Thanks for the poem, Major.

But do you have a belfry?

I chased a bat out of my living room with a 7 iron one night. Fortunately, nobody was harmed.

I'm with you on Blake and Waits. To add Neil Young and Jim Jarmusch to the mix have you every seen the movies "Dead Man" and "Down by Law":

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112817/

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090967/

These link all four of them (as well as Iggy Pop and some other great performers).

One of my favorite Blake lines for intolerant, arrogant 'Christians':

"The vision of Christ that thou dost see is my vision's greatest enemy"


http://tinyurl.com/6npzxq

or

http://books.google.com/books?id=AVs...t#PRA1-PA96,M1