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LA Crystal

Good at Being Bad

About Me

I'm a true Gemini in every sense of the word. The tattoo on my upper right biceps says it all: near-identical twin pixies making love with each other. The artwork bespeaks the duality of my nature on so many levels: serious/playful, extro/introversion, loud/quiet, yin/yang, top/bottom. I'm like having two girlfriends in one, never dull yet never quite crazy either - at least not in the bad sense of the word.
A computer geekette by day, I'm a published journalist and author working toward shedding my corporate yoke for a fulltime literary career and further adventures to inspire even more writing. And while it's been years since I sang lead in a rock band, I hope to someday turn my deep abiding love of music that band experience into something more than fun. Finally, I'm a semi-retired LGBT activist and sexworker advocate who left my political heart in San Francisco to enjoy my middle age.
I live in Sherman Oaks in a two-bedroom apartment with my two kitties, three computers (not counting my corporate laptop), three guitars, 555 movies and a whole bunch of toys. I'm currently saving up for a house where I can do some serious nesting, play my music, grow organic veggies and continue building my career as a writer. I'm ten years clean & sober, four years nicotine-free (in June 2007) and into yoga and healthy living.
I love BDSM as a switch (prefer to bottom with women) and I'm grateful to have found a girlfriend who's shown much aptitude and eagerness for non-vanilla play. She and I are so compatible on so many levels, it feels like I'd be wasting my money buying any more lottery tickets. After all, I already feel like I won the best prize just by finding Her!
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My Interests

I enjoy music, movies, massage and moving my feet (walking, hiking, dancing, bicycling). I miss the sailing trips I used to take when I lived in San Francisco, but the beach is still fun on occasion. Not a huge fan of bars and clubs, though I do enjoy going out for music and/or pool, my favorite clubs are the kind with special furniture and toys.For those on whom that last part was lost, I am a BDSM switch (top/bottom), and though I prefer to submit to women, I am happy in any role I am not stuck in. While D/S is not central to my life, it is an important and even spiritual need of mine. Pure vanilla in not on my diet.

I'd like to meet:

For friendship: musicians, writers, artists and serious BDSM players, especially women. I don't add people just for the sake of adding them, so just don't ask to add me because you think I'm hot. I'm flattered, truly, but I'm more interested in friends than in joining your MILF gallery. I don't accept friend requests from people with Private or mostly-empty profiles unless they send me a meaningful letter of introduction.

For dating and potential LTR: too late, I already found Her — a woman with whom I can laugh and cry and discuss and play and work and share and enjoy our lives together. I am happy beyond my wildest dreams!

Ladies, please don't ask to be added as a friend if you're main purpose is to promote your business. Try sending an email first and if I like you and what you're selling, I'll add you.

MEN, I have no romantic/sexual interest in you and my life is very full as it is. Unless I already know you from real life, expect your emails and friend requests to be deleted wihout comment. Sorry if that sounds stuck up, but I have many more important things to do. If you're interested in my professional services as a dominatrix or an adult performer, visit my website .

Music:

Rock of nearly all stripes (excluding skinhead neo-Nazi and other hate-based genres), Jazz, Classical. Classic Rock, Glam Rock, Metal Rock and, most of all, instrumental rock guitar. Any kind of instrumental music, however, is likely to find a fan in me. BTW, though I have her video here and appreciate that genre, I'm not a *huge* fan of the Christina/Britney ilk.

Movies:

Top Ten:
1. The Matrix
2. L.A. Confidential
3. The Titanic (James Cameron's)
4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
5. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
6. The Princess Bride
7. Bound
8. Groundhog Day
9. Almost Famous
10. Postcards from the Edge

Honorable Mention:
Devil's Advocate
Fight Club
Magnolia
Secretary
Thelma & Louise
The Breakfast Club
The Crying Game
Mulholland Dr.
Memento
The Incredibles
Miss Congeniality

Television:

I'd rather put out a cigarette on my eyeball.

Well, I do love ER, especially seasons 1-7. Beyond that, I have too little time to let the toob suck my brain dry.

Books:

Top Ten:
1. Illusions, Richard Bach
2. The Key, Cheri Huber/Zen Buddhist Center
3. Myth of the Goddess, Baring & Cashford
4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
5. Hitchhiker's Guide books, Douglas Adams
6. Colors Insulting to Nature, Cintra Wilson
7. The Stand, Stephen King
8. L.A. Confidential, James Ellroy
9. Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein
10. Homeboy, Seth Morgan
Honorable Mention:
Most of Stephen King
Most of Hunter S. Thompson
Everything else by Douglas Adams,
Joseph Wambaugh (The New Centurions) and
Richard Bach (Jonathon Livingston Seagull)
Transgender Warriors, Leslie Feinberg
Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach, Kessler & McKenna
Postcards from the Edge, Carrier Fisher
Codependent No More, Melody Beattie
Siddhartha, Herman Hesse

Heroes:

Aside from my mother, I admire Tina Turner, Princess Diana, Dr. Jeffrey Wigand , Erin Brockovich , Margo St. James , Frank Zappa, Billie Holiday, Janis Joplin, Courtney Love, Hunter S. Thompson and, like it or not, Larry C. Flynt.

And, for recording this song and making this video, Christina:BEAUTIFUL (by Christina Aguilera)

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My Blog

BETTER THAN SEX

I first heard Rock when I was about 14:  Robin Trower's "Bridge of Sighs" and The Who's "Live at Leeds." It was like a switch had been thrown; I connected with that visceral, heart-pounding energ...
Posted by LA Crystal on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:40:00 PST

Let Your Freak Flag Wave High

After having wasted too much of my weekend thinking of spectacular ways to kill myself  like teaming up with a girlfriend who's also going through a tough time and hitting the road with her in a Thel...
Posted by LA Crystal on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:04:00 PST

Corporate Geekettes Rock!

Who says working a desk job has to be boring, especially when you have fun coworkers? Last summer I was doing a software install with another woman programmer for one of our customers. They are using ...
Posted by LA Crystal on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 11:58:00 PST

Musical Cats

Musical Cats   I have two darling kitties I love very much and love all things feline. I saw this a few years ago and haven't seen it since. This is too priceless to let it be forgotten, so here...
Posted by LA Crystal on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:46:00 PST

Checklist from Goddess

This came in my email from my former Twelve Step sponsor, a very spiritual woman who helped me move past my antagonistic views of all matters spiritual and made it okay for me to believe in a Higher P...
Posted by LA Crystal on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:37:00 PST