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Steve

better than a cold bath with someone you dislike

About Me

LOUT: .. .. .. ......An Ongoing Internal Dialogue

My Interests

Writing and Literature. History, Art, Music. Politics and Rebellion. Animals and their ways. Haunted Places and Haunted People. Photography. Raccoonery. The Raccoon Sciences. Ghosts. Goblins. Tholians, Moose, Geese, Highways. Hiking, Camping, Fishing. Birds, Trees, Western Skies. Joy. Sorrow. Peace. You!

I'd like to meet:

Slick Bitches and Strapping Young Men. Geezers, Losers, Users. Dead Poets and Drunken Whores. Stephen Colbert. The Dog Next Door. These Guys:and this kid:

Music:

Yes, Please! YOU SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND BABY, RIGHT ROUND LIKE A RECORD BABY!The Clash, The Coup, Bob Dylan, The Handsome Family, Nathan Payne, Tom Waits, Morphine, X, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, The Dead Kennedys, MDC, Naked Raygun, Crass, CCCP, CVB, Billy Bragg, Pogues/Popes, PiL, The Mescaleros, Joy Division, Jesus and Mary Chain, Love Rockets, Echo the Bunneymen, The Cure, The Church, Psychedelic Furs, Prince, Devo, Talking Heads, Andrew Bird, Public Enemy, BDP, Disposable Heroes , Eric B. and Rakim, The The, Yo La Tengo, PJ Harvey, Sonic Youth, The Flaming Lips, Cafe Tacuba, Radiohead, Beck, Bongwater, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Gillian Welch, Willie Nelson, The Jazz Butcher, Aztec Camera, Sixteen Hp, Violent Femmes, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds/ Birthday Party, The Who/ Townsend, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, George Harrison, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Velvet Underground, Bowie, Stooges, T-Rex, XTC, Bob Mould/Husker Du, The Mermen, Tom Petty, Jonathan Richman/Modern Lovers, Cowboy Junkies, Neko Case, Grant Lee Phillips/Buffalo, The Carter Family, Wanker, Bob Log III, Rotaree, The Sausage Eaters, Babihed, The Knew, Kalamath Bros., Cherry Bomb Club, The Denver Gentlemen, Slim and his car club, Munly and his Harlots, Larry Butmite and His Talking Organ, Cracky Joe and the Pigeons, Melly Shatraw's Miasma Of Funk...

Movies:

Thanks, You Are Nice: The Future is Unwritten, Walker, Fearless Freaks, The Filth and the Fury, The Unheard Music, Rude Boy, Quadrophenia, Grizzly Man, American Movie, No Direction Home, Malcolm X, Bamboozled, Girl6, Do the Right Thing, Fahrenheit 911, Roger and Me, SLC Punk, Cradle Will Rock, Day Without A Mexican, Team America, American Beauty, TLOTR trilogy, Heavenly Creatures, Nixon, Matewan, Salvador, Battle of Algiers, Almost Famous, Frida, Dick, Pecker, Capote, To Kill A Mocking Bird, Winged Migration, The Virgin Suicides, Thin Red Line, Taxi Driver, Good Fellas, True Stories, Kurosawa's Dreams, Ghost World, Citizen Kane, Who's Afraid Of Virgina Wolff, Happiness, Dead Man, Straight To Hell, Life Ain't No Candy Mtn., At Play In the Fields of the Lord, The Velvet Goldmine, Big Fish, Easy Rider, Mystery Train, Bound For Glory, Smoke Signals, Pow-Wow Highway, Bubba Hotep, Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Fido, Being There, Human Nature, Love Serenade, The Fifth Element, 12 Monkeys, Rushmore, Donnie Darko, The Tin Drum, I Shot Andy Warhol, Office Space, Bartleby the Scrivener, High Fidelity, Lolita, Key Largo, Short Cuts, Waking Life, The Chipotle Diamonds, Adaptation, Stranger Than Fiction, Children Of Men, No Country for Old Men...

Television:

Too Much. ..

Books:

I Devour Them. NOVELS & STORIES: Chinua Achebe, Sherman Alexie, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, Gore Vidal, John Steinbeck, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harper Lee, Kurt Vonnegut, P.K. Dick, Margret Atwood, Amy Tan, John Nichols, Phillip Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Alex Haley, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.D. Salinger, J.C. Oates, Cormac McCarthy, Albert Camu, Douglas Adams, Mr. Edgar Allen Poe, Augusten Burroughs, David Sedaris, Haruki Murakami, Graham Green, Gunter Grass, Vladimir Nobokov, Barbara Kingsolver, Chuck Palahniuk, George Orwell, Wally Lamb, Wm. Burroughs, Wm. Kotzwinkle, Hermann Hesse, Flannery O'Conner, Rohinton Mistry, (and, I hate to admit, guilty pulp pleasures like Louis L'Amour, John Le Carre, John Irving, Lawrence Sanders, Robert Ludlum, Stephen King,..) Nick Cave's book, John Gardner, Paul Theroux, Peter Matthiessan... NONFICTION & ESSAYS: Gore Vidal, Aldo Leopold, Agnes Smedly, Rick Bass, Franz Fanon, Zinn, Chomsky, Rudolpho Acuna, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, J. Saki...PHILOSOPHY: Lao Tzu, Nietzsche, Kropotkin, Proudhon, Marx, Hegel, Lenin, Ricardo Florez Magon, Voltaire, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau...POETRY: T.S.Elliot, Yeats, Keats, Ginsberg, Lorca, Byron, Shelly, Blake, Plath, Whitman,..

Heroes:

My Dear Old Grand-dad. My Forgotten Youth. John Brown. Joe Hill. Joe Strummer. Woody Guthrie. The Black Panther Party for Self Defense. Malcolm X. Margret Sanger. Emiliano Zapata. Me! You! All Of Us! .. <

My Blog

Cube and serve slightly chilled...

Lock your doors and batten down the bitches!   He is waking up.  Ferdinand the hippy flower-sniffing Bull Moose is reawakening and wandering from the fog.  Like Rip Van Winkle he rai...
Posted by Steve on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 05:26:00 PST

Some Observations On Driving In Denver - Casualties, Street-People and Assholes

My commute to work during the evening rush tonight was terrible.  Traffic on 6th Ave. east was at a crawl, and the obnoxious FM radio rock-jock informed me that "some idiot ran his truck into a p...
Posted by Steve on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 12:31:00 PST

The most fucked-up dream ever!

I had a very distressing dream the other night. It began with me at a copy shop, making color copies of some kind of artwork to give to the guests at my birthday party, to which I was running late. Wh...
Posted by Steve on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:05:00 PST

an excursion from reality with my dog

I fell asleep in my book Sunday evening.  I awoke in the early morning and struck by a notion and with no particular plan I booted my feet, put my canteen, pipe, a peach and half a jar of nuts fr...
Posted by Steve on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 02:43:00 PST

deep in dis pear

I enjoy the fall season for many reasons: the change in the light and in the weather, the quality of the sky, the promise of death and rot... but I also love the fact that my favorite fruits are now i...
Posted by Steve on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 05:09:00 PST