Abstract Figure
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Location | Portland, Maine, United States |
| Introduction | The creator of this "blog" was born in California and grew up in suburban Massachusetts. He received his B.F.A. in Painting from the Massachusetts College of Art. He now lives in Portland, Maine with his wife and three children, and their dogs. |
| Interests | Fatherhood, attachment parenting, voluntary simplicity, sincerity, kindness, equality, optimism, sketchbooks, memories, transformation, reflection, stories, connecting, revealing, wisdom/philosophy, libraries, books, history, film, music, art, the painters; Egon Schiele, Fairfield Porter, the School of London painters, (David Hockney, Kitaj, Lucian Freud, Leon Kossoff, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon), Nicholas de Stael, Richard Diebenkorn , the Bay Area Figurative painters, Willem De Kooning, Franz Kline, etc. |
| Favorite movies | I fucking love movies! ... Films by Wes Anderson, David Cronenberg, David Lynch, Jim Jarmusch, P.T. Anderson, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Terry Gilliam, David O. Russell, Peter Weir, Quentin Tarantino, Whit Stillman, Woody Allen, etc. |
| Favorite music | Wilco, Red House Painters, Low, Silver Jews, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, The Velvet Underground, Smog, Lemonheads, (Evan Dando), Fugazi, The Evens, Sun Kil Moon, (Mark Kozelek), The Flaming Lips, Cat Power, The Magnetic Fields, The New Year, Shellac, Lou Reed, John Cale, Yoko Ono, Phantom Buffalo, Public Enemy, Tribe Called Quest, Chet Baker, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Lennon/McCartney, Brian Wilson, Johnny Cash, etc., / recent faves; The xx, Jay-Z. |
| Favorite books | Fiction by Denis Johnson, Russel Banks, Jonathan Lethem, Don DeLillo, Jonathan Franzen, Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower), J. D. Salinger, Michael Chabon, plays by David Mamet and William Shakespeare, poems by Sir Philip Sidney, Andrew Marvell, David Wojahn, Jarret Keene, and comics by James Kochalka, David B., Gilbert Hernandez, Dave Cooper, Adrian Tomine, Sammy Harkham, Jeffrey Brown, Dan Clowes, Julie Doucet, Chester Brown, John Porcellino, Jonathan Bennett, Jeff Smith, Frank Miller, Bill Sienkiewicz, R. Crumb, etc. etc. |