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frankie

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About Me

I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything. You know, instead of being a man who would say, ‘Well, it’s a rotten system we live under,’ and griping about politics, economics and the social condition, I said, ‘Despite all that, I could have acted differently, I could have come out,’ do you see? And I saw that as being the fault of my own nature, character and temperament. I accepted it, and once I did that, a great weight fell off me. I was liberated. I was able to really enjoy myself. - Henry Miller MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

written word, spoken word, short stories, literary fiction, salsa dancing, red wine, typewriters, records, black coffee, portugal, germany, ireland, philosophy, human behavior, neurology, language, memory, linguistics, misunderstandings, metaphor, things that fall apart, 4 a.m., touch, confusions, etc.

I'd like to meet:

someone who can defy space and time.

Music:

willie nelson, bob dylan, tom waits, woody guthrie, ani difranco, billie holiday, bruce springsteen, greg brown, janis joplin, johnny cash, nina simone, ryan adams, ray lamontagne, paul simon, tom petty, tori amos, tracy chapman, billy bragg & wilco, bach, prokofiev, edith piaf, aurelio martinez, jimmy scott, paul nabor, jeff buckley, leonard cohen, utah phillips, lhasa, lila downs, merle haggard, etc.

Movies:

voces inocentes, frida, the legend of 1900, everything is illuminated, taxi driver, annie hall, y tu mama tambien, rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, pinero, cool hand luke, king of hearts, benny and june, following, amelie, casablanca, before night falls, the motorcycle diaries, man on the train, il postino, no man's land, my cousin vinny, down by law, dogville, mysterious skin, julian po, etc.

Books:

almost everything by bukowski, the short stories of hemingway, ask the dust (john fante), hunger (knut hamson), the drinker (hans fallada), grapes of wrath (john steinbeck), the unbearable lightness of being (milan kundera), all the names and blindness (jose saramago), the short stories of italo calvino, in watermelon sugar (richard brautigan), tropic of cancer (henry miller), the heart is a lonely hunter (carson mccullers), a pocketfull of stones (john evans), the short stories of woody allan, stories and texts for nothing and waiting for godot (samuel beckett), the parables of jorge luis borges, barbary shore (norman mailer), the doctor stories (william carlos williams), the short stories of anton chekhov, mouth full of earth (branimir scepanovic), phantoms in the brain (v.s. ramachandran), dialogues concerning natural religion (david hume), etc.

Heroes:

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them." -Einstein

My Blog

just because

most things will mend themselves to us tie themselves onthe most foreign of things soon become a familiar occurrenceeven our nightmares learn to bend against the reality of our waking...
Posted by frankie on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:29:00 PST

the same exchange

the blue light in the window remembers me and the bottle has nothing left to say we both sit empty the clarity sought earlier was never found and only dirty glasses gather by the sink i think we...
Posted by frankie on Sun, 15 Jul 2007 06:13:00 PST

the lack of something...

if all things which exist have weight then lack of weight is the same as nothing: meaningless but each time i press down upon the keys of this computer searching out a letter a word a p...
Posted by frankie on Sat, 19 May 2007 05:58:00 PST

warm spot...

i pulled away from him, the space of me he no longer touched was coldthe way a fingerprint would never have been left had nothing been touched in the first place.  ...
Posted by frankie on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:08:00 PST

bills like love letters

    bills like love letters9 bills I don't want to payand they keep comingthe companies like their moneythey send mebills like love letters that wait in the mailboxthen the final notice...
Posted by frankie on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 05:33:00 PST

lover

lovershe wanted a man to make love to her the way that hemingway wrote his stories: to make every touch countwith no unnecessary words ...
Posted by frankie on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:02:00 PST

it was something...

it was something...we always madebetter fightersthan lovers  and weweren't even that good at fighting you were bad at both at least I can say I triedto be good at something but I w...
Posted by frankie on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 04:59:00 PST

Mermaid Ave

Mermaid Avehe calls at 2 amhaving8 bottles of wineand a 9 mmas payment for 7 days of house-sitting inthe middle of nowherewith a cockatooand a horseI can hear the squawkingin the backgroundand the cli...
Posted by frankie on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:00:00 PST

Boxes and Books

Boxes and BooksI have foundthe middle of the oceansurrounded by four wallstwo doorsand windowswhere the shades are always drawnthe fleas are jumping like hungry fishIm packing boxesall of my books sho...
Posted by frankie on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 05:27:00 PST

Feathers

FeathersSometimes he comes with the bluebirdsometimes the crowusually a combinationblack feathers, blue heartblue feathers, black hearthe tucks them beneath his armshe drinks until they can't fly away...
Posted by frankie on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 07:54:00 PST