Lally

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About me

Gender Male
Industry Arts
Occupation always a poet (in earlier years a musician, publisher/writer/reviewer/editor, film/TV actor/screenwriter/script "doctor" as well)
Location New Jersey, United States
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Introduction



MY LIFE 2

When I was 10,
I thought I was "Irish,"
even though I was
born in the USA.

When I was 20,
I thought I was "Black,"
even though my skin
is pink & freckled,
my hair is straight,
and I have no
African ancestry.

When I was 30,
I thought I was "queer,"
even though I was
married and had
two children, and
all my fantasies
& obsessions & com-
pulsions & attractions
were and had always
been about women.

When I was 40,
I thought I was a
"movie star," even
though the movies
were terrible, and
I was terrible in
them, and almost
no one knew them,
or who I might
have been in them.

When I was 50,
I thought I was
"enlightened," even
though I wasn't.

But of course I was
and am—enlightened,
as I was and still am
—an Irish-Black-
Queer-Movie-Star.
Interests all of it
Favorite Movies A few favorite movies: The Best Years of Our Lives, Casablanca, On The Waterfront, It's A Wonderful Life, The Big Sleep, Out Of The Past, Sullivan's Travels, Red River, The Quiet Man, A Hard Day's Night, The Commitments, Once, Point Grosse Blank...
Favorite Music Some favorite music makers: Sinatra, Monk, Miles, Coltrane, Bill Evans, The Beatles, Ahmad Jamal, John Lennon, Dylan, The Beach Boys, The Beastie Boys, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Dolphy, Van Morrison, Billie Holiday, Blondie, Celtic Thunder (the original Irish Trad band not the more recent PBS road show), Peter Case, Scott Buck, Stephan Wrembel, Spanish Kitchen, Mystery Pop, Bell Engine, Highland, Jordan Weller & the Feathers, Transmitters, etc.
Favorite Books Some favorite books: James Schuyler's The Morning of the Poem, Joe Brainard's I Remember, James Haining's A Quincy History, Mark Terrill's Bread & Fish, Harry E. Northup's Reunions, John Godfrey's Dabble, Terence Winch's Falling Out Of Bed In A Room With No Floor, Ray DiPalma's The Ancient Use of Stone, Ken McCullough's Obsidian Point, Yvonne de la Vega's Tomorrow Yvonne, Dale Herd's Early Morning Wind, Tim Dlugos's A Fast Life, Toby Thompson's The '60s Report, Robert Zuckerman's Kindsight, Simon Pettet's Hearth, Ted Greenwald's Clearview/Lie, Elinor Nauen's So Late Into the Night, and so many more...