Michael Hureaux
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | High school teacher |
| Location | Seattle, Washington |
| Introduction | I'm a poet, musician, actor, teacher. |
| Interests | My wife, Afro Cuban traditional music, violin and early music, all literature, marxism, cats, U.S. history, classic film and film in general. Good rum, red wine, wild birds, public drunkenness and making an ass of myself, Anything that annoys the "hip" hup ho. |
| Favorite Movies | Daughters of the Dust, Citizen Kane, Frankenstein (1931), The Producers (1968)The Out of Towners (1969)The Maltese Falcon, Chinatown, The Godfather Part Two, The Bodysnatcher, Brazil, To Sleep with Anger, Duck Soup, HorseFeathers, Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, The Cocoanuts, Psycho (1960), Secret Honor, Buffalo Bill and the Indians, The Haunting (1963), Blazing Saddles, Big Night, Strictly Ballroom, Winged Migration, Time and Tides, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World ad infinitum. |
| Favorite Music | Jazz, classical European, world music with special focus on Afro Cuban and Brazillian, reggae, bluegrass, underground hip hop, folk, traditional, country, pretty much anything that has some funk to it. |
| Favorite Books | In no particular order: Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston, The Divine Horsemen by Maya Deren, any collection of writings by V.I. Lenin, The Future in the Present by C.L.R. James, Against the Theory of State Capitalism by Ted Grant, The Age of Permanent Revolution/Selected writings of Leon Trotsky edited by George Novak, Goodbye Sweetwater by Henry Dumas, Things I Never Knew I Loved by Nazim Hikmet, Cane by Jean Toomer, Native Son by Richard Wright, anything by James Baldwin, Factotum by Charles Bukowski, The Complete Poetry of Anne Sexton edited by Maxine Kumin, Moby Dick/Melville, Residence on Earth by Pablo Neruda, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Memory of Fire (Trilogy) by Eduardo Galeano, Black Reconstruction in America by W.E.B. DuBois, Class Notes by Adolph Reed, The Negritude Poets edited by Ellen Conroy Kennedy, Giant Talk poetry anthology edited by Quincy Troupe and Rainier Schulte, ad infinitum. |
Q. How many capitalists does it take to change a group pathology pattern? A. Shut up and get back to work.