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DeltaLitProf

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain.

About Me

I'm an unpublished novelist, a musician whose chosen instrument is the stereo, a bear without the brown fur and the Yellowstone address, a revolutionary who [probably] won't kill, a criminal without a rap sheet (so far), and a realist with scruples.I park my car in Cleveland, Mississippi. I live on planet earth in 2007 . . . and 1861 . . . and 2389.I made a short video of my niece:

My Interests

American Lit, Rock and Roll, conversation, comedy, Cats, Dogs, Jazz, Blues, Classical, US history, Mississippi, my self [in the Walt Whitman sense]

I'd like to meet:

someone who might publish a book based on this dissertation:"To The Latest Generation": Cold War and Post Cold War U.S. Civil War Novels in Their Social Contexts

Music:

Louis Armstrong, Big Bill Broonzy, North Mississippi All-Stars, Mozart, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Elton John, REM, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, Robert Johnson, Gustav Mahler, Johannes Brahms, Metallica, Indigo Girls, Thelonious Monk, Hollow Earth, Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Lucinda Williams, Yen Pox, Merle Haggard, BB King

Movies:

Reds, Doctor Zhivago, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Ken Burns' The Civil War, Amadeus, No Direction Home, The Fog of War, Lisa Lampanelli's Take It Like a Man, Manhattan, Wild Strawberries, Glory, Richard Pryor Here and Now, Goodfellas, The Big Lebowski, Fargo, Ten Days That Shook The World

Television:

Northern Exposure, Homicide, MASH, The Sopranos, Extras, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Bullshit!, The West Wing, Democracy Now!, The Wire, Deadwood, Lucky Louie, Keith Olbermann's Countdown, Charles Barkley's coverage of the NBA on TNT, House

Books:

Ulysses, The Sound and the Fury, The Autobiography of Mark Twain, Master of the Senate, The Dream Songs, A Day in the Life, Pigeon Feathers, The Jungle, Sister Carrie, The Poet, The Killer Angels, Shelby Foote's The Civil War, Never Call Retreat, Discipline and Punish, Chronicles Vol. 1, The Brothers Karamazov, A Farewell to Arms, Gore Vidal's Lincoln, Welding With Children, The Bostonians, Bleak House, All the President's Men, Generation Kill, All the King's Men, Moby Dick, Walden, Light in August, Hope Leslie, The Music School, Couples, Rabbit Run, Poe's Tales, Beloved, Lost Souls, Blood Meridian, The Idiot, Nine Emotional Lives of a Cat, Collected Poems of Ted Hughes

Heroes:

Thomas Jefferson, I.F. Stone, Noam Chomsky, John Updike, Deborah Harry, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Eric Alterman, Cornel West, Toni Morrison, Johnny Wink, James Joyce, Emma Goldman, Christopher Hitchens before 2001, Samuel Gompers, Louis Armstrong, Seymour Hersh, Paul Wellstone, John Lennon, Lucinda Williams, Noam Chomsky, Tariq Ali, Muhammed Ali, Eric Foner, Lawrence Walsh, Leon Jaworski, Al Franken, Ben Wallace, Charles Barkley, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, Bill Russell, Bill Walton, Oscar Robertson, Pete Maravich, Magic Johnson, Emmitt Smith, Walter Payton, Floyd Mayweather, Jermaine Taylor, James Wood (the literary critic), Ulysses Grant, James Longstreet, Garry Jennings, Chip Mitchell, John Pursley