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About Me

TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Archie
Birthday: March 6, 1970
Birthplace: Philippines
Current Location: New York City
Eye Color: black
Hair Color: black
Height: 5'7"
Right Handed or Left Handed: both, but mostly right
Your Heritage: chinese vs. spanish
The Shoes You Wore Today: dress shoes
Your Weakness: a kind gesture from someone for no reason
Your Fears: heights
Your Perfect Pizza: plain cheese, if the sauce is good
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: make lasting friendships
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: that smiley face thing
Thoughts First Waking Up: i need to make coffee
Your Best Physical Feature: smile ?
Your Bedtime: 11pm or midnight
Your Most Missed Memory: working at this one studio with good people
Pepsi or Coke: diet coke
MacDonalds or Burger King: macdonalds
Single or Group Dates: single
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: snapple, because of the trivia caps
Chocolate or Vanilla: both
Cappuccino or Coffee: coffee
Do you Smoke: no
Do you Swear: are you kidding ?
Do you Sing: when noone's around
Do you Shower Daily: yes
Have you Been in Love: yes
Do you want to go to College: i did
Do you want to get Married: yes
Do you belive in yourself: yes
Do you get Motion Sickness: sometimes
Do you think you are Attractive: yes :-/
Are you a Health Freak: yes and no
Do you get along with your Parents: yes and no, but mostly yes
Do you like Thunderstorms: yes, if i'm inside
Do you play an Instrument: no
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: yes
In the past month have you Smoked: no
In the past month have you been on Drugs: no
In the past month have you gone on a Date: no
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: no
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: no, but I wouldn't mind.
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: no, but I like sushi
In the past month have you been on Stage: no
In the past month have you been Dumped: no
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: no
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: no
Ever been Drunk: are you kidding?
Ever been called a Tease: yes
Ever been Beaten up: no
Ever Shoplifted: no
How do you want to Die: peacefully at an old age
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: i think i'm doing it, but you never know.
What country would you most like to Visit: egypt
In a Boy/Girl..
Favorite Eye Color: blue
Favorite Hair Color: light brown
Short or Long Hair: either
Height: any
Weight: any that matches the height
Best Clothing Style: clean and snappy, or t-shirt with jeans
Number of Drugs I have taken: define drug.
Number of CDs I own: too many to count
Number of Piercings: i used to have one
Number of Tattoos: none
Number of things in my Past I Regret: i regret some things, but i move on.

My Interests

Listening to music and reading. I like watching what people wear, and fitting garments so people look a little nicer. I'm happiest when I sketch - I tend to zone out. I like flipping through photographers' monographs, and hanging out with people I like, especially if it involves cheap (but good) dives and/or wine. Beer is good, too.

I'd like to meet:

Bob Dylan, The Dalai Lama, Mary Ellen Mark, Christopher Bailey, Aimee Mann, John Pawson, Ridley Scott, Rei Kawakubo, Ang Lee, Colleen Atwood, Yohji Yamamoto, Rob Marshall, Eugene Richards

Get Your Own! | View Slideshow

Music:

Aimee Mann, Bob Dylan, Fiona Apple, Eurythmics, The Decemberists, Vivaldi, Caetano Veloso, Beck, Nada Surf, Eva Cassidy, Elliott Smith, Daniel Cartier, newer Echo and the Bunnymen, Radiohead, Bill Withers, Patty Griffin, Stan Getz, and The Killers (lately).

Movies:

Sofia Coppola movies; Ridley Scott films; anything by the Coen brothers or by Tak Fujimoto; Markus Mentzer films. I like the directors' commentaries on dvd's, sometimes more than the films.

Television:

Laverne and Shirley reruns; I need to catch up on my TV viewing - I need suggestions. Oh, these are my old mug shots, haha :

Books:

Song of Solomon - Toni Morrison; Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert; Three Junes - Julia Glass; The Awakening - Kate Chopin; To The Lighthouse - Virgina Woolf; The Virgin Suicides - Jeffrey Eugenides; The Wasteland - T.S. Elliot; Les Femmes - J.H. Lartigue; Chronicles Volume One - Bob Dylan; The Minimalist Cooks Dinner - Mark Bittman; Boxing For Everyone - Cappy Kotz; Calvin and Hobbes Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons - Bill Watterson

Heroes:

My dad. And a few others: Get Your Own! | View Slideshow

My Blog

"Let Evening Come" by Jane Kenyon..

I like this poem because of the word "let". For me, this year has been about letting go, and allowing things to happen. It's the eve of January first; 2006 has drawn to a close,...
Posted by archie on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 03:55:00 PST

Percentages, Graphs, And Numbers About Me

Some of these test results surprised me... It's a little frightening how much someone can know about me on the basis of a Myspace page, LOL.. I think that we all change over time - it's part of...
Posted by archie on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:50:00 PST

From T.S. Eliot's "Journey Of The Magi"

All this was a long time ago, I remember, And I would do it again, but set down This set down This: were we led all that way for Birth or Death? There was a Birth, certainly, We had evidenc...
Posted by archie on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:04:00 PST

Two Roads Diverge Again

I've been wondering about the "road not taken". In my case, there didn't seem to be a choice at the time - it was either stay in medicine where I couldn't really breathe, or move on to...
Posted by archie on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:24:00 PST

Dries

For anyone who's interested, check out the Spring '07 Dries Van Noten show. http://www.style.com/fashionshows/collections/S2007RTW/compl ete/thumb/DVNOTEN?trend=&page=1 It's sportier than he...
Posted by archie on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:56:00 PST

Excerpt from Kate Chopin's "The Awakening"

"Why," went on Edna, clasping her knees and looking up into Mademoiselle's twisted face, "do you suppose a woman knows why she loves? Does she select? Does she say to herself: 'Go to!...
Posted by archie on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:33:00 PST

FW2 !!!

New York Fashion Week part 2. I've been reading someone's blogs consisting of really beautiful poetry and essays on family life, and so a blog on fashion week seems pale in comparison to me.&nbs...
Posted by archie on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:51:00 PST

My Madonna Gene and Aimee Mann

I'm beginning to reconnect with Madonna songs. It's because of my Madonna gene which is located in the middle of my Y-chromosome, and goes something like this: *clears throat* adenine...
Posted by archie on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 04:49:00 PST

New York Fashion Week

It started on Friday, and I could've sworn someone was wearing Zandra Rhodes at my chinese take-out place. This never happens. For the past couple of seasons, they've been scheduling the ...
Posted by archie on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 02:13:00 PST

Vanessa Beecroft / Brian Cronin

For anyone who's interested, here's an article about Vanessa Beecroft. She does performance art, usually of nude women interacting in a confined space. She has shown in varied v...
Posted by archie on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 04:41:00 PST