Reading, Writing, and Eating chocolate covered bacon.
Music
The Jim Carroll Band, X, The Misfits, MC5, Built to Spill, Roy Orbison, Modest Mouse, The Gits, the ditty bops, my tastes are pretty wide...
Movies
BLUE VELVET, ERASERHEAD, SAY ANYTHING, WONDERBOYS, ADAPTATION, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, HUMAN NATURE, RED ROCK WEST, DAVID HOLTZMAN'S DIARY, MEDIUM COOL, EASY RIDER, THE LOVED ONE, too many films to name really...
Television
I don't really like t.v., though I'll watch six feet under, the monkees, That 70's Show, Mr.Show.
Books
"Gasoline" By Gregory Corso, "Happiness Bastard" By Kirby Doyle, "Kid in America" By Tony Scibella, "Unborn Again" By S.A. Griffin.
Heroes
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Gregory Corso,Kell Robertson, S.A. Griffin,Scott Wannberg,Charlie Whitley, David Smith,Amanda Oaks, my grandfather, and the late very great Charlie Purpura.
The Roadhead Journal Art Attack Online Always looking for artists and writers to contribute to The Roadhead Journal. Also, want to invite you to subcribe and enjoy the ride and the read in the Myspace Roadhead Blog
The Roadhead Journal is now locked and loaded. Featured video this month is "Josephine Baker - The Banana Dance" proving the Josephine is a cabaret old chum and chumettes
Also featured writers are Michael Madsen, Sandoz Diego Cerveza, Frank O. Gutch, Eva Pasco, and art, art, art! If you are an artist or writer and want to contribute to the journal, fire an email warning shot over my head at theroadhead@yahoo.com
The Roadhead Journal Online Magazine of Art, Anarchy, Literature, and Pop Culture Dumpster Diving
This compendium of illiterations, art, literature and journalism is a compost pile of fermenting illiterati to toss onto the garden of your imagination to further fertilize it to yield a bounty of ideas and free thought. It breaks rules as it does not recognize good grammer in some instances as the final authority over random thought. The words and art herein hopefully fall from an imaginary pinata as delightful and delicious candy
My literary magazine, The Toronto Quarterly - Issue 2 and 3 are now available at amazon.com. There's some great poetry in each issue along with some cool interviews with up and coming and more established poets. Here is the link:
What does one send to the Lighthouse indeed! At any other time Lily could have suggested reasonably tea, tobacco, newspapers. But this morning everything seemed so extraordinarily queer that a question like Nancy’s—What does one send to the Lighthouse?—opened doors in one’s mind that went banging and swinging to and fro and made one keep asking, in a stupefied gape, What does one send? What does one do? Why is one sitting here, after all? (Woolf)
Raise your glass, John: it's the birthday of Jack Kerouac!
His 30 essentials of spontaneous prose:
1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening
3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house
4. Be in love with yr life
5. Something that you feel will find its own form
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
19. Accept loss forever
20. Believe in the holy contour of life
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
22. Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
29. You're a Genius all the time
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven
Hey john how have you been? I was robbed and my laptop stolen with all my writing and cock pictures. Good news though, i had two poems accepted at New York Quarterly. Have you gotten a contributors copy from underground voices yet? I havent.
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