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- Are you an Author, Reader, Publisher, Editor, Agent or Other?
- I'm an author of sorts. My official contribution so far is having written the forward to Breakout, by L Richard Wright. My work is yet "undiscovered" and my MS of poetry needs a publisher. Other MS's in the works. In the mean time, I continue to polish my work, create more pieces and study what what publishers would be best suited for my type of writing.
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- Yvon's Myspace.
- About Me:
- My words come from my nomadic intelligence where I witness something, gather a thought, image, concept or vibe-then I obsess over it until my mind makes me put it down on paper. I enjoy blurring word, imagery and music with disperate topics from multiple walks of life and perception.
Much of my time is spent with my wonderful daughter Anais and supportive wife Chrissie.
My being a family man makes private or public time very limitted. Therefore, time outside is an adventure and much richer. Thankfully nothing is taken for granted.
- Favorite Books:
- Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison; Movable Feast, Hemmingway; On the Road, Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac; Howl, A. Ginsberg; Dubliners, Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man, J. Joyce; Candide, Voltaire; etc.
- Favorite Bookstores on land or cyberspace
- Book Barn in Niantic Connecticut
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Sleepless in West Haven
I lay in bed listening to classical music that is supposed to sooth the savage breast or lift the spirit. My mind is taunted by its tension. Its ployed beauty is forced and emotionally wrought by melancholy string sections, apt at mathematical leaps and dissension in timing. I want sleep but I can't have it.
My wife wraps her leg around my right leg and this brings comfort in its warmth and familiarity. She covers my right side, nuzzling. Minutes pass. The television is still on. I figure if sh… Continue
My wife wraps her leg around my right leg and this brings comfort in its warmth and familiarity. She covers my right side, nuzzling. Minutes pass. The television is still on. I figure if sh… Continue
Posted on September 24, 2007 at 10:08am —
Franks Garage
There he stood in front of Franks Tire & Scrap shop, green overalls and talking with men who’d been doing this and saying the same things twenty years prior to his birth.
Now he stood with half-interest and a polite smile from church days of childhood. The promise of youth now slightly muted by misguided choices and minimized faith. The potential one could see in youth once masked him from a riddled world, intimating an unlimited future. Taking it all in his thought flew.
The wrangled slan… Continue
Now he stood with half-interest and a polite smile from church days of childhood. The promise of youth now slightly muted by misguided choices and minimized faith. The potential one could see in youth once masked him from a riddled world, intimating an unlimited future. Taking it all in his thought flew.
The wrangled slan… Continue
Posted on September 24, 2007 at 10:03am —
Sleepless in West Haven
I lay in bed listening to classical music that is supposed to sooth the savage breast or lift the spirit. My mind is taunted by its tension. Its ployed beauty is forced and emotionally wrought by melancholy string sections, apt at mathematical leaps and dissension in timing. I want sleep but I can't have it.
My wife wraps her leg around my right leg and this brings comfort in its warmth and familiarity. She covers my right side, nuzzling. Minutes pass. The television is still on. I figure if sh… Continue
My wife wraps her leg around my right leg and this brings comfort in its warmth and familiarity. She covers my right side, nuzzling. Minutes pass. The television is still on. I figure if sh… Continue
Posted on September 24, 2007 at 9:51am —
Yellow Paint
Canary sunset on white sand stolen from the goddess of a tropical island. Mango banana light layered on this abode, layers brushed by many hands.
Silence exudes from this lemon surface with empty windows wide, split clapboard showing bottomless slits where paint never hid, pillows untouched on an empty bed. A chimney with no smoke and a train track where trains never stop.
A porter with memories of that same house when… Continue
Posted on July 30, 2007 at 8:35pm —
Shopping at 1:15AM
Only one register was open. He placed his items on the conveyor belt in a line. Each piece stood at attention. There were 11 items in all. Why did he place them so? Was this the count of all he was able to buy with the money he had? Or maybe it was his statement of existence.
“I claim this space as mine; I exist and dare you to ask me to make room because I will not move,” much like inner city people who meander into traffic walking slowly as if contemplating something removed.
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“I claim this space as mine; I exist and dare you to ask me to make room because I will not move,” much like inner city people who meander into traffic walking slowly as if contemplating something removed.
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Posted on July 23, 2007 at 3:45pm —
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Slides, Anyone?
I added a few slides of my books to my blogspot. I'm not sure yet if they should stay on or not.Do you have more trouble loading my blogspot with the slides up? Do you like them or are they too distracting?
A Christmas Tree Already
On the way home from work yesterday, I passed a house that already had a lighted and decorated Christmas tree up and showing by the window.Is it not too soon for that? In my mind, the day after Thanksgiving is when the Christmas Season starts. That's when it's fair game to put up a tree and decorations and start shopping. The way things are going this year, I'll be lucky if I get organized enough to decorate a few days before Christmas.
With our dog, Rascal, who lives up to her name, we'll probably go with a fiber optic small tree on top of an end table. One of these days I may pull put the larger tree from the box in the basement and set it up, but not until our doggy is a little more sedate. I don't feel like chasing her to get ornaments out of her mouth. I will be putting up knick knacks, lights inside and decorations on the walls, so it will still look Christmasy. No lights outside because for some reason we have no outlets outside.
While we're on the subject of Christmas trees and such, be sure to add holidays in your books. You can mention decorations and lights or Easter eggs and baskets, or even mattress sales in your descriptions to ground the reader as to the season.
Now, back to that tree I saw. What about you? When do you decorate for Christmas? What do you put up?
Winners and Losers at the CMAs and Life
I love country music and almost every country performer. While watching the CMAs, I enjoyed seeing the winners accept their awards. On the other hand, it was hard for me to see the losers do their best to appear gracious and for the most part succeeding.For every winner, there's a loser. In life and in books, it's the same way. How people react to their good and bad fortune shows what their characters are made of. You don't have to tell a reader who the good guy or bad guy is. Let their actions speak for themselves. The readers are smart enough to figure it out.
PS Can't finish this blog without saying - You Rock, Taylor Swift! You are one smart, talented teenager! Congrats on all your awards, especially, Entertainer of the Year!!!
CMA Awards Tonight and Twitter
One of my favorite shows is on tonight - the CMA Awards. If you're a country music fan, you're probably like me and will be glued to the TV 8pm EST, or in my case 7pm, in the flatlands of Illinois.Almost all my favorite performers will be there, except I hear that Rascal Flatts can't make it.
I'll be on Twitter during the show also. That's part of the fun of it - discussing and dissecting outfits, performers, songs and even commercials, kind of like I'm at a giant party with people who all go for the same thing and want to share.
What about you? What kind of music do you like? Do you tweet during a favorite show or event?
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Depth psychology isn't really much to do with abnormal psychology. I believe you could get a basic idea of depth psychology from my book, Scumbag Sewer Rats. I attribute Jung's concept of the collective unconscious and the archetypes to criminalized drug addicts. The field of depth psychology is so big that you would need to absorb it piecemeal or a little at a time. Some of it is very difficult to understand, even for me, so an introductory level book like mine would give you a partial introduction to one of the biggest facets of depth psychology.
John
Depth psychology is the psychology of the unconscious and there are only two schools where degrees are available. Depth psychology started with Freud and Jung and psychoanalysis. It has since been developed and comprises facets of philosophy, anthropology, phenomenology, and more. Good hearing from you.
John
I have my pdf out there. Does that mean I've e-published? Either way, I've seen more response to my podcast than from anything else. Like me, people aren't always keen on reading fiction online. But listening? Podcast fiction has gotten me about 1,000 eager fans and consistent listeners so far!
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