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About Me

Craig-Collins Young grew up with wolves in Omaha, where his only maternal uncle ran a thriving bath house. He enjoys breast milk and the occasional clothesline. He still doesn't like to talk about his year in Guam.
Entiendo un poco de espanol y hablo un poco de espanol

My Interests

Dichtung und Wahrheit
Strong drink, outside, during a thunderstorm.

Democracy In Action 2004
Kevin Zeese for Maryland Senate
In Memory of Marijke Morris

I'd like to meet:

* Well, there's this:
Perfect Partners: Gemini, Aquarius
Nearly Perfect Partners: Leo, Sagittarius
Like Minded Souls: Libra
Opposites You're Attracted To: Taurus, Pisces
Learn From Your Differences: Virgo, Scorpio
Not Your Destiny: Cancer, Capricorn
Astrological Hell: Aries

* bikini girls with machine guns and/or people on a mexican radio.
* I would have liked to talk with Mario Savio.
* AIM - anticraig
* MSN - Kreg Yung

Music:

Tom Waits. Talvin Singh. The Clash. Crass. Bouncing Souls. All. CCR. The Toasters. Avail. Allview Drive. Wilco. Uncle Tupelo. Pearl Jam. Strung Out. Bob Dylan. Jimi Hendrix. Tree Vahs. Blue Meanies. Against All Authority. Jeff Tweedy. Radiohead. Edith Piaf. Judd and Maggie. Skankin' Pickle.The Jayhawks. Operation Ivy. Old 97s. Rancid. NoFX. D'jango Reinhardt. De La Soul. DJ Common. Face to Face. The Saw Doctors. Dropkick Murphy. The Pogues. The pixies. The Popes. The Cranberries. The Misfits. Fanfare Ciocarlia. Bob Dylan. The Police. Blind Willie Johnson. Neil Young. New York Ska Jazz Ensemble. 88 Fingers Louie. No Use For a Name. Styx. The Suicide Machines. Sublime. Robert Lighthouse.

Movies:

IFC
shorts by Don Hertzfeldt

In no order...some movies I own:
Naked
I, Vitelloni
Alphaville
Waynes World
Short Cuts
Bande part
Mamma Roma
Wedding Crashers
Forrest Gump
Cool Hand Luke
Tokyo Story
Life Aquatic
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Big Lebowski

Television:

The West Wing

Books:

Charles Bukowski
Guillaume Apollinaire
Hunter S. Thompson
J.D. Salinger
Raymond Carver
Walt Whitman
Ernest Hemingway
Ken Kesey
Allen Ginsberg
Jack Kerouac
Seamus Heaney
Ralph Nader
Gary Snyder
William Burroughs
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Gregory Corso
Frank O'Hara

Heroes:

Michael Collins

My Blog

Chiaroscuro

Chiaroscuro Next to windows mocking forbearance,anxious with undulating treatments,which let the sun importune the darknesslike so many of Caravaggio's works, I posture nakedpa...
Posted by Craig (gers) on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 04:32:00 PST

Green Eggs and Ham

Judge makes 'Green Eggs and Ham' ruling --> END HEADLINE --> --> BEGIN STORY BODY --> Fri Sep 21, 7:54 PM ET A federal judge was driven to rhyme after receiving a hard-boiled egg in the mail fro...
Posted by Craig (gers) on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 06:47:00 PST

Driving East

Driving East I saw side-of-roadBuddhaHis car broke downunder cloudy sky....
Posted by Craig (gers) on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 02:01:00 PST

more from the Tuesday series...one edit, one new

Tuesday on the Street Leaning against a lamp postI watch a group of pigeonsRetreat a hemorrhaging skyI turn up my collarAnd feel the need for a cigarette. The Fall of Day Jobs ...
Posted by Craig (gers) on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 01:57:00 PST

March Haiku

The ceiling seems forlornin the waning winter lightMy colony of shadow Jules rang the houseJoin the frogs in Normandy!pubs are full of beer I'm off for the treescorybantic dance armorI r...
Posted by Craig (gers) on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:05:00 PST

needs a title...

Wistful meanderers in mired hallwayssmelling of brackish tap water, of exclusionand laden skin short stories gone awfulis it that we been sitting for far too longnext to unreasonable radiators, furni...
Posted by Craig (gers) on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 06:50:00 PST

Day Job

Day JobIn the early evening hours of a Tuesday nightI awoke to a St. Paul room, litby an esoteric chandelierwith a single vapid bulband twelve or so cans of Strongbowthat had, at some point, begunres...
Posted by Craig (gers) on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 11:01:00 PST

Alternate Unwrit

Alternate UnwritFind a pen.Fuck.No pen anywhere.I mount a search including, but not excluded to, dismantling.In drawers of old letters.No.Under bed with worn shoes and various collectionsOf postcards,...
Posted by Craig (gers) on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 09:22:00 PST

North Jersey

North Jersey I remember nowthe time you rangfrom North Jerseyjust to say 'ello, talkabout the ol' daysand say somethingabout how writing wasa waste because thereju...
Posted by Craig (gers) on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:45:00 PST

Bone-shoe

Bone-shoeMy feet do only what they areobligated to making time for these sad old shoesfilled with dirt and bone...
Posted by Craig (gers) on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 03:07:00 PST