Warren - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I am the guy pacing back and forth at the bus stop, the guy jogging up the escalator, the guy taking stairs two at a time. I am the guy with the shaved head, two day old stubble, and the small scar on his cheek. I'm the guy with the detective novel sticking out of his back pocket. I'm the guy leaning up against the wall with a toothpick in his mouth. I'm the guy standing when everyone else is sitting. I'm the guy not drinking. I'm the guy sharpening a pencil with a pocket knife. I'm the guy watching people, the guy who looks like hes casing the joint, or like he's trying to find a place to dump a body. I'm the guy dressed in black. I'm the guy scribbling something in a notebook or sketching people from across the room. I'm the guy not dancing even though he's staring out at the dance floor like he wants to. I'm the guy who looks like he was born in jeans and a teeshirt. I'm the guy who just ran his hand over his scalp. I'm the guy in the motorcycle jacket and big black shitkickers. I'm the guy gnawing on a pencil. I'm the guy with the thousand yard stare. I'm the guy walking along the top of the wall. I'm the guy with the broad shoulders slouched forward on the bus. I'm the guy you just caught making silly faces at that baby when he thought no one was watching. I'm the guy with the silver pentacle ring who is always doing something with his hands. I'm the guy peering out the window or looking out over the water or up at the sky. I'm the guy who looks like he has energy he doesn't know what to do with.
I'm a 38 years old writer living in Ottawa, raising a pair of unpublished novels, and working in the book industry. I've been online (elsewhere mostly) for two years and it's been a bit of a revelation to me. I've discovered a lot about myself, most of it good, and come out of my shell a great deal.

My Interests

bodies of water, bondage, camping, canoeing, cbc radio, charms, clever teeshirts, codes, company in the shower, compulsive doodling, good documentaries, domestic archeology, dreams, edward gorey, erotica, etymology, fairuza balk, fantasy, fictional characters, fishing, flirting, folklore, girls with guns, graffiti, haiku, hidden meaning, hr giger, icons, the idea of hero vs the idea of monster, idle destruction, imaginary languages, koyaanisqatsi, leaving a mark, livejournal, lucid dreaming, lycanthropy, made up words, maps, mc escher, memento mori, memoir, memory, moleskine notebooks & sketchbooks, movie quotes, mythology, the nature of hope, nhl hockey, ottawa, ottawa senators, personal mythology, people watching, photography, poetry, potential tattoos, powaqqatsi, procrasturbation, putting things in my mouth, puzzles, rain, random acts of kindness, relics, running, self-portraits, the look of a shaved head, sketchbooks, sketching, skulls, symbols, taboo, talismans, tanka, tarot, totems, trivia, urban augury, wet tee shirts, wicca, women in tee shirts, women with swords, writing.

Music:

Massive Attack, http://jim.aquino.com/, classical music, covers, Dead Can Dance, Dido, Ani Difranco, Kathleen Edwards, Philip Glass, Hocus Pocus, Koyaanisqatsi, Annie Lennox, Massive Attack, Joni Mitchell, Moonlight Sonata, Ennio Morricone, movie soundtracks, Nickelback, Pink Floyd, Portishead, Powaqqatsi, Camille Saint-SaÃ«ns, Howard Shore, Elliott Smith, The Tragically Hip, trance, Neil Young, Led Zepplin, Hans Zimmer.

Movies:

These are off the top of my head: 6th Sense, Alien (Director's Cut), Almost Famous, American Beauty, Apocalypse Now, Bladerunner (Director's Cut), Cool Hand Luke, Dangerous Liaisons, Dead Man Walking, Deliverance, Elizabeth, Fargo, Fight Club, Gladiator, The Godfather I & II, Grizzly Man, The Hustler, Kill Bill I & II, Koyaanisqatsi, LA Confidential, Leon (The Professional), Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, LOTR Trilogy, The Matrix, Marathon Man, Memento, Midnight Cowboy, Murderball, The Mission, Mystic River, The Name of the Rose, Of Mice and Men (1992), Powaqqatsi, Pulp Fiction, Raging Bull, Red Dragon, The Remains of the Day, Reservoir Dogs, Romeo + Juliet (Luhrmann), Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead, Se7en, Shakespeare in Love, The Shawshank Redemption, Silence of the Lambs, Taxi Driver, The Thing, Twelve Monkeys, Twelve Angry Men, The Unforgiven, The Usual Suspects, The Wall

Books:

Again these are just books and authors off the top of my head: The Alienist, Paul Auster, Aztec, (old) Clive Barker, Beowulf, The Beach, Giles Blunt, Anthony Bourdain, Raymond Chandler, A Clockwork Orange, Michael Connelly, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Jeffery Deaver, The Club Dumas, fairy tales, Fight Club, Umberto Eco, folklore, William Gibson, Thomas Harris, Donald Harstad, history, Robert Holdstock, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Nick Hornby, horror fiction, The Hot Zone, Into Thin Air, Stephen King, Kitchen Confidential, LA Confidential, Lord of the Flies, Lord of the Rings, HP Lovecraft, Ross Macdonald, George RR Martin, mystery novels, The Name of the Rose, Out (Kirino), Chuck Palahniuk, Robert B Parker, Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte, The Perfect Storm, Pillars of the Earth, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Richard Preston, Ian Rankin, A Simple Plan, Neal Stephenson, JRR Tolkien,

Heroes:

My heroes are writers and artists. Art for me is all about connecting with the hearts, minds, experience and imagination of your audience. Powerful art leaves a mark, it doesn't merely reflect the world of the artist or the viewer, it changes it, colours it.

My Blog

at the pace of fiction...

Love all alike no season knows nor climenor hours days months that are the rags of timeThe passage of time is presented to us as a constant; the inexorable gears of the engine that powers the universe...
Posted by Warren on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 01:42:00 PST

Trace Elements

It is the trace elements those parts of us we leave behindthat truly bind us to each otherIt is the particles of intimacy that pass unnoticed between usit is the small momentsth...
Posted by Warren on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 08:03:00 PST

Law of Diminishing Returns

It is easy to look at yourself, at the person you've become, as a series of gains and losses, accomplishments and setbacks, births and deaths, hopes and regrets. In fact it is hard sometimes not to se...
Posted by Warren on Mon, 31 Jul 2006 05:37:00 PST

Not Waving But Drowning

I've always been drawn to this poem. The water analogy really speaks to something in me. More than that though I'm also struck by what is being illustrated; the way gaps can ...
Posted by Warren on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 03:00:00 PST

Time

There was a time when there was time, or so it seems to me. A time when I didn't have to make time. A time when there was time enough for everything with time to spare. A time when time seemed to b...
Posted by Warren on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:02:00 PST

Imaginary Soundtrack [1992]

Oursby Morricone will bedreamy, lush as pollen scentin June.And I shall arm myself with jungle drumsthat stir the dawn.And I shall kiss your dewy ankleswhen you wake.And you shall have Av Maria sungfr...
Posted by Warren on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:15:00 PST

can it be called wanderlust if it involves a canoe...

This summer, probably late this summer, I hope to embark on a solo canoe trip from Ottawa to Kingston via the Rideau Canal waterway. I'm figuring it'll take me a week.http://www.rideau-info.com/canal...
Posted by Warren on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 06:53:00 PST

the road to 10K

Last summer I took up running. Actually if truth be told I first took up running very briefly two autumns ago but was so discouraged that I quit almost immediately. The difference between last summe...
Posted by Warren on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 09:36:00 PST

Thursday afternoon...

It's been a weird manic sort of week so far. One that I haven't quite be able to get on top of. Today though I am crashing a little bit. Like an emotional hangover or something. ...
Posted by Warren on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 01:37:00 PST

Maman

I work downtown at the corner of Rideau and Sussex. A week ago I walked down to the national gallery with my friend Jerrod who was visiting from out of town. It's amazing, isn't it, how we can take ...
Posted by Warren on Sun, 12 Mar 2006 02:08:00 PST