Who Was Wintersox?

1. Who is Wintersox?

Wintersox is the screen name of a currently unknown writer whose words began appearing in early 2000 on various internet music sites, namely message forums dedicated to Bob Dylan, Dave Matthews Band, and Guided By Voices. Shaman, artist, poet, comic, searcher, believer, spirit, and voice, he thus far has managed to defy even these descriptions. Both man and myth, both kind and politically charged, and both genius and mistaken, he and his work attempt to transcend the common either/or mode of thinking inherent in society to produce a body of work that penetrates many of the core truths of the world, and in particular American culture.

2. Why is Wintersox important to me?

His words are part of a movement which he has on several occasions referred to as Computer Rock. An artist himself, another dimension is added to the writing’s presentation by funneling the words through the device of an ego driven failed rock star character which Wintersox rarely if ever abandons. Honest, casual, and soon to be unnerving, he has managed to lay the framework for a new movement of honest politics in America, all while doing it silently. His words express the sentiment of abandoning the current industry run one party system disguised as two in American politics for a new way of thinking primarily based upon viewing all people as true equals. Elected to office or not, he believes a common citizen can have the impact of a President when government insists on clouding the truth and failing to serve the people whose duty and sole purpose it is to protect. A student and teacher of world religions, popular music, science, history, philosophy, the occult, and countless other subjects, Wintersox is an original in American folklore as well, having photographed transparent bubbles which he dubbed dream orbs and believing his computer to be a soul or dream machine with the capacity to alter destiny if used in the right way.

3. Who does Wintersox list as influences?

Though too many to list, Wintersox has credited many great minds and kind hearts as influences. Religious icons, mystical prophets, scientists, philosophers, and artists comprise the bulk of his foundation. Countless references to these people, both overt and subtle, are contained in the writing, including but not limited to: Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Pete Townshend, Jack Kerouac, Albert Einstein, William Burroughs, Lou Reed, Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam), Shel Silverstein, Dr. Seuss, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Ernest Hemingway, William Shakespeare, John Keats, Dave Matthews, Mark Knopfler, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, Bono, Jimi Hendrix, Robert Pollard, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, Terence McKenna, Salvador Dali, William Blake, Hieronymus Bosch, Galileo, Jerry Garcia, Kurt Cobain, Norman Rockwell, Roger Waters, Samuel Beckett, Mahatma Gandhi, Stephen King, Elvis and Abraham Lincoln. He is both a hybrid of these influences as well as an original artist who has pushed his own limits of personal creativity.

4. So what has Wintersox written?

Wintersox has written thousands of poems and hundreds of pages of prose. Among the highlights of his poetry are Sweet Peace in the Fields, It is Only Marlon, Heaven Transforms Here, A Songbird, Owl Blessing, A Better Dragon, Awe Umbrella, A Windy, Beyond the Winds (Which I Thought I Loved), Startogotrue, I Love You, Excerpts from Letter to Jajo, The Patient Father, Pendulum, Over the Battlefield, What is a Flower, Shakespeare, Suineg Genius, Gangbanger, Life is ART, The Lion and the Mantis, Wizard’s Junk, Aslan, Another American Legend, Sat-Chit-Ananda, Al Everything’s Right, Pacifist Crest, Abandon Sweet Rhythm, Courage Defeated the Gun, Windmill, JC Rowling, Slovenia, The Sonic, Obscurity Now, No Rich Gambler, Your Eyes, Highlights from the Lost Year, Charlotte Alive and Her Ghost, Ahead of Me, Bless Everyone, Saw Myself as a Brand, New Xanadu, The Hobo Trance, Etop Otep Peto Opet Epot Pote, Deep Blue, and Trinity.