Leslie profile picture

Leslie

i can't stop myself from falling back again

About Me


Your Dominant Intelligence is Linguistic Intelligence
You are excellent with words and language. You explain yourself well.
An elegant speaker, you can converse well with anyone on the fly.
You are also good at remembering information and convincing someone of your point of view.
A master of creative phrasing and unique words, you enjoy expanding your vocabulary.

You would make a fantastic poet, journalist, writer, teacher, lawyer, politician, or translator.
You Are Austin
A little bit country, a little bit rock and roll.
You're totally weird and very proud of it.
Artistic and freaky, you still seem to fit in... in your own strange way.

Famous Austin residents: Lance Armstrong, Sandra Bullock, Andy Roddick What American City Are You?

My Interests

music, guitar, songwriting, piano, languages - especially french, spanish, and german, culture, genealogy, indian food, cajun food, ethiopian food, hugs, academia, making mix cds for people, american history, civil rights, urban sprawl, social stratification, disability, organizational culture, media bias, social democracy, dancing, gender bias, being mostly vegetarian but not completely, politics, universal healthcare, altruism, unitarian universalism, falling down at inopportune times, being perpetually late, candles, meditation, prayer. I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

I'd like to meet:


"Love art. Of all the lies, it is the least untrue."
--Gustave Flaubert.

"A man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never goes back to its original dimensions."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes.
hm...i'm really not sure. i've always found this section to be quite difficult. anyone, really, as long as they are not stalkers. :)

Music:

patty griffin, india arie, wilco, jill scott, amel larrieux, be good tanyas, spoon, norah jones, lucinda williams, eve, a tribe called quest, the roots, nickel creek, mos def, otis redding, aretha franklin, anything stax, pharrell, elvis costello, big star, velvet underground, TI, kanye west, ray lamontagne, old crow medicine show, son volt, ryan adams, old 97's, jack johnson, fiona apple, outkast's new album, stevie wonder, sarah vaughan, dinah washington, madeleine peyroux, anything moderately danceable.

Movies:

bottle rocket, made, blood simple, amelie, fargo, intolerable cruelty, el mariachi, dirty pretty things, run lola run, anything with william h. macy, anything with audrey tautou, spike lee, broken flowers, stranger than paradise, supersize me, who killed the electric car, an inconvenient truth, almost any documentary.

Television:

the daily show, hell date, girlfriends, anderson cooper, late show w/david letterman, scrubs.

My Blog

watching the detectives

i subscribed to netflix about a week and a half ago and i'm almost maybe kind of somewhat addicted already.  i think i've watched like 10 movies in that period of time.  it's a little c...
Posted by Leslie on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:20:00 PST

you think im blind but ive got eyes to see

i can't stop watching youtube videos.  you wouldn't believe the stuff that's on there.  from a video of some girl doing a bill cosby impression to clips from a doucmentary to live music to r...
Posted by Leslie on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:59:00 PST

its official now

some americans have completely lost their minds.  apparently dunkin donuts has pulled an ad featuring rachel ray because conservative bloggers complained that the scarf she was wearing too closel...
Posted by Leslie on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 08:02:00 PST

oh the crazy things we say

here's a link to an article from the AP about a remark hillary clinton made about bobby kennedy being assassinated in june in california.  apparently, alot of crazy things happen in june, and thi...
Posted by Leslie on Fri, 23 May 2008 02:06:00 PST

maya angelou

is apparently endorsing senator clinton.  she performed at a clinton fundraiser in north carolina recently.  i've loved maya angelou ever since i read "i know why the caged bird sings" when ...
Posted by Leslie on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:33:00 PST

back in the u.s.s.r.

so i saw this news story today about sam's club and costco limiting the sale of rice to four bags per customer.  i thought it was interesting because although the story was only a couple of minut...
Posted by Leslie on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 09:42:00 PST

i’m currently obsessed with

the photo essays on time.com.  there are so many good ones, it was hard for me to pick just one.  but this one is called "la dolce vita", it's about the trash crisis in naples.  it...
Posted by Leslie on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 09:43:00 PST

hungry hungry hungry

i’ve been reading alot about this lately.  apparently some hospital ERs across the country have adopted the practice of checking people’s credit scores before they will treat the...
Posted by Leslie on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:57:00 PST

kind of blue

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080320/ts_nm/usa_politics_gallu p_dc   new gallup poll results showing clinton with a potentially significant lead over obama.  ...
Posted by Leslie on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 09:02:00 PST

i think this looks interesting

this is a yahoo news article i found about a terrorism exhibit at a minnesota museum, it looks kinda cool:   http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=4226712& ;cl=6471552&src=news...
Posted by Leslie on Sun, 17 Feb 2008 04:06:00 PST