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Micah

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About Me

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My Interests

There's a book called Tennis and the Meaning of Life. David Foster Wallace wrote a blurb for the back cover: "My only complaint is that the title's redundant". I like that.

I'd like to meet:

NA

Music:

These days mostly Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, and dub.

Movies:

Children of Men. Pan's Labyrinth.

Television:

deceased

Books:

Some authors: Philosophy/Religion/Mythology/Social Criticism: Jacques Ellul, Morris Berman, Jack Miles, Lin Yutang, Jordan B Peterson, Robert Inchausti, Harold Bloom, Emerson, Baudrillard, Charles Bukowski Fiction: Douglas Coupland, Chuck Palahniuk, Bret Easton Ellis, Flannery O'Connor, Dave Eggers, Orwell, Huxley, TC Boyle, Raymond Chandler, Charles Bukowski Poetry: Charles Bukowski, Leonard Cohen, Thomas Merton, EE CUMMINGS, Chris Gutkind, S.A Griffin, Chu Tu, WS Merwin Some books: The Clock Of The Long Now, Hip: The History, Counter Culture Through The Ages, A Year With Swollen Appendices, How To Be Idle, Bear v. Shark: The Novel, I, Lucifer, The Adversary, Paris To The Moon, Innocent When You Dream, Shiny Adidas Tracksuits and the Death of Camp. Some magazines: Under The Radar, The Big Takeover, The Wire, Vice, Arthur, The Believer, In Between Hangovers. Things on newsprint: Arthur, Los Angeles Alternative Press RIP, LA Times, LA Weekly, Los Angeles CityBeat, The Onion

Heroes:

You. Gimme your hands, 'cause you're wonderful.

My Blog

Sufficing (off the 2 bus)

I get off the 2 busunder an apparently smogless skyand take a quick phone call as I cross Sunset and putthe Carver anthology I was readingback into the shoulder bag.Cross La Brea to theshaded side of ...
Posted by Micah on Tue, 29 May 2007 02:04:00 PST

Cretin

Is it possible, now that Science trumps all,to imagine a better, real, future?Now that everything has been reduced to a process, can history any longer be a storywith parts for us to play?Now that ima...
Posted by Micah on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 09:48:00 PST

I, suspect

I suspect that perhapsthe reasonthat I cannot write of lateis that Ido not actually wantto write a poem-I want to play a song whose dark power is suchthat it makes thewhole world join inand then when ...
Posted by Micah on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:08:00 PST

?

WHER EISIt
Posted by Micah on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 06:58:00 PST

(i don't know if this makes any sense)

The fire was in me briefly but has gone as quickly and I often think while writing nothing that the shitty song which says "It's all been done before" may be the most profound work of art in recent me...
Posted by Micah on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:41:00 PST

The muse has left me

I cannot writeand nowthe inabilityto writefeels like a kindof death.Dear Muse,I do not know how I have offended thee,but I am sorrierthan I can say.Please hastenyour return....
Posted by Micah on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:11:00 PST

the burden of freedom

The song says"People everywherejust want to befree"And who would argue otherwise?But I'm not so sureIt seems to methat very few havethe slightest inklingof the inherentDANGERin being free.To the exten...
Posted by Micah on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 07:37:00 PST

indentations

    Only halfof what anyone says    is addressedin the addressed's reply    We boband weave in and out    sparringwe think, with each other&...
Posted by Micah on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:05:00 PST

from there, the universe

You are awakened(by nothing, and wouldhave preferred to remain asleep) at 2:00 amYou shakefrom your brainthe remains of the beer you drank beforeYou stroke the backof your sleepingmatefor a bitYou rea...
Posted by Micah on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:34:00 PST

Questions on love

To the poet who says"I still don't believe in love":I admireyour talent (which isfar beyond my ownthough you aremuch younger)and I admireyour sad bravery tooI do not judgeyour unbeliefand understand w...
Posted by Micah on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 03:35:00 PST