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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