G. Matthew Mapes
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Musician / Poet |
| Location | Ypsilanti, Michigan, United States |
| Links | Audio Clip |
| Introduction | Mine is "anaphora". Mine is frustrated. Mine is unsatisfied with its choice. Mine is changing its mind. Mine is "parataxis". Mine is making this comment; doubting itself; questioning its own authority. Mine is deleting, re-typing, deleting, re-typing. (Mine is poem, stanza, line, word, syllable, letter...) Mine is "anaphora". |
| Interests | my wife, sleeping, rabbits, poetry, film, bass, Abstract Expressionism, used book stores, food, improvisation, fetish photography, live electronics, losing weight, existentialism, guitar, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, doumbek, driving, air conditioning, professional wrestling, trumpet, etc. |
| Favorite movies | Little Murders, Stalker, Spring Forward, Apocalypse Now Redux, 25th Hour, Ace in the Hole, Touch of Evil, Through a Glass Darkly, The Return of the Living Dead, After Life (Koreeda), Night of the Iguana, Wet Hot American Summer, Santa Sangre, 28 Days Later, First Blood, Happiness, Oleanna, Little Shop of Horrors, In the Company of Men, High Fidelity, Ordet, Cache, Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist, That Obscure Object of Desire, Dead Man, Begotten, American Movie, Tous les Matins du Monde, Blood Feast, Shock Corridor, Audition, Stop Making Sense, Decasia: The State of Decay, Christmas In Connecticut, Martyrs, Rebecca, A Town Called Panic, Separate Tables, Seven, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, etc. |
| Favorite music | David Tudor, Fugazi, The Meters, John Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Steve Earle, Marc Ribot, Aston "Familyman" Barrett, Mike Ladd, Anita O'Day, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Mastodon, Tanya Tagaq, Bill Laswell, Steve Coleman, The Allman Brothers Band, fIREHOSE, Evelyn Glennie, The Waterboys, Chris Thile, Mutamassik, Bill Withers, Dalek, Toshimaru Nakamura, Slayer, Gillian Welch, Sleater-Kinney, Howlin' Wolf, tUnE-yArDs, So Percussion, Tom Waits, Augustus Pablo, Mary Halvorson, Pan Sonic, Arnold Dreyblatt, The Roots, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Xenia Rubinos, Gang of Four, Thelonious Monk, Micachu, Kronos Quartet, Deep Purple, Joni Mitchell, Public Enemy, Paul Burch, Funkadelic, Lila Downs, Pauline Oliveros, Digital Primitives, Sunn O))), Bela Fleck, James Brown, Laura Marling, Pentangle, Harry Partch, Mission of Burma, Ava Mendoza, Fela Kuti, Magic Sam, etc. |
| Favorite books | Alice Notley MYSTERIES OF SMALL HOUSES, Luigi Russolo THE ART OF NOISES, Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian THE WIDE ROAD, Mark Twain LETTERS FROM THE EARTH, Kamau Brathwaite TRENCHTOWN ROCK, Richard Dawkins THE SELFISH GENE, Charles Olson THE MAXIMUS POEMS, Oliver Sacks MUSICOPHILIA: TALES OF MUSIC AND THE BRAIN, Ann Lauterbach OR TO BEGIN AGAIN, David Antin TALKING, Samuel Beckett STORIES AND TEXTS FOR NOTHING, Max Brooks WORLD WAR Z, Grant Morrison THE INVISIBLES, Charles Bukowski THE DAYS RUN AWAY LIKE WILD HORSES OVER THE HILLS, Hazrat Inayat Khan THE MYSTICISM OF SOUND AND MUSIC, Maxine Kumin THE RETRIEVAL SYSTEM, Michael Azerrad OUR BAND COULD BE YOUR LIFE, Ishmael Reed MUMBO JUMBO, Dr. Seuss THE LORAX, James Joyce DUBLINERS, Leslie Scalapino CONSIDERING HOW EXAGGERATED MUSIC IS, William Benzon BEETHOVEN'S ANVIL: MUSIC IN MIND AND CULTURE, Mina Loy THE LAST LUNAR BAEDEKER, E.M. Cioran A SHORT HISTORY OF DECAY, John Taggart LOOP, John Cage SILENCE, etc. |