dougrichards

Join Date: 8/29/2008

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  • dougrichards


  • Doug Richards



In short

  • I spent most of the late 80's & 90's as the singer (screamer really) for a string of punk & grunge bands. Met lots of famous people, drank a lot of beer, film at 11.

    When that got boring I trading frontman status for only man status and started a mini-career as a spoken word artist. I small-pressed a book called "The Boy with No Ears" that was a collection of my best poems and stories from that time.

    But that too became a bit boring so I followed a girl to Mexico and ended up teaching English for the University of Guadalajara. A long-summer stretched out to three years of sun and beer.

    And then I was bored, plus I missed cheese. You can't find good cheese in Mexico.

My Favorites: Reading and Writing

  • "Among the Thugs" - Bill Buford, "Otherland" (series) - Tad Williams, "Time Storm" - Gordon R. Dickenson; "Weaveworld" - Clive Barker, "American Gods" - Neil Gaiman; "The Stand" - Stephen King, "Imajica" - Clive Barker; The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant (series) - Stephen R. Donaldson;
  • Going Postal - Terry Pratchett, This is your brain on Music - Daniel J Levitin, Notes from a Dirty Old Man - Charles Bukowski
  • Holding the book directly in front of my eyes.
  • Me at 23
  • Charles Bukowski, Homer, Clive Barker, Neil Gaiman, Richard Bach, Gordon R. Dickenson, Robert Heinlein, Stephen King, William S Burroughs, Jim Carrol, John Steinbeck

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