AMERICAN GIGOLO

t h e l o w d o w n :
07   21   2007
ON GENERAL INTERESTS:
I HAVE A PERSONAL AND STRONG AFFECTION FOR THE FOLLOWING. If there were a way to photograph or preserve each of them I would and some I already have:

Lengthy MORNINGS drawn out in bed.
Entire Days SPENT alone and NUDE.
Constructive isolation.
TWILIGHT Bike RideS With CHARLIE ParKER.
Good ol'Football tossing
Greasy spOOn pancakes.
JEEP'N!
the OPEN ROAD.
NOISE thrills.
Reticence.
Conservatism.
TRADITIONalists.
POLITICAL punditry.
J A Z Z.
C i n e m a t o g r a p h y.
Homer Simpson .
Sierra Nevada(s).
MysteriOusly aloof beauties.
Hot, butter-swathed BREAD
Good WINE.
SWOLLEN rivers and grassy banks.
Moody interiors.
Candlelight and rainWATER.
N E W. E N G L A N D. P A T R I O T S. 16-0 (2007): that aint peanuts, baby!
Drum solos
jam sessions..
Over-worn denim.
Moderation.
"Arrested Development"
BOOkbrowsinG.
Photography.
Loyalty.
SundayS with MONk...
...O C T O B E R...
Film in BLACK AND white.
ARCHITECTURAL
wonders.
Art-DECO.
(The ChrySler Building).
Pavement-POUNDING the canyons
of New YORK CITY.
UmbreLLas on Madison AVEnue.
Rain on Windows.
Drifting CloudshapeS.
Soaring over the Grand Canyon at
30 thousand.
An OccasionaL flirt.
Coquettish WOMEN.
Visual Subtleties.
Delicate and oft-ignored sounds
like that
of wind- ShifTING tree branches.
MAPS...
Colonial Revolutionaries...
A Time before cell phones.
FRANTIC body-grappling
atop THE clothes dryer or
AMONG tangled SheeTS.
Elusive Snugglies,
COPPERTOPS.
YELloWtoPs and
VISUAL SubTLeties.
TRAIN whiStles.
18th century Frigates.
WATER!
places with
SOOthinG WATer...
God-giVen Light...
...a quiet garden... lonely SHADOWS...
...Always a camera...
WHAT I'VE BEEN LISTENING TO:
...All that which inspires joy and comforts sadness:
MiNGus.
ColTRANE.
MILEs.
MONK.
W.Marsalis.
CANNonball.
GunS N ROsEs.
311.
Prince.
Michael JACKSON.
Jack Johnson.
Beastie BOYS.
CAKE
ColdPLAY
Dave MATTHews.
faith no more
RyaN AdAMs.
Big Audio Dynamite.
DJango.
PEARL Jam.
NIRVana.
SWING.
Sting.
RaDioHeaD.
U2
Haydn.
BACH.
Chopin.
Chris ISAAK.
Stone ROSES.
the DooRS.
TOOL.
Tori AMOS.
Jonny LANG.
Rolling STONES.
Cowboy JUNKIES.
Diana KRALL.
Steely DAN.
Film Scores.
Duke ELLINGTON.
Armstrong.
B.B.King
Herbie HANCOCK.
The CHIEFtains.
Johnny CASH and more...
L I T E R A T U R E :
"I was reading the dictionary the other day. I thought it was a poem about everything."
-Steven Wright, genius.
A.Chekov.
M.TWAIN
J.Cheever
C.Hitchens.
C.S. LEWIS
J.KEROUAC.
D.McCullough.
J.Ellis.
WAMBAUGH
COULTER
R.CARVER.
E.Wharton.
The Hardy Boys - I grew up on that stuff!
SCHULTZ
W. Allen.
ANything of HisTOrical significance with
the American REVOLution
and ITS cast
of CHARActers
being my SpECiaL interest.
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