dylan

• Age: 40
• Gender: Male
• Astrological Sign: Gemini
• Zodiac Year: Rooster
• Location: Middlesex County : Massachusetts : United States

About Me

I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.

Theodore Roethke (1908-63)

Interests

• politics
• poetry
• the things above
• October
• November
• December
• darkness
• daydreams
• dolce far niente
• Dylan Thomas
• E E Cummings
• foliage
• Harvard Square
• coffee
• gin martinis
• hope
• joy
• Shakespeare
• silence
• sleep
• snow
• surrealism
• Theodore Roethke
• Tracy Chapman
• used bookstores
• Venus and Serena

Favorite Movies

• The Philadelphia Story
• Johnny Stecchino
• The Grass Is Greener
• Arthur
• Henry V
• (Kenneth Branagh -- 1989)
• 84 Charing Cross Road

Favorite Music

• Tracy Chapman
• The Beatles
• Van Morrison's Moondance
• Mozart's Requiem
• Schubert's Ave Maria
• Christmas carols
• The Smiths
• (but not Morrissey solo)
• '60s
• '70s
• '80s
• anything I heard on AM radio before the age of seven

Favorite Books

• Dylan Thomas
• Theodore Roethke
• Shakespeare
• E E Cummings
• Emily Dickinson
• Wallace Stevens
• Thomas Merton
• (in small doses)
• Fr Benedict Groeschel
• Bishop Kallistos Ware
• Kathleen Norris
• (sometimes)
• C S Lewis
• Oscar Wilde
• Stephen Fry
• Marianne Moore
• The Holy Bible
• (with the deuterocanonical books!)
• Mary Oliver