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m.scott

Between a fish and a dog...

About Me


My Interests

History.
Seedy underbellies.
Resistance, nonviolent or otherwise.
Basketball.
Me.
You, maybe.
6-8 domestic beers.
The Bolivarian Revolution.
Stevedores.
Ryan Smith in a good mood.
The Wire.
Ne'er-do-wells,
might-have-beens,
and rainy Sunday mornings.

I'd like to meet:


AND

Music:

Tom Waits
Tupac
Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Bob Dylan
James Brown
Gang Starr
Aesop Rock
My Morning Jacket
Wu-Tang
Kanye West
Black Star
Gram Parsons
Wilco
Whiskeytown
The Decemberists
Rakim
Sam Cooke
The Rolling Stones
Columbus Hip Hop:
-Blueprint
-Illogic
-Greenhouse Effect
-Envelope, et al.

Movies:

Head On
Reds
Syriana
Network
Matewan
On the Waterfront
Old Boy
Bull Durham
Adaptation
Million Dollar Baby
Hustle and Flow
Annie Hall
The Good, The Bad
and The Ugly
25th Hour
The Motorcycle Diaries
Bread and Roses
When We Were Kings
The Take
Bonnie and Clyde
Anything with Gene Hackman
Last Tango in Paris
Y Tu Mama Tambien
The Girl Next Door
The Breakfast Club
Manhattan
When the Levees Broke

Television:

The Wire
Deadwood
Frontline
HBO Boxing
NBA

Books:

Never Come Morning
God of Small Things
You Shall Know Our Velocity
Native Son
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Haymarket
Tropic of Cancer
A Walk on the Wild Side
The Grapes of Wrath
Living My Life, vol. 1
Lolita
Blindness
Things Fall Apart
Raymond Carver stories
The Man With The Golden Arm
Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Tales of Ordinary Madness

Heroes:

Emma Goldman
Arundhati Roy
Nelson Algren
Howard Zinn
Muhammad Ali
Lucy and Albert Parsons
Ryan Smith
Kobe
Rasheed Wallace
Flannery O'Connor,br Raymond Carver