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Tuesday, October 7, 2008

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Rebecca Gates

Musician Rebecca Gates cites Curtis Mayfield as a hero, SCTV as a laugh-fest, and old craft magazines as inspiration.

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Rosecrans Baldwin
TMN co-editor Rosecrans Baldwin lives in Paris, France. He founded The Morning News with Andrew Womack in 1999 and has been waking up early ever since. His first novel, You Lost Me There, is coming out soon with Riverhead Books. He currently writes the Letters from Paris column for TMN. His work has elsewhere appeared in The New York Times, New York, The Nation, and on NPR’s All Things Considered. His personal web site is useless, unless you want to know what he is up to next. Someday his ashes will be tossed off Mount Desert Island.
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DOB: 8 April, 1964

What do you do: Play and write music, organize people, consider where to go next.

Favorite Books: So many different shades of favourite … Geronimo Rex, Barry Hannah, any high quality reference book, old craft magazines, So Long See You Tomorrow, William Maxwell.

Heroes: Ah a loaded word in these times. I’d have to say I find my friends quite inspiring…as far as recognizable names, I’d opt for Curtis Mayfield, Anne Bancroft, lady artists. Smart no bullshit humans are pretty ace.

What makes you laugh: The folks I play music with and SCTV.

Charity worth giving to: Check for your local hunger relief or literacy advocacy agencies.

Five words that sound good: Cinnamon, Incorrigible, Sleep, Phosphorescence, Holyshit.
—Published December 20, 2001