My blogs

Blogs I follow

Gender	Male
Location	Dogpatch, United States
Introduction	I am an introverted blue collar pilgrim, surviving near the center of the continent, on the fringes of a shopworn civilization. I abide in rooms full of partially-read tomes, each bookmarked with the fragment of a shattered illusion.
Interests	Writing: poetry, fiction
Favorite movies	Dr. Strangelove, Wizard of Oz, Coen Brothers
Favorite music	Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Natalie Merchant, Jazz, Bill Evans, Chet Baker, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, Stan Getz, Billie Holiday, Louis Armstrong, Sixties Rock, Van Morrison, Blues, Junior Wells, Folk, Fifties Rock, Mozart, Ravi Shankar, Joni Mitchell, Gillian Welch, George Jones, Joan Baez, Paul Simon, Hank Williams, Bill Kirchen, Wilco, Commander Cody
Favorite books	Simone Weil, Walter Tevis, Stanley Elkin, Denis Johnson, Robert Stone, Philip K. Dick, Cormac McCarthy, Saul of Tarsus, Jane Kenyon, R.H. Blyth, Haiku, Tu Fu, Plato, Harold Bloom, Jack Kerouac, Iris Murdoch, Thomas Pynchon, David Foster Wallace, J.D. Salinger, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Raymond Carver, Anne Sexton, G.I. Gurdjieff, Ron Hansen, Don Delillo, Sandra Agricola, Sam Shepard