Gender	Male
Industry	Arts
Occupation	storytelling, dramatist
Location	Sylva, W.N.C., United States
Introduction	Solitary, deaf, diabetic, eccentric (or so I am told). I live in an old farmhouse with Booger, my cat, and Jack, my Jack Russell. The house is full of books and I write a book review/human interest column for a weekly newspaper. I also write plays: "The Uktena" - a Cherokee mime play. "The Raindrop Waltz" - autobiographical "Land's End" - 3 dramatic monologues, including "Nance Dude." "Birdell" one-woman show. "Prince of Dark Corners" - this one made it to PBS I am currently working on "Mother Jones" and "Signs and Wonders."
Interests	movies,reading, storytelling, folklore, Appalachian culture, Arthurian legends,etc. Right now, I am doing research on a utopian commune that existed in Henderson County, N. C. and was composed of freedmen (ex-slaves)from 1964-1900. It was called the "Kingdom of the Happy Land" and it was ruled by a king and queen.
Favorite movies	Romeo is Bleeding; King of Masks; The Lives of Others; Run, Lola, Run; Cane Toads; The Grapes of Wrath; Night of the Hunter; The Seventh Seal; Seven Beauties; Aguirre, the Wrath of God; No Country for Old Men; Bonnie and Clyde.
Favorite music	Right now: Bonnie Prince Billy, Nina Simone, the Platters; Ray Charles; Symphony Fantasque, Tales of Hoffman, Tannhauser, Merle Haggard
Favorite books	You Can't Go Home Again, The Road, No Country for Old Men, Black Flower, The Eye of the Beholder, Serena, Hundred Years of Solitude, William Gay's I Hate to See the Evening Sun Go Down, Heart of Darkness and anything by Flannery O'Conner.

The hair from your last haircut ... what would it say about your new style?

This guy just got up.