Black coffee. Taking baths. Strange insight. Two eggs and toast. Uneasy and infinite quests. Dwelling on the fact that, at bottom, the ordinary is not ordinary; it is extra-ordinary, uncanny
Patti Smith Smells Like Teen Spirit (Featuring Steve Earle)
(c) 2007 SONY BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
Music
Joanna Newsom, Animal Collective, The Beach Boys (When they had beards), Sufjan Stevens, Gram Parsons, The Byrds, The Holy Modal Rounders, Small Faces, Velvet Underground, The Kinks, Johnny Cash, Gillian Welch, Leadbelly, Woody Guthrie, Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, The Band, Hobart Smith, Curtis Mayfield, Roscoe Holcomb, Hank Williams Sr., Roger Miller, Gene Vincent, Dick Dale, The Ventures, The Yarbirds, Buck Owens, Bob Dylan.
Movies
Michelangelo Antonioni, Akira Kurosawa (Rashômon), Fritz Lang (Metropolis), Jim Jarmusch, ("To be eighteen feels cool..."), Woody Allen, David Lynch, John Landis, Michael Cimino, Orson Welles, Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Gillo Pontecorvo (The Battle of Algiers),Hitchcock, Federico Fellini (8 ½), Terry Gilliam,Stanley Kubrick, Hideo Sekigawa (Hiroshima).
Smash it - stare at the spot left vacant by gods that have fled
Books
Being and Time (Heidegger), Moby Dick (Melville), The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky), Fear and Trembling (Kierkegaard), Outlaws of the Marsh (Nai'an Shi), Sermons (Meister Eckhart), Don Quixote , Michel Foucault, Marshall McLuhan, Jean Baudrillard, Emily Dickinson, Lao Tzu, Friedrich Hölderlin, Hart Crane, John Steinbeck, Walt Whitman, Slavoj zizek, Rainer Maria Rilke, Georg Trakl, Arthur Rimbaud, Hubert Dreyfus.
Alfred University
Alfred,New York
Graduated: 2003
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Philosophy and Comparative Cultures
Minor: Anthropology
About me: Pre-political - closet narcissist - canawler. Pirates, whales, nostalgia, fishing, banjos, bolt-action rifles, bridges, feasts, disappearing (mostly in China), cosmic americana, and music with friends. My yoke is easy and my burden light.
Who I'd like to meet: Theodore Roosevelt. I'm thinking boozy cocktails with drunks/romantics/ i.e. Bill Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Graham Chapman, Dennis Wilson, Zelda Fitzgerald, Hart Crane etc. If someone could be my flotsam I think I could be half the man I use to be.
Do you remember watching the 1999 made-for-tv Docudrama Pirates of Silicon Valley in Boston nine years ago? I downloaded it the other day. It's really...something.
