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Shilough

...writing lyrics on postcards, and in the evening, looking at the stars ... but the brightest of pl

About Me


"Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that shadowy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to think it didn't. Now I think it does. And I think that mine is this: a morbid longing for the picturesque at all costs."
"....Perhaps all adolescence is a dialogue between Faust and Christ. We tremble on the brink of selling that part of ourselves that is real, unique, angry, defiant and whole for the rewards of attainment, success and the golden prizes of integration and acceptance; but we also, in our great creative imagination, rehearse the sacrifice we will make: the pain and terror we will take from others' shoulders; our penetration into the lives and souls of our fellows; our submission and willingness to be rejected and despised for the sake of Truth and Love and, in the wilderness, our angry rebuttals of the hypocrisy, deception, and compromise of a world which we see to be so false." - Stephen Fry
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My Interests

Music:

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The Band, Magnetic Fields, Sun Kil Moon, Iron and Wine, Red House Painters, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Beach Boys, Low, Rufus Wainwright, Paul Williams, Colin Blunstone, Tim Hardin, Emmit Rhodes, Mojave 3, My Morning Jacket, Geoffrey Burgon, Neil Young, George Jones, Jackson Browne, Sufjan Stevens, Dick Gaughan, Simon and Garfunkel, Gene Clark, The Byrds, Damien Jurado, The Smiths, Mark Kozelek, Decemberists, Stanley Brothers, Nick Drake, CSN+Y, Belle + Sebastian, Beatles....
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Movies:

Junebug, The Last Waltz, Breaking Away, A Place in the Sun, The Thin Man, Bringing up Baby, Dr Zhivago, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Withnail & I, Watership Down, Yellow Submarine, The Point, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Shadowlands, The Muppet Movie, Far from the Madding Crowd, Pretty in Pink, Royal Tenenbaums, Room With a View, Rivers and Tides, Barry Lyndon, Bright Young Things, The Outsiders, Days of Heaven

Television:

Vintage PBS
Simpsons, Freaks and Geeks, Lost, My So-Called Life ... I forget ...

Books:

Too many to list ... Shadow of the Wind, Wolves and Honey, The Golden String, The Chronicles of Narnia, The Animal Family, Waugh, Wodehouse, C S Lewis, The Secret History, The Little Friend, Plague Dogs, A Good and Happy CHild, George Eliot, Lewis Carroll, Richard Adams, A. S. Byatt, Tolkien, Thomas Hardy, W B Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Paul of Tarsus, Robert Graves, D H Lawrence, Pablo Neruda ...

no it's not Bilbo Baggins - it's French poet Yves Bonnefoy

My Blog

my bro

so the most exciting news in my life is that my brother Shannon, who has lived out in the midwest for the past 10 or 12 years (during which time I only saw him a few times) has moved back out to PA, a...
Posted by Shilough on Mon, 21 May 2007 09:55:00 PST

September 25, 1999


Posted by Shilough on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 01:36:00 PST

pics of sunny

here's a couple blurry snapshots of our new addition:
Posted by Shilough on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 01:29:00 PST

Sunny

Larissa and I brought home our toy fox terrier puppy today!  He is really tiny and seems very well-behaved (so far).  We're calling him "Sunny".  I'll post some pictures very soon.
Posted by Shilough on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 02:46:00 PST

goodbye, jamie


Posted by Shilough on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 02:16:00 PST

Perhaps it has sometimes happened to you in a dream

Perhaps it has sometimes happened to you in a dream that someone says something which you don't understand but in the dream it feels as if it had some enormous meaning - either a terrifying one which ...
Posted by Shilough on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 01:39:00 PST