Writing, reading, performing, web publishing, comics, animation.
Music
I'm one of those "across the board" Robert Johnson, Miles Davis, B.B. King, The Beatles, Aerosmith, The Who, Talking Heads, Public Enemy, Nirvana, Gorillaz, Wierd Al Yankovic, and others I'm embarassed to admit.
Movies
Crime dramas like Goodfellas, Heat, and Casino. Documentaries like Bowling for Columbine and Crumb. Comedies like The Princess Bride and Monty Python Fill-In-The-Blank. Artsier flicks like The City of Lost Children and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, And Her Lover.
Television
No cable, so I stick to the news and whatever I can grab from YouTube, like...
Books
Poetry: The Simple Truth by Philip Levine and Donkey Gospel by Tony Hoagland. Fiction: Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole and 1984 by George Orwell. Comix: Jar of Fools by Jason Lutes and Watchmen by Alan Moore.
Chad Parenteau is semi-retiring his MySpace Page. If you want to friend him, you should join the Stone Soup Poetry page. Thanks for the support. Posted at 2:42 AM Oct 26 view more
In order (from an abridged list, leaving out things like mechanical bull-riding), I've been: a young spaz, a mediocre high school student, a landlord's lackey a mediocre martial arts student, a chess club member, a dishwasher, a better-than average college student, a college newspaper reporter and editor, a factory gopher, a "real" reporter, an overwhelmed and outclassed graduate creative writing student, a Starbucks employee, a waiter, an alternative press reporter, a potential husband and stepfather, a lost cause, a file clerk, a research assistant, a retinal photographer, a trainer, a teacher, an organizer, a herald of doom, a beacon of hope, and a mystery carelessly wrapped by holiday help in an enigma with "WTF" written on the bow. If the word "poet" comes out in my obituary after all that, I'll be happy.
I've lived and worked in the Boston area for over a decade. By day, I labor in the various local VA Healthcare Systems. By night, I host and/or promote the long-running Stone Soup Poetry series in Cambridge (8-10 PM every Monday night).
In addition to all that, I continue to send my work out to various publications. My work can be found in print and online.
I am generally a creature of Blogger. Click here for my "official" blog. Still, I'm interested in seeing what I can do here. I hope you comeback to visit this page often. If you're an editor and/or publisher, let me know if you want to use my work.
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The June 15th Art4TH Zine is out and has an update on
shelter payouts and donations, Feature Musician Piyasiri from Sweden,
Zazzle Gallery artists, and feature writer Johnna Crider and an excerpt
from Letters to Kevin, a feature in the Art4TH Bookstore!
Elegance
Boutique Atlanta is a major supporter of Art4TH and now has their Etsy
Shoppe up and is featured on the home page below the updates!. Daryl
Thompson, the jewelry designer, is also a musician who produeced the
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livin
Hey bro woman have way more to offer than you do. I have to keep them. Besides you being my only male friend online in the myspace community that I talk to, your also one of the few I talk with on the outside. Hope to kick your a@@ soon in backgammon
hey chad, do you have any good family photo's? recent and old. if so can you please bring them home this weekend I have to get the pictures scanned i have a lot of work to do. can you get back to me
Things are good :) Mandy made high honors this 1/4 at her new school ! She and Crystalle are doing great as well as Bruce and I :) How r things going with you ? Still silly as ever I see ! hehehe....Take care :)
chad thanks that was really funny my neighbor just got a black pug the dog acutully lives in maryland with her son he came up for weekend to visit her and brought the dog with him. He looks just like smokey only smaller. he even has the long tounge.smokey has been playing with him alot. have a good weekend
I enjoyed talking to you also! Long overdue to say the least. Let me know your ideas for the 2nd week of Sept or whenever you think I should come to town.
I hope your visit with your mom goes well. Please tell her I'm thinking of her this weekend and I hope she's doing great.
Have you seen Idiocracy? I'd like to hear your review on it if you have.
Normally I don't stay up this late, so I'm offski.
