Literature and art mostly. The paranormal. Any out there religious ideas intrigue me. Ancient manuscripts and ancient libraries.
Bibliography:
Books & Chapbooks of poetry and prose:
Poems (1969, 1996)
Italy, My Love, My Silly Banana (1975)
Inside The Big O (1975)
Ideal Tourist (1977)
Cha Cha in Laguna (1978)
Bank Job (1978)
Scenes From A Marriage (1979)
Planetarium (with Judy Barker) (1979, 1980)
The Secret Life of the Spirit (1979)
Long Beach Nocturne (1979, 1983)
High Fallon, Southern Comfort (with Kirk Robertson) (1980)
Faded Bungalows (with Judy Barker) (1981, 1982)
Charles Bukowski Spit In My Face; A Memoir (1982, 1983, 1984, 2001)
Jack Kerouac Price Guide (1982)
Charles Bukowski: A Bibliographic Price Guide (1983)
I Laughed & The Devil Laughed Too... (1983)
No One Calls Me Any More (1984)
The Gambler (1984)
Fish Lips (1984)
John Steinbeck; A Checklist (1984)
Fool's Paradise (1984)
Cigar-Shaped Craft (1985)
Scenarios of Alien Visitation (1985)
Frank Scully and the Legend of the Crashed Saucers (1985)
The Reality Hoax (1985)
Bukowski, the King of San Pedro (1985)
The Gambler and Other Short Stories (1986)
Buk At Big L.A. Poetry Blowout (1987)
Postmarked Salem Oregon (1987)
You'll Go Blameless (1990)
Morning At Frottage Woods (1996)
2 from 69 (1997)
See's Candy (1998)
Death At The Flea Circus (4 Chapters) & Changlings (1999)
Camp Fire Note On The Approaching Doom (1999)
Three Chapters from Death At The Flea Circus (2000)
3 From Repast (2000)
The Captive Dragon (2001)
Stories From The Brink (2002)
Just These Bananas (2003)
Quartet (2003)
Lunch-Hour Poems (2004)
On The Cusp of the Rollover, Two Wack Jobs Ponder The Looming Collapse (David Barker & Ron DiGiacomo (2004)
Too Much Me (2005)
Chapbooks of Photos, Photo-collages and drawings:
12 Poets and Their Cars (Photos 1972, 2000)
Hot Rods of Spring (Photo-collage and poem 1973)
Aero (Photo-collage 1973)
Studebaker UFO Confidential (Photo-collage 1973, 1974)
Stude-UFO:2 (Photo-collage 1974)
Train Goes Slow But Gets There Rumba (Photo-collage 1974)
Rumba: The Man Should Lead - And The Woman Should Follow (Photo-collage 1975)
Liesegang Projektion (Photo-collage 1975)
Hommage to Rambler: Confessions of the Tangero (Photo-collage 1975)
Everything Is OK (Poems by John Kay, drawings by David Barker) (1979)
14 Blurry Pictures of Big Donuts (Photographs 1982)
3 Women (Drawings 1982)
Flight To Egypt (Drawings 1982?)
Two Weeks Off (Poems by Kirk Robertson, drawings by David Barker) (1984)
Broadsides:
Remorse: A Poem & A Drawing (1979)
Two for Bukowski (1986)
Gilded Thrones (1997)
Felicity, Perpetua, Agetha, Lucy (1999)
Time Clock Blues (2003)
Something, anything (and) Two-faced (in Bottle # 2, 2004)
Old Man (one poem each by David Barker and Adrian Manning, 2004)
Spooked (in Six-Pack Number 2, 2004)
Narcissus of Salem (in Bottle #3, 2005)
Punchline (insert in Too Much Me, 2005)
(Revised 7/15/2006)
Music
old rock, ancient blues, old rockabilly, old swing, decrepit folk. favorites include Blasters, Dave Alvin & The Guilty Men, Robert Johnson, Dylan, Richard & Mimi Farina, early Joan Baez, Tom Waits. hate to admit it but I love 1970s Swedish pop group Abba. I know, I know...And White Stripes (genius), and John Fahey. couple hundred 78s in the basement.
Movies
fascinated by any black and white films, the world as it was in those days. most modern movies look good, visually, but the scrips usually suck. silent films fascinate me. wish I could say I love horror films, but they are almost all bad. I want to love them. but they don't want to be loved. an exception is an arty vampire film called NADJA.
Television
not much there. I'll watch Friends or Seinfeld or Raymond if it's on. channel surf thru a hundred cable stations, seldom land on one worth watching.
Books
Charles Bukowski, Richard Brautigan, Thomas Ligotti, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Emily Dickinson, d. a. levy, Jack Kerouac, Philip K. Dick, Charlotte Bronte, Steve Richmond, Raymond Carver, Opal Whiteley. Rodinsky's Room by Rachel Lichtenstein & Iain Sinclair, probably my favorite book of the past two years (I'm still reading it, slowly).
David is the author of dozens of chapbooks of poetry and short stories. In the 1970s, while earning his Master's degree in English, he became involved in the L.A. poetry scene and was lucky enough to witness Charles Bukowski in person. His memoir of those days is called CHARLES BUKOWSKI SPIT IN MY FACE. His two latest books are LUNCH-HOUR POEMS, published by Bottle Of Smoke Press in 2004, and TOO MUCH ME, published by Concrete Meat Press (UK) in 2005. David lives with his wife and works with numbers and computer stuff.
Poet (widely published), short story writer (some published), novelist (none published), constant scribbler, painter when I can. I write by instinct. School of nothing. It gets printed. I am grateful for that. Bottle of Smoke Press is my publisher. Editor Bill Roberts does great work. I have written since high school. Will be at it till I drop in my sorry tracks. A reason to live.
