Who Are You?: FLAtRich,
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flatrich@flatdisk.net
Where Are You?: Hollywood (but after the first ten years its not what it seems like in old B&W movies) What Are You?: Strange aging guy.. What do you make?: art things, music, fun of life What do you love?: stimulation What do you hate?: apathy What do you listen to?: everything, but jazz (straight ahead) is best. rock seems to be floundering (always). classical is. silence is almost impossible here, but that's nice too. What do you watch?: people. tv. movies. reflections. rain (rare here too). What do you drink?: coffee. diet coke. bottled water. Guinness sometimes. What do you smoke?: 6 Pall Malls a day (down fom thousands). once a year I go to Oregon and smoke as much marijuana as I can (down from habituate). I'm a controlled abuser nowadays. What do you take?: it easy. What do you believe in?: truth. justice. the American way. When We Were 16 Where were you?: in New Jersey.What were you?: middle class high school student teenage musician and sometime poet. a reader. a fool sometimes as well. What did you wear?: blue jeans. What did you listen to?: everything. Phil Spector stuff. (Beatles/Stones were a year away.) Little Richard. Ray Charles. Bo Diddley. Dylan. Mingus. Monk (everything).. What did you watch?: people. girls. tv. movies. What did you love?: sex. science fiction. music. the stars. What did you hate?: racism. lies. What did you drink?: everything. anything. (Vodka and Wink - shudder to think.) What did you smoke?: Marlboros - a pack a day. (Pot was a couple years away.) What did you take?: life for granted. women (girls) for granted. the bus to NYC as often as possible. What did you want to be?: writer. musician. dead at 19. Who did you fight?: anyone who insisted, as little as possible I suppose. Who/What did you believe in?: Theodore Sturgeon. Ray Bradbury. Thelonius Monk. the possiblilty of getting off-planet in my lifetime should I exceed the 19 years mentioned above. Where did you go?: everywhere I had time to go. I'm still travelling. What did you learn?: to doubt not to doubt. to believe not to believe. to be who you are eventually. (sounds trendy, but what doesn't).. |