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Brandon

. . . . with the grace of corpse in a riptide I let go. . . .

About Me

Originally from the Texas Panhandle, raised in Central Oklahoma, a flatlander, a masonry contractor, a father

My Interests

health, my relations, Felix Inaayat, Fall through Winter, cricket on the wall, the kildeer plover, certain sentiments, an early start

Music:

Sketches of Spain, Ring of Fire, Country and Western, Susan Baca, L. Cohen, Gillian Welch, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Captain Beefheart, Sade, Billy Bragg, Low, World Music, early Stereolab, Terry Callier, Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger, Tinariwen, Yo La Tengo, Peter Gabriel, Neko Case's Boileroom Lullaby, Palace, Smog, Allison Krauss, My Bloody Valentine, Marisa Monte, Anthony and The Johnsons, The Boatman's Call, SugarPlant, Cat Power

Movies:

The Russia House

Books:

Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo, The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, Beezlebub's Tales To His Grandson, Phoenix by D.H. Lawrence, The Aristos by John Fowles, Hafiz, James Salter, Jim Harrison, Rick Bass, Krishnamurti, R.B. Fuller, Peter Ouspensky, E.M. Cioran, Norman Mailer, The Center of the Cyclone by John C. Lilly, Edward Said, A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, Wamba by Max Crawford, Sybille Bedford, Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy, Barry Hannah, Leonard Michaels