I only listen to music that's pretentious, or fun, or both: Balkan Brass Band, Romanian/ Romany music, Tango, Old World, Bhangra, Qawwali, Berber and Bedouin music, South Asians who do Dancehall, Drone, Minimalism, Folkloric Middle Eastern, Ambient Ethnic, Ambient Death Metal, Ambient anything as long as it's cold, NASCAR as noise performance, Sephardic songs, free jazz (a.k.a. chick repellent), field recordings, Gothic Appalachian, Industrial, Angelo Badalamenti/ David Lynch Soundtracks.
Can accurately hum the first note of a song before it begins, Can do realistic bird whistles (to the delight of babies and cats), belly roll, reverse belly roll, vaguely ambidexterous, abnormally long attention span, cloak of snobbery, magic bag of art school insults
Movies
Anything with Harry Dean Stanton.
Vices
I am a productive sloth and a skinny glutton. hand-rolled cigarettes, pints, late night music sessions, Absinthe (a rare treat), Thematic and Epic Mix CDs,
Television
Twin Peaks, Carnivale, Deadwood, Lost, Home Movies, Arrested Development, Twilight Zone, Degrassi High, Freaks and Geeks, Dr. Katz, Rome
Books
Walker Percy, Carson McCullers, Barry Gifford, Arthur Danto, Robert Hughes, Philip Pullman, Flannery O'Connor, Jerry Saltz, Wallace Stevens, Rilke, Cormac McCarthy
Currently: "Bury Me Standing" Isabel Fonseca
Karaoke Repertoire
Johnny Cash, Chris Issac, Elvis crooner songs, and "Love Shack"
Heroes
German Painters, Romanian Musicians, Southern Writers, and Dad
University Of Montevallo
Montevallo,Alabama
Graduated: 2000
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Painting
Clubs: The Golden Era of Middle Street. The living room stoplight, the flamingos, and John Wendel sitting on his porch.
1995 to 2000
Auburn High School
Auburn,Alabama
Graduated: 1995
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
You are 'regularly metric verse'. This can take many forms, including heroic couplets, blank verse, and other iambic pentameters, for example. It has not been used much since the nineteenth century; modern poets tend to prefer rhyme without meter, or even poetry with neither rhyme nor meter.You appreciate the beautiful things in life--the joy of music, the color of leaves falling, the rhythm of a heartbeat. You see life itself as a series of little poems. The result (or is it the cause?) is that you are pensive and often melancholy. You enjoy the company of other people, but they find you unexcitable and depressing. Your problem is that regularly metric verse has been obsolete for a long time. Take this quiz!
I am devoted to things that had their heyday long before I was born (figurative painting, accordion, licorice), and will probably never, ever be back in style again. It's a good life.
