Writing, Drawing, Bike riding, Music, Movies, Books, Daydreaming, Internet, Aging, Television, Radio, the bedeviled Laptop...
Music
Golden Oldies, Bob Dylan, Beethoven, Lucinda Williams, Classical symphonies, Madonna, Grateful Dead, The Band, Blues & Jazz, Miles Davis, U-2, Bono, Rolling Stones, Johnny Cash, Sade, Bruce Springsteen, Richard D. Houff, Eric Clapton, Norah Jones, Tom Waits, Rikki Lee Jones, Laurie Anderson, The Cream, Jerry Garcia, Folk, Joan Baez, Prince, Talking Heads, Lou Reed, many more ...
Movies
Classic American films & Directors, On the Waterfront, David Fincher, Seven, Fight Club, Fellini, all Ingmar Bergman Movies, Antonioni, Blow-Up, Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris, all Steven Spielberg's, Kazan, Taxi Driver, The Godfather, Rocky 1, Schindler's List, all Sundance Indie flicks, Parker Posey's films...
Television
Saturday Night Live, 30 Rock, Talk Shows, David Letterman, Howard Stern, PBS travel & docs., ESPN, Cable favorites, The Movie Channel, HBO,the local community channel of Las Vegas...
Books
Classic world literature, The Complete Tales of Poe, Neuromancer, Lolita, French novels, Nausea, The Reprieve, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Stranger, Wild Palms, As I Lay Dying, Huckleberry Finn, A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, In Our Time, The Great Gatsy, all Fitzgerald, Hermingway, Mailer and Faulkner; A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Tool; On the Road, Dharma Bums by Jack Keroauc; The Passion by Jeannete Winterson; White Noise by Don DeLilo; Fight Club, Choke, The Silence of the Lambs, Little Beauties, The Catcher in the Rye, Nine Stories by J.D. Salinger; Barbary Shore by Norman Mailer (and his non-fiction); Notes On Camp by Susan Sontag; Malcom by James Purdy; Wakefield by Andrei Codrescu; Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury; The Twilight Zone by Rod Sterling... Great Poetry books by John Ashberry, Bukowski, Henry Miller, Ferlinghetti, Louise Gluck, Kim Addonizio, Ginsberg, Lowell, Plath, Purdy, Dickey,Pinsky,Lifshin, Paris Spleen by Baudelaire...
Heroes
My parents, my teachers, Sandy Koufax, Bob Dylan, Joe Pyne, Mort Sahl, the Clintons, J.F.K. & R.F.K., Martin Luther King, Muhammed Ali, Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, John Wooden, Jerry West, Phil Jackson, Michael Jordan, Wilt, Jerry Tarkanian, my ex-loves & ex-relatives..
About me: Reclusive entity from the world's small presses, given to writing poetry, novels, short stories & promulgating them rather randomly for years throughout the universe, since early 1980s... Hey, here's the standard bio (& I'm an ancient dudester pushin' 60 sipping Dewar's):
"Peter Magliocco, writer/artist/editor, was raised in Southern California but has spent over 20 years editing the underground lit-zine, ART:MAG, out of Las Vegas, Nevada. His bio appears in the Marquis' Who's Who in America, 2004-06... Known as The Mag Man in small press circles, his futuristic novel, NU-EVERMORE, appeared in 2002 -- also later as an ebook -- via Trafford Publishing (in cooperation with his own Limited Editions Press). Another novel, HIAWATHA ROCKS, was published by Airleaf (www.airleaf.com), with a book of poetry & art, EX LITEROTICA, in '06 from Publish America (www.publishamerica.com)...."
Who I'd like to meet: Britney Spears in hell, because she may well be the anti-christ...No, just cool human beings interested in creative activities similar to mine.
Thank you so much for the add. I read your poety for the Pushcart Prize on the Literary House website. I really enjoyed it and looked you up on here. I must say that I am going to be going out to find your books. By the way- kudos for making me laugh about the Britney Spears being the anti-christ. That is great stuff.