I'm just a vessel of a most aggravating muse who visits me on a schedule I have yet to fathom.
~ Archer ~
Mountains, forests, deserts, stars, galaxies, circles of stones, novas, magma, writing, poetry, mumblers, mimics, clowns, monkeys, circus stars, life, the cosmos, and everything.
My true love is writing and I do dabble at it, or as a recent detractor characterized me as someone who "fancies himself a writer." I do enjoy romantic and sensual tomes in particular ... but I also wander far afield and in other forms of short stories, verse, poetry, and lyrics.
I play acoustic guitar (both 6 and 12 string) as well as having in a past life composed my own soft-boiled love songs.
I also enjoy most all voyages of the imagination.
Being so near to the California wine country I am also occassionally enticed to seek out the fruit of the vine (actually I enjoy the getting out and touring more than the tippling).
I hope to find a few loyal, consistent and engaged correspondents from whatever galaxy or alley they call home. My friends are other storytellers, wanderers of the imagination, sirens of verse, mistresses of rhyme and rhythm, captains of prose... discovers of the soul, imaginative, creative, artistic people ...
Who's welcome here? The rabble and the clutter of the universe, the elite the downtrodden, the unwashed, the articulate, the mumbling, the stumbling, the fleet, the pious, the irreverent, the young and old and feeble and nimble, mountain climbers, spelunkers, rappelers, tree dwellers, star gazers, Jedi's, Sith Lords and Padawans, christians, pagans , atheists, agnostics, the confused, the sure, the sensual, the sexual, the erotic, those of limited libido, the chaste, the impure, sinners one and all, artists of any genre, craftspeople, wordsmiths, painters of the imagination, scribes of the soul, orators of the heart, and anyone with an open mind and a quick wit.
I am a product of my era when it comes to music... My iPhone is stocked with soft rock from the late 60's and 70's. Recent works from artists such as "Five for Fighting" can also be found there.
I fell in love with the sound of an acoustic 12 string guitar when I first heard Gordon Lightfoot as a young pretreen... the song was "Patriot's Dream." I was lost to lyrics and rhythm ever since.
I skimped and saved from my paper route earnings and bought a 6 string acoustic guitar, followed a little later by a 12 string acoustic... I spent hours in my room as a teenager doing poor imitations of James Taylor, Gordon Lightfoot, Dan Fogelburg, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Kenny Rankin... just to name a few. It was later that I stumbled onto the poet philosophers (such as Leonard Cohen)
Certainly a matter of taste and debate but for me, the absolute master of the craft is Justin Hayward (with or without the Moody Blues.) My personal mantra is his work "I Know You're Out There Somewhere" - I still well up with tears when I listen to it.
Songs that actually tell a coherent story, express emotion and explore the human condition will always get my attention whether new or old.
"The Graduate"
"Casablanca"
"Kelly's Heroes"
"The Green Mile"
"Bladerunner"
"Harold & Maude"
"A Boy and His Dog"
"From Here to Eternity"
"Blazing Saddles"
"High Noon"
"The Wrath of Khan"
"Saving Silverman"
"Broken Bridges"
"The Man With No Name" series
"The Matrix (Trilogy)"
"Harry Potter (series)"
Most anything Hitchcock
and I like Chick Flicks Too
(I'm funny that way)
You are in the presence of an unashamed original Geek! (Yes I still do have my sliderule, and if asked could press it into service.)
I signed onto NCC1701 in 1967 with other Trekkers and sat in front of a black & white TV and allowed Roddenberry to capture my mind and take me on my first steps of a journey that is still in process. More?
"Jericho"
"24"
"Rome"
"Medium"
"Twilight Zone" (the original series)
"Ghost Whisperer"
"Maverick"
"Rawhide"
"The Prisoner"
"It Takes a Thief"
"The Avengers"
"Combat"
"Gillian's Island"
"I Dream of Genie"
"Bewitched"
"Bennie Hill"
"Vintage Star Trek & the Successors minus "DS9""
"Prison Break"
"Mission Impossible"
"The Man From Uncle"
"The Saint"
"Quantum Leap"
"The Time Tunnel"
"The Wild Wild West"
"The Flip Wilson Show"
"Laugh-In
"Get Smart"
"The Lord of the Rings"
"Dandelion Wine"
"The Martian Chronicles"
"Stranger in a Strange Land"
"Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
"SilverLock"
"The Riverworld Series"
"Time Enough for Love""
"Something Wicked This Way Comes"
"The Odyssey"
"The Canterbury Tales"
"Lolita"
... and more of course...
My maternal grandparents - whom I think about and miss everyday... (see blog link on the right side of my profile for a work called "Grandfather's Secret" - a story from a childhood recollection.)