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About Me

Voulez-vous boire avec moi ce soire?
- c'est moi

we must

we must bring
our own light
to the
darkness.

nobody is going
to do it
for us.

as the young boys
ski
down the
slopes

as the fry cook
gets his last
paycheck

as dog chases
dog

as the chessmaster
loses more than
the game

we must bring
our own light
to the
darkness.

nobody is going
to do it
for us,

as the lonely
telephone
anybody
anywhere

as the great beast
trembles
in nightmare

as the final season
leaps into
focus

nobody is going
to do it
for us.

- Charles Bukowski

One of my former creative writing students edited the following ridiculosity:

My Interests

writing, reading, socializing, shooting pool, Red Sox, Patriots

I'd like to meet:

Martin Amis, Shane MacGowan, Buddy Cianci... Okay, so I don't really just want to meet them, so much as sit down and drink a few brews with them.

(You know who you should meet? My top friends: Return by Water, Kerala, and Confessions of a Pretty Boy--or at least read the books they've published, featured prominently on their pages.)

Music:

Beastie Boys, Big Bad Bollocks, Flogging Molly, Ice Cube, Bob Dylan, 50 Cent, The Dubliners, The Pogues, Portishead, Sage Francis, Louis Prima, The Agents, SOC, House of Pain, Nas, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, The Animals, CCR, Billy Idol... Really anything that's not country or too easy listening, or too poppy.

Movies:

American Beauty, Donnie Brasco, Star Wars, Star Trek II, The Big Lebowski, Barfly, 40 Year Old Virgin, Old School, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Traffic, anything with Ashley Blue and tons more.

Television:

Jeopardy cuz I know stuff. Also, football... Patriots are scary good! and can't forget those Red Sox, World Champions, again; that's seven baby!

Books:

Burning in Water Drowining in Flame; Martin Amis's Money; also his Success; any Dostoevsky; Tender is the Night; Northrop Frye's Anatomy of Criticism; Alan Watts's Nature, Man and Woman; Erasmus's Praise of Folly; Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media, The Tao Te Ching, Long Day's Journey into Night....

My Blog

Old Journal Entry

I finally got my old journal entries off of my old computer. I think I still agree with this one from March 2004: Socialism Vs. Capitalism &...
Posted by Hodges on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 04:50:00 PST

missing word/phrase

It has occurred to me in the past that there's a word or a phrase missing from the English language. If somebody harms me in some way, and I get even, there's several words I could use to d...
Posted by Hodges on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:46:00 PST

Dan Brown doesn't get it

Okay, so this past weekend I went and saw Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. It was suspenseful at times and rather entertaining, though I saw the end coming from twenty minutes in.&n...
Posted by Hodges on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:45:00 PST