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thomas

Ain't no devil, that's just God when he's drunk.

About Me

I currently work in Russia with NGO and community development. I direct two different programs for international professional training and community development. My passion is http://www.sumlitsem.org. Program management, Arts admin, poet, novelist, like strong coffee, strong cocktails, strong cigarettes.I like snapshots of people, places and things, whether in images or words. I am infected with permanent nostalgia, and have come to the point where I like to make other people's lives better -- if they deserve it.

My Interests

Poetry, Fiction, Hypertext/New Media, Sleeping.

I'd like to meet:

Brunettes who have owned and written on a pair of converse at some point in their life, know what 'so we jumped up on the table and shouted anarchy' references, and who have a thing for Lloyd Dobler.People who don't have to be out somewhere "happening" every night, but polish their shoes when they do go.

Music:

Pixies, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Charles Mingus, Leningrad, Bruce Springsteen, The Shins, Weezer, John Coltrane, The Clash, CCR, Operation Ivy, Elliott Smith, Descendents, Miles Davis, Sidney Bechet, Okean Elzi, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Nina Simone, Charlie Parker, Brazzaville, Postal Service, Death Cab, The Blow

Movies:

Say Anything, Beautiful Girls, Barfly, Rocky, The Good The Bad and the Ugly, Reality Bites, Wild at Heart, Pump up the Volume, Garden State, White Heat, Rebel Without a Cause, Hunt for Red October, Spies Like Us, Apocalypse Now, Moskva Slezam Ne Verit, Progulka, Swingers, Touch of Evil, Heathers, Casablanca, El Dorado, Godfather 2, My Blue Heaven, Citizen Kane, Once Upon a Time in America, Down by Law, Before Sunset

Television:

Wonder Years, not much else ever worth watching.

Books:

Fires by Raymond Carver is the best book ever written.The Captive Mind, Boy in the Air, Zoo-Or Letters Not about Love, Moscow to the End of the Line, Girl in the Flammable Skirt, Salvation and Other Disasters, The Moon is Down (and all Steinbeck), Life is Elsewhere (and all Kundera), Candide (and all Voltaire), Kerouac, Coover, Tolstoy, Nabokov, Calvino, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Orhan Pamuk, Victor Pelevin. Poems by Levertov, Olson, Eliot, W.C. Williams, Blake, Milosz, Hass, Lorca, Gandlevsky, Prigov, Dragomoshchenko, Skidan, Creeley. Emerson, Mark Twain, Brett Easton Ellis, Raymond Carver, Roald Dahl, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allen Poe, Cameron McHenry, Philip T. Nails, Barthes, Bob Kaufman. Aspects of Poetry edited by Lilienthal, The Voice that is Great Within Us edited by Carruth, The Book of Forms, How to Win Friends and Influence People.