I think the blank page is the most exciting thing. It is our chance to create life. Not only life, but experience. It is the closest we can get to the mind of God.
So I write with passion and fervor, never quenching my craving and lust for a new and wondrous thought, even if only wondrous to me.
Worse insult: "I can only write when it's raining," or "I'm gonna write my novel some day." AND TO THAT I SAY, ONE DAY I'M GONNA STOP WRITING AND START DOING BRAIN SURGERY. ;) Get it? Man, I hope so.
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. Robert Cecil Day Lewis
In other words: I experience joy, pain, sorrow and love at the same time as my characters. It is wonder and terror, and all that is life. It feels sometimes like having Gout of the heart, feeling all that others feel from a world yet realized. And what knowledge their sufferring brings to my soul.
Someone to catch this drift.
No simpletons or narrow thinkers. Those who judge only a person's character. Those with empathy and depth and selflessness.
Johnny Cash!
Orson Welles, Lon Chaney Sr., Malcom X, Poe, Laurence Olivier, Agnes Moorehead, Ralph Fiennes, Edward Gorey, Greg Toland. A ghost-- Any ghost will do.
The Greek Hero Orpheus, who was loved by every woman, yet turned them away and journeyed passed the gates of Hell to find his lost love. His poetry caused the floors of Hell to be wet with tears, with enough power and emotion that the belly of the furies released her. That is love! His words and song were above everything; the very trees and rocks were sensitive to his charm and fierce tigers slept at his feet.
"The worst fate of a poet is to be admired without being understood."
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Johnny Cash to Jay Z. If it's good I like it no matter what genre. Into real Hip Hop and a few good booty droppin tunes. BUT, (no pun intended) ...I mostly like artists who have something to say...especially with a meloncholy vibe. I love Alanis, Over The Rhine, Atmosphere, Leonard Cohen, Lil Wayne, Nina Simone, Classical, esp with Violins. Opera. Jeff Buckley. Jodeci. The Isley Brothers. R. Kelly. P. Funk. My all time favorite Rap group is Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and of course Rakim. Old School HipHop, I'm talking waaaay back: BDP, Beastie Boys, Too Short, Das Efx, MC Shan, and Big Daddy Cane. Also, The Roots, Common. Old Country like: Merle Haggard, Emmy Lou Harris, Loretta Lynn, George Jones ...but Johnny Cash overshadows all and he cannot be matched! I listen to him everyday.
Wuthering Heights, Citizen Kane, Rebecca, The Shining. Goodbye again. Repulsion. The Constant Gardener. Bram Stoker's Dracula. Dr. Strange Love. Silent Films especially with Lon Chaney, Sr., Alfred Hitchcock Films, and the greatest Ghost story ever written, The Innocents (From Henry James Novel, Turn of The Screw.) The short film, An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge. I also love films like Magnolia, The Secretary, The Big Labowski, Sling Blade, Gaslight, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Quills, Onegin, Rosemary's Baby, Eyes Wide Shut, 8 1/2, Cinema Paradiso, The Pawn Broker, Notes on a scandal, Lost in translation, Harold and Maude, Young Frankenstein, Portrait of Jenny... I could go on forever plus 5 minutes. Basically, I like films about an isolated person during their descent into madness, or someone who refuses to give up on love, and death itself is little deterrent.
I hate when people say they NEVER watch TV. Get over yourself. Instead you spend all day on the internet. Yea, that's different... right. ;)
When I do watch: Turner Classic Movies. IFC. Family Guy. The Twilight Zone. The Honeymooners. Andy Griffith.
I love the shit you hated in high school. My favorite story is Wuthering Heights. I more than love it; it is embedded in me. I also love Edgar Allen Poe. I first read Poe in 7th grade and it altered me forever. Bram Stokers Dracula. Rebecca. Turn of The Screw. Hamlet. Othello. Jane Eyre... The Book of Worldy Wisdom by
Baltasar Gracian. Soren Kierkegaard's The Diary of a Seducer. Short fiction like, The Yellow Wallpaper by Charllote Perkins Gillman. Richard Matheson. Poetry by James Lowell. Hubbards horror story, Fear. I read a lot of biographies of classic film directors and actors. Again, this list knows no end. A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Which Philosopher Are You? First
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You scored as Socrates
Socrates was a wise man but would never admit it. He was always ready for a debate but never sought to be "smarter" than anyone else. He was eventually put to death for his beliefs but he stood fast til the very end.
Socrates
Freud
Berkely
Kierkegaard
Kant
Women. LOVE! Those who would not only die for it, but would smile and run to death's embrace. Sound melodramatic? I'm afraid it isn't. ;)
Those with the capacity to evolve from human simplicity. Men who do not act upon the first natural urge that rises in them.
The Greek hero Orpheus. My 7th grade English Teacher who had us read rather than open our English Books so he could drink from his flask. Johnny Cash! Laurence Olivier. Orson Welles. Malcolm X. Katherine Hepburn. Edgar Allen Poe. Also, the man who taught me loyalty, my Dad. And last but not least, Alfred, my cat, because he holds the mystery of a poet's dreams. Oh yea, and of course my Baby Olivier.