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John Ben

Ready or not...

About Me

A near approach in English to the Japanese forms found in Adelaaide Crapsey's CINQUAINS....also see catalectic, hemistich, and hendecasyllabics. The louder the sun blooms.

My Interests

dribbling and drabbling Col gerund - the dapple smog clangers,. clamouring caterwhauling uni-wheel rivers up and away!

I'd like to meet:

Kip Cairo

Music:

Silver Jews, GBV, NeutralMilkHotel, Cohen, Smog, Sea and Cake, Nick Drake, Zappa, RL Burnside, the Doves, Andrew Bird, Tipsy, SC3

Movies:

Dead Man, Dreams, Jesus' Son, City of Lost Children, The Cook the Thief..., The Last Unicorn, the Saddest Music in the World, Don't Look Back

Books:

Sexus, I Wonder as I Wander, Grendel, Actual Air, Girls on the Run, Ragtime, the Gambler, Tropic of Cancer, Dead Souls, Labyrinths, Portrait of the Artisit as a Young Man, the Great Shark Hunt, Master and Margerita, Dusklands, Lolita, Please Kill Me, Akira Kurosawa's 'Something like an Autobiography,' The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Cosmological Eye, Everything is Illuminated, anything by Kenzaburo Oe, some Murakami, most Rimbaud, TS Elliott....

Heroes:

H.S.T.