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richard from flagstaff

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About Me

I am your stereotypical Gemini juggling multiple jobs: legal advocacy at the Domestic Violence Shelter by day (restraining orders, divorces, custody paperwork, safety plans and accompanying clients to court) and concert promoter / live recording engineer by night (fav release: Melissa Ferrick's _70 People at 7000 Feet_ @ Right On Records. Check Melissa out here http://www.myspace.com/rightonrecords).When not at work or on the road i can be found behind a copy of The New Yorker, out on a desolate trail somewhere, or wishing i was soaking in a hot spring.Right now border / migration / immigrant rights are hot on my radar. As one born in another land i have a deep appreciation for those who risk life and limb to come here. Please support these fine folkhttp://www.nomoredeaths.org/http://www.humaneborders.org /mspmb allowScriptAccess="never" enableJSURL="false" enableHREF="false" saveEmbedTags="true" src="http://lads.myspace.com/slides/slideshow_random.swf?u=4 9450034" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="426"

My Interests

They're really not that interesting...

I'd like to meet:

Harriet Tubman. Or perhaps Mississippi John Hurt. And Alan Lomax would have to be there to roll tape and record all the great ranting and rollin between the two.And if we're talking live folks who still draw breath than i'd have to say you and folks who help me keep open-minded, awake, aware and in good humour.

Music:

Yes please!http://www.jambands.com/nov00/monthly/roadtrip.html

Movies:

I can never tire of: An American Werewolf in London, Elling, How's Your News? [thanks Jill!], A Scanner Darkly, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.

Television:

No thanks, i'm trying to quit.

Books:

Recent reads include: T. Coraghessan Boyle's _The Tortilla Curtain_ [thanks Jill R!], Graham Greene's _The Comedians_, Hugh Brogan's _Alexis de Tocqueville - A Life_, Capote's _In Cold Blood_, _Decision For Disaster: The Bay of Pigs_, Toole's _A Confederacy of Dunces_, Bill Bruer's _Vendetta: Fidel Castro and the Kennedy Brothers_.Can't go wrong with Leslie Marmon Silko, Mary Oliver, Rumi, Sonia Sanchez, Rainer Maria Rilke, e.e. cummings, Le LeRoi Jones [Imamu Amiri Baraka], Robert Bly, Langston Hughes, Maxine Hong Kingston, and on and on...

Heroes:

My dear-departed wolf-pup Toklat; M.L.K. Jr; My Mom and Dad;Emma Goldman;My Oma and Opa;Harvey Milk; Sojourner Truth;John Brown;Bill Hicks;and those willing to risk life and limb to come to this country for nothing more than a shot at life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

My Blog

Love, Music, Death, repeat...

2:30 Sunday morning, driving up Broadway in the darkness.  The Tucson stars hang far above ~ almost out of sight.  Two cars lay crumpled off an intersection. Bodies strewn across t...
Posted by richard from flagstaff on Wed, 09 May 2007 07:31:00 PST