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Beth

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About Me

Awesome!

My Interests

Life in general . Travel(places I've traveled outside the U.S. :Italy,Germany,Switzerland,Austria,England,Scotland,The Bahamas,and Canada.)(States in the U.S. :New York,Pennsylvania,Connecticut,Massachusetts,Delaware,New Jersey,Maryland,Vermont,West Virginia,Virginia,Ohio,Kentucky,North Carolina,South Carolina,Tenessee,Alabama,Mississippi,Georgia,Florida,Illino is,and Minnesota .)I also like : JAZZ , live music , old records , thai food , coffee , tea , natural sunlight , wine , whiskey , nature and stuff , film , photography , art , books , science , architecture , vintage coats & jackets , journalism , french things , bike rides , clementines , my friends & my family ,company softball games,plants and flowers,bowling,basketball,playing pool,drawing & painting pictures,cooking,and interesting conversation, ect. .I love artists ! Check out this photo by my friend Heather. [email protected]

I'd like to meet:

God

Music:

Yes I listen to music .A subjective phenomenon of time, pitch, and harmony . In my mind there is nothing more moving and powerful than music . It's an overwhelming energy that helps define a sense of motion in time . My constantly evolving tastes shape me in ways I have never imagined before . I myself play the drums . I feel free and in complete control while jamming . I enjoy singing as much as I do the drums . When I was in my third year of college I remember sitting on my fireescape late at night while listening to the sounds of Frank Sinatra playing on my computer . I would bask in the delight of smoking ciggaretts and looking at an excellent view of the empire state building in the far distance . There I could think and dream . Also that year I remember walking into Cha & Julliets place and listening to Nina Simone for the very first time . That night I was captured . Uncontrollable dancing to the most beautiful voice on the planet . For I have had many more moments of music unmaskings . And I know I will continue to have them in the future .Some Music I enjoy : Nina Simone , Gorillaz , The Beatles , Prince , Ween , Queen , Radio Head , Modest Mouse , NIN , The White Stripes , Led Zeplin , Mogwai , Blonde Redhead , Fugazi , Tricky , Charissas Weird , Janis Joplin , The Doors , The Pixies , Billie Holiday , Bjork , The Juliana Theory , Marvin Gaye , Marilyn Manson , Red Hot Chili Peppers , Coldplay,Smashing Pumpkins , Eartha Kit , Lamb , Apoptygma Berzerk , Elvis Presely , Tom Waits , Bob Dylan , John Coltrain , Count Bassie , Simon & Garfunkle , Michael Jackson , The Who , The Byrds , Jefferson Airplane , Patti Smith , Eric Clapton , Bob Marley , FletWood Mac , Massive Attack , Tom Petty , Elton John , Beck , Madonna , The Violent Femmes , Ray Charles , NERD , George Clinton , King Curtis , The Bad Plus , Dinah Washington , Thad Jones , Dave Burbeck , Koop , Jack Johnson , Joe Cocker , The Almond Brothers , Billy Joel , Buddy Holly , Jimmy Hendrix , The Lucksmiths , Peter Gabriel , The Atomic Grind Show , The Rolling Stones , Elliot Smith , John Lennon , The Ramones , Beethoven , Bach , The Boston Pops , Nat King Cole , Aphex Twin , DJ Shadow , The Rat Pack , Manu Chao , Bright Eyes , Antony and The Johnsons , Nick Cave.......And The list goes on and on .

Movies:

A fan in deed . Film is a voice . Film is a theory , a point of view , a perception to be heard . I love the collaborative process of getting the job done as a collective effort . Foreign films are some of my favorites . Documentaries seem to hold brilliance most of the time . I resent Hollywood block busters and prefer Independent Film any day . D.P.'S are my favorite crew members for the visuals apspects . For I am a visual person with my eyes ready and open wide . Writers are key . A great script is like an eternal novel that can be read from cover to cover a million times over . But , the collaboration is the importance . I often find myself obsessed with film . It is a personal delight in which I feel absolutely free for a brief 122 minutes .Some Films I enjoy : Born into Brothels , Dark Days , Happiness , Pollak , American Beauty , Iris , Monster , Murder in the First , Sophies Choice , Schindler's List , Interview with the Vampire , The Public Eye , Deconstructing Harry , Manhattan , A Clock Work Orange , Eyes Wide Shut , The Shinning , Full Metal Jacket , The Piano , Loloita , Lover's on the Bridge , Amelie , The Shawshank Redemption , Capote , Crash , Requium for a Dream , Pie , Punch Drunk Love , Scarface , The Big Lebowski , The Royal Tenenbaums , American Splendor , Sideways , Lost in Translation , The Cabinet of Dr . Calgery , Million Dollar Baby , American Psycho , Bread & Tulips , Talk to Her , The Closet , Husbands & Wives , Match Point , Annie Hall , Manhattan , Good Night and Good Luck , Shop Girl , Me and You and Everyone We Know , Little Miss Sunshine , War Photographer , The Good Girl , Casino , Scent of a Woman , The Corporation ,Interiors,3 women,Christian F,Awakenings,Broken Flowers,Salvador,Glengary Glen Ross,A Room with a View,Scarface,Crimes and Misdemeanors,When the Levees Broke :A Requiem in Four Acts,2001 A Space Odyssey,Ground Hog Day, King Pin,Ghost Busters,Beverly Hills Cop,Fairenheight 911,Bowling for Columbine,Super Size Me,The Pursuit of Happyness,March of the Penguins,Earth,The City of Lost Children,Delicatessen,Iraq in Fragments, Jesus Camp , Sicko,Taxi Driver,Franky & Johnny,etc. .

Television:

Corrupt & entertaining at the same time .Telivision is a great little invention in which most people spend the many hours of their lives indulging in . The delight of the glowing screen and entertaining novels of programs constantly consuming our minds can easily become a pleasing tool to numb and distract from our silly and rediculous lives we live in . As a occasional viewer myself , I like to watch television for this very fact . Personally I think television is an excellent machine to allow people to become useless drones .In reality information is not legit . Our news programs are basically flawed and reality television is not reality .However I do like PBS and also some stuff on HBO.

Books:

Informative . Both good or bad depending upon how you use your knowledge . I'm actually in a photography book ... well five of my photos are anyways . To check it out go to : http://www.code-interactive.com/state/fine/ To Purchase go to : http://www.renascentculture.com/Some of my reads are : Lawrence Ferlinghetti , Herman Melville , Franz Kafka , Keats , John Donne , Deepak Chopra , Vincent Lobrutto , Jeremy Campbell , Ernest Hemingway , Jorge Luis Borges , Plato , George Orwell , Hunter S. Thomspon , Carlos Castaneda , Buckminster Fuller , Shakespear , Nathanael West , and a few others .I also like reading biographies of artists such as musicians , film makers , photographers , sculptors , and painters .Photo Books are excellents little gems to flip through .I prefer books of poetry , philosophy , art , and culture .

Heroes:

My People....you know who u are.

My Blog

AIDS WALK MAY 20TH 2007

AIDS WALK NYC When : May 20th 2007Where: NYCWebsite: http://www.aidswalk.net/newyork/...
Posted by Beth on Mon, 07 May 2007 05:18:00 PST

Buy my Photography book .

Cover of bookFive of my photographs are published in a new photo book coming out of San Diego,California. This is my very first publication in a book. It's kinda exciting and a bit strange to me to se...
Posted by Beth on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 07:37:00 PST

Viral Meningitis

Viral MeningitisViral meningitis is an infection of the meninges (a thin lining covering the brain and spinal cord) by any one of a number of different viruses. It is a fairly common disease; 500-700 ...
Posted by Beth on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 03:54:00 PST

Encephalitis Lethargica

Mystery of the forgotten plagueJust a few months ago, a paper was published, with very little fanfare, in an obscure medical journal.Brain samples were testedBut the contents of the paper were astonis...
Posted by Beth on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 08:03:00 PST

Chaos

The primary function of the system is achieved through the complexity of randomness . Complex behaviour often may be due to emergence and self-organization. Chaos theory has investigated the sensitivi...
Posted by Beth on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:13:00 PST

Photographed Cover for NY Press .

I recently did a Photo Shoot on Sunday . I was assigned to travel into Bedstye to photograph a delightful and interesting man named Wayne Starks . Wayne was a great subject and very pleasent to work w...
Posted by Beth on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 03:49:00 PST

Williamsburg needs to be destroyed !

I've come to a clonclusion that Williamsburg has far too many hippsters . I already knew this fact but finally have decided to state it . Williamsburg is a second hand clothing store trying to copy th...
Posted by Beth on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 11:45:00 PST

"A Corporation is a Psychopath"

"A Corporation is a Psychopath"A Corporation is a Psychopath . The corporation is labeled as a person ..... it resembles all the classic characteristics of an analyzed PsychoPath . Shareholder values ...
Posted by Beth on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 07:12:00 PST

Keith Olbermann's Special Comment on Bush 9/11/06

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Posted by Beth on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:18:00 PST

Sketch Pad Drawing

Drawings from my Sketch Pad 2006Copyright Beth's Drawings"Cogitation" 2006"Chess Room" 2006"Chess Room 2" 2006"Ramp" 2006"Fountin" 2006"Derangement" 2006"Phone" 2006"Max Ernst" 2006"Belligerent Sheddi...
Posted by Beth on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 07:02:00 PST