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"Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe stick out in my mind. One halloween I was watching some biography on him and these actors did the whole re-enacting of that poem. (I've become quite obsessed with poetry video and is pretty mad there's not more...) That was my first spoken word experience also. The way that voice read the poem (whoever it was...) still stuck out in my mind and whenever I read that poem, I can hear that voice going through my head that chill goes down my spine. Nothing else ever touched me completely before or since...
Ok Q...
What piece of literature would you recommend to your enemies?
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Ah, yes, a classic in it's own write? heh http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/smile.gif
Ok, first Q:
What one poem is your absolute favorite poem?
Mine is Byron's Porphyria's Lover, you have to read it and if you know my...strange interests you'll understand http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/smile.gif
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~There are a great many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane.~
~Is that my hand in your pocket or am I just happy to see you?~
~You want me to dress up as Wonderwoman, tie you up in my golden lariat and make you tell the truth, don't you?~
~A super-calloused fragile mystic cursed with halitosis~ *prov. by Dano*
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Any self-help book. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/smile.gif
First book you remember reading?
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Branflakes. The Ninja Lesbian. The Milk Getter. The Hair Gel Getter. I get it all!
The one Necro calls "brain".
Call me what you want, just don't call me Blue Falcon or Branni.
I walk the path, trying not get pulled into the weeds.
"walking away, no longer running."--NecroFlash
"See that star...the one shining brighter than all the others? I know the girl who hung it there."
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logan's run. read it cover to cover in 3rd grade. i'm sure i read other books before that, but that's the first book i can name.
the first book i read that i still enjoy is probably watership down (also in 3rd grade). i still read it today and find new meaning every time.
describe the first piece of fiction or poetry you ever wrote.
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It was fiction, way back in elementary school at patterson Kennedy Elementary. I wrote this one story of a mad scientist and the haunted house. The reason that I remembered that was because one of my classmates accused me of plagarism. It wasn't copied or anything so I took it as a compliment even though I was mad at him for saying that it wasn't original. Can you believe that? Anyway, the question...
What is one piece of work that you wished you wrote?
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SiP, of course!
Or anything by Shakespeare (modernized, of course)
Or anything by Rilke.
Or the Chronicles of Narnia...
OOOOOOPSS
Did somebody say ONE piece?
Have you ever had a book/poem/etc. subtly rewire the circuitry in your brain?
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Well, if you mean completely changing my entire thought process as a whole, effectively altering who I am as a person and how I choose to live my life, I would say that The Tao of Pooh did that for me.
If you mean that the experience of reading something was a total head trip and mindfuck that left me dazed and confused, unable to fully comprehend the world about me, then I would say that On The Road did that. Sorry dwim, I think Kerouac is shit. Just one guy's opinion.
The first piece I ever wrote was a mother's day poem that I wrote in 2nd grade (my mom still has it and showed it to me last year). For an 8 year old, it's not bad.
When was the last time you did a reading in public, and did it go over well?
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in college when i was more into poetry and performance and all that i used to do impromptu spoken stuff at these wierd little amateur nights on campus. i only did a couple though. on the last one i went up and happened to tweak the foibles of a good friend of mine. it was part of a pseudo-poem. what i didn't know was that this guy was a manic depressive and prone to unpredictible reactions. from how i knew him, i thought he'd find it funny. as it happened, though, he never spoke to me again and sent me a letter explaining i was "talented" but that "the world is full of talented assholes." ouch. it still depresses me that i hurt him like that. i haven't read in public since, but the one doesn't really have anything to do with the other. i'm just not that interested in poetry as performance.
i can say i like jack kerouac, but IMO he's at his best when he's trying to be thomas wolfe (who was a HUGE influence on the big K's early stuff). and unfortunately, only the best of jack kerouac is better than average thomas wolfe.
tons of things have rewired my brain. catcher in the rye is an obvious choice, so i'd also like to mention dostoevsky's notes from underground. after reading that book, i began to recognize how many people consciously choose misery over happiness. i wouldn't be writing my characters the way i do now if not for that book.
and then there's people like frank o'hara and william blake who showed me how often the extraordinary is mistaken for the ordinary and vice-versa. but that's another story.
the first thing i ever wrote were these two or three page sci-fi adventures in third grade. they were, of course, very star wars-ish. at that time all i wanted to be was a paperback sci-fi writer.
ever try writing hard-core porn?
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Been there done that...and damn I've been posting as Dom in StP!!! AAAAHH!! Criminelly!! Oh, back to writing hardcore porn...I wasn't good at it because I like softcore stuff better....so it kinda scared me to write it. http://www.hostboard.com/ubb/smile.gif heh
Have you ever been sitting and reading what you thought was an innocent novel and then all of a sudden there's a really explicitly written love scene and some old people sit down on the bench across from you? (yes speaking from experience)
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uhm....scratches head...sorry, no, I haven't.
Hmmmm...I wonder if I could...(pause)...nahhh, I think I'll stick with writing characters that are one french short of a Happy Meal.
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Which book would you like to be made into the movie? And who is in the cast?
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Survivor,by Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)
Tender Branson-Phillip Seymore Hoffman (gay guy in Boogie Nights)
Fertillity Hollis- Chloe Sveigny
The Social Worker- Sigorny weaver (Alien)
Agent- Kevin Spacy
Adam Branson- Christian Bale
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Which character of any novel do you identify the most with?
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"Buona femina e mala femmina vuol bastone"- Nietzsche
(Good and bad women want a stick)
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Miral-yes. I had this friend who was really into romance novels, the really graphic ones. I, never had read one had to see what the fuss was all about. I picked one out in the library and sat down at a set of tables where all but mine were filled. I flipped through it and one of the more graphic scene that I've ever read popped out. I couldn't help but turn three shades of red and hoped that no one noticed what I was reading.
I put the book back too quick and picked up some music bio. Safe reading.
Tyler- Hmmmm...good question. I can't really identify with anyone character completely. There are some parts of certain characters that I see in myself. Like; Peter Pan's desire never to grow up, Ralph from "Lord of the Flies" and sense of fairness and order. While, I can feel for Tyler Durden's need to rebel and bring chaos in order to make sense onto himself, I also have Hamlet's melonchoy....I can go on forever....but I won't.
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What is your favorite fairy tale? Why?
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The Little Mermaid.
The origional version, as written by Hans.
I can't stand the disney version.
I love the way that the little mermaid grows from somebody who doesn't care who she hurts to get what she wants (leaves her family behind, etc), into someone who would rather sacrifice her own life, rather than hurt someone who hurt her (unintentionally). I can relate to the underlying theme, about how we are responsible for ourselves, and even though you love someone, that doesn't mean that they will love you. It's (of course) very sad, but much more realistic (in terms of human behavior) than most fairy tales. And it's coached in terms that a child really can relate to...
Hmm...
WHY do you write?
For me, it's a good way to release a lot of negative stuff (which is why most of my poetry has a basis in depression), or to bring some sort of meaning to my everyday existance (but you guys haven't read THAT stuff yet, or maybe some of what I'm doing on the STP board is related to that)....
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I write because of my creative energy needing an outlet. I can't paint, my drawing sucks somewhat. Ah well... I write for the pleasure it brings. I write because it good practice.
Somebody asked something about public readings. I do it whenever I can, anytime, anywhere. Why? It's a good way to test and see how people react to my writings.
Dano: I'm fully aware that On the Road may not have a plot. But this is why I'm a big fan of the book. I have a dream about riding cross country and I was able to live that through the book. Not only that, but I see it as a friendship bonding thing. It what I wished I could share with my best friend but we were never able to find the time and the money to just pick up and go. Through that book, I was able to imagine what it may have been like. (minus the stealing cars from under cops noses and just being able to talk girls into the bed and all that stealing gases from gas station though I do think it needs to be stolen these days esp. if they're over $1.50 per gallon.) But you got your opinion.
*albeit however a sucked opinion heh*
Dano: What that?
I just said see how cute this cat is? heh...
ahem the question:
What book had inspired you to make the most of your life?
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Makes Me Wanna Holler by Nathan Mcall.
Whose writing style do you hate the most?
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In the near future, you can imagine every big evening will begin hours earlier with you getting sucked on by different appliances, each of them making some part of you bigger for a few hours. The whole evening will then be a race to get naked and accomplish some lovin? before your parts snap back to their original sizes. -Oragami Lips
"Buona femina e mala femmina vuol bastone"- Nietzsche
(Good and bad women want a stick)
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Hhhmmm... tough to pin down. Kerouac drives me nuts. So does Wm. Burroughs. And then of course there's the 'journalists' involved in periodicals such as People and Us magazines. Oh, there's so much hate balled up inside me, I can't direct it properly.
If there was a book that you could spend one day as an active participant in, what would it be?
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The Lions of Al-Rassan... (Guy Gavriel Kay)
The characters in that book are SO cool... Funny, tragic, human, and larger than life, but also very down to earth...
Sci-Fi/Fantacy, or true-to-life fiction (in general, and why)
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Either one. I liked Brave New World and 1984 those, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy I plan to start reading, are about as sci-fi as I get.
Who is your favorite antagonist?
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Steven King's the Walkin' Dude from The Stand... *shivers*
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What book did you last get lost in?
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gone with the wind (if you can believe that). great story. sucked me in like a hoover. though inspired by (and in many ways paralleling) war & peace, i consider it the definitive american epic.
which gives me an idea for the next question:
what is the great american novel (that is, if it's even been written yet)? my picks are the aforementioned GWTW or catcher in the rye. what's yours?
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White Fang by jack London. It's a very simple story about this wolf going from the wilds to the tame, along the way of abusive owners to dog fights until finally getting a master that was nice to him that the wolf decided to stay with him. A really great novel too.
Dano: I agree with you on Wm. Burroughs. That guy is NUTS!!! I tried reading the soft machine and I couldn't get past three chapters. I was totally lost, no plot at all even and I didn't see any reason why he even wrote that book or even bothered writing or whatever. jack at least had something to write about (ie cross country trips, buddhism, the people he knows, the happenings in his life) and it's at least all come together in the end and I can follow what he wrote. Now my fave poet is Lawrence Ferlinghetti. That guy is good.
Anyway, now a question:
Who is your favorite poet?
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there are of course many contenders. among americans: william carlos williams, frank o'hara and walt whitman spring to mind; among the english: milton, chaucer and shelley. but then there's all those russians like mayakovsky, pushkin and esenin. and what about all those basho haikus i love so much?
beyond all those guys, however, lies the extraordinary vision of william blake. yeah, i'll go with him. he's my favorite poet. next question?
who's your favorite writer who writes in english but is neither american nor british?
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Jorge Luis Borges. Amazing stuff, wunnerful, wunnerful.
My favorite antagonist would definitely be Cirin, a character from Mothers & Daughters, a nice little serial novel that I'm sure none of you have read.
Yes, I have written hard-core porn. Not very good, but like it really needs to be good.
Who among contemporary authors do you feel has the best chance of long-term (like, centuries) success?
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I'd have to say Neal Stephenson all his stuff is good.
What past writer do you wish was still alive and writing?
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Ski
Last of the Freelance Drinkers
Greatest sword fighter in Michigan
The man in the black Trans Am
Miral's Slave
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Richard Brautigan. although i have to say that he's one of those writers who i just knew was dead before i even read the 'about the author' part.
who's your favorite anti-hero?
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Sometimes i think everyone on this board is crazy. The rest of the time i'm sure.
-Dan :)
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Michael Valentine Smith.
Have you ever read a book written purely from the villain's perspective?
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I think one of Edgar Allen Poe's was. Telltale Heart, I think.
What's the longest book you've ever read?
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Branflakes, the ninja lesbian milk getter.
The one called "brain".
I walk the path, trying not to get pulled into the weeds.
God never gives us more than we can handle.
"See that star...the one shining brighter than all the others? I know the girl who hung it there."
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The Mists of Avalon...
*side note, if anyone's read that, and MZB's other stuff, please let me know if it seems to you like she was either channeling Mists, or having it ghostwritten...*
Question:
What's your favorite version of the Arthur legend (book, play, movie, whatever...)
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I found a Merlin comic once. I tried reading a Merlin novel but couldn't get into it. Now I like this movie called Camelot. That was good. So I'll go with that.
what's your fave legend or myth to read about?
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i tend to stick with the standards on that: arthurian, greek and norse legends. love 'em all. my favorite arthurian legend is probably tristan & iseult.
my favorite version of the arthurian legend would be (in descending order)
malory's morte d'arthur
t.h. white's the once and future king
python's holy grail
i think the longest single book i ever read is war & peace. i'd say it was worth the effort except for two things: (1) most of it didn't take much effort after page twenty or so. it's that good a story. (2) the epilogue (last 50 pages) is comprised mostly of tolstoy's meditations on history. i agree with everything he says (in a nutshell: that history is driven more by people as an aggregate than individuals), but it wasn't really worth the effort to slog through it. if you ever read war & peace, just skim or skip the epilogue. you're not missing anything.
is the closet drama (a play written to be read rather than staged) a valid form of literature? ever written a play? (closet or otherwise)
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If it communicates what it is meant to, it is valid. If it makes you think, it is valid. Hell, even if it just makes you giggle maniacly, then again, it is valid...
Never written a play. Plots required this thing I've heard about? It's called an attention span?
Stephen King: Good writer?
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Yes! Reason I'm such a fan of his? His characters are very real. While their situations are quite fantastic, the way the characters react and act are always very true. And, the endings are always appropriate, if not the one you sometimes want.
Should any book ever be banned?
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Branflakes, the ninja lesbian milk getter.
The one called "brain".
I walk the path, trying not to get pulled into the weeds.
God never gives us more than we can handle.
"See that star...the one shining brighter than all the others? I know the girl who hung it there."
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i can't think of any book i'd want banned outright. but if were, say, a librarian, i would probably not keep the following books on the shelves:
the bell curve, Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray
the turner diaries, andrew macdonald
beyond good & evil, friedrich nietzche
anything by swedenborg
katherine hepburn's me
ever had something you wrote be completely misinterpreted?
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Yep. My dad read All Stories Are True and accused me of writing porn.
I've written a play. Not so good. Let's not go there.
No, no books should be banned by the government, but individual libraries should definitely be able to have opinions on this subject. As far as I'm concerned, it's no different then a restaurant choosing to not offer a particular menu item.
My favorite telling of the legend of Arthur is probably this book I read in HS, the title and author of which I can't remember. It had a green cover though. Paperback, really long (400+ pages with itsy-bitsy typeface).
I can't think of a good question, so I'll as a bad one... What is the book you remember earliest having read yourself?
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Ha, funny Jones should ask that question, I just posted somehitng that will probbaly be misinterpreted.
I love Beyond Good and Evil. Neitzsche is a frickin genius. I recomend The Anti-Christ and Twilight of Idols.
The earliest book I remember reading is Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. Unbelievable book even for a childs story.
What story scared you the most? What story made you laugh the most?
My answer for both is American Psycho. But I have to say Catcher in the Rye is pretty godamn close to being a runner up.
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In the near future, you can imagine every big evening will begin hours earlier with you getting sucked on by different appliances, each of them making some part of you bigger for a few hours. The whole evening will then be a race to get naked and accomplish some lovin? before your parts snap back to their original sizes. -Oragami Lips
"Buona femina e mala femmina vuol bastone"- Nietzsche
(Good and bad women want a stick)
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Scared me: The Sun Dog by Stephen King. To this day I can't reread that story (novella in his Four Past Midnight collection).
Laughed: Fried Green Tomatoes At The Whistle Stop Cafe. Funny, funny book.
Earliest book: my memory is kinda fuzzy, but one of the Nancy Drew ones, I think.
What's the shortest book you ever read?
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Branflakes, the ninja lesbian milk getter.
The one called "brain".
I walk the path, trying not to get pulled into the weeds.
God never gives us more than we can handle.
"See that star...the one shining brighter than all the others? I know the girl who hung it there."
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The man and The Sea by Hemingway.
Note on neitzche: i saw a bumber sticker where it went
God is dead
-Neitzche
Neitzche is dead
-God
I was laughing. it made my day.
What's the cheapest you've ever paid for a book?
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34 cents.
I bought a copy of 1984 from a vintage book store, and it was half off for all books. The book was a really old copy (When I buy classics I buy old editions of them, force of habit) and it was normally 64 cents. Great deal huh?
Have you ever read a book that was extremly difficult to find?
I had a rough time finding Fight Club, American Psycho, and The Anti-Christ (Neitszche). Godamn censors.
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In the near future, you can imagine every big evening will begin hours earlier with you getting sucked on by different appliances, each of them making some part of you bigger for a few hours. The whole evening will then be a race to get naked and accomplish some lovin? before your parts snap back to their original sizes. -Oragami Lips
"Buona femina e mala femmina vuol bastone"- Nietzsche
(Good and bad women want a stick)
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My Strangers in Paradise TPB were the hardest to hunt down. It took me MONTHS to complete the collection. And me an addict. Torture.
Short stories or novels, or does it depend and why?
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don't know the name. don't even have a single favorite. i guess it would be whoever writes all those silly bondage porn stories i find on deja-news.
btw: anybody ever heard of "slash fiction"? it's a little known genre of fan fiction in which amateur writers produce stories about their favorite male tv characters having sex. it actually got its start back in the seventies when bored housewives (slash fiction writers are almost exclusively female, believe it or not) started writing about homosexual encounters between kirk and spock and publishing them in fringe trek zines. when similar stories began circulating on the net, they were identified to those "in the know" with "K/S" in the header. nowadays, kirk/spock stories are still a mainstay but have been supplanted from primacy by stories involving (get this) agent fox mulder and fbi assistant director walter skinner (swear to god i'm not making this up). encounters between mulder and krycek occupy the number two spot.
but the real reason i'm posting is to tell crazy a that the book he's thinking of is called tales for the midnight hour, which (now that i remember it) is probably the first book i ever read. other stories in the book include "the velvet collar" (about a woman who gets her head cut off) and something about a museum guard who falls under a spell and seals himself inside a sarcophagus... or something like that. damn, i wish i still had my copy. it had a skeleton on the front and everything.
i will now do the dance of the lonely skeleton.
what's your favorite book of the bible?
(mine's Job, followed closely by Ecclesiastes -- beautiful poetry in both)
