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Julie

I am here for Friends

About Me

I'm a landscape and still-life artist whose works never turn out the way they start. My vision changes several times throughout the creative process, but I am usually happy with the end result. If I'm not, I relish slashing the canvas to shreds or, if salvageable, paint over everything I've done and look for patterns in the chaos. My kids, and most everyone who knows me, just look at each other and shrug. They love me anyway.

My Interests

Painting, reading, cooking, live music

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who keeps it real even when keeping it real goes wrong. I hate phonies.

Music:

Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Duane Allman, Packway Handle Band, Parliament Funkadelic, John Mayer (not that "Your Body is a Wonderland" bull----), Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton, Doyle Dykes, Amy Winehouse, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, 8 and a Half Souvenirs, Snoop, Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Gladys Knight

Movies:

Dead Poets' Society, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Tombstone, Amelie, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Scent of a Woman, The Godfather, Blazing Saddles, Unforgiven, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Nightmare Before Christmas, All About Eve, The Benny Goodman Story, Angels in America

Television:

The History Channel, the Food Network, Seinfeld reruns, So You Think You Can Dance

Books:

The Grapes of Wrath, Of Mice and Men, Native Son, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Shawshank Redemption, Jude the Obscure, He Still Moves Stones, The Picture of Dorian Gray (scares the hell out of me)

Heroes:

Jesus