nostromo
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | gadfly, conversation, investigating nature |
| Location | durham, nc, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a simple man with simple tastes with simple desires. Plain spoken and often too direct, people frequently mistake my inchoate inertia for studied nuance. Or I could be wrong. Or deliberately misleading. Or deliberately misdirecting. Or I may not know. |
| Interests | color and line, the human figure, speech, prose, poetry, the ineffable, the other, the otherwise than that that that, the |
| Favorite Movies | l'aventura, 8 1/2, three days of the condor, the in laws [falk/arkin version], la belle noiseuse, the third man, more the merrier, lady eve, sullivan's travels, bank dick, my little chickadee, duck soup, vertigo, north by northwest, battle of algiers, hiroshima mon amour, captain's paradise, syriana, spinal tap, young frankenstein, modern times, great dictator |
| Favorite Music | Jazz: be-bop, fusion, free, cool, modern, traditional, swing; Classical: German romanticism, modern, atonal, tonal; folk; country [americana]; cuban |
| Favorite Books | Moviegoer, Portnoy's Complaint, Underworld, White noise, Church Dogmatics, Sabbath's Theater, Concluding unscientific postscript, Cantos, Let me just say this about that, what is the what, gilead |
What kind of tape is best for creating a sculpture?
Recording tape is good. Measuring tape is handy. I've used duck tape - not duct tape - but actual tape made from ducks.