CURRENT MISSION

ultimately the only thing i'm really here to do is write. hopefully i can help humanity out along the way, but it's through my writing that i hope to one day expose humanity to itself, for the complex wonder that it is

Intereses

writing, activism, exhibitionism, platypi, prophecy parrhesia and the blues, union & tompkins & washington square parks, electro-anarchy, russ feingold for president, kinky friedman for texas governor, spatulas, tree-hugging, bobble-head jesuses, free the children, africa, the rest of the world, whirlizations, moments of ecstasy, orgiastic rites, eccentric people, intellectual orgasms, reciting poetry from the tops of telephone booths

• writing
• poetry
• blues
• parks

Música, películas y libros

MUSIC:
jimi hendrix, john coltrane, bob dylan, charles mingus, leonard cohen, radiohead, velvet underground, dead kennedys, the clash, rolling stones, janis joplin, thelonius monk, public enemy, gil scott heron, skip james, robert johnson, reverend gary davis, bukka white, howlin' wolf, mississippi john hurt, al green, curtis mayfield, beck, utah phillips, sonic youth, john frusciante, iggy and the stooges, patti smith, blind melon, smashing pumpkins, space needle, neutral milk hotel, olivia tremor control, violent femmes, joy division, television, pixies, ani difranco, talking heads, the residents, tom waits, bongwater, aphex twin, my bloody valentine, yeah yeah yeahs, galaxie 500, t rex, spiritualized, charles manson

MOVIES:
American Beauty, The Big Lebowski, Almost Famous, Apocalypse Now, The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Being John Malkovich, Boys Don't Cry, Do the Right Thing, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Broken Flowers, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, Hotel Rwanda, Igby Goes Down Jesus' Son, Man on the Moon, Mysterious Skin, Requiem For a Dream, SLC Punk!, The Squid and the Whale, Mouchette, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Taxi Driver, The Last Temptation of Christ, Waking Life, I Am Cuba

BOOKS:
James Baldwin is my prophet. Bob Kaufman is the greatest poet ever to emanate from this earth. Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness is his best collection. Gimme some Ginsburg, Corso, Kerouac too anyday. Catullus was the first blues singer. Bukowski follows in his footsteps quite nicely. ee cummings, william carlos williams, dunbar, rilke, langston hughes, garcia lorca, walt whitman, jim carroll, rumi. Books? great gatsby, confederacy of dunces, The Buddha of Suburbia, adventures of huckleberry finn, The Dreamers, Rule of the Bone, The Bluest Eye, Finnegan's Wake, Go Tell It On the Mountain, Giovanni's Room, Ready For Revolution (stokely carmichael's autobiography), Souls of Black Folks, writings of Martin Luther King, cornel west, Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire, Soul On Ice, and yes the fucking Communist Manifesto though I'm less dogmatic than I used to be

Algo increíble que he hecho

i started a lightning storm with a pair of plastic spatulas.

Países que he visitado

India, Italy, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda

Países en los que he vivido

United States