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Unhero Eddie

Grace to be born and live as variously as possible

About Me

"Now she guards her chalice in a temple of fear/ Calm before the storm. Yet your brooding eyes/ Or acquiescence soon cease to be answers./ And your soft, dark hair, a means of speaking/ Becomes too much to bear." -- T.B.

My Interests

you hear bands like nickleback and oleander and you think 'this is so fucking horrible i can't believe i am even alive' Poopy Necroponde

I'd like to meet:

Monkey and his uncle.

Music:

(in no specific order)Dion McGregor, Bill, Wesley Willis, Curta Pajama, Pere Ubu, Papa Joe and the Rhubarb Pies, Guaranteed Katch, JTaft and His American Buddies, Mingus, Max Roach, Hank Williams, Tom T. Hall, Jimmie Rogers, Woody Guthrie, Malvina Reynolds, Sis Cunningham, Johnny Cash, Chuck Berry, Eddie Cochrane, Canned Heat, Blue Cheer, John Lennon, Black Flag, The Clash, Talking Heads, Tiny Tim, Red Sovine, The Band, Slim Gaillard, Jerry Rasmussen, Cab Calloway, Lightnin Hopkins, Jim Croce, Dion, Neil Young, Poopy Necroponde, The Hombres, Judge Dread, The Hotknives, Arthur Kay, Laurel Aitken, Sham 69, Bo Diddley, Johnny Paycheck, Miffie Marbleham, Billy Bragg, Roger Miller, Django, Monk, Sam the Sham, Big Bopper, Vanilla Fudge, Bon Scott era AC/DC, Zevon, Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks, Sockeye, Flushdunce, Edith Bunker's Demonized Vomit Insurance, Nu Boy U, Accidental Suicide, Short Punks In Love, The Lusties, Lipstick Logistic, Man Perfume, Carrie Rodriguez, Captain Beefheart, Negativland etc.

Movies:

Harold and Maude, Stevie, Love Liza, Happy Accidents, American Splendor, American Movie, Sideways, Ghost World, This Boy's Life, Deer Hunter, Road House, Red Dawn, Female Trouble, This is Spinal Tap, Waking Life, Garden State, Trees Lounge, Gummo, Stardust Memories, Ed Wood, May, Festival Express, The Last Waltz, True Stories, Manufacturing Consent, Buffalo '66, I Like Killing Flies, etc

Television:

nah

Books:

Gertrude Stein, Walt Whitman, William Blake, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, Brion Gysin, Henry Charriere, Charles Bukowski, Jack Micheline, d.a. levy, J.D. Nelson, Mina Loy, Joe Pachinko, ee cummings, Ring Lardner, THomas of Kempis, Noam Chomsky, William Carlos Williams, Carl Sandburg, Studs Terkel, Ted Berrigan, Leo Tolstoy, Hermann Hesse, James Thurber, James T. Farrell, David Sedaris, etc.

Heroes:

Icats, P.W. Herman, Geoff Lupo, Harold Pinter

My Blog

Feb. Pome

Made my way down To the used book Sale at the local Library Two bucks for as many Books as could be Stuffed into a brown Paper grocery sack But what to choose from? A 1999 edition Arizona travel gui...
Posted by Unhero Eddie on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:17:00 PST

Unsonnet Broken Violin

Formed by the oxidation of mannitol the secrets of the old and the thing was, I fell apart in September I wore a white satin gown with a deep flounce and there is time but I can't tell it fast enough...
Posted by Unhero Eddie on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 02:59:00 PST

2 Unsonnets

I.   was he insulting you? wearied by ragged literary work in the night the flower is cradled on your wings even a worm is beautiful as you jut into the empty air the earth is lost in the carpet ...
Posted by Unhero Eddie on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:50:00 PST

For Misti

Only comrade Elizarov remained displeased and proceeded to issue decree No. 24: "Word images" are all, by definition, man-made. That is something to remember You'll drive me almost crazy Through the ...
Posted by Unhero Eddie on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:19:00 PST

Constellation Pome

Bobby Fischer is dead at 64 in honor of the 64 squares of a chess board and time is in a sort of immortal slump a certain cosmic heaviness persists   Don't understand alignment of stars when I st...
Posted by Unhero Eddie on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 02:10:00 PST

Minus 30 Below

Am I cold? Bananas on you!   I'm a mustachioed Swede with a belly full of Kottsoppa   I'm a bearded Finn on skis with puukko slashing sending Uncle Joe's boys scrambling back to mother Russi...
Posted by Unhero Eddie on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:59:00 PST

in lieu of flowers

I.   A breakfast of strong black coffee   Reading blank pages of local newspaper   Waiting for a sign that never arrives   Congressman mugged of ten dollars grocery parking lot &...
Posted by Unhero Eddie on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 04:40:00 PST

buncha new pomes

here be some new stuff...written in last month.   *******   The stand-up poet very dumb   Hello I like very large explosions walks with blueberries   They've found a way to proc...
Posted by Unhero Eddie on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 02:37:00 PST

Guild of Outsider Writers

the following is a post made on the Guild of Outsider Writers website and my reply to it.   I guess everyone is going the poetry.com route these days where you release an anthology and get the c...
Posted by Unhero Eddie on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 09:02:00 PST

The ADD Files

wow....i always start these lofty projects; diy record company, poverty studies, hoosier studies, pomes, plays, cobras, mismatched socks. almost without exception my ADD sidetracks every one of them. ...
Posted by Unhero Eddie on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:25:00 PST