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Bop Scotch

art is long and love is fleeting

About Me

Because I could not stop for death, he kindly stopped for me; the carraige held but just ourselves And Immortality."Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves." -lord byron"Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies." -albert camus"What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?" -pynchoni despise talking about myself, but i'll try anyway. quickly: i'm a paramedic. medicine fascinates me. poetry inspires me. music uplifts me. writing depresses me. language is god (in the beginning there was the word) and is as much life/death/sex as the physical acts. the windows to the soul are not the eyes but the hands and mouth; the dispensers of all that is said and written (the totality of our existence).

My Interests

poetry medicine paramedic

I'd like to meet:

you.

Music:

dave brubeck, miles davis, john coltrane, django reinhardt, four tet, figurine, james figurine, cold war kids, dan the automator, kid koala, just about all new wave (funny, i used to hate the 80's), pink floyd, the beatles, john lennon, sean lennon, listing this shit is difficult, radiohead, thom yorke, i don't have time to list everyone

Movies:

double indemnity, annie hall, MASH, saun of the dead, basically anything woody allen (sleeper/play it again sam), Bedazzled (the original which just came out on dvd!)

Television:

i hate tv. (except heroes, good show)

Books:

the plague, the book of thel, marraige of good and evil, childe harold, crime & punishment, gravity's rainbow, the crying of lot 49, V, do androids dream of electric sheep?, 1984, We, don juan, anything flannery o'connor wrote, the third man, the third policeman, the idiot, biographies (napolean and byron most recently), i read mostly poetry so i don't have much to put for books. poets though, joseph deroche, william carlos williams, william blake, lord fucking byron, Keats, shelley, alexander pope, alan ginsberg, louise gluck, charles simic, WD snodgrass, donald justice, william derothe, i could really go on for too long on this

Heroes:

lord byron (rockstar) flannery o'connor,sylvia plath (sexy) john keats (beautifully fragile) humphrey bogart (badass) albert camus (my conscience)

My Blog

For DeRoche

i wrote this for a dear friend who had to undergo significant surgery. i do not know how he is. i can only hope he is well, and wait for word confirming so...when fear raises its headlicks your mind w...
Posted by Bop Scotch on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:04:00 PST

moved back.

i live in winston-salem again.
Posted by Bop Scotch on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 03:18:00 PST