincent Millay When reeds are dead and a straw to thatch the marshes, And feathered pampas-grass rides into the wind Like aged warriors westward, tragic, thinned Of half their tribe,...
Posted by Ian on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:10:00 PST

Seafarer

Seafarer by William Carlos Williams The sea will wash in but the rocks-- jagged ribs riding the cloth of foam or a knob or pinnacles with gannets-- are the stubborn man. He invites the sto...
Posted by Ian on Wed, 07 Dec 2005 01:13:00 PST