Atticus *.

Gillian Welch, Johnny Cash, Lucinda Williams, All Kinds of Japanese Music, Slack Key Guitar, Leonard Cohen, Norman Blake, Doc Watson, Rory Block, Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Lead Belly, Sweet Honey, Bob Dylan, Older Nancy Griffith and Allison Krause stuff, Blue Grass of all sorts , Some Punk, Some Rock, Some Classical (if I'm in the mood), No Pop

Wild Strawberries, Seventh Seal, La Strada, The Unforgiven, Seven Samurai, Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo, Rashomon, Come Back little Sheba, Days of Wine and Roses, Baby Doll, The Tattooed Rose, All the Zatoichi movies, The Black Cat, A Face in the Crowd, Too Many to name..

Mountains, forests, beaches, places with great natural beauty and solitude. Love cities too but do not like crowds.

Photography, Reading, Writing, Cooking, Collecting Art, Japanese Prints, Rare books, Cycling, love the outdoors.

My real name is Dan. I stole Atticus sort of by accident from Gregory Peck, Harper Lee, Herodes Atticus - Marcus Aurelius' teacher, and, more honestly, from my soul dog. You can call me whatever you like. But, having become much more serious about writing than when I started posting on Gather, I'll be shedding my nom de plume because I want to eventually publish under my own name (and because I think I've shaken my stalkers)

Liberal and proud of it

Zen mind is not zen mind, atticus is not atticus