Dan Collins (Atticusworks)

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Gender	Male
Occupation	Painter/Poet
Location	Dallas, Texas, United States
Introduction	Poet/Painter/Photographer ~ among other things. I just like having a good time creatively.
Interests	Music, Art, Art History, Japanese Prints, Woodcuts, Poetry, Samurai Movies, Cycling, Old Monster Movies, Science fiction, Film Noir, Old Cars, Old trucks, Scottish Terriers, Dogs, Cooking, History, The Environment, Astronomy, Physics, Buddhism
Favorite Movies	Kill Bill, Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, Ran, The Unforgiven, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, A fist full of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, Little Big Man, La Strada, La Dolce Vita, The Tattooed Rose, Days of Wine and Roses, Couching Tiger/Hidden Dragon, House of Flying Daggers, hero, a lot of pretentious art crap too.
Favorite Music	Johnny Cash, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Iris Dement, Norman Blake, Ralph Stanley, Towns Van Zandt, Johnny Cash, Nanci Griffith, Allison Krause, Delores Keene, Lou Reed, Ravi Shankar, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, All kinds of folk, blues, jazz, bluegrass, cajun, slack key, world, etc.
Favorite Books	Cats Cradle, Slaughter House Five, Rommel Drives Deep into Egpt, In Watermelon Sugar, Siddhartha, The Cyberiad, One day in the life of Ivan Dennisovich, Moscow to the End of the Line, A Confederacy of Dunces, Catcher in the Rye

How is an ankle unlike a consequence?

A turn of a foot may lead to a twist of fate, but a road is not a destination.