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About Me

I am spontaneous, impulsive, and highly adaptable. The obscure attracts me and so does the simplistic. Creativity is the medium through which I feed myself to become closer to that which embodies me. Humour is big in my books; there is nothing worse than taking yourself too seriously :D...

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My Interests

Writing, reading, music/singing, travelling, art, conversing with anyone and everyone, attracted to that which challenges my mind, body and spirit...

I'd like to meet:

My Grandparents with who I never had the opportunity to meet and live...

Music:

Billie Holiday, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Otis Redding, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Samuel Barber, Claude Debussy, Vivaldi, Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Handel, Puccini, Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, Diana Krall, Bjork, David Bowie, The Beatles, Bush, Ray Charles, Jimi Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Curtis Mayfield, Janis Joplin, Pearl Jam, Iggy Pop, Mogwai, Massive Attack, Lamb, Stevie Wonder, Quintel, Angelo Badalamenti, Paul Weller, Telefon Tel Aviv, Led Zeppelin, David Holmes, Marlena Shaw, Dead Can Dance, Depeche Mode, Bauhaus, The Kinks, Rory Gallagher, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Zohar Fresco, Ross Daly...too many artists to mention and genres...

Movies:

War of the Worlds, Anchorman, Pi, Clerks, Clockwork Orange, The Killing Fields, Platoon, La Strada, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, The Elephant Man, Capote, Pirates of the Carribean, La Dolce Vita, The Colour Purple, The Last Samurai, Crash (not the Cronenburg one), Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Anthony and Cleopatra, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, Man on the Moon, 8Â½, Scarface, The Godfather, Easy Rider, A Beautiful Mind, Star Wars, Moulin Rouge, Trainspotting, Taxi Driver, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, The Royal Tenenbaums, Lost in Translation, All About My Mother (Todo Sobre Mi Madre), One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Fight Club, Matrix, Walk The Line, fan of the classics and anything independent...

Television:

Not watching a lot of tv lately...

Books:

Charles Bukowski, Paulo Coelho, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Neale Donald Walsch, Irvine Welsh, Kurt Vonnegut, William Burroughs, Michael Hornburg, Chuck Palahniuk, William Shakespeare, Aldous Huxley, James Joyce, Khalil Gibran, Vladimir Nabokov, John Steinbeck, Robert Graves, Virginia Wolf, George Orwell, Ernest Hemingway, H.P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, H.G. Wells, Anthony Burgess, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Irving, E.M Forster, Alice Walker, Jack Kerouac, Jane Austin, Hermann Hesse, Nikos Kazantzakis, Jeffrey Eugenides...the list is endless...

Heroes:

Anybody who isn't afraid to experience exactly what they feel, anyone who makes the most of life irrespective of the circumstances, my parents...

My Blog

Requiescat In Pace...

In loving memory of my dear cousin who passed away suddenly only a few days ago. I wish things could have been different for you. I know you feel like you belong and are understood where you are now....
Posted by Jo on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:24:00 PST

Heavy Earth

I recently got back from a trip to Thailand and felt inclined to share my experience. Being in the Land of a Thousand Smiles for only a week has left me somewhat looking at the state of thing...
Posted by Jo on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:43:00 PST

Placidus

Profound silence of the skies offers an abstract picture of hope, Breezy circles of acknowledgement run through your vital core, You stretch out your hands to grasp the rosebuds of life, And a vibrati...
Posted by Jo on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:29:00 PST

Releasing the Passion

Safe trip to you free spirit, Know that I run my fingertips across your fading presence, Stand up against the force and release your colours, Step into the light and fold yourself inside it, Every fi...
Posted by Jo on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 02:39:00 PST

Narcissistic Recognition

As Christopher Lasch, one of America's most important social critics once pointed out 'We live in a Narcissistic age where image is more important than substance&' Narcissism is the love of on...
Posted by Jo on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:34:00 PST

You

A star's brilliance was leaning, Waltzing over some arc shadow that rested precariously beneath its ruler, Melodies of pendulous cacophonies emanated from the embracement of arms that fl...
Posted by Jo on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:39:00 PST

Explosive Momentum

Swaying to the tremolo of the internal voice, Hips move in unison, Breathing becomes a symbiotic monologue of emotions, Hands reaching out to grasp the deepest closeness, &nb...
Posted by Jo on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:37:00 PST

Paradoxical Seep

Time the stranger and the friend, Lulling in its inevitable avenger, That which you fear will slowly direct you to the fear itself, Nature calls upon the carnal senses that dwell so deep, Not releasi...
Posted by Jo on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:26:00 PST

The Immortal Coil

Stretched out hands, Flaying fingers waiting for acknowledgement, Reverse perceptions of instances pervade my angular glare, One after the other falling slowly, each stopping in its sequence like an ...
Posted by Jo on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:21:00 PST