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johnny whoops

because there's forty different shades of black

About Me

it's just me and my cats in our castle on duke ellington blvd. i have no television, no computer, no microwave, no land-line, no mail-box, no buzzer to buzz you in... other than the radio and my typewriter it's the quiet life for me and the boys. oh yeah, and i'm rich like cheese-cake.

My Interests

the face, animal magnetism, frequent fits of "must"

I'd like to meet:

pioneers, radical humanisms, grandiloquent filibusterers, scandalnavian slanderers, pippi longstocking, mrs. tom sawyer, big-jim martinez, the (hoverk)raft, and all of odin's valkyrie at the feast of valhalla

Music:

93.9 W-N-Y-C, stravinsky conducted by stravinsky, bad recordings of johnny hartman with john coltrane in some smokey little dive after hours, the ballad of melody nelson, caetano veloso with nara leao, gal costa's coracao vagabundo with 2+2=5, francoise hardy's ye-ye girl of paris

Movies:

400 blows

Television:

the last time i owned a tv it was hooked up to my atari 2600

Books:

raise high the roofbeam, kiss kiss, dandelion wine, the sun also rises, exile and the kingdom, the razor's edge, lolita, the queen of spades, white noise, the shooting party, henry and june, opus pistorum, the beautiful and damned, day of the locust, the age of reason, the bell-jar, crying of lot 49, la quatriemme personne du singuliere, fear and loathing, jitter-bug perfume, jesus' son, the secret history, the adventures of tom and huck, the painted bird, diary of a madman, the devil in the flesh, ask the dust, the unbearable lightness of being, the unabridged english encyclopaedic dictionary

Heroes:

jonathan schwartz

My Blog

cat on a hot tin roof by tennessee williams

Maggie: Why are you looking at me like that?Brick: Like what, Maggie?Maggie: Like you were just lookin'. Brick: I wasn't conscious of lookin' at you, Maggie.Maggie: (seductively) I was conscious of i...
Posted by Nuhaus on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:28:00 PST

why read plays? by edward albee

The question is so absurd that we need not only answer it but find out why it's being asked as well. Most simply put: plays--the good ones, at any rate, the only ones that matter--are literature, and ...
Posted by Nuhaus on Tue, 29 May 2007 11:15:00 PST

you shall be as gods by erich fromm

"The interpretation of the Bible given in this book is that of radical humanism. By radical humanism I refer to a global philosophy which emphasizes the oneness of the human race, the capacity of each...
Posted by Nuhaus on Sat, 19 May 2007 02:42:00 PST