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spencer

About Me

The grey warm evening of August had descended upon the city and a mild warm air, a memory of summer, circulated in the streets. The streets, shuttered for the repose of Sunday, swarmed with a gaily coloured crowd. Like illuminated pearls the lamps shone from the summits of their tall poles upon the living texture below which, changing shape and hue unceasingly, sent up into the warm grey evening air an unchanging, unceasing murmur...

My Interests

reading and writing poetry and prose, movies, guitars, drinking... gee, that's about all i've done for the past three years.

I'd like to meet:

any of the Beatles, John Keats, and Spartacus.

Music:

LATELY: NEIL YOUNG, feist, joni mitchell, cat power, the beatles (always), CSNY, the band...

Movies:

good will hunting, apocolypse now!, blazing saddles, amadeus, almost famous, the royal tenenbaums, rushmore, the life aquatic, o brother where art thou?, a clockwork orange, garden state, full metal jacket, fight club, the blues brothers, the jerk, pulp fiction, field of dreams, an officer and a gentlemen, princess bride, american beauty, the right stuff, second hand lions.

Television:

i don't watch much tv, but when i do: the history channel, the discovery channel, southpark.

Books:

how about some favorite authors instead:POETRY-- T.S. Eliot, Percy Shelley, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Arthur Rimbaud, John Keats, Kahil Gibran, Howard Nemerov, Propertius, and others.PROSE: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, Vladimir Nabokov, Ernest Gann, Antoine de Saint Exupery, and others.

Heroes:

as is typical, my father.