The proper use of a semicolon. Changing the world for the better. Autumn weather. Film. Theatre. Doing things the hard way. Foreign tongues (and, yes, that is a triple entendre).
Music
Tom Waits, Will Oldham, Die Sterne, The Decemberists, Devendra Banhart, David Bowie, Magnetic Fields, Destroyer, Tocotronic, Karl Orff, Dmitri Shostakovich, Momus, Broken Social Scene, The Boss (when he's being a badass, not when he's sucking), Leonard Cohen, Cake, Adam Green, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Sonic Youth, The Pixies, Pinback, The Shins, Wolf Parade, Interpol, The Silver Jews, Arcade Fire, The Mountain Goats, Paul Simon, The Smiths (sometimes), The Cure (again, sometimes), Donovan, and The Handsome Family.
Movies
In the Bedroom, Old Boy, Kicking and Screaming (the one Noah Baumbach wrote and directed, not the silly thing Will Ferrell did), Cemetery Man, Memento, Dancer in the Dark, The English Patient, Dead Man, The Weatherman, La Cite des Enfants Perdus, The Tin Drum, Network, The Man Who Wasn't There, 2 days in the Valley, and Dogville, among others.
Television
The Wire, Dexter, The West Wing, Californication.
Books
The Man Without Qualities (by Robert Musil), Rising Up and Rising Down (by William T. Vollmann), most of the 80-plus books David Slavitt has written, The Never-Ending (by Andrew Hudgins), Practical Gods (by Carl Dennis), Licks of Love (by John Updike), The Centaur (by John Updike), Rabbit, Run (by John Updike), Collected Poems (by John Updike), Disgrace (by J.M. Coetzee), The Silent Partner (by Greg Williamson), Migration (by W.S. Merwin), High Lonesome (by Joyce Carol Oates), Drive, Dive, Dance and Fight (by Thomas E. Kennedy), Cancer Ward (by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn), All the King's Men (by Robert Penn Warren), Collected Poems (by Robert Penn Warren), Love and Hydrogen (by Jim Shepard), The Blind Assassin (by Margaret Atwood), The Sound and the Fury (by William Faulkner), The Sunlight Dialogues (by John Gardner), The Holy Book of the Beard (by Duff Brenna), Ecstatic in the Poison (by Andrew Hudgins), Babylon in a Jar (by Andrew Hudgins), The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (by Carson McCullers), Skinny Legs and All (by Tom Robbins), Grendel (by John Gardner), A Piece of my Heart (by Richard Ford), Creation (by Gore Vidal), Love is the Crooked Thing (by Lee K. Abbott), All Things, All at Once (by Lee K. Abbott), Ragtime (by E.L. Doctorow), Nightworks (by Marvin Bell), Darkness at Noon (by Arthur Koestler), The Corrections (by Jonathan Franzen), The Bright Forever (by Lee Martin), You Bright and Risen Angels (by William T. Vollmann), Notes From the Underground (by Fyodor Dostoyevsky), Tooth and Claw (by T.C. Boyle), What is the What (by Dave Eggers), and No Country for Old Men (by Cormac McCarthy).
Heroes
William T. Vollmann, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Bertolt Brecht, John Steinbeck, FDR, Teddy Roosevelt, Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky.
And here's another new hero of mine, Matt Gonzalez, who is pretty much the smartest and coolest guy alive aside from maybe Noam Chomsky.
About me: I'm an Assistant Professor in Creative Writing and Literature at Ohio Wesleyan University (forgive me for writing out the full title like a doofus -- I just got the job and am rolling around in the fact like a mangy dog). My nonfiction, poetry, short fiction, and translations have appeared in literary journals no one reads. I like theatre and film and write some of that stuff too. I'm from Argyle, Kentucky, and have lived in Mannheim, Germany, and Wroclaw, Poland, among other places. Oh, and I'm a great fan of bunny rabbits and monkeys. I can solve any problem when it comes down to fisticuffs; unfortunately, not every problem comes down to fisticuffs.
Who I'd like to meet: People who are good friends when no one's looking.
Nous avons étudié attentivement ta demande d'amitié et au vu de ton profil tu parais posséder toutes les qualités requises pour devenir un vrai blaireau! Bravo! Tu as donc été retenu et tu peux maintenant explorer les galeries souterraines de notre terrier et y découvrir toutes les nouveautés blaireautiques! à bientôt
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I just realized why there seem to be only three roads out of this town. They are hiding Chile from us. Chile is very close but just you try & find it from Ushuaia.
yes, that song is very nice. and i'm glad you enjoy my international indie mix. i wasted much valuable time that should have been spent on other endeavors to produce it.
but it's brought me hours of joy since, so it's not a total waste.
that photo was taken at the milestone--once called the CBGBs of the south. the graffiti you see is on pretty much every surface--bands like Dead Kennedys and Motorhead and Bad Brains and other really fucking famous punk bands--and it's all authentic. Nirvana played there, too. It's a pretty amazing place.
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