Kevin Wright

Writer

Music, poetry, travel, reading, drawing, painting, record hunting, riding subways

Shakespeare, Frankenstein, Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, Bell Jar, Gatsby, Moby Dick, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, John Keats, Dostoyevsky, Poe, Chandler, Hammett, Hemingway, Hart Crane, Gary Snyder, Brenda Hillman, James Baldwin, Harold Bloom, Haiku

Quotable comedies and, conversely, silent movies

Beat Happening, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, Leonard Cohen, Aislers Set, Cocteau Twins, Low, My Bloody Valentine, Howlin' Wolf, John Coltrane, Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Joao Gilberto, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Frank Sinatra, Scientist, Cure, Smiths, Belle & Sebastian, Damon & Naomi, Windy & Carl, Radiohead, Flaming Lips, the Softies, 3-Mile Pilot, Henry's Dress, Microphones, Bowery Electric, Yo La Tengo, Nick Drake, Willie Nelson, Bauhaus, Kinks, Beach Boys, Slowdive, Hieroglyphics, Jurassic 5, Hope Sandoval, Sol Ho'opi, Johnny Cash, Robert Johnson, Tortoise, Jesus & Mary Chain, King Tubby, Gang of Four, surf, Hawaiian, garage rock, hard bop

Twilight Zone, Scooby Doo

A friend recently said this about me: "I can't go into all the reasons why I think your are brilliantly smart without first extolling in your virtues, among one of them, you are observant. Secondly, you can articulate those observations beautifully, and in a variety of ways. Lastly, you are passionately perverse and that's interesting, if not exciting."

Freaky beatniks, misanthropes, miscreants, malcontents, bookworms, geeks, nerds, smark aleks, sarcasm detectors, savants, self-destructive types, raconteurs, ex-jailbaiters, party-poopers, people who make my soda consumption seem less raging, neo-hippies, post-punks, former goths, depressives, Leonard Cohen groupies, teachers, librarians and people with Scottish accents.