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Heath

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About Me

I am grateful for the life I am living. I was there. Now I am here. I was born in Dayton, Ohio to a woman from Speedway and a gentleman from Pittsburgh. I subsequently lived in Indiana, Connecticut, Maryland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Mississippi, Colorado and finally New York City. Sometimes I think I know everything, but the majority of the time admit I know almost everything or nothing at all. Once, at a dinner a party, I smacked a mosquito that had landed on the forehead of the former lead White House Legal Counsel to the Carter Administration. Later I realized I may be the only person on the planet who had ever smacked him in the middle of his forehead and was thanked for it. I cannot tell a lie, but am skilled at omission and re-direction. I have civil libertarian, socialist, democratic, anarchist and republican inclinations. I studied classical voice, theater, finance, and accounting at Indiana University. I have been subcontracted to Raytheon Aerospace and Ericsson telecommunications, performed as a surfer on Broadway and as a soloist with a bunch of symphonies, blog for the Huffington Post, been dream sequenced out on Guiding Light, and waited on Bjork. I am also creative consultant and contributing writer to the multi-media political satire Happy Sunshine Kung Fu Flower, sponsored by the Onion, Ars Nova, Comix, and the Zipper Factory and host to past guests such as: Rachel Maddow, Amy Goodman, and Mo Rocca. I have a mild addiction to liberty and won't shut up about it. My friend Jim is running for United States Congress. If so compelled, donations would be greatly appreciated in any form. He's a great guy and patriotic american who has sworn to uphold the constitution and our civil liberties. Seriously, he's a brainiac. We need him in Congress. www.flytoliberty.com

My Interests

I'm interested in interesting you. No, I'm actually not. I honestly don't know what to tell you. I'll have to have a few slices of vice and get back to this section. Wait. Let me throw you a bone. Politics, Current Events, and I have a subscription to the Rolling Stone. Also, I do not ride bicycles or attach other wheels to my body. ..

I'd like to meet:

Noone in particular. I have a hard time keeping up with the people I've already met. You know who you are, you sonsabitches. I'm always willing to make exceptions. These exceptions include people who have a combo of the following: peace, ambition, talent, grounding, perspective, persistence, understanding, a car (or metrocard), empathy, passion, beliefs, opinions, dance skills etc. etc. I'm also willing to make exceptions for a lack of the above listed, but only for humor or a reference from ma soeur.

Music:

Audioslave, Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley, Incubus, System of a Down, Who doesn't like Radiohead, Brad Mehldau,Ryan Adams, Mars Volta, Beach Boys, Badly Drawn Boy,Beatles, Ben Kweller (this week), Lyle Lovett, Random mid-late 90's alternative rock,Dishwalla, Tonic, The Refreshments, Soundgarden,Elefant, Teitur, Red House Painters, Little Barrie, Spinto Band,Surfjan Stevens, Amos Lee, Regina Spektor, Lil Barrie.

Movies:

I'll tell you what I'm excited about...Howard Zinn's Peoples Voices movie coming out in september.

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Television:

fuck television unless I'm getting paid for it. all it's for is selling me shit, or making feel bad for not being able to afford shit I don't want in the first place. evil evil evil bastards. anyhoo, I enjoy American Idol, Def Comedy Jam, Cspan, Cspan 2, Fox News, and I like to tazer myself in the legs in the morning. Go read the constitution.

Books:

vonnegut, salinger, camus, eggers,chomsky, Eric Schlosser, Graham Greene, Brett Easton Ellis, Labute, Longergan, McDonaugh, ts eliot, keroauc, Zinn. I have a stack to read. stack. Niall Ferguson, studs terkel, alda, dos passos.

Heroes:

Any left? Anyone that sees what "this" is. Probably my sister, mom, and dad because they seem to be able to put up with things. I'm an aqua baby, so I learned early on how to...you know. Get thrown in and see what happens. Is this even a healthy category to have? Perhaps inspirational figures is the preferred nomenclature?

My Blog

Holiday for Destruction

Here's my half-baked first attempt at political poetry. It could be labored, but it tasted alright a few minutes ago. Holiday for DestructionHave a cup of what the green zone pilot's drinkin' today. ...
Posted by Heath on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:43:00 PST

Our Checkbooks, Our Livelihood and Our Liberty.

Our Checkbooks, Our Livelihood and Our Liberty.by Heath CalvertAll we can do about this week is talk it out. Talk about Hillary (not gonna vote for a ban on clusterbomb use in heavily populated areas...
Posted by Heath on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:58:00 PST

Heath, The Huffington Post, and the Zipper Factory

Happy Jesus’ resurrection just so happens to coincide with the resurrections of a dozen other pre-existing deities and the return of a spring day. In all seriousness, it’s a nice time for...
Posted by Heath on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:04:00 PST

Free Incarcerator with Grinder.

Yes, We’re number one. I knew we could do it. All the hard work’s payed off. Soak it up fellow countrymen. I say get tough on everyone. This means you, ya cute 14 year olds prosecuted as a...
Posted by Heath on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:56:00 PST

Heath on the Huffington Post: Why I Support Ron Paul

I’d been walking around sharing the phrase "fire it up" for about three weeks, borrowing glittery talking points about the exciting race between the first possible female and the first possible ...
Posted by Heath on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 02:34:00 PST

Bootloops Jesus, Helicopter Pilot to the Stars.

(sips coffee, passingly glances at configuration of 5 US CH-46E Sea Knights flying by the george washington bridge, slightly scowls and shifts his weight to his right leg) I’ve always liked heli...
Posted by Heath on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:39:00 PST

transcontinental sibling adventure scribbling deathmatch.

*If you don't live in New York, you don't appreciate what if feels like to wear flip flops on clean grass. Let me qualify clean, not urinated on by more than 5 persons. Sheeps Meadow is as close as ye...
Posted by Heath on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 09:19:00 PST

Rock Me Cross-Eyed: Mutterings on Social Infrastructure.

*Symptoms may include leaving your ideals in a carseat with the windows rolled up on a 140 degree day in Baquba.  *My imaginery internet friends, I must tell you that I’ve become a bit overwhelm...
Posted by Heath on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 12:01:00 PST

chrono-synclastic infandibula.

Toodlee Doo, no cluster bombs for you.  dull blogs for sleepy minds.  I spent the day in the sun, and midway through a game of frisbee, which was in the midst of dozens of other games like l...
Posted by Heath on Sun, 27 May 2007 09:24:00 PST

You won't believe what I just ate.

I spent today frivolously away, and enjoyed every moment of it.  I have this bizarre spring weather related illness that I caught from about 6 million people.  literally 6 million peopl...
Posted by Heath on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:01:00 PST