Michael Leddy

• Location: United States

About Me

“Orange Crate Art” is a song by Van Dyke Parks and the title of a 1995 album by Van Dyke Parks and Brian Wilson. It is, to my mind, one of the great American songs. “Orange crate art was a place to start.”

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Interests

• blues
• Brooklyn
• fountain pens
• garlic
• Getting Things Done
• grammar
• guitar
• index cards
• ink
• jazz
• language
• memory
• metaphor
• misspellings
• modern American poetry
• Moleskine
• paper
• pencils
• punctuation
• red wine
• words
• writing

Favorite Movies

• American Splendor
• The Apartment
• The Asphalt Jungle
• The Best Years of Our Lives
• Carnival of Souls
• City Lights
• Lost in Translation
• My Dinner with André
• Mystery Train
• Shadow of a Doubt
• Sideways
• Smoke
• Sullivan's Travels
• Sunset Boulevard
• Vertigo
• Waiting for Guffman

Favorite Music

• Art Ensemble of Chicago
• Louis Armstrong
• J.S. Bach
• The Beach Boys
• The Beatles
• Bix Beiderbecke
• Blind Blake
• Canned Heat
• Duke Ellington
• Elaine Fine
• Glenn Gould
• Earl Hines
• Billie Holiday
• Skip James
• Eddie Lang
• Charles Mingus
• Thelonious Monk
• Van Dyke Parks
• Francis Poulenc
• Art Tatum
• Joe Venuti
• Ben Webster
• Brian Wilson

Favorite Books

• Guillaume Apollinaire
• John Ashbery
• Ted Berrigan
• Willa Cather
• Robert Creeley
• Emily Dickinson
• William Faulkner
• Homer
• Kenneth Koch
• Joseph Mitchell
• Vladimir Nabokov
• Lorine Niedecker
• Frank O'Hara
• Ron Padgett
• Marcel Proust
• Sappho
• David Schubert
• James Schuyler
• William Carlos Williams

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