Larry: Poet Surfer

I'd like to meet:

If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

Ray Bradbury.

I want to meet people who love to laugh and have the capacity for unconditional love.

These are the links to the finest poems on myspace:

Ragamuffin, by Si

Each Slipping Moment, by david

After Your Voice, by Amanda Joy

Tie Me To the Oak Tree, by Burning Lashes

Drinking Whiskey From A Dirty Glass, by Burning Lashes

Love Songs, by Si

Because I Am Drunk, by Amanda

The Nomad’s Trail, by Insurrection

Hallelujah, by Erin Porter

The Quiet Room, by Amanda Joy

Summertime, by Si.

Tinderbox, by Blackbird

Blackberry Winter, by Blackbird

In the Peek of Dust Cloud Shadows, by Leesah

We Sleep Beneath Birds, by Amanda Joy

Bicycle Chain, by Amanda Joy

Union Station, Toronto, by Frank Axworthy

These Days, by Si

In Response, by Just Gina

Music:

Anything by Maynard James Keenan...Tool, Perfect Circle, Toad the Wet Sprocket, U2 (before they became shills for i-Pods) the Alarm, the Dave Matthews Band, Jack Johnson, the Clash, the English Beat, the Black Crowes, Midnight Oil, Neil Young, the Cult, Staind, Dreams So Real, George Winston, Good Charlotte, the Sex Pistols, the Indigo Girls, James Taylor, INXS, Jack Johnson, Jane's Addiction, Joni Mitchell, Led Zeppelin, Nick Drake, Patty Griffin, the Plimsouls, Slightly Stoopid, Social Distortion, Southern Culture on the Skids, Stone Temple Pilots, Eric Clapton (After life taught him how to sing the blues) Sublime, Bob Marley, John Coltrane, Vince Guaraldi

Movies:

Seven, Fight Club, L.A. Story, Hearts In Atlantis, the Shawshank Redemption, the Green Mile, Napoleon Dynamite, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Saving Private Ryan, Blackhawk Down, Gross Point Blank, Hero, the Last Samurai, Riding Giants, Dust To Glory, Endless Summer, Step Into Liquid, Signs, the Village, Lady In the Water, V For Vendetta, O Brother, Where Art Thou, American Beauty, Singlefin Yellow

Television:

Books:

Collected Poems: E.E. Cummings, Above The River: James Wright, Migration: W.S. Merwin, T.S. Eliot: Collected Poems; the Stand, Stephen King; It, Stephen King, Basic Economics, Thomas Sowell; Dylan Thomas, Collected Poems; A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving; Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche; And anything by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., George Orwell, Amanda Joy, Insurrection, Si, david, RunsWithScissors, Burning Lashes or Blackbird.

Heroes:

J. William Johnson and Terry Pickup...the men who taught me to write...Greg Noll, Phil Edwards, Jeff Clark, George Downing, Buzzy Trent, Pat Curren, Mickey Dora, Tom Blake, Dickie Cross R.I.P., Mark Foo R.I.P., Woody Brown, Ricky Gregg, Ernest Hemingway, George Orwell, Robert August, Gerry Lopez, Laird Hamilton, Yvon Chouinard, John Long, Bonga Perkins, my friend PK Ripper (a.k.a Perry Kramer) Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Crazy Horse, John Paul Jones, Martin Luther, and my Grandfather, William Kuechlin, who refused to grow up.