writing, activism, gallery & museum hopping, hiking, camping, film going ("indies" & foreign), reading, progressive politics, social change, poetry, history, hockey, contemporary art, architecture, historic preservation, urbanism, soccer, maritime artifacts, pop culture, photography, travel, kent state (may 4, 1970) remembrance, weimar-era germany and berlin, unidad popular chile, the holocaust, music, film
Music
james taylor, dan fogelberg, the doors, laura nyro, ashley macisaac, nina simone, the cowsills, olivier messiaen, david amram, the beatles, the beach boys, sarah vaughn, dinah washington, the stones, henry rollins, chet baker, kenny rankin, jimi hendrix, swing out sister, tom waits, john cage, motown, rickie lee jones, patti smith, todd rundgren, pete seeger, nathan gunn, billy bragg, johnny cash, hoyt axton, josh turner, jimmy webb, janis joplin, madonna, and dick dale
Movies
my beautiful laundrette, sammy and rosie get laid, london kills me, sterile cuckoo, cabaret, barefoot in the park, goodbye columbus, to sir with love, the slaughter rule, old joy, the color of paradise, hello down there, my side of the mountain, maltese falcon, what's up doc, dear ruth/dear wife, the eyes of laura mars, the ice storm, you can count on me, you're a big boy now, terraces, the people next door, little murders, the clock, the night we never met, jumpin' jack flash, desperately seeking susan, ferris bueller's day off, casablanca, german cinema, sweet november (with sandy dennis), topaz, french cinema, mystic pizza, shawshank redemption, the station agent, the battle of algiers, the times of harvey milk, one bright shining moment: the forgotten summer of george mcgovern, sherlock holmes movies, rock-and-roll documentaries (t.a.m.i. show, monterey pop), and the films of costa-gavras
Television
buddha of suburbia, prime suspect, eastenders, brideshead revisited, thirtysomething, my so-called life, once and again, brothers and sisters, marcus welby md, love american style, ghost and mrs. muir, friends, touching evil (with robson green), tales of a city series, a very british coup, hogan's heros, donna reed show, patti duke show, maude, the many loves of dobie gillis, flipper, oz, the hardy boys/nancy drew mysteries (1970s), the adventures of ellery queen (with jim hutton, mid-1970s), six feet under, absolutely fabulous, ifc channel, sundance channel, the saint--and a total c-span junkie
Books
black dog of fate-peter balakian, leaves of grass-walt whitman, civil war poems-walt whitman, team of rivals: the political genius of abraham lincoln-doris kearns goodwin, tin can tourist-scott hightower, boss cupid-thom gunn, selected poems of robert desnos, home at the end of the world-michael cunningham, that kind of danger-donna massini, blood poisoning-jeffery conway, goodbye columbus-philip roth, dharma bums-jack kerouac, cut off the ears of winter-peter covino, the good thief-marie howe, the proud tower-babara tuchman, lunch poems-frank o'hara, wait till next year-doris kearns goodwin, fallen founder: the life of aaron burr-nancy isenberg, vibrations-david amram, the ufa story: history of germany's greatest film company-klaus kreimeier, the ungovernable city: john lindsay and his struggle to save new york-vincent j. cannato, the story of english-mccrum cran macneil, don't shoot: we are your children-j. anthony lukas, my alexandria-mark doty, rapture-susan mitchell, the west door-alfred corn, rat bohemia-sarah schulman, empathy-sarah schulman, ghost letters-richard mccann, 84 charing cross road-helene hanff, confessions of a mask-yukio mishima, one dimensional man-herbert marcuse, civilization and its discontents-sigmund freud, passing through-stanley kunitz, what the living do-marie howe, anything by/about christopher isherwood, w.h. auden, stephen spender, angela y. davis
Heroes
senator edward kennedy, senator robert f. kennedy, franklin delano roosevelt, eleanor roosevelt, abraham lincoln, aaron burr, senator eugene mccarthy, vice president henry wallace, herbert lehman, zolton ferency, paul robeson, cesar chavez, pierre trudeau, john diefenbaker, salvador allende, pierre mendes-france, emma goldman, senator george mcgovern, senator lowell weicker, mayor john vliet lindsay, harvey milk, heinrich brüning, dag hammarskjöld, raoul wallenberg, daniel cohn-bendit, michael harrington, eugene v. debs, bella abzug, vito marcantonio, upton sinclair, laurence tribe, jacobo timerman
Michigan State University
East Lansing,MI
Graduated: 1982
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: Social Psychology
Minor: English
Clubs: ASMSU, Public Interest Research Group In Michigan (PIRGIM)
Greek:
Sigma Alpha Mu
About me: baby boomer born in hawai’i, spent childhood in delaware, california, new york & michigan. alumnus of michigan state university (where he served on asmsu, its student government).
in 1993, elected to manhattan’s community school board 2 by highest vote count of any nyc school board member (handily reelected in 1996).
editor & writer who has appeared in such venues as poz, financial planning, art & understanding, the st. luke’s review, the harvard gay & lesbian review, the episcopal new yorker, jewish currents, response: a contemporary jewish review, rfd, we are all friends here: an anthology of provincetown poets and sky: a michigan literary magazine.
an avid traveler seeking social/political history in places visited—from walter benjamin’s grave in catalonia and the “transit camp” of westerbork in holland to the national stadium in santiago, chile.
active in democratic party politics since working on the mcgovern campaign while in junior high. in the september 9, 2008 democratic primary, elected an alternate judicial delegate for new york's 75th assembly district.
Who I'd like to meet: angela davis, lowell weicker, peter sarsgaard, john krasinski, mark ruffalo, j.d. roth, malik zidi, benoît magimel, ryan reynolds, martin cummins, daniel cohn-bendit, luc santé, ken livingstone, roshan seth, bernadine dohrn
Thanks for your support for WPS1.org. Unfortunately, the project has been discontinued, but if you liked WPS1, there’s a new internet radio station run by many of the same people called Art International Radio (ArtonAir.org) that has access to most of WPS1’s archived content. It’s all free, it’s all on demand; take a look.
Henry Hinterlands new work is on display in NYC form the 19th Nov - 20th Dec 2008 at Leslie Lohman gallery, 26 Wooster Street, a limited edition of 100 metallic c-prints. Come and see, purchase information are available in the gallery.
Thanks for finding me on here and let's talk soon, ok?:)
~Eric
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