Slampo

• Gender: Male
• Occupation: Global adventurer

About Me

Slampo lives and drives in Houston, Texas, but one day he's goin' up the country to make a pallet on the floor. He can be reached at slampo414@earthlink.net and will respond sooner or later.

Try writing your name with your other hand. Where was that person raised?

East of Eden, Across 110th Street

Interests

• Community
• class
• race & ethnicity
• globalism and its discontents
• the landscape (natural and man-made)
• family
• parenthood
• perception and reality
• God time and causality
• a good night's sleep

Favorite Movies

• Citizen Kane
• The Searchers
• The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
• Rules of the Game
• Grand Illusion
• The Killing
• The Miracle of Morgan's Creek
• Palm Beach Story
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
• Chinatown
• Caddy Shack
• Birth of a Nation
• Tarzan's New York Adventure
• Shaft in Africa

Favorite Music

• Blonde on Blonde
• Highway 61 Revisited
• Blood on the Tracks
• Astral Weeks
• Notorious Byrd Brothers
• 12x5
• Between the Buttons
• Beggar's Banquet
• Music from Big Pink
• Pet Sounds
• Velvet Underground Loaded
• James Brown Live at the Apollo
• Who's Next
• Dictators Go Girl Crazy!
• Al Green's Greatest Hits
• Blues and Roots
• Kind of Blue
• Way Out West
• A Love Supreme
• Mavericks (P. Holsapple and C. Stamey)
• Evergreen Boy (S. Forbert)
• Summerteeth (Wilco)
• Summerland (Jon Dee Graham)
• Summer=A Buttload of Fun (The Stankin' Buttloads)

Favorite Books

• Edmund Wilson
• Christopher Lasch
• Murray Kempton
• Faulkner
• Hemingway
• Fitzgerald
• Melville
• Hawthorne
• Hammett
• Chandler
• James M. Cain
• Pynchon
• Charles Portis
• Nathanael West
• pre-1970 Norman Mailer
• Tosches
• Meltzer
• the Old Testament
• Fowler's Modern English Usage

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