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Richard

			"MUSIC POETRY POLEMIC! PR Bar – 2 Ponsonby Rd - Saturday 1 December 2007 - 7pm Bill Direen and The Bilders / Otis Mace / Jack Ross / Tourettes/ Scott Hamilton / Justin Taua / Michael Steven" Male 60 years old Auckland New Zealand Last Login: 5/12/2008

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Richard's Interests

General	Wide. Not sports. I have a Blog (poetic - it is a project involving words and images and various methods - the project is called Eyelight.) Here is the link to it: http://richardinfinitex.blogspot.com/ I am also quite a keen Chess player - and have played e.g. in the NZ Correspondence Chess Championships etc. I won money in about 4 Chess events last year.
Music	Bach. Charles Ives.
Movies	"Dreams " by Kurosawa. I haven't seen it for years.
Television	I wish there were no adverts.
Books	Very many books on the go usually.
Heroes	Myself

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Status:	Single
Zodiac Sign:	Aquarius

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About me:
Where and Who: I live in Auckland New Zealand. I am a poet or a "textualiser" as I call it. I have published some work in a few magazines - even in one magazine in Chicago - but I have a book called RED which can be found via the Auckland public library system. Status Age and Children I am 59, divorced, with three children (2 daughters, one son - he lives with me)- all grown up. My daughters are in music group called the Nudie Suits. Weight loss/fitness programme: My youngest daughter is doing an MA in Psychology and I and my son are currently on a lose weight fitness jag using her experience, knowledge and guidance. I don't drink these days. I worked as a Lineman for what was then The NZ Post Office - now Telecom - and also I was an Engineering Tech for the NZED - that is I got involved in Communications Sytems of all kinds. But I left the Engineering area in 1988 and ran business etc and then went back to university as an adult student and did a BA in English literature. I also started writing poetry again and giving many readings in local pubs etc Interests Very wide - but I am not very interested in sport. My Blog the project EYELIGHT - http://richardinfinitex.blogspot.com/ I am a keen Chess player. Coming up in Poetry! I have NEW book called "Conversation with a Stone" (Titus Books) to be launched here in Auckland (New Zealand) on Thursday the 12th of April in K'Road at 6.30 pm at the Alleluya Cafe which is in the St Kevin's Arcade. There will be two other books "launched" there that night. THE BOOK WAS LAUNCHED SUCCESSFULLY. www.richardinfinitex.blogspot.com/

Who I'd like to meet:
John Ashbery. Oliver Sacks.

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antiamber	May 8 2008 7:25 PM Thanks for the add, Richard! What say we let free the birds - in a kickpleat skirt no less!
Rose Reiter	May 3 2008 7:50 PM Western Red Cedar potentially... Will check.. :) R
Bei Bei	Apr 30 2008 7:50 PM Hi! Just want to say thank you for being my Myspace friend :) Bei Bei
KARANGAHAPE	Feb 3 2008 1:04 AM And Happy Birthday!
Graeme...	Feb 2 2008 2:34 AM Happy b.day dear Richard. have been reading your stuff and feeling the world through which you make it manifest. The heart is always where the home is... all the best and kindest regards from Graeme. Still on the road.
Raewyn	Feb 1 2008 10:30 PM Happy Birthday Richard Rossetti Christina - Poem A BIRTHDAY Christina Rossetti My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water'd shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these, Because my love is come to me. Raise me a daïs of silk and down; Hang it with vair and purple dyes; Carve it in doves and pomegranates, And peacocks with a hundred eyes; Work it in gold and silver grapes, In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.
Iron niK	Feb 1 2008 5:55 PM APPY BURFDY GUVNA x
Amanda	Feb 1 2008 2:36 PM hehe. Happy Birthday Richard! A.Joy x
Angelica Waters	Feb 1 2008 9:08 AM Happy Birthday Richard!
Neil	Feb 1 2008 4:34 AM Happy B-Day!!! Cheers,
The Nudie Suits	Jan 31 2008 11:31 PM Just dropping by to wish you a very happy birthday (for tomorrow) as we might not get around to seeing you on the day. all the best Mark, Dionne & Tammy
james.erceg	Jan 28 2008 2:49 PM happy birthday this sat dude :P
KARANGAHAPE	Jan 27 2008 12:34 PM Grand New Year!
Charif Land	Jan 9 2008 1:09 PM Thank you so much for the request! Greetings, Victoria Mary from Charif Land (a MySpace about Gustavo Charif). Fan Page www.myspace.com/charifland Lenz (Charif) Official Music MySpace: www.myspace.com/victoriolenz
Raewyn	Dec 1 2007 2:43 AM 01 Dec 2007 Arrested in Charge of an Idea Play along, please. Just imagine you're arrested. No idea why just yet. Okaaay, gotcha, slam. Your arm hurts, maybe your back too, and your head could have a ding so it ring a lings and you wish you could recall your favourite song, since no music lives against the wall. The concrete tastes of a school playground at night, you only know this since you went there once and lay your face down beside the place where...you forget the past. Someone shouts at you again. Up against the wall with that idea. NOW, don't you think the idea, don't say it and don't print it anywhere. Yes, that idea, the one you just thought. We think you have an idea we believe is harmful, you are under arrest. It does not matter you have not thought much except you'd like a steak dinner or a tofu burger, or maybe to buy some chocolate and eat half now, keep the rest later, somesuch ordinary nonsense. You are suspicious, you are in the way, you are now diverted. In handcuffs, you think about your house. How it has a roof, walls, a floor and a door, good windows and a deck you like to sit on perhaps. Your place. A house where you are in charge. Imagine all the things behind the walls and in the roof, the wires, plumbing, insulation, a newspaper the builders left there when they made the place so people later renovating could find it, perhaps. Think about the globe we live on where you are a speck in handcuffs, in the back of a police van now. If the world is a house, you are a fleck of the memory of a crumb of biscuit. Then, the corporate world who made the situation where a law was passed that made it illegal for you to be suspected of having a dangerous idea, that corporate world is the plumbing, the electrical wiring, plugs and lights and the insulation, the solar panels if you have them, (and I advise you get some soon), the guttering too. They are the unseen people who control the power and the
XC	Nov 5 2007 5:37 AM Hi Richard. Thanks for the blog comment... yes, today it is more about the writing: the exploration of self through words.
*	Oct 18 2007 6:43 PM Thanks for your comments. I think, as poets, we learn much about subversion and tone from Ashbery, AND as people, we learn from him about openmindedness.
*	Oct 18 2007 11:32 AM Richard, I did not post the comment below. Some fucker phished my account. Hope you're well, mate. That was a good night at the pub, eh?
*	Oct 14 2007 2:21 PM
KARANGAHAPE	Oct 1 2007 3:16 PM Have you been reading at the Kings Arms since July 2 ? Richard, you just never run out of things to say!! ;-) Good song you've got set up!
Anarchytm.com	Sep 3 2007 10:50 PM rEd
Angelica Waters	Sep 1 2007 4:19 PM Richard, Thank you for the friendship. I look forward to reading your work. Kind regards, Angelica
Open Sesame	Aug 14 2007 6:31 PM Wish I was there.
Anarchytm.com	Aug 12 2007 3:49 AM today's reading: "Mary Lamby's belly swollen with babys, proud, proud as a bitch with puppies" I'm not sure what it means but it sort of combines the nanny state withcelebraty(s.p?) and by the way ABCD is no good.
The Nudie Suits	Aug 11 2007 5:17 PM Have enjoyed reading Hospital from your new book and would love to read more stuff like that how about the sequel to Hospital - haha! The photo of you in action reading poetry is great it's on our profile as well.
Iron niK	Aug 9 2007 2:46 AM i was on the phone with raewyn just as you were commenting me! loki is good thanks. he and basty see eachother most weeks as loki is having piano lessons with your daughter. other patchworked arts history, side 2 of the beatles' abbey rd comprises (except the first track) a whole lot of 1/2 written songs which they arranged into medleys for arguably one of their most classic album sides of their career, which also turned out to be their last. i've been writing songs more than poetry these days. xn
Side Stream	Aug 8 2007 11:25 PM Hey - digging your new posts Richard - excellent portrayal of Pollock art. I'd relish submissions from you at some point. :o) Miriam
Amanda	Aug 2 2007 9:23 AM Came over to see your new poems... A.Joy
Iron niK	Aug 1 2007 2:28 AM all poems are about you richard, my one there is just more honest about it than most.
Open Sesame	Jul 30 2007 7:28 PM Like, cool! Illo by Carmine Infantino.
Iron niK	Jul 22 2007 3:14 PM hi R, i done a poem for and about u: Taylor, tinker, battleship sinker wit man, pun man, boogeyman, chess. xn
Raewyn	Jul 7 2007 10:42 PM Richard, you are so brain on legs, chess-addiction, how apt. i have a lovely chess set, hand carved and sometimes play with all the big pieces at the front and pawns at the back - i invented it as far as i know, vainglorious chess. a bloodbath to start with then it gets really interesting. i heard your reading went well at the Kings Arms. what a lot of poets.
Raewyn	Jul 4 2007 1:49 AM fabio. Poetry Live excellent last night, too, by the way. xRx
Raewyn	Jul 3 2007 5:14 AM so how did it go? i could only go out tonight to Poetry L:ive, so missed the mega-poetry reading you were in. it was like the Poetry Olympics. did you win the long jump or maybe the shot put? xRx
Raewyn	Jul 1 2007 10:46 PM hope your reading goes well tonight, Richard. xRx
Open Sesame	Jun 30 2007 12:46 AM Here we all are then.
Open Sesame	Jun 4 2007 7:31 PM Early retail experiment.
Open Sesame	Jun 3 2007 3:02 AM Conversation With a Stone is like totally to my liking like.
*	May 22 2007 10:08 PM Hi Richard, How are you? Have spent most of the day attempting to translate Cesar Vallejo. As English is the only language I can speak, it is proving quite a challenge
*	May 20 2007 10:31 PM hi Richard Thanks for the comment. Yes, I have varied interests - mainly poetry & music. Have just started reading Zukofsky, after our talk at Poetry- starting with the collected shorter poems (brilliant foreword by Creeley). It's fun to compare similarities (intricate sound patterning/diction) with Niedecker (another poet whom I greatly admire) Yes, I sent a few things to Brief. I guess, like any submission, it's the waiting for an answer that gets to you . best, Michael

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