Let our scars fall in love - Galway Kinnell *****"Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat."
- Robert Frost *****“Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.†- Carl Sandburg
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For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. - Charles Bukowski
*****A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul." ~Soren Kierkegaard
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.- Anais Nin
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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars - Jack Kerouac
I'd like to meet:
Each month I select 4 or 8 writers, poets, magazines, or just very hip friends I admire and think you will enjoy visiting. Check them out below. They change each month, so keep checking back. I'm always open to meeting fellow artists, poets, writers, and readers of anything. Drop me a line any time you wish.
Music:
Jazz or classical while writing. Shins, Spoon, Miles Davis, Ryan Adams, Interpol, Old 97's, Decemberists, Beck, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Tom Petty, Weezer, Eels, Toadies, 80's one-hit-wonders, etc. I always like having music playing somewhere, and NPR is a must.
Movies:
I'm a fan of classic films. Any movie with Humphrey Bogart: Casablanca, Key Largo, Sahara, To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep, Sabrina, Maltese Falcon, African Queen, etc. Most Hitchcock movies (Rear Window is genius), The Marx Brothers, anything by Wes Anderson (Darjeerling Limited was fantastic), Sideways, all Scorsese films, Reservoir Dogs, Pan's Labyrinth was quite good, Little Miss Sunshine, anything with Will Ferrell, Kelly's Heroes, a random assortment of foreign films, B-horror films, silent films, short films, and documentaries. A western now and again as well, Wayne or Eastwood. I'm a guy, cannot be helped.
Television:
I killed my TV before it killed me...but I like Benny Hill, Are You Being Served, and old Python. It's funny, but most of the people I know who grew up Irish Catholic do too. Turner Classic Movies or American Movie Classics when I'm around a TV.
Books:
Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, and Hunter S Thompson feel more like home than any other writers. Like three crazy uncles I have always looked up to...and always will. Joseph Heller, Donald Hall, John Steinbeck, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, Kurt Vonnegut, J. D. Salinger, T.S. Eliot, William Carlos Williams, Li Po, Ray Bradbury, Ernest Hemingway, David Eggers, Paul Bowles, Pablo Neruda, Jonathan Lethem, Chuck Palahniuk, Sylvia Plath, Carl Sandburg, Matsuo Basho, Sara Teasdale, Sherman Alexie, Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry David Thoreau, Douglas Adams, JRR Tolkien, Lloyd Alexander, Raymond Carver, Stephen King, Shakespeare (to a degree), George Orwell, H.G. Wells, Ezra Pound, Lewis Carroll, Galway Kinnell, Tom Robbins, many more.
Heroes:
Bogart, Hunter, Jack, Buk, Steinbeck. *****"The publishing business is a cruel and shallow money trench. A long plastic hallway where pimps and thieves run free and good men die like dogs. There is also a negative side." - Hunter S Thompson
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I'll always feel at home in any book by Bukowski
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Howard Hughes lives...
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