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edie1964

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About Me

My basic mottos:"It is never to late to be what you might have been." -- George Eliot"A life without regrets is a life that has not been fully lived." -- Unknown***************************************************** *** Very special thanks to Neu Gestalt, my muse and inspiration. ********************************************************BELI EF & TECHNIQUE FOR MODERN PROSE Jack Kerouac1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy 2. Submissive to everything, open, listening 3. Try never get drunk outside yr own house 4. Be in love with yr life 5. Something that you feel will find its own form 6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind 7. Blow as deep as you want to blow 8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind 9. The unspeakable visions of the individual 10. No time for poetry but exactly what is 11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest 12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you 13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition 14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time 15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog 16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye 17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself 18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea 19. Accept loss forever 20. Believe in the holy contour of life 21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind 22. Dont think of words when you stop but to see picture better 23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning 24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge 25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it 26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form 27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness 28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better 29. You're a Genius all the time 30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven ***************************************************** *****************************************************.. .. ........

My Interests

Books, music, art, film, museums, Warhol, The Factory, The Chelsea Hotel, New York City, Ireland and its culture, Scotland and its culture, Japan and its culture, travel, history, etc.

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I'd like to meet:

Like-minded individuals with similar tastes and interests, open minds and tolerant attitudes.

Music:

Japan, David Sylvian, Steve Jansen, Mick Karn, Richard Barbieri, Nine Horses, Neu Gestalt, JBK, Porcupine Tree, Ingrid Chavez, The Cure, Patti Smith, Velvet Underground, Joy Division, New Order, Suzanne Barbieri, Siouxsie and the Banshees, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Psychedelic Furs, Gram Parsons, Yoko Ono, Green Day, YMO, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yukihiro Takahashi, PJ Harvey, Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan, PiL, Wire, The Smiths, The Dream Syndicate, The Replacements, Husker Du, Soft Cell, Marc Almond, Cocteau Twins, Nick Cave, The Birthday Party, The Jam, The Clash, The Specials, Bauhaus, Shonen Knife, Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, Hanoi Rocks, Pixies, Sonic Youth, Hole, Throwing Muses, Everything But the Girl, The Fall, Sisters of Mercy, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Runaways, Foo Fighters, White Stripes, The Raconteurs, Mushio Funazawa, The Church, Johnny Cash, Altered Images, Beatles, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Joan As Police Woman, Catherine Anne Davies, Joanna Newsom, Nina Simone, Radiohead, B52s, Prince, Jane's Addiction, Nirvana, Garbage, Echobelly, Blondie, New York Dolls, Johnny Thunders, T-Rex, Jaq Gallier, Sinead O'Connor, Wendy and Lisa, Sonic's Rendezvous Band, Buzzcocks, Ramones, Duran Duran, Redd Kross, Semi Precious Weapons, Elastica, U2, Dervish, Linkin Park, John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, etc....... .. ....

Movies:

Lost in Translation, Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, Chelsea Girls, Local Hero, Gregory's Girl, The Station Agent, Gas Food Lodging, Smoke, Wings of Desire, Stranger Than Paradise, Coffee & Cigarettes, Wild Strawberries, Fanny and Alexander, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, A Room With A View, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Serendipity, Gothic, Love Actually, Picnic At Hanging Rock, Blow Up, Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls, Nashville, The Last Days Of Disco, Starstruck, 24 Hour Party People, Say Anything, This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting For Guffman, Little Voice, Harold And Maude, Shall We Dance? (original Japanese version), Moulin Rouge, To Sir With Love, Brokeback Mountain, Amelie, Quadrophenia, Intermission, Three Colors, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Velvet Goldmine, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Chocolat, Almost Famous, A Hard Day's Night, Sense And Sensibility, Monty Python And The Holy Grail, Rock n' Roll High School, etc.

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Television:

Lost, The Office (both versions), Ugly Betty, House, 24, Blackadder, Extras, The Twilight Zone (original), Freaks and Geeks, Grey's Anatomy, The Young Ones, Fawlty Towers, The Avengers, The Sopranos, etc. .. .. .... ..

Books:

Most by Haruki Murakami especially The Elephant Vanishes, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being - Milan Kundera, most by Warhol, Edie: An American Biography - Jean Stein, Forbidden Colors - Yukio Mishima, most by Paul Auster, most by Charles Bukowski, most by JD Salinger, The Basketball Diaries - Jim Carroll, Strange Pilgrims - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro, most by EM Forster, Pride And Prejudice - Jane Austen, most by James Joyce, I'm With The Band - Pamela Des Barres, On The Road- Jack Kerouac, Babel - Patti Smith, The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger, Traveling Mercies - Anne Lamott, The Shipping News - Annie Proulx, etc.

Heroes:

Mother Teresa, Patti Smith, Johnny Cash, Gram Parsons and Willem de Kooning.