Mark Ames???? A loser! Could not get anywhere in America
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ames



After college, Ames "lived in poverty and spitefulness" ("жил в бедности и злобе," according to his publisher's biographical sketch) in New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Prague, and played in a short-lived punk band. ([2]) He also lived with a Czech girlfriend in a suburban California nursing home. In the eXile book he recalls this period of his life as a dull one: