Writing Stories for my Friends in Mexico About life in the US, The Illusive Hudson Valley Purple Kale/Broccoli Grex, (very humbly) Working on Diesel Cars and Motorcycles, Organizing Radical Mental Health Support Groups, Ive been working on this book for the last couple years thats written in the style of Latin American Magical Realism (kind of like Eduardo Galeano) but is an adventure travel story from the perspect of someone whos manic-depressive and ends up in all these crazy situations. Its all interwoven with dreams and parables about freight trains and the US/Mexican border and radical agricultural myths and I really hope someday Ill finish it so I can stop being tourmented with its inevitability.
So Im a city kid thats intrigued by the relationship between biological diversity and cultural diversity -- by the edge space between the urban and the rural and Im always interested in connecting with others who are busy creatively tearing up the Monoculture whether it be chemical GE corn fields or suburban strip malls or corporate media empires. Im very inspired and comitted to getting radical messages into schools and out into the streets and I'm all about building networks and support groups for folks who are alienated and left behind by the mainstream. does this sound like you? maybe you should write to me.
Xray-speXs Germ Free Adolescents (was obviously channeled from higher places by teenage Poly Styrene through a time machine in 1977), (I think the ghost of Joe Strummer talks to me whenever I listen to) The Clash, X (from Los Angeles writes the best punk rock love songs ever), The Avengers (is my life soundtrack), the new Leftover Crack Fuck World Trade (because it has incredibly lucid and cogent political analysis and if you play it backwards has secret messages about Sturgeons world takeover plans), lately in the ears: JS & and Mescaleros Streetcore, PJ Harvey Rid of Me, The Pogues If I should fall, Rites of Spring (still gives me chills), Immortal Technique from Harlem, David Bowie, Nina Simone, Reagan Youth, Willy Nelson, Iggy and the Stooges, John Coltrane, The Gits, The Coup Kill My Landlord, Mutiny, Sigur Ros, Prince Dance Mix From Hellery Homosex, Jolie Holland (shut up, Ketchup), Otis Redding, the sound of ice cracking on the hudson river as the sun sets over the catskills, the sound of my housemates cooking food at 2 in the morning in the kitchen outside my room, the sound of geese wings flying above my head as i sit and eat oatmeal on my back steps when everone else is still asleep.
(I can quote you my favorite lines from) Blade Runner, They Live (cause that shit starts happening to me when I dont sleep man, for real), Videodrome (cause Debbie Harry was my first crush ever when I saw her on the Muppet Show one night back in 83 Long Live The New Flesh), Waking Life (cause its the closest thing Ive ever seen on film to what its like for those of us who slip in and out of dreamtime and everyone elses reality), The Dark Crystal (cause deep down I know Im the last male Gelfling and Im looking for my female counterpart so we can save the world together and make gender disappear), Taxi Driver (you talkin ta me?), The Last Unicorn (cause it seems like every cool girl I know watched it when they were young and it had such a good impact.)
smashed. into little pieces. on fire. laughing.
frank morton - wild garden seeds bonfire madigan - bmad army kate bornstein -cultural revolutionary