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About Me

let's see: published poet, active in the arts (my poetry chapbooks are widely available in lexington).I am affiliated with a small publisher called Duende Papers. I also teach a poetry course for young people at the Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning. Aside from that, i keep a nice job here in the city. I am a graduate of the University of Kentucky with a BA in English. I was very close to finishing two other degrees in Theater and Art Studio. I am a trained stage actor and am always interested in doing a bit of acting on stage and film. Also, I am always looking for new models for life studies (drawing, painting). I was also known for doing music and still know my way around the voice,guitar, and piano. Other then that, when I'm not busy composing something or trying to get a play I wrote on its feet, Im usually enjoying the company of my good friends and in general having a great time.

My Interests

literature, art ( some favorite artists are Matisse, Schiele, Bonnard, Modigliani, L Freud etc) acting, photography, music, film, history

I'd like to meet:

like minded people, interesting conversations, suprises, etc
You scored as 10th Doctor. Rude and not ginger. Dressed in a smart suit and very helpfull, you don't let people get away with things, and with your glasses you won't miss much!

10th Doctor

92%

4th Doctor

83%

3rd doctor

58%

5th Doctor

58%

1st Doctor

58%

7th Doctor

50%

9th Doctor

50%

2nd doctor

42%

Davros

25%

8th Doctor

25%

a Dalek

25%

6th doctor

8%
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Music:

Rock, Classical, Folk- The Beatles, Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground, Peter Gabriel, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, The Pixies, Nirvana, Robyn Hitchcock, charles mingus, sonny rollins, chopin, etc

Movies:

any Kubrick film, any David Lynch film, woody allen films, eternal sunshine on the spotless mind, 2046, Last Tango in Paris, Henry and June,Ran etc etc

Television:

Sopranos, Nip/Tuck, Doctor Who (classic and new), Battlestar Galactica, and yes.... buffy and angel, everyone needs a weakness

Books:

Novels: Sputnik Sweetheart (Haruki Murakami) Music for Chameleons (Truman Capote) Memoires of my Meloncholly Whores (Garcia Marquez) The Loved One (Evelyn Waugh) The Fall (Albert Camus) Lady Chaterley's Lover (DH Lawrence) The Favorite Game (Leonard Cohen) Collected Stories (I.B. Singer) Poets: Federico Garcia Lorca, Langston Hughes, Li Young Lee, Pablo Neruda, Czeslaw Milosz, Robert Lowell Non Fiction: The Death of Woman Wang (J D Spence) Love, Poverty and WAr (Christopher Hitchens) The Collected Letters (VIncent Van Gogh) The Man Who Mistook his Wife for a Hat (Oliver Sacks) Plays: Underneath the Lentil (Glen Burger) The Glass Menagerie (T Williams) Joe Turner's Come and Gone (August Wilson)

Heroes:

Christopher Hitchens, William Shatner, Tom Baker, Leonard Cohen, Bill Hicks, Jon Elway

My Blog

study of a vase revised

here, enjoy Study of a Dark Vase How do I easeinto the shapeof your world,the darknessat your lip?You breathedwithin meonly once,the darknessof your space.*What is the nature of your wings?Deat...
Posted by Matthew on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 06:28:00 PST

The Quiet Room

here is a poem from my new chapbook for the heck of it- not one of my favorites from it- but if you want those go look at it in person. Enjoy. The Quiet Room As Melissa slept, I mistook...
Posted by Matthew on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:10:00 PST

all the reasons Andres Arturo Garcia Menendez rocks!

so for some reason, im in a really weird mood today- i was listening to the radio and heard an advertisment for cadillacs featuring the actor andy garcia. so here we go, my reasons why andy garcia roc...
Posted by Matthew on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 08:11:00 PST

for Ross

my teacher died monday, i found out this morning. It didnt seem right to speak of it yet, but after a few tears i knew better. This poem is just a poem, something for my heart to rest in on this beaut...
Posted by Matthew on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:44:00 PST

James the Ascetic/ Bithday Blues

So the 28th is my birthday, and I being the sort that I appear to be this morning, consulted the Oxford Book of Days to see what happened of significance on the date. I couldn't resist sharing what I ...
Posted by Matthew on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:43:00 PST

America according to Waugh

For whatever reason I woke the other day with a desire to read an Evelyn Waugh novel. So I picked up The Loved One and read it this afternoon. Anyway, I couldn't help but share a sentence from the boo...
Posted by Matthew on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 03:03:00 PST

a history of orgies

So i am at work (the bookstore), yet again it is slow, and I am looking at a book by Burgo Partridge. A History of Orgies promises to be a fantastic read! The back cover defines an orgy as "a wild gat...
Posted by Matthew on Tue, 06 Sep 2005 04:05:00 PST

Sketching Nabokov

The Sunday shift at work is typically slow. Hence, I am sitting at the desk doodling in my draft book. Currently I am trying to sketch a portrait of Mr. Vladimir Nabokov from a duskjacket photo. The b...
Posted by Matthew on Sun, 04 Sep 2005 12:02:00 PST

okay one of my poems

Siam (exotica) I discovered a new Thai restaurant.I took the risk of ordering the hottestcurry on the menu.Drenched over bamboo shootsI thought of you- across the table.Wearing a Moroccan nose st...
Posted by Matthew on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST