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Blair Mastbaum

Savior of the Bleeding Heartz

About Me

My second novel, Us Ones In Between, is coming out in Spring 2008 on Running Press.
I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Moonshine, writing, Brooklyn, sore muscles, English radio on Sundays, Portland, end times, drawing power lines, Vermont, the northern part of Yellowstone, glaciers, delicate arch, nature, snowboarding, fiction, emoporn, haiku, nu-rave, snow monkeys, Tokyo, meta-universe-inspired art, tragic television news coverage, prison documentaries, sweating, clouds and rain, wine, snow, cheese, stocking stuffers, young Mick Jagger, ecphrasis, art, Leica rangefinders, realism, suicide notes, radio, the feeling.

I'd like to meet:

Jamie Dornan, very rich generous people who like art, Alice Waters, Anthony Bourdain (while drinking heavily), lots of dogs, rainy days personified.

Music:

Sunset Rubdown, Klaxons, Wolf Parade, LCD Soundsystem, Okkervil River, Conner Oberst, Nada Surf, Grizzly Bear, the Microphones, Grandaddy, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, My Bloody Valentine, the Virgins, Logh, Last Days of April, Arcade Fire

Movies:

Elephant, Interiors, Murmur of the Heart, Last Days, Gerry, Ellie Parker by Scott Coffey, Tarnation by Jonathan Caouette, Wonder Boys, Igby Goes Down, Marie Antoinette, Alpha Dog, porn, Kids, Bully, The Year of Living Dangerously, La Luna, No Skin Off My Ass, The 400 Blows, anything about fucked up teenagers.

Television:

Frontline, QVC christmas specials, Cookie Party, Fun With Feelings, Channel 13, The L Word, This American Life

Books:

Try by Dennis Cooper, Rule of the Bone by Russell Banks, Joan Didion's non-fiction, Japanese death poems, Scott Bradfield, the Nick Twisp trilogy, War Boy by Thorn Kief Hillsbery. Big ups to my writer friends: Send Me, by Patrick Ryan, The Firebrat, by David McConnell, It Hit Me Like a Ton of Bricks by Catherine Lloyd Burns, Miss Misery by Andy Greenwald, The First Verse, by Barry McCrea, Susanna Moore, rad editor Don Weise, and my former teacher, former hustler, and all around rebel John Rechy. Also artbooks by Wolfgang Tilmans, Ryan McGinley, Larry Clark, Ed Templeton, Marcel Dzama, Todd Hido, Neil Farber, Christo and Jean Claude, Stephen Shore, Anthony Giocolea and lots more word.

Heroes:

Griselda Blanco, Robert Parker, Gary Vaynerchuck

My Blog

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Two Eds

There are two Ed DrostesThe first Ed Droste is the founder and lead singer and songwriter of the Brooklyn band Grizzly Bear. I like him.The second Ed Droste is the co-founder of the Hooters restaurant...
Posted by Blair Mastbaum on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 10:51:00 PST