Sergei Prokofiev, Thelonious Monk, Gustav Mahler, Anton Bruckner, Bob Dylan, Violent Femmes, Elvis Costello, Talking Heads, Hilary Hahn, Buckley V. Valeo, John Coltrane, Syd Barrett, Cole Porter, XTC, Tom Waits, Anton Webern; essentially that 1/10th of a percent of any genre that actually matters
Movies
Wings of Desire, 8 1/2, Citizen Kane, Unforgiven, Star Wars, Fulci, George Romero, Terry Gilliam, Federico Fellini, Westerns, Zombies...
Television
DVD's
Books
Emily Dickinson, e e cummings, Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Robinson Jeffers, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Amy Lowell. Other people- mostly dead.
About me: Poet. Talker. Fellow Traveler.
Here's some
oral history
Who I'd like to meet: Poets, Exiles in Western PA, people who think there's just something about a river, artists who have an actual work ethic, the righteously indignant, political extremists, those who still believe in editing, the anxious and snide, misfit toys, third-eye types, those who don't worry about "glass half full/half empty"- it's a wrong-sized glass, that one guy....i forget his name....the one with the face on his head....no not him, her!
Anyone willing to drink the kool-aid.
My literary magazine, The Toronto Quarterly - Issue 2 and 3 are now available at amazon.com. There's some great poetry in each issue along with some cool interviews with up and coming and more established poets. Here is the link:
string beans in a basket, say my name lay down your resistance and squeeze if not my name..my spongey thighs string beans in my brain, run away, take with you my pain, my eternal lust
