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sollocks

sollocks

About Me

I used to lend out my books but I never seemed to get them back. I hate the itching feeling of looking at my bookshelves and knowing that something is missing. This is not just materialism at work here, these are my friends, parents, mentors and children and when someone is missing - like my long lost copy of The Rehearsal - I feel bereft. So after having to replace a tenth of my library (and yes it qualifies as a library) the only people who get to touch my books are the people I am actually living with or related to. I might be persuaded to lend something out again someday with the explicit understanding that if it is not returned to me intact and in a timely manner I WILL be coming for your first born.

My Interests

aerial trapeze, after-rain-smells, books, broken-down-golfcarts, capoeira, crossword puzzles, cycling - in the rain, dictionaries, exotic skeleton sangria, falling from high points, first folio, gaff tape, intolerant librarians, karaoke, late nights, , making up words, masks, moments of play, music, my lightspeed, my siblings, offending the audience, people-watching, poetry, pepper, portland, Powells City of Books, rain, READING, red noses, rugby - All Blacks, running - at night, scrabble, scribbling, smell of books, storytelling, sushi, talking and not talking, tea, the Goose, theatre, wit, wordswordswords, writing on quadrille

I'd like to meet:

People who, if not watched carefully, are apt to do themselves all kinds of mischief. Obviously.

Music:

Beastie Boys, Beatles, Ben Folds (Five), Billie Holiday, Bjork, Black Crowes, Black Keys, Blues Brothers, Boom Boom Satelites, Boy Eats Drum Machine, Chocolate Genius, Chris Cornell, Cure, Damien Rice, David Bowie, Dead Can Dance, DJ Shadow, Doobie Brothers, Elbow, Ella Fitzgerald, Elliot Smith, Finger Eleven, Fiona Apple, Flaming Lips, Gorillaz, Helio Sequence, Imogen Heap, Incubus, Interpol,Jeff Buckley, Johnny Cash, Jurassic 5, Louis XIV, Louis Armstrong, Mars Volta, Marvin Gaye, Menomena, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Miles Davis, Modest Mouse, Mozart, Muse, musicals, Nick Drake, Nina Simone, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Orishas, Otis Redding, Pearl Jam, Phillip Glass, Pink Floyd, Pixies, Polyphonic Spree, Portishead, Queen, Puccini, Radiohead, Regina Spektor, Rufus Wainwright, Ryan Adams, , Sigur Rós, Simon and Garfunkel, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Stevie Wonder, Sufjan Stevens, Sun Kil Moon, Tally Hall, Thelonius Monk, Thievery Corporation, Tom Waits, Wilco, Zero 7

Movies:

A Day At The Races, A Night At The Opera, Amélie, The Battle of Algiers, The Blues Brothers, The Bridge Over The River Kwai, Bringing Up Baby, Charade, City Lights, Duck Soup, The Great Dictator, His Girl Friday, It Happened One Night, Jean Cocteau's La Belle et la Bête, Joyeux Noel, Lawrence of Arabia, Lola Rennt, M, The Manchurian Candidate - 1962 version, The Maltese Falcon, Metropolis (Fritz Lang), Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer, The Philadelphia Story, Rear Window, Room Service, The Shop Around The Corner, Spirited Away, Stalag 17, V For Vendetta, Vertigo

Television:

Dexter, Daily Show w/ Jon Stewart, Colbert Report, Bill Moyers, PBS, Adult Swim, Cowboy Bebop, Firefly, Deadwood, Telemudo, telenovelas!, the now defunct TheTube, Slings and Arrows