you'd like me. you wouldn't like me. you wouldn't form an opinion of me. i would be fine with any of the above.
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books, crosswords, scrabble, pool, learning, speech patterns,institutionalized systems, groups, grammar and spelling, Chicago, gratifying jobs, being knocked off of my pedestal in a fair fight, high quality music, a bed with the perfect firmness, new blinds, repeating events and altering them slightly each time round, my family, the panopticon, deviance, social control, live poetry, non-profit writing organizations, Writer's unions, planning a future for myself, at least 5 hours of sleep at the end of every day.
Dead: James BaldwinLiving (or possible): my oldest friends, my brothers' first children and kind hearted smartasses.
Among others I listen to: Sade, Diane Reeves, Otis Redding, Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Gladys Knight, Outkast, Goodie Mob, Yann Tierson, Pearl Jam, The Magnetic Fields, Freddie Hubbard, Miles Davis, Do Make Say Think, Mogwai, Desmond Williams, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday,Cake, Tom Waits, Portishead, Willie Nelson, The Cure, Patti Griffin, Mazzy Star, Neutral Milk Hotel, Ani Difranco, Paul Simon, Blonde Redhead, Bill Withers, Lauryn Hill, Bob Marley, The Temptations, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, etc.
SLAM, Harold and Maude, City of God, Big Night, Little Man Tate, Heathers, Gods and Monsters, Afterlife, Six Degrees of Separation, 208/209, Dream a Little Dream, The Last Dragon, Enter the Dragon, Amores Perros, Dirty Dancing (what of it?), Basquiat, High Fidelity, The Labyrinth, etc.
Don't own one. i play pool.
Giovanni's Room, Fall on Your Knees, Seven Types of Ambiguity, Molloy, The Art of the Tale, Jacob's Room, My House, The Temple of My Familiar, The Wind Up Bird Chronicle, Geek Love, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Demian, Trainspotting, Art and Lies, Love in the Time of Cholera, Invisible Man, etc. (altered for accuracy)
any one who can tell me what right we have to hope.