You've put yourself through everything
you could think of, deliberately,
though at the time it seemed to just happen.
You've pitched and twisted,
tripped and grimaced. You've run after,
and been pursued. You've been ugly
and frightened and murderous and dull.
Now you lie on your back with your palms
Turned up and say: I give it up.
Whatever falls out of my hands
Falls out of my hands. My eyelids
Slip down and my mouth falls open.
Whoever cares can go on
Caring, someone will step into place
and take it over for me. I do not care.
Finally, my back is lying exactly
on the ground, with no kinks
The loops are all unwound
I'd like to meet:
Thomas Merton- Queen Elizabeth I- T. S. Eliot- W.H. Auden- F. Scott Fitzgerald- Carl Hiassen- Ayn Rand- Dorothy Parker- Ernest Hemingway- Virginia Wolf- Samuel Taylor Coleridge- King Solomon- and Mojo Jojo
Music:
Chrome, Can, Captain Beefheart, Bowie, Marc Bolan/T Rex, Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Beach Boys, Link Wray, James Brown, Love and Rockets, Ryan Adams, Spoon, Pavement, Velvet Underground, Kinks, Led Zepp, Faust, The Fall, Alice Cooper, Thin Lizzy, Miles Davis, Sun Ra, Sonic Youth, Nick Drake, Brian Eno, Syd Barrett, Donovan, Beatles, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Hank Williams, Kool Keith, Al Green, Brian Eno, Palace, Neil Young, Can, Dylan, Serge Gainsbourge, Talking Heads, The Children, TV on the Radio Patti Smith, Pixies, AC/DC, Feist, Nina Simone, Nick Drake, Shuggie Otis, Television, Cash, Pink Floyd, Gnarls Barkley, Wire, The Raconteurs, The Smiths, De La Soul, Kings Of Leon, Willie Nelson, Feist, Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams, the Kinks, Prototypes, Lou Reed, SUPERCHUNK AND PORTASTIC! Babylon Dance Band, The Birthday Party, Black Flag, Black Sabbath, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy... and my dad is dead, and the prototypes and the list goes .
Movies:
Trainspotting, Shallow Grave, 24 Hour Party People, So I Married an Axe Murderer, The Ice Storm, While You were Sleeping, Terms of Endearment, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Royal Tennebaums, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, Wuthering Heights, PANS LABRYNTHNotting Hill, Four Weddings and a Funeral... there are more of course...
Television:
This will be painful to admit but I love the Gilmore Girls. I really do. The first 48. Mystery- PBS- Poirot, Inspector Morse, Arrested Development, Squid Billies, Frisky Dingo. ALRIGHT! I have missed the past year of television except for the few shows that I tape. My life has come to watching cartoons with my kids... damnit Chowder is funny. Nothing makes me smile more than Evan mimicking Scnitzel. There I admit- no more Gilmore Girls.
Books:
I love a variety of genres... My favorites tend to be turn of the 20th century works through the expatriate era- I love Fitzgerald, Hemingway- Something captivating and romantic about the authors. I love the poetry of Eliot. I once hated Ted Hughes so much that I have actually become a fan. I admire Plath. I still adore the romantics... Probably some of the best writing is that of Bessie Head- The Collector of Treasures- WONDERFUL. I love Gabriel Garcia Marquez... Umberto Eco... Salman Rushdie ... Salman Rushdie... SHAME IS A WONDEROUS BOOK. I love the authors who are vivid and textured in their works- I love surprises..
Heroes:
Very simple- My three beautiful, funny, creative and charming children. My children are every bit amazing and beautiful. Evan Sheehan, Emma Doran and Olivia Kathryn are the only three people I wouldn't mind being on a deserted island with. I would move heaven and earth for them.
