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Will Shade

About Me

Just a fellow focused obsessively on rock 'n' roll and writing...

My Interests

rock 'n' roll, literature, art

I'd like to meet:

Abraham Lincoln

Music:

Yardbirds, Monks, Mike & the Ravens, Vistas, Twiliters... '60s garage and psychedelia and '50s rockabilly...

Movies:

Buster Keaton's Sherlock Junior is the best flick ever; Night of the Hunter - Mitchum rules! Apocalypse Now - seen it over 70 times! The Killing, Hope & Glory... childhood in World War II England appealing? Somehow it is in the latter.

Television:

Brit coms... Black Adder, Young Ones, Ab Fab, Are You Being Served, Vicar of Dibley... and of course The Prisoner... also the original Wild, Wild West, Get Smart, WKRP In Cincinnati, The Muppet Show...

Books:

Celine's Death On The Installment Plan, Conrad's Heart Of Darkness, Perry's Portrait Of A Young Man Drowning, Thompson's Savage Night, Willeford's Burnt Orange Heresy, Dunne's Geek Love, Heller's Catch 22, all of Hemingway's short stories, Faulkner's Sound & Fury, Fitzgerald's Great Gatsby, collected poems of Robinson Jeffers, collected poems of Robert Frost, whom I foolishly considered to be the Norman Rockwell of poetry until I actually read him... last, but certainly not least, the poems of Rimbaud

Heroes:

Salla, Mike and Steve

My Blog

Only The Black Rose

traditional single sestinaOnly The Black Rose Mademoiselle, I can leave you only this single red rose to remember that our love once shone like a million suns as I crouch in trenches filled with slim...
Posted by Will Shade on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:59:00 PST

Black Jack Davey

double sestina based on the traditional folk song BLACK JACK DAVEY   Sir, are you the man called Black Jack Davey, a wanderer with the stars and sun settled in your saddle of Spanish leather from...
Posted by Will Shade on Tue, 07 Nov 2006 11:57:00 PST

Dust

 By Will Shade Death. What bullshit. You can't die. Not in this sun. Or on drugs. God knows I'm stoned. Bloody baked. Didn't know Belgians smoked dope. Thought it was the American thing. Shit. I'...
Posted by Will Shade on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 12:05:00 PST