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Linda

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About Me

"Once,if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed." Rimbaud

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My Interests

...Iceland...Photography, Cartoon Art...The Beach!...theatre, poetry, dogs... Film, music, books, gardening, hiking, Dutch Realism of the 17th Century, Scandanavian Decorative Arts, French anything...Theosophy...fashion...Finland, Sweden, Denmark...Tarot...Cooking....Figuring People Out...herbal medicine...Japanese Design, Culture, Cuisine...Botany, Birds...

I'd like to meet:

Stephen Hawking:

Music:

Too many to list...but......most influenced by Chopin, Punk (Flipper a lifetime ago, as Minor Threat, Pistols, PIL),Metal (Sabbath, Faith NO More, GNR,RHCP,Nirvana, Bowie , Heads, Ramones, Patti Smith, Hell,Pretenders, Beethoven, Rufus Wainwright, Ambient, Yoko Ono, Experimental...Blues...Satie, Dylan, The Who (in ye olden days!)...Staple Singers, '60's British Invasion...Gosple, The Original Carter Family, Liszt, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Pink Floyd...The Grateful Dead...Kurt Weill, Wagner, Cole Porter, Elvis Costello, Beck, Dr. John, Satchmo, Simi... Edith Piaf...Nina Simone...early 60's music...Gershwin, Joplin, Foster, Muddy Waters...The Band, Chant, The Stones, Traditional Japanese Music....Johnny Thunders Acoustic and with the Dolls, all metal inspired by the Dolls, Hanoi Rocks, etc., Jorma...Ella Fitzgerald, Iggy Pop, P-Funk, The Animals, The Happy Mondays...STP, Replacements, Macy Gray...Ravel, Leadbelly...Leonard Cohen, Daniel Lanois, Willie Nelson...Jorma and Hot Tuna! Patti Austin...Stone Roses, Baroque Music, Chant...

Movies:

Hewig and the Angry Inch, Gangs of NY, Babette's Feast, The Seventh Seal, Anything by Agnes Varda, Rohmer, Woody Allen, Jim Jarmusch, 24 Hour Party People, Fitzcarraldo, Pixar Studios, Lawrence of Arabia, anything by Fellini, Truffaut...Team America, Life Aquatic...The French Connection, Felinni...The God Father I & II, Gone With the Wind, The Aristocrats, The Name of the Rose...The Wild Ride, X, The Last Waltz, Scorsese in general...The Eyes of Dr. Mabuse, Chaplin, The Marx Bros... Lost in Translation...The Man Who Fell to Earth...All of Kevin Smith, except Jersey Girl!..Crumb...The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover...New York Doll, The Mayor of Sunset Strip...The Last Emperor, Reds...Jesus is Magic...The Libertine,Casino Royale, Dr. No, Her Majesty's Secret Service, Tristram Shandy...My Life as a Dog...Laurel Canyon, Sin City, Batman Begins...Ingmar Bergman, Toy Story...

Television:

slime like Zappa says...except anything by Ken or Ric Burns...and essentially they are films... South Park, Chapelle, Old SNL, Behind the Music (Poison! Hysterical!!)...Monty Python...The Simpsons...

Books:

Babel, Tropic of Cancer, DV, Rimbaud, Pete Hamill, Stevie Smith, Blake, Yeats, Keats, Wordsworth, H.D., Virginia Woolf, The Gita, The Tao de Ching, Unto the Sons, Gay Talese, all biography, all history...more...R. Crumb, Lynda Barry, Frank Miller,Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Osamu Tezuka, Fitzgerald, Papa H., Anne Sexton...Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil, Tristan et Iseult...Old Icelandic Sagas...Chekov, Ibsen, Strindberg, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce Short Stories, Flannery O'Connor, Goethe, Schiller, Francois Villon...Erica Jong...The Complete New Yorker...Emotional Intelligence...Anne Sexton, Washington Irving...Lone Wolf and Cub, Dogs Never Lie About Love, Literature of the Middle Ages...Carl Larsson's Autobiography...

Heroes:

Dylan, Diana Vreeland, Kate Moss, Karl Lagerfeld,Hedwig, Ingmar Bergman, Henry Miller, Maya Angelou, Vaclav Havel, Zappa, Carl Larsson, Mother Theresa, Mary,Buddha,JC, Bowie, all assorted misfits (my friends), Sean Hanley, Chrissie Hynde,Lydon, my two Maltese dogs...John...Masu Gamm...Al Smith...Margaret Cho...Hedwig...Sandra Bernhardt...Mr. Cobain... Joni Mitchell...Joan Rivers... Doctors Without Borders...Courtney Love...the Dudesons!
Joseph Pilates

My Blog

Poem by Bob O’Brian...the great poet...

To wonder if you have Loved enough is part of The loving. To ask 'was my heart Really broken or was I Just afraid to be alone?' Is part of the Heartbreak. While it's true The heart can Hold only so Ma...
Posted by Linda on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:00:00 PST

Who Loves Electricity? by GMLG

Just yesterday I was in a parking lot in Mount Kisco, New York.  I was waiting for torque5 to get out of Karate...and the amazement hit me again.  What would we do without that great inventi...
Posted by Linda on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:46:00 PST

The Pillow Book, Lotus Sutra, Fractals...

Who knew that a woman during the Heian dynasty in Japan could be such a good friend.  I love Sei Shonagon's book...The Pillow Book.  I love the innocence, the delicate descriptions of t...
Posted by Linda on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:01:00 PST

Void

manipulated by shadow eternity crushing iron ache whispering death need to soar over enormous time  ...
Posted by Linda on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 07:47:00 PST

Suicide Bomber Madness

The majesty of human existence is being brought low again by a new set oftyrannical ideologues.  Some have the extinction of certain types of cultureon their minds, others have their hearts set o...
Posted by Linda on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:05:00 PST

The (Red) Campaign-My Inquiry...

I would like to comment on Red.  While I think the effort quite noble, I do feel that teaming charity with consumerism is counter productive and downright insulting.  People should want and ...
Posted by Linda on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:13:00 PST

Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

This is probably the most important book a person can read... Here is the first chapter of the book from the author's website:  www.michaelpollan.com  The copyright belongs to Michael Pollan...
Posted by Linda on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 06:44:00 PST

Just Thoughts

Dream:  May 13, early a.m. Last night at the water fall in the desert, three children who ran away from home were caught and put on horseback to make the journey home.  The desert was the la...
Posted by Linda on Mon, 14 May 2007 05:43:00 PST

Post to Homeschool Group on Individuality

Just one thing, though about why I shun conformity.     In my experience and in my witnessing historical situations- when human beings lean toward conformity the group can sometimes eng...
Posted by Linda on Mon, 14 May 2007 05:22:00 PST

I won't sleep tonight...how does Dick Cheney?

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Posted by Linda on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:34:00 PST