Like to play mishmash of blues (a little slide), rock, folk, free improvisation.
Like to listen to: world music: African pop, Balinese gamelan, Indian classical, kletzmer, Ry Cooder, Richard Thompson, Warren Zevon, Love, the Talking Heads, Robert Johnson, John McLaughlin, the Pogues, Bonnie Rait, Velvet Underground, Smashmouth, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, the Roches, The Mothers of invention, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Natalie Merchant, and actually some of Outkast's songs are pretty good.
Movies
Young Frankenstein, The Seventh Seal, Metropolis, Juliet of the Spirits, Time Bandits, Some Like It Hot, Magnolia, The Royal Tenenbaums, Monty Python's the Meaning of Life, Rashomon, Brazil, I Heart Huckabees, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, most movies John Cusack's in in fact (Grosse Point Blank), Apocalypse Now
Television
Not that much: CSI and CSI Miami, Six Feet Under, Texas Hardtails, the Comedy Channel, Speed, all-night infomercials, old Seinfeld episodes, the Simpsons now and then
Books
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Ghost Rider, Ulysses (James Joyce), mysteries by Tony Hillerman, Janwillem van der Wettering, Sarah Paretsky, Kathy Reichs, poetry by Al Purdy, Anne Waldman, Emily Dickinson, you name it...
Heroes
James Joyce, the old guy in The World's Fastest Indian, Frank O'Hara, Katharine Hepburn, the Dalai Lama
John's Details
Status:
Single
Here for:
Friends
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
Toronto
Body type:
5' 7" / Average
Ethnicity:
White / Caucasian
Zodiac Sign:
Sagittarius
Smoke / Drink:
No / Yes
Children:
Proud parent
Education:
Post grad
Occupation:
College teacher
John's Schools
Naropa University
Boulder,Colorado
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: None
Major: Writing at Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics
Minor: Music
1980 to 1981
John Squeezing out the last few weeks of motorcycling. Posted at 12:45 AM Oct 29 view more
About me: I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.1
Creative, eclectic, mental age varies from 6-80. I'm a published writer and full-time college professor. I like photography, playing guitar and drums, going to movies, nature walks, laughing.
To hear me reading and responding to poetry on BlogTalkRadio, you can go here and check out an archive from Between The Covers.
I offer a manuscript reading and evaluation service to poets. I've edited several manuscripts since published as books, have published four books of my own poetry, written many reviews of poetry books, and been a member of the League of Canadian Poets (professionally published Poets) for almost 20 years. I'll read and comment on 10-12 poems for $40, a longer manuscript for $100 and up, depending on what you want. E-mail me about this service.
Bibliography: books I've written: Taking Tree Trains, Coach House Press, 1973. Gearing of Love, Mosaic Editions, 1984. Mata Hari's Lost Words, Ragweed Press, 1988. Counting Out the Millennium, Pecan Grove Press, 1996.
Chapbooks:
Rimbaud's Twisted Balls.
Take With You What You've Left.
Books I've edited/and or produced:
Falconbridge: Portrait of a Multinational (James Lorimer and Co.)
The chapbooks Aventine, Six from the Sixth, and The Long Dash.
Articles, reviews, interviews published:
somewhere north of 300, on literature, authors, the arts, general
Columns: "Making It Work" for union newsletter Unfettered
Websites: former editor of www.youngpoets.ca; researched and wrote material for electronic version of Poetry Markets for Canadians.
TV: episode "Joey Buys a Jacket" for Degrassi Junior High series
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Who I'd like to meet:
On MySpace: literate, open-minded, articulate people with a sense of humour, a lack of religious/political dogma, and a broad interest in the world and its cultures
I don't want to meet:
*hollow "profiles" who are actually fronts for webcams, businesses, bands (unless they're extraordinary)
* people just adding numbers to their Friends accounts
* those not willing to read and comment on my stuff in return for my doing the same on theirs
Mata Hari (I wrote a book about her), Arthur Rimbaud, Leonardo da Vinci, Emily Carr, Jennifer Connelly (beautiful and smart), Paris Hilton (can anyone possibly be as vapid as her public image?), Donald Trump (so I could dislodge his comb-over), Margaret Cho and...
Chocolate
Cream of the cocoa bean slides
along the tongue like lover's privatest part
and then lights little love fires along
the bayous of the brain
but love it is I lack
so I cover myself hair to toenails
in an armour of cracking chocolate and
walk outside. Everyone wants me now,
even the bears, their shag-carpet breath
heating trickles as they lick me clean.
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