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Born and raised in New York City. I am a musician/writer/pain ter who has poems and short stories published in about 40 magazines and journals throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. There are 3 books currently available: "Window Shopping For A New Crown Of Thorns" (Poems); "November Rust" (Novel) and "My Arrival Is Marked By Illuminating Stains" (Poems) which features all 5 previously published chapbooks, "Standing On Lorimer Street Awaiting Crucifixion", "The Terror Of Your Cunt Is The Beauty Of Your Face", "Street Gospel Mystical Intellectual Survival Codes", "Scrape That Violin More Darkly Then Hover Like Smoke In The Air" and "Existential Labyrinths". New books are forthcoming.
I am currently playing bass for the rock band Bitterweed who has two releases on Buzz Factory Records, "On The High Wire" (2001) and "Boo!" (2005). I am also playing guitar and bass for Linda La Porte on her solo project.
From 1985-1997 I was the singer/guitarist for the NYC alternative pop band Third Eye Butterfly who had released an EP entitled "What The Thunder Said" (Galt/Psycho-Pop Records, 1991) and a few 7" singles, "Everything Falls Apart"/"Skin" (Psycho-Pop Records, 1993), "Life Is Elsewhere"/"Play With The Rainmaker" (Psycho-Pop Records, 1994) and "Something Happened"/"All The Way To Riyadh" (Psycho-Pop Records, 1995) and appeared on a number of compilation CDs including "Hear No Evil" Volumes 1 & 2 (Galt Records) and "Step on A Crack" Volume 1 (Sound Views Records). One of my paintings was featured at the Holy Ghost Salon in Brooklyn, New York in 1999. You can check out some of the paintings in the "Paintings" album in the photo section at my MySpace page or at my website
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Favorite Music: Jazz, Rock, Folk, Flamenco, Bossa Nova, World
Favorite Books: "Rayuela" by Julio Cortazar, "Tropic of Cancer" by Henry Miller, "Journey To The End of The Night" by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, "Desolation Angels" by Jack Kerouac, "Marks of Identity" by Juan Goytisolo, "Memory of Fire" trilogy by Eduardo Galeano
Influences: Julio Cortazar, Henry Miller, Juan Goytisolo, Louis Ferdinand Celine, Mario Benedetti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Juan Carlos Onetti, Reinaldo Arenas, Osvaldo Soriano, Rosario Ferre, Antonio Machado,Blaise Cendrars, Federico Garcia Lorca, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Jaime Saenz, Ernesto Sabato, Roque Dalton, Fernando Pessoa, Antonio Torres, Juan Benet, Eduardo Galeano, Jorge Luis Borges, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Franz Kafka, Charles Bukowski, Jose Donoso, Blas de Otero, Ernest Hemingway, Carlo Levi, Tadeusz Konwicki, Milan Kundera, Herman Hesse, Antonio Porchia, George Orwell, Ernesto Cardenal, Octavio Paz, Homero Aridjis, Luisa Valenzuela, Claribel Alegria, Italo Calvino, Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Manuel Puig, Gregory Corso, Mario Vargas Llosa, Marco Denevi, James Baldwin, Julia De Burgos, Martin Espada, Rafael Alberti, Miguel de Cervantes, Sergio Ramirez, Miguel de Unamuno, Giovanni Verga, Ignazio Silone, Hubert Selby Jr, Miguel Hernandez, Ramon Perez de Ayala, Ignacio de Loyola Brandao, Juan Ramon Ribyero, Dostoyevski, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Jose Lezama Lima, Antonio Gramsci, Pio Baroja, Carlos Fuentes, Jean Paul Sartre, Pedro Juan Gutierrez, Camilo Jose Cela, Luis Cernuda, Michel de Castillo, Alejo Carpentier, Vigilio Pinera, Ricardo Piglia, Roberto Bolano, Nicanor Parra, Vicente Huidobro and about a billion others.
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Dustin -
I agree, goes by too fast as always lol!
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Dustin -
Weekend is wonderful and how is yours?
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Julian_Gallo -
Pretty good...though it is going by too fast as always. Other than that, pretty good. I've been working on some new articles when I can...and a few other things. Not a bad weekend at all.
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Julian_Gallo -
No problem, Dustin. Hope you're having a great weekend.
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Dustin -
Alright, I will check it out and let you know what I think just as soon as I can slow down myself haha! Today is the premiere of Book 4 in The Guardian Series so I've got to have part 1 up soon which I'm about to write.
Anyways, I will talk to you later and I will check your writing out soon as well. Thank you again for everything.
Cheer s! =)
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Julian_Gallo -
Hey Dustin,
Doing pretty good. Been kinda busy running around this weekend but I'm glad to be home to just relax a bit. Tomorrow I plan on just hanging here...doing a lot of nothing.
By the way, I have written some articles for a site called BrooWaha. When you get a chance, stop by and have a look. Would love to know what you think. It's at
http://www.broowaha.com
Just look up my name.
Thanks for writing and have a great holiday weekend.
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Dustin -
Julian! How are you!?
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VPenagos -
on blog: bukowski's long shadow
Just read your article. I had to chuckle at how true it is, especially with one of my friends who you described. Typical guy who says he is a writer and always hangs out at that one bar constantly. No surprise that he is a HUGE Bukowski fan. I'll definitely show him your article since I'm sure he'll be amused by it.
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Julian_Gallo -
I always find this sort of thing amusing. I'm a huge Bukowski fan as well. I always thought that a lot of his readers missed the larger point he was making, well...at least some of my friends anyway. They always concentrated on the drinking, the sex, etc but always seem to look over what he was always trying to put across, at least to me: that there is poetry in the every day life and that the forgotten have something to say and they have a story to tell. To me, he was writing for "the forgotten" so to speak, that there was poetry in their lives, whether or not they wanted to acknowledge that.
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VPenagos -
on blog: pensamientos al azar 1
I definitely agree.
What I find funny is that one of my relative's significant others is actually obtaining her doctorate degree in the history of pop culture.
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Julian_Gallo -
They actually have a doctorate program for that? Times sure have changed, haven't they. But you know? To be fair, there is a living to me made from it, I suppose. As a writer or critic or something. At least that's something useful. But still, I never thought you could get a PH.D in Pop Culture.
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julian_gallo's Featured Art
Nicanor Parra
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One of my all time favorite writers is Nicanor Parra,
a poet from Chile. I learned about him by sheer accident one day while
kicking around Mercer Street Books downtown. I just happened upon two
of his books but there are quite a few more that I can't seem to get a
hold of (in English, anyway---Now I regret not paying attention in
Spanish classes while in school!). He is considered one of the most
influential poets in Chile after Pablo Neruda but the two poets
couldn't be more far apart as far as style, approach and intent.
Poetry lovers should do themselves a favor and check him out if you
haven't already. His work is truly powerful and unique. If you're
into Beat poetry or post-modern writing, you will definitely appreciate
him.
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