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Paul

Being held bachelor against my will

About Me

All my best moments have been with unavailable women. . . . . . . .

I'm shocked that I'm still alive; geniuses die young, ya know.

My Interests

Travel--been to every country except North Korea, and every state.

reading, small-venue concerts, UCLA women's sports, writing, photography (Can that be an interest if it's also how I pay the bills?) . . . . . .

Look behind my face for some cool concert shots

I'd like to meet:

Anyone and everyone who's fun and interesting. . . and a real live version of Ariel from the Little Mermaid, minus the fishy tail. Yuck. (closest so far: Angelica Bridges on "Son of the Beach.") Madison from Splash would be acceptable too. . .

{All photos are copyrighted.}

Music:

Fav. . . song: Wyoming Sky, Raining Jane ("Almost" by Riddle the Sphinx debuts in 2nd) - - - Album: NEW LEADER! Halie Loren, Full Circle (Adrina Thorpe's "Elusive" and Riddle the Sphinx's "Funhouse" nip heels) - - - live act: NEW LEADER! GENEVIEVE! Followed by Kat Parsons, gilli moon, and Sarah Dashew - - - name (and coolest person ever): Killarney Star- - - Album Name: Arden Kaywin: Quarter-Life Crisis - - - redhead: Christiane of Riddle the Sphinx - - - Guitarists: Mark Knopfler, Alex Lifeson (Rush), and Ali Handal - - - drummer: Neil Peart - - - Cellists: Sara Donaldson, Adrianne, Mai Bloomfield, Deryn Cellofiend, Janet Schiff (all of the ones I know, I guess) - - - flutist: Carol Alban - - - soprano: Valerie Williams - - - pianist: Tiff Jimber - - - Funniest song: "When I'm With You" Nikki Katt - - - musician to make fun of: Shannon Hurley- - - innocent voice: Jessica of Red Letter- - - innocent seductive voice: Marina V - - - misinterpreted lyric: Libbie Schrader, Leave Me Now ("Someone's eagle is getting fed") - - - Lyric most likely about me: "I'm So Sad That You're Happy," Cindy Alexander ("You're still the nicest guy/You make me sick") - - -Musician I can most sound like: Joshua Kadison - - - Musician I can most sound like after singing for two hours without warming up: Bryan Adams - - - CD to relax to: Katrina Parker, only dreaming - - - Do-everything Mo-gal: Lynn Carey Saylor - - - multi-tasker: Sara Donaldson - - - uncatogirzed favorites: Cheryl B. Engelhardt, Shauna Burns, Renata Youngblood, Stephanie Orefice, Briana Winter, Agnes Milewski, Jamie Green (and of course everyone else I added here) ///// Bigger acts: Rush, Tara MacLean, Sarah McLachlan, Mark Knopfler/ Dire Straits, Sting/ The Police, Bryan Adams //// "Modern classical": Kori Linae Carothers, Mannheim Steamroller, Bernward Koch, Omar Akram, Ottmar Leibert, Oppy, Jesse Cook, Suzanne Ciani /// Classical: Hilary Hahn, Baiba Skidre, Julia Fischer, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Wagner, Beethoven, Puccini, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov // Soundtracks: John Barry, John Williams, Mike Post, Jay Semko, Sylvester Levay, Jan Hammer, Basil Poledouris (even if he was a Trojan)

Movies:

Serenity! Somewhere in Time, Casablanca, Before Sunrise/Sunset, Starship Troopers, Roman Holiday, Vertigo, Rear Window, Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Bubba Ho-Tep, Bend it Like Beckham, Peep Show, Wrongfully Accused, Johnny Stecchino, 100 Girls, Delicatessen, Live Nude Girls, Much Ado About Nothing, Star Trek II and IV, Baron Munchausen, Out of Africa, Exotica, Kama Sutra, Sirens, Blade Runner, Living Daylights, Thunderball, Octopussy, Were-Rabbit and its 3 pre, Rainbow War. (Okay, yes, anything with Uma Thurman or Katherine Heigl in it.) WAITRESS WAS FANTASTIC!

Television:

On now: Family Guy, Scrubs, Grey's Anatomy, Globe Trekker, House, How I Met Your Mother, NCIS, Chuck, Pushing Daisies, Criminal Minds {Paget!}, 30 Rock / / / / DVD: Firefly, Veronica Mars, Red Dwarf, Max Headroom, Due South, Sportsnight, Prisoner, Keen Eddie, Roswell, Son of a Beach, Benny Hill, Lateline, Sledge Hammer, Greg the Bunny, Night Court, Deep Space 9, Twin Peaks, and the one and only La Femme Nikita, which kicks Alias' ass into the next century (you cheap ripoff) and now on DVD: The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. and Jack of All Trades! And WHO'S LINE IS IT ANYWAY?

Books:


Stainless Steel Rat, Star Smashers of the Galaxy Rangers, Montezuma's and Queen Victoria's Revenge, by Harry Harrison--Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, by Douglas Adams--Complete Sherlock Holmes, by Arthur Conan Doyle--Complete Edgar Allan Poe--The I Inside, Spellsinger, many more, by Alan Dean Foster--Black Cipher, by Payne Harrison--Han Solo trilogy, by Brian Daley--Logan's Run trilogy (quad soon), by William F. Nolan--Chess with a Dragon, Chtorr series, by David Gerrold--Continent of Lies, Eternal Footman, by James Morrow--To See the Invisible Man, by Robert Silverberg--Foundation series, by Isaac Asimov--The Star, by Arthur C. Clarke--Worlds to Kill and City on the Edge of Forever, by Harlan Ellison--Tramp Royale, Starship Troopers, by Robert Heinlein--The Hunger Artist, by Franz Kafka--Bimbos of the Death Sun and Missing Susan, by Sharyn McCrumb--Covenant of the Flame and Double Image, by David Morrell--Uhuras Song, by Janet Kagan--No Witnesses, by Ridley Pierson--Encyclopedia of the World's Special Forces--International Intelligence Yearbook--Flood from Heaven, by Eberhard Zangger--Captain's Verses, by Pablo Neruda--Collected Shelly Poems (1894 edition)--Collected Works of Lorca--1911 Best Things Anyone Ever Said, by Robert Byrne--Tao of Pooh and Te of Piglet, by Benjamin Hoff--Sirens, by Marco Glaviano--The Amateur, by Robert Littell--Black Satin, by Joan Elizabeth Lloyd--Beginning with my Streets, by Czeslaw Milosz--Incidents of Travel, by Stephens and Catherwood--Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Hamlet, by Willy Shakes--Paradise Lost, by Milton--Dr. Faustus, by Marlowe--Faust, by Goethe--Collected Works of Neil Peart

Heroes:

Amanda Freed, Kate Richardson, Jill Oakes, Jaime Clark, Valerie Kondos-Field, John Wooden {Christiane, Genevieve, and Denise too}

My Blog

Burning Up For Your Love

George Carlin I LOVE IT WHEN A FLOWER OR LITTLE TUFT OF GRASS GROWS TROUGH A CRACK IN THE CONCRETE. IT'S SO FUCKING HEROIC. {George Carlin passed away. . . My friend Cole has a great blog about him: ...
Posted by Paul on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:38:00 PST

All over El Lay for the music

James Morrow Do we behave decently merely because we fear divine retribution, or are we a better species than that?   Saw a guy with a jacket that said, "We're not happy till you're not happy!" ...
Posted by Paul on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:46:00 PST

First baby pictures

No, not of me, you dimwits! And not of my kid either, because there aren't any, that's a mythical species, and if there are, I don't want to know. These are the first photos I've ever taken of a baby...
Posted by Paul on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:36:00 PST

Nothing Good Happens After 2AM

This is the longest day I've ever had that didn't involve changing time zones.   Walking down the street, I saw an Asian woman in her 80s with purple hair. I wonder if she was aware of it. On the...
Posted by Paul on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:41:00 PST

Sunburn feels just as bad--or worse--in Beverly Hills

Anthony PowellGrowing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed. Have you seen these commercials with Ashton Kutcher where they try to sell him as a real photographe...
Posted by Paul on Tue, 20 May 2008 08:27:00 PST

4 concerts in 7 days--yep, this is a long one. . .

TUESDAY Business advice When someone says 'you don't have to bother the boss with this,' that's the perfect time to bother the boss with it. Among the graffiti carved on the bus is an elegantly-styled...
Posted by Paul on Tue, 06 May 2008 09:05:00 PST

Compared to you, my parents are virgins!

Anonymous Life is stranger than fiction, because fiction is required to make sense.   Greetings from. . . home. I was supposed to be writing to you from Manhattan. . . Kansas! You didn't think I...
Posted by Paul on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:27:00 PST

Flowers or Abstract Art?

So I’m fooling around with my new digital camera and go over to my mom’s, and she’s got this bouquet. And since I’m such a whiz at flower shots, I just started shooting away, f...
Posted by Paul on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 09:33:00 PST

No funny title today, just music

Anonymous War is when the government tells you who the bad guy is. Revolution is when you decide that for yourself.   Saturday A typical conversation in my life: Friend: You know how women are. ...
Posted by Paul on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:34:00 PST

Yes, Im a Turkey

So, I'm finally back from. . . Turkey, where I had to relearn to burp in public, to compliment the chef. It was a weird trip, where hardly anything went as planned, but unlike the Africa trip a couple...
Posted by Paul on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:41:00 PST