Thursday, June 4, 2009

Moondog

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From Wiki-----

Moondog was the pseudonym of Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), a blind American composer, musician, cosmologist, poet, and inventor of several musical instruments. Although these achievements would have been considered extraordinary for any blind person, Moondog further removed himself from society through his decision to make his home on the streets of New York for approximately twenty of the thirty years he spent in the city. The public began to appreciate the extent of Moondog's talents only in the final decades of Moondog's life, primarily because of his stubborn refusal to wear anything other than his own home-made clothes,[citation needed] all based on his own interpretation of the Norse god Thor. Indeed, he was known for much of his life as "The Viking of 6th Avenue".[1]

3 comments:

A Question of Degree said...

Good to see we share a birthday... I'm surprised that dude is even aware of his b day!

JP bokusa said...

That's right!! Yes it seems this man has quite a mystically aura about him - the list of artists he's influenced is pretty incredible (The residents, steve reich, philip glass...)

dera frances white said...

i hope to one day discover the hidden talents of our street weirdos in atlanta. like say, the schizophrenic man with the baby-leg dreadlock coming out of the side of his head... i wanna make him ghetto-sing for me.