Rob Mustard
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Rancho Mirage, California, United States |
| Introduction | My poems have appeared in Ragazine, an online arts magazine, Verse Wrights, Voices in Contemporary Poetry, edited by Carl Sharpe, and Shake The Tree, Volume Two, an anthology of new poetry, edited by Kelle Grace Gaddis. My first book, "Blue Moon", was published in ebook format in 2011. It is available at the iBooks Store at http s://itun.es/us/h9SzD.l I am currently working on a second book, entitled Early Snow, which I expect to be available sometime in early 2017. |
| Interests | Road Cycling, Eddy Merckx, la Giro d'Italia, le Tour de France, la Vuelta a Espana, Paris-Roubaix, Campagnolo; vintage lugged steel road frames, preferably Italian, especially Colnago; vintage British cars, MG, Austin-Healey (especially the 3000), Triumph, the c-Type Jag, Le Mans, Formula One, Edward Weston, Garry Winogrand, Diane Arbus, the Edwardian period, Ernest Hemingway, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Raymond Chandler, Bernard Malamud, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Henrik Ibsen, C.J. Jung, Michel de Montaigne, Haruki Murakami, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Saul Bellow, Jean-Paul Sartre, Joseph Conrad, Herman Melville, James M. Cain, Anton Chekov, Mark Rothko, Impressionism, Caravaggio, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionism |
| Favorite Movies | Out of the Past, High Noon, Chinatown, The Last Picture Show, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Mildred Pierce, The Big Sleep, Confidential Agent, My Darling Clementine, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Breaking Point, Sunset Boulevard, The Third Man, The Maltese Falcon, Double Indemnity, The Asphalt Jungle, From Here to Eternity, Key Largo, Billy Budd, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Outland, 3:10 To Yuma (1957), The Ox-Bow Incident, Grand Prix, Rebecca, Blade Runner, Taxi Driver, L'avventura, The Passenger, La Dolce Vita, Wild Strawberries, Trevor Howard, John Garfield, Jean Arthur, Joan Crawford, Gene Tierney, Marcello Mastroianni |
| Favorite Music | Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Bruckner, Bartok, Berlioz, Mahler, Stravinsky, Sibelius, Copland, Debussy, Glenn Gould, Pablo Casals, John Williams, Paco Pena, Enya, Doc Watson, Iris DeMent, Paul Simon, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Fleetwood Mac, Jackson Browne, Chet Atkins, Eva Cassidy, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, David Bromberg, Stefan Grossman, Tommy Emmanuel, Don Henley, Hank Williams, Kenny Sultan, Tom Rush, Bob Dylan, Lightin' Hopkins, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Michelle Branch, Merle Haggard, John Prine, Townes Van Sandt, Patsy Cline, Sarah Vaughan, Liquid Mind, Sheryl Crow, Norah Jones, Kasey Chambers, Alison Krauss, Nickelback, Creed, & never to be under-rated, silence |
| Favorite Books | Winner Take Nothing (A Clean, Well-Lighted Place), The Sun Also Rises, Sons and Lovers, Women In Love, Ulysses, Hamlet, Cat's Cradle; Bartleby, the Scrivener; Rappaccini's Daughter, Goodbye Columbus, Seize the Day, The Naked and the Dead, Being and Nothingness, The Stranger, In Cold Blood, Heart of Darkness, The Secret Sharer, Moby Dick, The Metamorphosis, A Hunger Artist, Hedda Gabler, Death In Venice, A New Life, The Catcher in the Rye, Flannery O'Connor (A Good Man Is Hard to Find), Raymond Carver, ee cummings, T.S. Eliot, John Keats, John Updike, Tobias Woolf, Hart Crane, John Cheever, Jack Kerouac, Graham Greene, Edgar Allan Poe, Ranier Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann, Thomas Bernhard, Samuel Beckett, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Charles Bukowski, Philip Larkin, Charles Simic, Anne Sexton, Wallace Stevens, David Citino, Jack Myers, William Carlos Williams, Gary Soto, Elizabeth Bishop, Mark Strand, William Stafford, Sylvia Plath, Cynthia Cruz, Kay Ryan, Anthony Hecht, James Tate |