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Russell

CreativeLifeInProgress

About Me

I'm a writer who's living a creative life-in-progress. I’m open-minded and liberal. I write and create collage art, and like living in the Northwest. Moved to Seattle in 1987 from NYC, after living there for eight years--pursuing and capturing an unconventional fine arts and writing education. I’m more of a nightbird than a morning person, and more of a cat person than a dog person, more of a tea person than a coffee person. I think Dylan is the Shakespeare of our time, and The Kinks are vastly underrated.************************************************* ********** ***********************************************************M y collage art can be purchased at Imagekind:http://russellcsmith.imagekind.com/CollageArtwork* ************************************************************ ************************************************************ *More collage art and photographs can be viewed on my blog at:http://creativelifeinprogress.blogspot.com.

My Interests

Writing reading living travel wine making collage art movies books communication red wine living life real communication creating being imagination time travel films cinema creation living reading writing life touch hello communicating real life imagining train travel urban exploring

Music:

Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Ben Webster, The Beatles, Van Morrison, Emmylou Harris, Sonny Rollins, John Coltrane, Joni Mitchell, Louis Armstrong, Neko Case, Neil Young, The Kinks, Fairport Convention, John Lennon, T-Rex, Lester Young, Billie Holiday, Beth Orton, Richard Thompson, Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, Jimi Hendrix, Patti Smith, Gram Parsons, John Lee Hooker, Lou Reed, Walt Whitman, Charles Mingus, The Velvet Underground, Rickie Lee Jones, Prince, The Chambers Brothers, Kate Bush, The Shins, Elmore James, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Frank Sinatra, Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits for no one, Marvin Gaye, Wilson Pickett, Betty Boop,

Movies:

Withnail and I, Blade Runner, Being John Malkovich, Until The End Of The World, Sunset Boulevard, The Big Sleep, Three Kings, The Big Lebowski, Burden of Dreams, Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, The films of Werner Herzog, Don't Look Back, Eat The Document, Renaldo and Clara, No Direction Home, Gimme Shelter, The films of Martin Scorsese, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, The Player, Alien, Aliens, Klute, Dog Day Afternoon, Super Cop, The films of Margaret Cho, 200 Motels, The Strawberry Statement,The films of Stanley Kubrick, Fight Club, Five Easy Pieces, Annie Hall, Duck Soup, The Kids Are Alright, Network, Citizen Kane, Sideways, Lost In Translation, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Modern Times, North By Northwest, Let It Be, The Big Lebowski, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, 101 Dalmatians, Taxi Driver, Yellow Submarine, Blow Up, The films of Jean-Luc Goddard, Drugstore Cowboy, Irmpa Vep, Apocalypse Now, 2046, Zardoz,

Books:

Graham Joyce, Neil Gaiman, William Gibson, Eoin Colfer, Mark Twain, Paul Auster, Philip K. Dick. Jonathan Lethem, Richard K. Morgan, and other writers who explores the real and imagined spaces in between worlds.

My Blog

Collage Clearinghouse

Recently, I received a thoughtful review of my collage and phtography blog CreativeLifeInProgress: creativelifeinprogress.blogspot.com. on Collage Clearinghouse, a collage art  blog. It can ...
Posted by Russell on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:38:00 PST

The Pesthouse

The Pesthouse is set in a far future America no longer known as America. The main pioneer-type characters are part of a mass west to east exodus, moving from the center of the country to the Atlantic ...
Posted by Russell on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 05:26:00 PST

Vampires Have Taken Over New York City

When you combine a streetwise vampire detective (of sorts) set in a Raymond Chandler fever dream of a vampiric world located on New York's Lower East Side, told from the wiseass voice of Joe Pitt, the...
Posted by Russell on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 04:54:00 PST

The Lost Writings

In the fifth or sixth grade I wrote a short novel about a group of people who crash landed in an airplane onto a tropical island. I remember breaking the story up into chapters and numbering them. I i...
Posted by Russell on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 03:40:00 PST

Reading The Tooth Fairy, One Bite At A Time

Ten years ago I took a trip to England and Wales with a friend. Along with the enjoyable visits to museums and pubs, and wanderings through parks and winding backstreets, I loved the alternate univers...
Posted by Russell on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 06:46:00 PST

From Counterculture to Cyberculture

From Counterculture to Cyberculture (Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism) Have you ever wondered how The Merry Pranksters led to Wired magazine? Or how The ...
Posted by Russell on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 07:13:00 PST

Time, Rain, Snow, and Tanglewreck

Rainiest November on record for Seattle since 1933 is now nearly blown away by the wind and gone bye bye. Tonight it's snow falling on the streets and parks and highways. Just finished reading Tanglew...
Posted by Russell on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 12:15:00 PST

Fantabulous Night

A week ago I saw Van Morrison perform for the second time. Mixing together every musical form he's ever worked in, Van and his band delivered soul, rock, rhythm & blues, country, and celtic songs ...
Posted by Russell on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:00:00 PST

A Dirty Job

Read Christopher Moore's novel, A Dirty Job (he's also the author of Lamb, The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal). If there's anything that feels right to read during the rain...
Posted by Russell on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 11:41:00 PST

Read This Book: King Dork

This is a vastly amusing novel I read in the summertime. And it's laugh out loud funny, which is a great quality for a novel to have. The narrator bursts apart the ya and coming-of-age form with ...
Posted by Russell on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 11:38:00 PST