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Gravityslave

questioning the parameters of reality since 1978

About Me

I like reading. Occasionally I can be found out in public, looking terrified.

I'm also enamoured with Firefox:

I edited my profile with this

My Interests

I am a semi-professional biophile with no intention of stopping. I have, however, sworn off a few things because there's so little left of me these days. Oooh - cryptic!

I'd like to meet:

Buster Keaton, but it's a little late for that, isn't it? Other wonderful dead people include:
- Jim Henson
- Cab Calloway
- Douglas Adams
- George Harrison (now you know my answer to the ever-popular 'favourite Beatle' question)
- Butterfly McQueen
- Graham Chapman
- J. R. R. Tolkein
- André The Giant
- DeForest Kelley
- James Doohan (Yes, I'm a nerd. Shut up.) (There's a lot more, but those are the first ten I could think of that I wish I'd met. I have a thing about cool dead people, I guess.)

Music:

Yes, please. Whaddaya got? The only stuff I can't stand (in general) is whiny country, new country, and, y'know, country-country. Johnny Cash kicks everyone's ass. Mostly, I'm a lyrics fanatic, but something that forces me to dance can't be all bad either, as far as I'm concerned. Oh, and the bizarre is very much appreciated.

Movies:

Five favourites (no real order):
1. Grosse Pointe Blank
2. Big Night
3. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
4. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
5. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

Television:

Blah blah blah blah, blah blah. Blah... blah blah blah! Blah. Blahblah blah bleeeeaaarrgh. Blurp.

Books:

I decided to attempt this. Thus- currently reading: Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel by Susanna Clarke Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde (surprisingly, not a typo) A Book Of Bosh by Edward Lear Book Of Longing by Leonard Cohen And, last but certainly not least, The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson Other favourite authors: Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman, Cyril Kornbluth, Alfred Bester, Christopher Moore, J. M. Coetzee, Douglas Adams, Tolkein, Asimov, Heinlein, Ben Bova, W.B. Yeats, Ellis Peters, Vonnegut, Tom Robbins... Guilty pleasures authors list: Lillian Jackson Braun, Agatha Christie, P.D. James, Janet Evanovich, L.M. Montgomery (her ghost stories, mainly)... You have no idea what a short list that is. I just put down the ones who are sitting right in front of me on my desk shelves...

Heroes:

I have so many and most of them are in my list of people I want to meet. Aside from them, pretty much any human who goes through life not only trying to be benign but actually also making a positive difference is my hero, and I want to be more like them.

My Blog

I am centred, I am well.

Well, I've been MIA for a while it seems. So much has happened, most of it good. Actually, in the end result, all of it good. I'm okay now. I'm relatively (hesitantly?) happy now - searching for balan...
Posted by Gravityslave on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:58:00 PST

the truth is that

the only thing more dangerous than a woman who knows precisely what she wants is a woman who doesn't know what she wants at all.I am extremely dangerous.Fear me.Muahahaha *cough* haha *hack, spit* ha ...
Posted by Gravityslave on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 12:00:00 PST

Humanoid in appearance. Lacking in sensitivity. Marathon.

This will mark my first blog entry written on MySpace while drunk.Pride.So I took my own stitches out yesterday, which was really cool and fun, but sadly I was not able to tape and podcast the experie...
Posted by Gravityslave on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:44:00 PST

measure your riches in mixed discs/tapes

My sister and my brother-in-law made me a kickass mixed CD for my birthday. As a result I bought an M. Ward CD despite having sworn to stop blowing money I don't have on iTunes.Life is gorgeous and mu...
Posted by Gravityslave on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:24:00 PST

stitches photo

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Posted by Gravityslave on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:41:00 PST

Aaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!

So I was opening this can of soup, see, and the opening became mutual.Now I have thre stitches in my left pinkie and my hand is frozen.Photos to follow soon, hopefully.
Posted by Gravityslave on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:01:00 PST

this is a subject subject to change

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Posted by Gravityslave on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:56:00 PST

this is a song that you sing to your own tune

There's no wrong way to sing it - no wrong way to play itno wrong way to roar, scream, or say itas long as you're honest and no-one gets hurtburied deep in the dirt.One miracle every day -summer seeds...
Posted by Gravityslave on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:24:00 PST

belated

Happy birthday George!My mind fell into a parallel universe and I lost all the information stored on my drives. Sorry 'bout that.
Posted by Gravityslave on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 08:05:00 PST

one man's treasure is another man's refuse

Not drunk but wastedrefusedconfusedbemused.Contused.How may I reconcile you now with who you were?My goal for the next three years is to buy a house. I'm doing it, kids; I'm going to pwn a space of my...
Posted by Gravityslave on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 06:52:00 PST