Learn it, Live It
Today is
There will be rooms more conducive to dreams than any drug,
and houses where one cannot help but love.
-Ivan Chtcheglov, Formulary for a New Urbanism

Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry Ohio   In the Shreve High football stadium, I think of Polacks nursing long beers in Tiltonsville, And gray faces of Negroes in the blast furnace at Benwood, And the ruptured night watchman of Wheeling Steel, Dreaming of heroes. All the proud fathers are ashamed to go home. Their women cluck like starved pullets, Dying for love. Therefore, Their sons grow suicidally beautiful At the beginning of October, And gallop terribly against each other's bodies. -James Wright	“It's a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have enemies.” -Che Guevara	Counting Small Boned Bodies   Let's count the bodies over again. If we could only make the bodies smaller, The size of skulls, We could make a whole plain white with skulls in the moonlight. If we could only make the bodies smaller, Maybe we could get A whole year's kill in front of us on a desk. If we could only make the bodies smaller, We could fit A body into a finger ring, for a keepsake forever. -Robert Bly

Hobbies

Race Car Before	Race Car After MORE PICS	After Racing to Vegas	Classique Convertible
	MY FORMER CAR - 2006 Toyota Prius           Goin' Green And the latest - 2016 Volvo S60 sport edition

Some Favorite Expressions

I'd also like to say...

Some of my favorite musicians/albums...

Frankie Sinatra (The Chairman OTB), RAY CHARLES, Al Jolson, BENNY GOODMAN, Roy Orbison, Judy Garland, Chubby Checker, Satchmo (Louie A.), ELVIS PRESLEY, Bobby Fuller Four, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Bob Dylan, Procol Harum, THE BEATLES ("Abbey Road"), JIMI HENDRIX, Grateful Dead, THE DOORS, LES ROLLING STONES ("Exile on Main Street"), Eric Clapton, Cream, War, The Moody Blues, The Mamas and the Papas, Player, Bob Marley ATW, DAVID BOWIE ("Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars"), Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, some Beach Boys, Three Dog Night, Earth Wind & Fire, some Jackson 5, Barry White, Marvin Gaye, The Delfonics, Anita Ward, Jean Knight, The Staple Sisters, Aretha Franklin, Hot Chocolate, Diana Ross, KC & the Sunshine Band, Carol Douglas, George McRae, Evelyn Champagne, the Bee Gees, The Tramps, Fifth Dimension, Nancy Sinatra's Boots were Made for Walkin' all over YOU, some Yvonne Elliman, some Walter Egan, some Night Ranger, some Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Gordon Lightfoot, THE WHO, The Kinks, Small Faces, The Monkees, Van Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Neil Young, Patty Smyth, Nico and the Velvet Underground, Santana, LED ZEPPELIN, Cheap Trick, tiny bit of Def Leppard, a little Deep Purple, Kate Bush, Nina Hagen, a little Chicago, Elton John, Billy Joel, Cat Stevens, Stevie Wonder, Jim Carroll Band, HUMAN LEAGUE, Sex Pistols, Black Flag, THE CLASH, Social Distortion, Buzzcocks, Violent Femmes, THE RAMONES, Dead Kennedys, X, Circle Jerks, E.L.O., KISS (A little glam rock is good for the soul), Felony, The B-52s, Soft Cell, Thomas Dolby, Wall of Voodoo, Fun Boy Three, Peter Gabriel, Adam and the Ants, Spandau Ballet, Siouxsee and the Banshees, Blondie, THE CURE, ABC, Psychedelic Furs, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Culture Club, Duran Duran, some INXS, Roxy Music, Candy Duesler, THE POLICE, Madonna, JOY DIVISION, Bauhaus, Durutti Column, Happy Mondays, A Guy Called Gerald, 808 State, Selector, Madness, English Beat, BILLY IDOL, The Flaming Hibachis, Simply Red, The Beat, Simple Minds, The Nails, Men at Work, PRINCE, Split Endz, Go Gos, some Belinda Carlisle, some Sade, Howard Jones, Talking Heads, Peter Murphy, DFX2, some Tears for Fears, Basia, some Oingo Boingo, Flock of Seagulls (no, j/k), some Tracy Chapman, some Debbie Gibson, Depeche Mode, R.E.M., New Order, Cocteau Twins, Chris Isaak, Don Chery, No Doubt, U2, Lit, Yaz, Trio, Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, Gypsy Kings, Heaven 17, Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark (OMD), The Residents, Payolas, Echo & the Bunnymen, Cranberries, Lenny Kravitz, Jeff Buckley, some Tina Turner, Soul 2 Soul, The Black Crows, Ian McCulloch, Counting Crows, 10,000 Maniacs, Natalie Merchant, THE CULT, G 'n' R, The Smiths, Roxette Joyride, Gene Loves Jezebel, Bryan Ferry, The Alarm, Sainte Etienne, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, Blind Melon, Faith No More, GARBAGE, Jane's Addiction, Skinny Puppy, The Wonder Stuff, Wallflowers, Filter, Soundgarden, Deee-Lite, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, GODSMACK, L7, Gwen Stefano, Beck, Offspring, The Replacements, some Ace of Base, Infinity, Goo Goo Dolls, Creed, Chemical Bros, Korn, Everclear, Everlast, Weezer, Bush, Salome De Bahia, Marcy Playground, Sonic Youth, Semisonic, Concrete Blonde, MC 900 Foot Jesus, Soul Asylum, The Smashing Pumpkins, NINE INCH NAILS, Dmitri from Paris, some Limp Bizkit, Portishead, Primitive Radio Gods, some Dinosaur, Jr., Sublime, Cult of Snap, MARILYN MANSON, Rebel Rebel, Type O Negative, some Sugar Ray, Beastie Boys, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, Suicidal Tendencies, Hootie and the Blowfish, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Butthole Surfers, SOME Blink 182 (okay well actually Blink kinda sucks let's face it), some Jill Scott, 3 Doors Down, Dave Matthews band, Unwritten Law, ALICE IN CHAINS, Kid Rock, Radiohead, Verve, Vertical Horizon, some Britney Spears (face it, you like her too), Rage Against the Machine, Fiona Apple, Sarah McLachlan, Incubus, some Shakira, some Pink, New Radicals, RadioHead, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Alice Deejay, Moby, FUEL, Bah Samba, Sex With Lurch, Porno for Pyros, Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow, Macy Gray, Michelle Branch, Avril Lavigne, Les Savy Fav, Alkaline Trio, The Faint, Postal Service, Poppy Goodness, Murder City Devils, Evanescence, Crystal Method, One More Weekend, Cracker, some Jewel, a lil' Haddaway, Modjo, Alien Ant Farm, The Vines, Telepopmusik, some of The White Stripes, The Hives, Funky Homosapien, some All-American Rejects, a little Linkin Park, Andrew WK, some Good Charlotte, Strokes, Fatboy Slim, some Cold Play, Pennywise, Mars Volta, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Cursive, Superdrag, Kent, Interpol     Classical: Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Haydn, no neo-classical Danish please...lots of new music one hit wonder new bands...I had the #1 Radio Show in College so music is one of my loves...I love most ALL of it 'cept for most RAP I don't care for...well maybe SOME rap from Shaggy, 2-PAC, 50-cent, Snoop, Eminem (SLIM's pretty innovative), DMX, Dre...country: Only the oldest and best: Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Sr., Johnny Cash...hey I even like the cool whistle sound every time Clint Eastwood appears in IL BUONO, IL CATTIVO e IL BRUTTO

Just a Few Favorite Books, Plays and Poems

Wuthering Heights, Mrs. Dalloway, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Brave New World, The Great Gatsby, Animal Farm, The Catcher in the Rye, To Kill a Mockingbird, Clockwork Orange, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Koran, The Bible, Teachings of Buddha, "Julius Caesar," "Macbeth," "Hamlet," "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf," Jack Black's You Can't Win, Hemingway's In Our Time, Jean Paul Sartre's Huis Clos, Robert Graves' I, Claudius and Claudius the God, Jack Kerouac's On The Road, William S. Burroughs' Junky and Naked Lunch, Edward Norton's My Education as a Felon, occasional trashy book like Jeanne Parrent’s You’ll Never Make Love in This Town Again, Ovid's "Metamorphoses," Homer's "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey," Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” William Blake's “Heaven and Hell," Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn," William Wordsworth's "A Slumber did my Spirit Seal" and "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan,” Shelley’s “Ozymandius,” Pope's "Rape of the Lock," Beaudelaire's "Les Fleurs de Mal," T. S. Eliot’s “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” Wallace Stevens’ “Emperor of Ice Cream,” Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro," Stephen Crane’s “In the Desert,” WCW’s “The Red Wheelbarrow,” W. H. Auden’s “from In Time of War,” Robert Frost’s “The Road Less Traveled,” Allen Ginsburg's "A Supermarket in California" and "Howl,"

Favorite Movies

My Favorite Places