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Liesl Diesel

Are you ready to Rak?

About Me

About me there is chaos. Within me is all that I can really control. Oh! About ME. I am loud, obnoxious and overbearing. I mean well.

My Interests

pickles, belly dance, Tamil dance, dance, cultures, interior design, Frida Kahlo, cycling, singing, sinning, art, ceramics, painting, music, Artemsia Gentileschi, anthropology, reading, monkeys, Kandinksky, Klimt, vintage collectibles, nature, snakes, snake oil salesmen, laab, weird people, toe jam, gay rights, science, roller skating, humanitarian issues, Mona Hatoum, Rosa Bonhuer, Faith Ringold, Kathe Kollwitz, Hilla Rebay, architecture, Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright, Haywood-Wakefield, smelling things, tasting things, theology, philosophy, asparagus and how it makes my pee smell, Judy Chicago, p-funk, punk rock, pinocchio, Meret Oppenheim, Heinlein, Hawthorn, hedonists, hexes, sexes, perplexes, porpoise, whiskey, wine, rum and coke, panang gai, dark chocolate, sparkly things, babies, Buddha, beauty, Burroughs, bananas...

I'd like to meet:

Folks with information on boiled egg sandwich hook-ups, leap-frog tournaments and fart jokes.

Music:

Peggy Lee, Portishead, Parliament, Judas Priest, Black Flag, Kate Bush, The Velvet Underground, Carl Orff, Mario Bauza, Natacha Atlas, AC/DC, Pixies, The Sluggos, Getz and Gilberto, Bob Marley, Lata Mangeschkar, The Fugees, The Reverand Horton Heat, Veruca Salt, Sly and the Family Stone, DJ Cheb, The Breeders, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, The Huddlers, Billie Holiday, Jane's Addiction, Suicidal Tendancies, Thelonius Monk, NOFX, DJ Punjabi, Stevie Wonder, Bongwater, Laurie Anderson, Jamiroquai, Miles Davis, Black Sabbath, Beastie Boys, Ween, Soraya, Sublime, Ohio Players, Transglobal Underground, Steel Pole Bathtub, Sir Mix-a-lot, Fear, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Patsy Cline, Steely Dan, Galactic Caravan, Beethoven, Agnostic Front, Isaac Hayes, The Slits, Donna Summer, Amr Diab, Bootsy Collins, Missy Elliot, The Cramps, Misfits, Bright Young Hopefuls, Boss Martians, Hank Williams SENIOR, Bob Wills, Split Lip Rayfield, Cypress Hill, Riverboat Gamblers, Erykah Badu, Afro-Cuban All-Stars, ELO, Tchaikovsky, Lou Reed, The Clash, Nancy Sinatra, and so, so much more.

Movies:

Shaolin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle, Happiness, Welcome to the dollhouse(or my pubescent years), Harold and Maude, Crash, boogie Nights, A clockwork Orange, On the Waterfront, The Pink Panther films, Raising Arizona, Breaking the Waves, Pulp Fiction, A Christmas Story, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 911, 2001: A Space Odyssey, It's a Wonderful Life, Zoolander, Blue Velvet, Henry and June, Dr. Strangelove, Pink Floyd the Wall(duh), Bollywood films, The Sound of Music, Being John Malcovich, The Nightmare Before xmas, Edward Scissorhands, Bladerunner, West Side Story, Sex, Lies and videotape, Apocalypse Now, Kill Bills, Magnolia, Citizen Kane, Vertigo and a bunch of others I'm sure I've missed.

Television:

I only watch Law and Order re-runs and movies. I do like the Colbert Report, a lot. I think the Law and Order obsession is passing. I might turn it on but I don't watch it. Maybe the little clink-clunks are just soothing. Okay, sometimes I watch CSI Las Vegas. I hate CSI Miami.

Books:

I used to read the Wichita City paper. I do not anymore.

Heroes:

My parents and my grandparents. Also the bionic woman.

My Blog

I knew one day my prince would come

Here he is, everyone! My prince has finally arrived. I took several pictures of him and I guess he just appears slightly fuzzy and out-of-focus all of the time. And see? He brought the inlaws. They're...
Posted by Liesl Diesel on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:54:00 PST

Im gettin me a man!

I was just lamenting my lack of a man earlier today. I figured my chances of finding one were getting pretty slim. I'm almost 40 and the stats are not in my favor.Guess what! I just got an email from ...
Posted by Liesl Diesel on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:21:00 PST

Blog pimping

This isn't the first time I've pimped Eric's blog. He's a smarty. Check out the story he's posted.Damn! I should have been a fruit vendor in Costa Rica! I've long believed our culture could do with a ...
Posted by Liesl Diesel on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:19:00 PST

Stop the screaming in my head.

    I forgot too say that perimenopause makes you stupid.    I just had a giant freak-out at the grocery store. I was there for the THIRD time b/c I kept forgetting stuff...
Posted by Liesl Diesel on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:31:00 PST

Lookie! God is here!

God is not your genie God is not your Santa Clause God is not disappointed in you God has no expectations of you   God is in your big toe God is in your mother's voice God was there last t...
Posted by Liesl Diesel on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:45:00 PST

The Ace of Spades

        Today the Ace of Spades is MINE! In *Tarot the Ace of Spades, or swords, is a powerful weapon for good or bad and today this hand that wields it is truly a righte...
Posted by Liesl Diesel on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:49:00 PST

Pagan Conspiracy? I dont think so!

I've heard some rumblings regarding a "pagan conspiracy" and thought maybe we should explore the meaning of the term "Pagan".  Paganism is not a religion. It's not an anti-religion either. It'...
Posted by Liesl Diesel on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:02:00 PST

The blog that follows the blog to end all blogs

My first year teaching was a true trial-by-fire. It was awful. For the most part, it was not awful because of my students. 80% of them were GREAT. I loved teaching them. But, I had this one class that...
Posted by Liesl Diesel on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:13:00 PST

The Blog to end all blogs

I really can’t live up to that title. C’mon! Life is full of letdowns and broken promises. Get used to it.I do promise to write a real blog when Dance Magic, the DANCE show  I I I am ...
Posted by Liesl Diesel on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:49:00 PST

My homies are the best

    I had a great day! Teaching was fun and rewarding all day long! I wanted to hug and kiss all of my kids, they're so funny and interesting and wonderful.    Then I cam...
Posted by Liesl Diesel on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:02:00 PST