I listen to damn near everything - Coltrane, Miles, Dizz, Bird, Quincy Jones, Satchmo, Lonnie Liston Smith and The Cosmic Echoes, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Janice Joplin, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Yes, Nirvana, NIN, Mahler, Duke Ellington, Charlie Christian, Captain Beefheart, Frank Zappa, Conlon Nancarrow, Sun Ra, Dixie Chicks, Modern Jazz Quartet, Muddy Waters, MC5, Joanie Mitchell, The Doors...
Movies
Brazil, The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly, Demetia 13, The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, Metropolis, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Kiss Me Deadley, The Maltese Falcon, What's Up, Doc (with Streisand)... oh hell, anything by Kurosawa, Altman, John Ford, Tex Avery, Gordon Parks, Sergio Leone, Spike Lee, Pedro Almod?var, Hitchcock, early Woody Allen, etc., etc...
Television
Astro Boy, 8th Man, Space Ghost, Mission Impossible, Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, The Prisoner, Mork and Mindy, Tenspeed and Brownshoe, Xena, The Aventures of Brisco County Jr., X-Files, Megatech, Twin Peaks, Dr. Who, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Heroes, Medium, Lost, Gray's Anatomy (yeah I admit, it's a guilty pleasure), Nova, Frontline, anything with Huell Howser in it, etc., etc...
Books
Anything by Issac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Octavia Butler, Samuel R. Delaney, Walt Whitman, Elizabeth Bishop, Nikki Giovanni, Carlos Castenada, Pablo Neruda, Joseph Campbell, James Joyce, Agatha Christie, Wole Soyinka, Alice Walker, Robert Anton Wilson, Spider Robinson, Roger Zelazny, Harlan Ellison, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Richard Wright, Wanda Coleman, Zora Neale Hurston, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Theodore Sturgeon, Maxine Hong Kingston, Ishmael Reed, Anne McCaffrey, Dan Brown, Alexander Dumas, Ben Bova... There are many other authors I've read and enjoyed - this short list is just off the top of my head.
Heroes
You scored as Batman, the Dark Knight. As the Dark Knight of Gotham, Batman is a vigilante who deals out his own brand of justice to the criminals and corrupt of the city. He follows his own code and is often misunderstood. He has few friends or allies, but finds comfort in his cause.
About me: Larry Winfield attended his first poetry reading at Weeds in 1990. Over the next twelve years he hosted open mics, featured at many local venues and festivals, organized the protest poetry reading at the ' 96 Democratic Convention, hosted a weekly poetry and jazz show on pirate station Guerilla Love Radio as DJ Merlot, published poetry books and the online/print zines Liquid Glyph and City Table Review, and performed in Paris, Berlin, Frankfurt, NY, LA and SF, and with ensemble groups Brothers in Verse and the many versions of his poetry band Brass Orchid. He currently lives in L A, produces the podcasts "Sundown Lounge" & "The Patio", and is sweating through his first novel, Banjo Strings.
Who I'd like to meet: Groupies... and I mean interested females who have real MySpace profiles, not just links to adult dating sites like Adultfriendfinder or Fling, or to porn websites. Now, I could have about 300 "friends" by now if I pollute my page with this crap, but who cares about that?
So, to all the cuties sending me cookie-cutter requests, chasing after "hottest MtSpace girl" or some shit:
No porn links, please...
Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy. ~Shakespeare~ Worse than idle is compassion If it ends in tears and sighs. ~William Wordsworth~ It seems that it is madder never to abandon oneself, than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive, and a slave, than always to walk in armor. ~Margaret Fuller~ For, you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow. ~Rosemonde Gerard~ With Peace, Julie~
Sundown Lounge is a laid back (and often explicit, you bet your ass...) weekly podzine of music, spoken word, progressive politics, weird science, and occasional vignettes from the west coast open mic scene, etc. Physically, I'm in rapidly gentrifying downtown Los Angeles, but metaphysically, my toes are in the sand and the sun is ablaze with deep hues, and a few poets and musicians and scientists have dropped by my beach house to hang out and jam, as the surf whispers nearby...The Open Mic Stage accepts spoken word and music files for play. : Hear "A True Liberator" on Friday's PodCast :
it's been good having you as a friend. i wanted to let you know that my poem "A True Liberator" has been mixed and i wanted to invite you personally to listen to it. so here's the info:
it's like this, if you listen, Tone Def Jams & 10K Poets will blow your mind away. " A True Liberator" is mixed, old skool poerty vs. bad ass beats. come get a ear shot of this one. go as a friend. always come back as family.
Hey. Litzine Beat the Dust is constantly on the look-out for inventive, hard-hitting, thought-provoking poetry and stories, and is particularly interested in writing that involves some kind of contradiction or breaks a rule in some way. We want to hear from writers with 'kiss my shades!' attitude who like to take risks with their work. If that's you, click here for details on how and where to send your work. You'd be joining the likes of Tony O'Neill, Adelle Stripe, Dan Fante, Mark SaFranko and other cutting edge writers. Thanks for sharing your space with Beat the Dust.
