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About Me

Born and raised in New York City. I am a musician/writer/painter who has poems and short stories published in about 40 magazines and journals throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. There are 3 books currently available: "Window Shopping For A New Crown Of Thorns" (Poems); "November Rust" (Novel) and "My Arrival Is Marked By Illuminating Stains" (Poems) which features all 5 previously published chapbooks, "Standing On Lorimer Street Awaiting Crucifixion", "The Terror Of Your Cunt Is The Beauty Of Your Face", "Street Gospel Mystical Intellectual Survival Codes", "Scrape That Violin More Darkly Then Hover Like Smoke In The Air" and "Existential Labyrinths". New books are forthcoming. I also have a couple of articles written for Helium.com.......I am currently playing bass for the rock band Bitterweed who has two releases on Buzz Factory Records, "On The High Wire" (2001) and "Boo!" (2005). I am also playing guitar and bass for Linda La Porte on her solo project.........From 1985-1997 I was the singer/guitarist for the NYC alternative pop band Third Eye Butterfly who had released an EP entitled "What The Thunder Said" (Galt/Psycho-Pop Records, 1991) and a few 7" singles, "Everything Falls Apart"/"Skin" (Psycho-Pop Records, 1993), "Life Is Elsewhere"/"Play With The Rainmaker" (Psycho-Pop Records, 1994) and "Something Happened"/"All The Way To Riyadh" (Psycho-Pop Records, 1995) and appeared on a number of compilation CDs including "Hear No Evil" Volumes 1 & 2 (Galt Records) and "Step on A Crack" Volume 1 (Sound Views Records)....One of my paintings was featured at the Holy Ghost Salon in Brooklyn, New York in 1999..............You can check out some of the paintings in the "Paintings" album in the photo section.......For more information, check out my website

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My Interests

Art, Music, Literature, History, Philosophy(Existentialism in particular), coffee, Yerba Mate, Spanish, Italian and Mediterranean culture in general

I'd like to meet:

Other musicians, writers, painters, etc, particularly those interested in Jazz, Beat poetry, Flamenco, Bossa Nova, Middle Eastern music & culture, Mediterranean culture---Spain & Italy in particular, Abstract Expressionism and Modern Art in general, Goya, Velazquez, Julio Cortazar and Latin American writers and culture in general, Henry Miller, and generally interesting people into interesting things...I'm also a Yerba Mate addict (Cruz de Malta, in particular but not exclusively!)...so Yerba Mate lovers, feel free to get in touch!
You scored as Existentialist. Existentialism emphasizes human capability. There is no greater power interfering with life and thus it is up to us to make things happen. Sometimes considered a negative and depressing world view, your optimism towards human accomplishment is immense. Mankind is condemned to be free and must accept the responsibility.

Existentialist

94%

Postmodernist

75%

Materialist

75%

Cultural Creative

63%

Romanticist

44%

Modernist

38%

Idealist

25%

Fundamentalist

25%
What is Your World View?
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Music:

Generally: Jazz, Rock, Folk, Flamenco, Bossa Nova, Middle Eastern, World Music

Movies:

Way too many to mention but particularly films by: Pedro Almodovar, Marco Tullio Giordana, David Lynch, Martin Scorcese, Michelangelo Antonioni, Alejandro Agresti, Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Federico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard, Eliseo Subiela, Giuseppe Tornatore, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luis Bunuel and Francis Ford Coppolla

Television:

The Odd Couple, Rome, Discovery Channel, Ovation, Science Channel, History Channel, Twilight Zone, Seinfel.....

Books:

Again, way too many to mention but particularly: Julio Cortazar, Henry Miller, Juan Goytisolo, Louis Ferdinand Celine, Mario Benedetti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Juan Carlos Onetti, Reinaldo Arenas, Osvaldo Soriano, Rosario Ferre, Antonio Machado,Blaise Cendrars, Federico Garcia Lorca, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Jaime Saenz, Ernesto Sabato, Roque Dalton, Fernando Pessoa, Antonio Torres, Juan Benet, Eduardo Galeano, Jorge Luis Borges, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Franz Kafka, Charles Bukowski, Jose Donoso, Blas de Otero, Ernest Hemingway, Carlo Levi, Tadeusz Konwicki, Milan Kundera, Herman Hesse, Antonio Porchia, George Orwell, Ernesto Cardenal, Octavio Paz, Homero Aridjis, Luisa Valenzuela, Claribel Alegria, Italo Calvino, Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Manuel Puig, Gregory Corso, Mario Vargas Llosa, Marco Denevi, James Baldwin, Julia De Burgos, Martin Espada, Rafael Alberti, Miguel de Cervantes, Sergio Ramirez, Miguel de Unamuno, Giovanni Verga, Ignazio Silone, Hubert Selby Jr, Miguel Hernandez, Ramon Perez de Ayala, Ignacio de Loyola Brandao, Juan Ramon Ribyero, Dostoyevski, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Jose Lezama Lima, Antonio Gramsci, Pio Baroja, Carlos Fuentes, Jean Paul Sartre, Pedro Juan Gutierrez, Camilo Jose Cela, Luis Cernuda, Michel de Castillo, Alejo Carpentier, Vigilio Pinera, Ricardo Piglia, Roberto Bolano, Nicanor Parra, Vicente Huidobro and about a billion others.

My Blog

My Advice To Young Artists

I've been at this a long time. Whether it be music, writing or painting, I've been running around trying to make my way for more than 25 years now. In that 25 years, I've seen a lot and le...
Posted by Julian Gallo on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 02:55:00 PST

Linda La Porte @ BOA (Bar On A)

Come see Linda La Porte live atBOA (Bar on A) Avenue A (at 11th Street) NYCNovember 16th 20078pmAdmission FREE w/special guest appearance by Virginia Summerville on vocals Come and s...
Posted by Julian Gallo on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:35:00 PST

My Favorite Authors 3 - Federico Garcia Lorca

Spanish poet and dramatist, a talented artist and a member of the 'Generation of 1927', a group of writers who advocated avant-gardism in literature. Among García Lorca's best-known plays is Blood Wed...
Posted by Julian Gallo on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:49:00 PST

What Makes Creative Pursuits Legitimate?

It is official. I discovered that I am illegitimate. I found this out yesterday during a conversation with a good friend of mine while discussing the pros and cons of utilizing the web in ...
Posted by Julian Gallo on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:42:00 PST

My Favorite Authors 2 - Juan Carlos Onetti

Uruguayan novelist and short-story writer, a master in fusing fantasy and realism. Onetti was awarded Uruguay's national literature prize in 1963 and Spain's prestigious Cervantes Prize in 1980. In La...
Posted by Julian Gallo on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:35:00 PST

My Favorite Authors 1 - Julio Cortazar

Argentine writer, one of the great masters of the fantastic short story, who has been compared to Jorge Luis Borges. Many of Cortázar's stories follow the logic of hallucinations and obsessions. Centr...
Posted by Julian Gallo on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 03:28:00 PST

Linda La Porte Live @ BOA

Just When You Think Things Cant Get Any More Absurd In New York City, You Come Across This

Reading the Sunday paper today, I came across an interesting article that nearly floored me. No, it's not anything really relevent like the wars going on in the world or poverty or anything like...
Posted by Julian Gallo on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:37:00 PST

Norman Mailer

America lost another great writer yesterday: Norman Mailer. A controversial writer no doubt but I always liked him. I haven't read all of his books but out of the ones I did read, "Adverti...
Posted by Julian Gallo on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:38:00 PST

D. E. Pohren R.I.P.

I just found out from a bulletin here on MySpace posted by Karen Abbey that D.E. Pohren, celebrated author of The Art of Flamenco, Lives and Legends and A Way of Life, passed yesterday. If anyon...
Posted by Julian Gallo on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 03:39:00 PST