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  • Evan Myquest

  • 61 / Male
  • SLOUGHHOUSE, California, US
  • Last Login: 11/8/2009

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Interests

  • General

    Great unconventional ambitious writing in prose or poetry, pomo, WisCon'ers, Speculative Lit, Italian and Croatian Cooking, Languages, Brecht70/30Weill, Fosse

    The Unbelievable Conney, LA Poet
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    Nila keeps getting better! Here she is at Beyond Baroque:

  • Music

    I dig it eclectic and LIVE 'cept for my sirius radio blues and coffeehouse. Extra credit to anyone who puts the saxophone back in rock LIKE JOHN CAFFERTY AND BEAVER BROWN

    TV Smith "In The Arms Of My Enemy" from WDF Productions on Vimeo.

  • Movies

    Check out: The Hustler, Reuben, Reuben, Horse's Mouth, Death in Venice, old Wicker Man, The Shower (Chinese) and Gong Li movies, OLD Italian and French flicks, Kusturica, Trajkov, Cuaron, Kubrick, Lean, Woody, Scorsese, Coppola, Warchowksky, Coen, Jarmusch, TBurton, Van Sant, epic Westerns, old Hammer and MGM films, Marx Bros; lit bio flicks, Rat Pack, D'Onofrio, Turner Classics noir, the Duke, Scatman Crothers, James Earl Jones --- **** ---- Don't likes: Von Trier, Ben Stiller, Albert Brooks, SNL alumni, The Shat, movies with cliche plots, fart jokes, predictability

  • Television

    Scrubs' McGinley, S Epatha, HBO series, GH, House, Earl, Molto Mario (requiescat you foodnetwork bastards), America's Test Kitchen, historical true crime DSC stuff, Cubs games, Brit mysteries, the planet thing except for the intrusive music

  • Books

    current authors: Octavia E. Butler, Italo Calvino, Slavenka Draculic, Bruce & Jasmina Sterling, L. Timmel Duchamp, Tom Disch, Tom Friedman, Chris Moore
    **********top of Mikey's heap o' writers *******
    Theodore Sturgeon, Dan Simmons, Harlan Ellison the writer and one-time boarder of homeless writers and matchmaker to me and the mrs in '74, Sheckley, KJ Fowler, KKoja, Kate Wilhelm, Asimov, Silverberg, Farmer, Spinrad, Pratchett, CDoctorow, Alan Watts
    *********THEN********
    (short story: Collier, Dahl, Derleth, Boucher, Asimov, Beaumont, Ellison, OHenry, Jackson, Thurber),(the humorists: Dan Jenkins, Lew Grizzard, Eric Idle), (the Americans:Crowley, Hemingway/ Fitzerald, Faulkner/Steinbeck, Vonnegut/Heller, Vidal, Mailer, Twain, Wolfe), (the horrorists: Poe, King, Matheson, Lovecraft, Brite), (the poets: Og Nash, Frost, Blake, Silverstein), (the Euros: Mann, Joyce, Nabokov) (the financers: Cramer, Michael Lewis) , the slipstreamers (Pahlaniuk, Kaufmann, Ellis) and certainly all my Clarion homies plus I love self-published or micro label chapbooks these days-- and Timmi and Tom Duchamp's Aqueduct-ers and Jacob Weisman's Tachyon stable.
    I look for the cyberpunks a lot. Sagas: Marq'ssan, Dune, Foundation, Goonan's nano-stuff, Retief, Discworld

  • Heroes


    Speakers for beauty in the weirdest places and the spreaders of such beauty. People unafraid to dance about architecture
    People who have the stones to tell their government or corporation NO when it's the right thing to do.
    And whoever invented ice cream
    and a bow to my favorite coffeehouse and tavern proprietors

Details

  • Status: Married
  • Hometown: north central IL
  • Religion: Agnostic
  • Zodiac Sign: Libra
  • Children: Proud parent
  • Occupation: doggerel walker, hobby cook and pastry baker

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About me:

While I read and marvel at other poets, I do not write for other poets. I write for readers who have not lost the inner child, or who need a little help bringing it back from the dead or darkest places where the little ones huddle on lampless streets. Better subscribe because I do not post bulletins about my poetry blog entries. Or, better yet, check in once in a while. Thanks for smiling along.

Note: if we friend up and my subscribers and views stay the same, I purge like Stalin. Without a qualm.

neither wagon nor vessel to escape this infamous net- Baudelaire

Italo Calvino: "my working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language."


--once a Speculative Fiction and Horror Fan (since '61 or so, see mmw50.com and, yes, there is a CD of my horror poetry for sale there or at THE BOOK COLLECTOR shop in Sacramento but the MP3s are freely available on the site --

--I attend WisCon-- a candlepower center of the USA for one weekend a year. I'm not an easy pickup on Myspace. I try to make it worth any surfer's while here with original "myspace is my mimeo" poetry in the raw. I don't mind short term subscribers--ins and outs, like Bly's "unfaithful stars" and comments are appreciated --like signing a guestbook. I'm not into reciprocal subs but will check you out, and if you are in my friends list I will follow your blog, off and on. It's the fun of being here. And if I just hear from someone who heard that you said something nice about my poems or that there's some respect for the effort to please, well, you're a bud. Otherwise, eh, nice seeing your pic. Please remember, what's posted here is pre-copy edited mud, slopped with little care before the troweling.
As it is, we're just ships passing and lorries honking signifying little except net neighborliness. And who really knows their neighbors anymore? If you actually help your neighbors or neighborhood, instead of pissing on it, then you're probably leaving it better than you found it and have my astonished respect. ~evan "mikey" myquest


Who I'd like to meet:

Longview long tail globalist, spec-fic and feminist writers, and other artsy non-herd-following free-radicals who think there're better ways than military hierarchy structures to get work done or capitilistic methods to reward only work and not art ..

Comments

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  • s

    Nov 6 2009 8:46 PM

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    …Blurred a waist high river
    foam against the horse
    riding naked clothes and boots
    and pistol in the air

    Crossed a crooked river
    loving in my head
    ambled dry on stubble
    shot a crooked bird

    Held it in my fingers
    the eyes were small and far
    it yelled out like a trumpet
    destroyed it of its fear…


    Michael Ondaatje
    from The Collected Works of Billy the Kid
  • LarissaLarissa Shmailo

    Aug 1 2009 7:36 PM

    Thank, Evan!
  • The Half Measures

    Jul 10 2009 7:38 AM

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  • The No-Goodniks

    Jun 23 2009 5:32 AM

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  • JohnJohn Paul Allen

    May 25 2009 11:51 PM

    Much thanks - since my last two works have gone out limited edition I get very few comments about what I do. We all need to hear it once in a while.

    Hope you're having a good weekend. I don't go back to work until Wednesday so I've been splitting time between reading, writing and making my gf happy (not in that order).

    :)

    John
  • 3rd Eye Collective pres…Life Sentence Rd Eye

    May 12 2009 3:14 AM

  • soon to be famous

    Apr 26 2009 9:40 PM

    Thanks so much, Mike! I am ecstatic! I wish you could be there too.
  • NicolaNicola Griffith

    Apr 23 2009 4:41 AM

    More like bannister killing :) As for the scratch 'n' sniff, I really, really wanted hash oil. Oddly, no one would do that for us...
  • JohnJohn Paul Allen

    Apr 23 2009 12:08 AM

    Very cool. Let me know what you think and thanks.


    :)

    John
  • The No-Goodniks

    Apr 21 2009 4:24 PM

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  • SpoonSpoon Jackson

    Apr 6 2009 4:20 PM

    thank you for befriending Spoon...The poet we will try to free who serves life/managment
  • LarissaLarissa Shmailo

    Apr 5 2009 12:13 AM

    Thanks for everything, Evan!

    Hope to meet in real time soon.


    Larissa
  • radionihilistRob Chrysler

    Mar 19 2009 1:06 AM

    "if he wasnt funny he probably wouldnt be on the loose"

    lmao!!!

    quotable :D
  • NotebookwriterMike Marcellino

    Mar 2 2009 6:47 PM

    slughouse ca

    i luv it

    mike
  • www.iAmSlowlyLosingMyMi…

    Jan 21 2009 9:47 PM

    www. iAmSlowlyLosingMyMind. com
    Wishes you A Happy 2009!!!!
    ..
  • Shawn L. Hale

    Jan 21 2009 8:51 PM

    Dig it, man. Dig it.
  • JohnJohn Paul Allen

    Jan 16 2009 2:31 AM

    Hey, I've added to my blog - a thing titled Answering and Reanswering Questions. Exciting huh:

    http://blogs. myspace. com/index. cfm?fuseaction=blog. ListAll&friendID=35185266

    If for some reason the link doesn't work, just go to my profile and hit the blog.

    Thanks.

    :)

    John
  • the TAOjONES Project

    Dec 26 2008 12:23 AM

    Happy Holidays Evan

    I got me a hat for christmas!

    e
  • M. Meraz

    Dec 18 2008 7:09 PM

    thanks Evan.

    -mike
  • the TAOjONES Project

    Dec 16 2008 2:53 AM

    Hey Hat!

    Not alot o writing lately - no time

    but it's about to boil over

    thx eb
  • Keith Holyoak

    Dec 5 2008 9:54 PM

    Hope the holiday season is treating you well!
    I thought I’d let you know that I have a new Poetry CD coming out next year featuring translations of the Chinese master poet Du Fu.
    The label that released it is offering a pre-release digital preview to accompany my book Facing the Moon. Details can be found at http://brokenelectric. com/merch. htm
  • Lach

    Nov 21 2008 10:26 PM

    Welcome aboard! Good to have ya as a friend.

    ..

    Click here to read my cartoons, latest news and to hear my new album The Calm Before for free

  • Hydropods

    Nov 18 2008 9:06 AM

    That sounds like a great idea. We're wrapping up our new album and we'll be looking for shows for early 2009. We'll tell you when we know more.
    Good to hear from you~
  • AD Winans

    Oct 26 2008 6:27 PM

    same here, pal.
  • AD Winans

    Oct 26 2008 6:24 PM

    thanks, it was a great evening and the audience, including you, was great too.