I am lanky, random, and lightly carbonated.
My Self-Summary
Hi. I work in words and love music (local original when possible),
musing, moving, playing, reading, silliness,
poetry readings. Irony and satire,
serious reflection, less serious distraction, the swamp, wandering
aimlessly, daydreaming, road trips. Good poetry. Great
wine and beer (but sometimes a
PBR in a dive bar/pool hall/bowling alley is perfection). Night
(cf. astronomy and insomnia).
Cooking, tasting, quiet, listening.
Science fascinates me poetically, but poetry doesn't fascinate me
scientifically.
Travel. Patience (quick to kindness and
slow to anger). Beauty. Art. Wilderness. Big cities. Exploring.
Politics mostly makes me sad, but I pay attention. I'm the quiet
type, generally, but not overly reticent.
What I’m doing with my life
I teach poetry and contemporary lit at VSU. Otherwise I'm enjoying
life in South Georgia, a spy from California. I write poetry and
the occasional essay and live music reviews for owlandbear.com .
I’m really good at
Cooking, wasting time in a wine shop or record store, baking
sourdough, finding porcini, chanterelles, and oyster mushrooms,
basketball, listening, being silly.
The first things people usually notice about me
Ya' know? I have no idea.
My favorite books, movies, music, and food
Califone,
Pavement,
Guided by
Voices,
Lemuria,
Surfer Blood,
Jenny Lewis or
Rilo Kiley,
Red Red Meat,
Built to Spill,
Los
Campesinos!,
Tom
Waits,
Yo La
Tengo,
Iron & Wine,
Neko Case
(and her various projects,
Drive-By Truckers,
Titus Andronicus,
Dirty
Projectors,
Pixies,
Guided by Voices,
Neutral Milk
Hotel,
Bowie,
Eno,
Joy Division,
Replacements, early
Devo, early prog (e.g. Peter
Gabriel's Genesis); locals
Ninja Gun,
No More Analog,
Trailer of Tears,
False
Arrest,
Blackula,
Night Driving in Small
Towns, and much, much more. My (sensesworking.blogspot.com web
site can fill you in some here.)
I teach lit, so lots of books. Read
Bob Hicok or
Kim Addonizio or
Larry Levis or
Philip
Levine or
Dorianne Laux or
Elena Karina
Byrne or
Heather McHughif you enjoy
poetry.
Samuel
Beckett is hilarious.
Food? Yes, comfort or spicy. I like to cook, bake pizza and bread,
curries, all Asian, Mex.
Movies:
Lynch and
Jarmusch should
give you an idea, so lots of independent films, but I'm flexible. I
also love B-movies.
The six things I could never do without
Good coffee, red wine, good food, music and lit, breathing.
I spend a lot of time thinking about
The nature of desire and consciousness, loss, laughter--the usual
poetry stuff. Otherwise, too much for a little box, but I'm not
obsessive about anything.
On a typical Friday night I am
At a house show listening to music and sipping a Guinness or
hanging out with colleagues bowling sipping a Guinness. (My
presence on OKC may suggest I'm open to alternatives.)
The most private thing I’m willing to admit here
I have a pair of gold lame' high heels and they fit.
You should message me if
If any of this interests. Random questions are encouraged and I
won't assume that, just because you messaged me, your intentions
are romantic.