"the ones for me have always been the mad ones, the manic ones, the passionate ones, the ones who devour a piece of prose and lick their lips, wanting more more MORE!, the ones who hear music not with their ears but with their spirits, the ones who ride the wave of the moment, the ones whose inner beat infects those around them, the ones whose eyes do not hide but show the true color of their souls, the ones who light fires in the minds of the frozen masses, the ones the free the flow of life from the damn of mediocrity, these are the mad ones that color my world." - j. olson
Music
All styles, all sizes. Favorites...John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Soft Machines, Wilco, Modest Mouse, Johnny Cash (old and new), Gomez, Elliot Smith, The Beatles, Radiohead, Beck, Bob Dylan, Flaming Lips, Swirve, Beastie Boys, Hank Sr...and OH SO MUCH more!
Movies
In no particular order...No Country for Old Men, Across the Universe, Factotum, Shortbus, Little Miss Sunshine, Millions, Finding Neverland, American Beauty, The Royal Tannenbaums, all Quentin Tarentino's movies (Pulp Fiction the most), Snatch, Henry and June, Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine on the Spotless Mind, Life is Beautiful, Big Fish, The Source, Breathless, Streetcar Named Desire...I know there's lots more but I'm kinda tapped out right now...
Television
Breaking Bad, American Dad, Heroes, Rescue Me, The Simpsons, South Park, The Family Guy, King of the Hill, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Real Time with Bill Mahr, Ali G...heck, any HBO show, American Masters, Austin City Limits...
Books
The Rosy Crucifixion, The Laughing Jesus, Running with Scissors, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn, On the Road, Ham on Rye, The Great Gatsby, Notes From the Underground, The Great Shark Hunt, Leaves of Grass, Grapes of Wrath, The Sun Also Rises, Tales of Ordinary Madness, Hell's Angels...and be sure that I'm omitting WHOLE bunches more.
Heroes
Jesus, John Lennon, Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Pablo Picasso, Charles Bukowski, Johnny Cash, Dean Moriarty, Howard Stern, Don Pusateri, Ole Olson, Leonardo DiVinci, Buddha, Henry Chianski, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Vincent Van Gogh, Sal Paradise...
Proviso West High School
Hillside,Illinois
Graduated: 1988
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Clubs: Mad Swirl Zine / MadSwirl.com / Mad Swirl Poets
Visit www.MadSwirl.com for all your mad poetry, visual arts, short stories and general madness Mad Swirly needs.
Attention all you mad ones in the DFW Area, join your fellow mad ones at Mad Swirl Open Mic Night, every 1st Wednesday of the month at Dallas' Absinthe Lounge!
What the heck is Mad Swirl?
Mad Swirl is a platform, a showcase, a stage, a page, a web, a place to gather together as many mad ones in this world of ours and into as many heads as possible. It is a creative collaboration of the many artists, writers, illustrators, photographers, psychos, and poets that we could gather. It is taking the many sides of art and showcasing it between a front and back cover, a www and a dot com and live on first Wednesday's at Absinthe Lounge. It is recognizing the many talented people with their many techniques and to get into as many heads as possible. Basically, this is an outlet. a creative outlet...interested? wanna see your ideas, words, art, photos, songs, rants, cartoons, scribblings, riddles, etc...come to life? Well then you came to the right place. VISIT www.MadSwirl.com...right NOW!
Who I'd like to meet: All the mad ones. The mad artists, writers, illustrators, photographers, storytellers, musicians, entertainers, psychos, and poets who wanna see their ideas, words, art, photos, songs, rants, cartoons, scribblings, riddles, etc...come to life in Mad Swirl, www.madswirl.com and Mad Swirl Open Mic at the Absinthe Lounge.
Thanks for accepting our friendship! Virgogray Press is an indie press with big dreams! Be sure to check out all of our publications and authors at virgograypress.blogspot.com and keep up with the latest news from the press at virgograypress.wordpress.com! We publish mostly poetry and proudly produce chapbook editions of writer's work! Right now we're also open to submissions of poetry. We're currently looking for poetry for our anthology series, which collects various opinions from the writing community by way of their poetry or prose on various topics. We've done an anthology called Valium which was about the psychological pharma industry and are getting ready to publish our next edition in November, a publication called "So It Goes," the topic being death for this chap. We're accepting submissions for Carcinogenic Poetry, an online poetry blog that will roll out in December! Do you have a chapbook manuscript you'd like published? We're accepting these as well, but not for long. Submissions will close by the end of the year!
Till then, stop by our official site and associated sites and get to know some of our authors: Marc Olmsted, A.J. Kaufmann, Justin Blackburn, Suzi Kaplan Olmsted just to name a few! And thanks again!!!
thanks so much for giving me the feedback, i added you on facebook.I am a bit lazy with that site, so forgive that i did not add you till now.I love your website, and what you are doing for the creative community, thanks again for being so mad and swirly like.haha
it was a damn good time. my first wednesdays are booked from now on....
to open mic nite at Absinthe
