DbV
My blogs
- Family Upon a Sea
- The Naming Field
- twains.meet
- futureETA
- This Half Acre ~ one block in Chinatown SF
- The Barbary Coaster
- Across The Atlantic
- The Plowman's Hunch
Blogs I follow
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Occupation | chasing dollars with skills |
| Location | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Introduction | Brevity is the soul... |
| Interests | Urban cultures, Puerto Vallarta, the future, snails, Billy Strayhorn, mid-century modernism, Gay Life, San Francisco, The Male Body, Wandering sketching, painting, playing guitar, Paris, poring over maps, re-imagining my neighborhood, London, Psychedelic 1980s iconography, Heidelberg, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany, Blue Note Jazz Label, Lyon, Arles, France, ceiling fans, 1930s, Somerset Maugham, Peter Lorre, Alain Delon, steam punk, tea, fermented foods, town squares, Mexico, birds, soul music. I am scattered between San Francisco, Puerto Vallarta, Montreal and Arles. |
| Favorite Movies | Laurel Canyon, The Gold Rush, The Royal Tenenbaums, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, The Hours & Times, Withnail & i, Der Blaue Engel, Rosemary's Baby, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zisou, Rocco e i suoi fratelli (aka Rocco & his Brothers with Alain Delon), An Angel at my Table, Gimme Shelter & Grey Gardens documentaries by The Maysles Bros., Professione: Reporter [aka The Passenger] directed by Antonioni, In Bruges, High Art |
| Favorite Music | Janelle Monae, Joanna Newsom, Syd Barrett, Bat for Lashes, Judee Sill, Marty Willson-Piper, Chris Bell, Morrissey, Marianne Faithfull, Fleet Foxes, Yusuf Islam, Cat Stevens, Robyn Hitchcock, Anette Hanshaw, Fujiya & Miyagi, ABBA, The Streets. Morrissey, Fever Ray, Jose Gonzalez, Robyn Hitchcock, ABBA, The Church, Juana Molina, Goldfrapp, Nina Simone, The Knife, Radiohead, Cat Power, The National, Midlake, Marianne Faithfull, MGMT, Burial, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Sarah Vaughan, Dusty Springfield, Wye Oak. |
| Favorite Books | Lush Life, A Biography of Billy Strayhorn, David Hadju, An Encyclopedia of World History published in 1952, National Geographic Atlas of the World, Groovy Bob, The Life & Times of Robert Fraser, Harriet Vyner, Titus Alone, Mervyn Peake, Keep the Aspidistras Flying, George Orwell, London the Biography, Peter Ackroyd, Hart Crane, I Lucifer, Glenn Duncan, C.S. Lewis, Paul Bowles. |