Gabriel Augustine Rampage is a literary affectation, a fictive character from the mind of an unpublished and unaccomplished writer, a protagonist with no message, an antagonist with no propaganda. He is a Southerner as characters from other regions are uninteresting and two-dimensional. He is typically flawed as most Southerners are and does not apologize for it. Of Catholic French extraction, Rampage embraces all of the questions that come his way equally. Real or not, every character consumes the space of personality. The following is a questionnaire completed by Rampage in preparation for an interview.
I live in: Tyre, Arkansas, a small town outside of Fort Smith
Birth date: December 5, 1961, 150th anniversary of Mozart’s death
Occupation: Writer…a wasted life
My all-time favorite song is: “What a Friend We have in Jesus”
My all-time favorite movie is: Ben Hur
My all-time favorite book is: Machine’s Way by Hugo Driver.
My most prized possession is: The ability to read.
The best advice I was ever given is: to never follow any advice.
The food I will never eat is: There is none
My favorite holiday is: Christmas, for obvious reasons.
The most daring thing I’ve ever done is: tell the truth.
The hardest thing I’ve ever done is: notify my parents of my brother’s death.
The person who has had the greatest influence on my life is: Who else?...My father.
My favorite childhood memory was: I was never a child.
My greatest fear is: Living forever.
© Copyright, C. Michael Bailey, 2006
About Me
- C. Michael Bailey
- I am interested in Culture and its criticism. I define Culture broadly, addressing discussion on all that encompasses Music, Literature, Cinema, Theater, Media, Religion, and Politics. All of these elements are fluid and evolve with time. It is naïve to believe otherwise. This blog offer me the opportunity to work out ideas not fully formed in a quest for some understanding of why Ecclesiastes 1:17 (KJV) states, Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind. When not writing this blog, I serve as a Senior Reviewer for the online magazine All About Jazz and a staff writer for Blogcritics.
