Miguel
Miguel
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth23 October 1985
CountryUnited States of America
get-well recovery past
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
fishing effort dry
There's no taking trout with dry breeches.
traitor treason please
The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious.
roots personality suffering
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
disease consciousness
Consciousness is a disease.
pity-love spirit pity
To love with the spirit is to pity, and he who pities most loves most.
cycling race suffering
I'm fascinated by the sprinters. They suffer so much during the race just to get to the finish, they hang on for dear life in the climbs, but then in the final kilometers they are transformed and do amazing things. It's not their force per se that impresses me, but rather the renaissance they experience. Seeing them suffer throughout the race only to be reborn in the final is something for fascination.
bowie extremes knows
The extremes of who I'd love to be onstage are David Bowie, Prince, and, I don't know, Bjork.
realizing enough written
There is a point in your life when you realize that you have written enough destructors...
assistant copy ebay ends guinea jobs main medical pay power seller treat worked
I treat my writing like a day job, like my main job, even if for many years I was doing other jobs to pay the bills. I worked as a copy editor. I was a medical guinea pig. I was an eBay power seller of ladies' handbags. I was an assistant to a bookie at the horse races. I bartended. I did anything I could to make ends meet.
anymore change create hope illusions literature masses positions power simply work
I have no illusions that my work can rouse the masses to create change, because literature simply doesn't have that power anymore in my country, if it does anywhere. But I do hope that it can be read by those who are in positions to create change, or that it can at least be part of that dialogue.
indicative tastes
I think your conversations are indicative of your tastes - even your diction.
hard
We are all peaceful, just hard workers, and just want an opportunity.
I have earned enough to take it a bit easier now.