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Streetnoise

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About Me

Office drone during the day, drummer at night (Temper, the Cello Chix, a Confederacy of Dumpsters, an occasional member of Willard Grant Conspiracy, an occasional member of Lucky 57 and a gun for hire)...

My Interests

music / literature (the western canon and early 20th century French writers) / old movies / old No. 7 / cats / the New York Yankees / white french wine

I'd like to meet:

No one in particular

Music:

Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity / Fairport Convention / Richard Thompson / Sandy Denny / Bob Dylan / Neil Young / Kate Bush / American Music Club / the Pogues / KISS / the Beach Boys / instrumental surf music / the Doors / X / XTC / Steve Wynn and the Miracle 3 / Ella Fitzgerald / Mose Allison / Dirty Dozen Brass Band / Freddie King / Luscious Jackson / Andrea Gillis and anyone else who is laying it down real and live

Movies:

The Red Balloon / Children of Paradise / Five Easy Pieces / Network / Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? / Fahrenheit 451 / Harold and Maude / Nashville / The Seventh Seal / The Endless Summer and any Woody Allen flick (especially Love and Death)

Television:

Ab Fab / Benny Hill / SCTV / The Prisoner and most stuff on PBS and TCM

Books:

"Professional Secrets" by Jean Cocteau and anything by Gore Vidal and Samuel Beckett

Heroes:

Edina Monsoon and Patsy Stone

My Blog

December Gigs and Beyond

Eat a peach... Cello Chix @ a private party the Museum of Fine Arts (465 Huntington Ave. Boston, MA) Saturday, 12/1 8 pm - Unless you work for Genzyme you will miss this one.  What can I say...
Posted by Streetnoise on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:45:00 PST

Fernando Pessoa as Alberto Caeiro

I don't know almost anything about Fernando Pessoa, forget about Alberto Caeiro.  I was just reading a book that I believed I needed to read and off of one of the pages of this book cam...
Posted by Streetnoise on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 08:15:00 PST

Mr. October or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Yankees

Many people wonder why I'm a Yankees fan even though I grew up in Massachusetts so I'm going to give you the full explaination here cause I'd rather not have to tell the tale over and over again ...
Posted by Streetnoise on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:54:00 PST

Some Words from Francis Jammes

Haven't been reading poetry at all for a long while but today I pulled out a anthology of French Poetry and quickly found one that I liked and was worth typing out.  Francis Jammes was a pastoral...
Posted by Streetnoise on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:02:00 PST

Luc Pirlet Chardonnay and Other Ramblings

First things first.  The 2003 batch of chardonnay wine made by the Luc Pirlet Winery is close to perfection (I had to look up the spelling of chardonnay cause I'm drinking, yes, you gue...
Posted by Streetnoise on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 06:09:00 PST

Sandy Denny

Listen to the Sandy Denny LP "Like an Old Fashioned Waltz."  I mean it.  Right now! 
Posted by Streetnoise on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 11:36:00 PST

10/14 - James Wright Poem

If there ever was a quintessential american poet James Wright was it.  He was raised in a Ohio working-class, mill-town where the future seemed redundantly predictable bu...
Posted by Streetnoise on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 09:19:00 PST

I just can't stop it... Leonard Cohen

I rarely lie but you already know that I'm lying as I type this.  I suppose there are worse things than posting poems here.  This might be the last poem I post or maybe i...
Posted by Streetnoise on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

A Contradiction - Another Poem

 I'm on the subway last night reading this book called "New York in the Fifties" by Dan Wakefield and I came across a poem he quoted that blew me away by a poet I know nothing much abou...
Posted by Streetnoise on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

An Epiphany - No More Poems

I started to realize it last week and now it's as clear as day... nobody gives a shit about poetry on MySpace.  It's just not the right place for it.  It all seemed like a good ide...
Posted by Streetnoise on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST