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> I think that the 45 years of life leading up to my first publication were a big part of what made me able to write something worth publishing. "Before you ca
by breck 3y ago
> I think that the 45 years of life leading up to my first publication were a big part of what made me able to write something worth publishing.
"Before you can write the book, you have to be the book."
- hi-v-rocknroll 3y agoThe greatest concentration of interesting folks are the elderly on the fringes of society. If a writer ever wanted to find an ideal biography subject if they weren't the book, there is a demographic of sane, elderly, rough sleepers on each coast of America who have experienced more than the average person can possibly imagine.
- defrost 3y agoThe lead actor of Charlie's Country has an extensive biography that goes broader and deeper than many might expect. Just the Dennis Hopper stories alone make a tale worth telling.
- hi-v-rocknroll 3y agoNice. I think I've heard of that title. I've met a few gems amongst a cavalcade of colorful characters who perhaps could be captured fairly between pen and paper to record an echo of human splendor that should live beyond time. - A paranoid but happy and cynical gentleman with long, scraggly hair like a wizard from the Appalachias who was a military aircraft electrician and an Apple rework tech. Stories spanning every feeling with hilarious exaggerations for emphasis. - A former writer at big name NY newspaper, ex-hippie, and crab fisherman who had quite the life of drugs, women, and was part of it. Body might be shot, but a mind sharper than people who are 30 now without hyperbole. Knows where, when, and who of the cool spots of then and now. - You'd swear he was dangerous or black Santa Claus. Nope, sweetest and coolest guy in the world. Picking cotton, keeping out of trouble during times that were turbulent, elevator repair, and teaching.
- defrost 3y agoIt's a great little film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRJpcc5kDTg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRJpcc5kDTg starring https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gulpilil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gulpilil
- hi-v-rocknroll 3y agoHave to check that out. Good find!
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y agoDarn, one less backup career for me