It's Like Dying in Public...my blog **************************Good music, good books, good friends. I'm straight up Betty Crocker and my Red Velvet Cake is beter than your grandma's---I'd bet my life on it. I've spent the last 3 years with very little free time to do anything I love...but it's all over soon, so here goes: I love going to the gym, surfing, the beach, altruism, meditation, doing absolutely nothing on a rainy day save for staying in bed with a good book and/or a good man (the good book is easier to find of late). Cooking for the people I love is one of my greatest pleasures. If we're friends, your birthday cake will be something to remember. Movies are essential as well as a good daily soundtrack.
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Those with more personality than a houseplant and an IQ slightly higher than room temp. Seriously, if ya can't keep up, just stay home. Can you laugh at yourself? Good---rest assured I'll be laughing at you at some point. I don't have patience for whining. Acknowledge and move on. Do you know there's a point in your life where you have to stop blaming your parents, your past, your third grade teacher, that cop that busted you? Take responsibility for your OWN SHIT. Life's too short. I would also prefer it if you didn't have your head up your ass. It makes me worry that your back must hurt like hell and it also makes it IMPOSSIBLE for you to hear a g.d. word I say.
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Oh yeah---and a guy who can make me stutter.
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I'd like to meet these guys on the outside.....
Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Don Tosti, The Coup, Pietasters, Paul Weller, Brad, Devil Doll, the Dualers, Desmond Dekker, The Slackers, Me First & the Gimme Gimmes, Red Devils, Bad Religion, Patti Smith, Mark Lanegan, The The, Sisters of Mercy, Chingon, Incubus, The Knack, The Donnas, Voice of the Beehive, Mad Parade, Pennywise, Chris Isaak, Elvis Presley, Elvis Costello (who oddly enough just married our next contestant),Diana Krall, Morphine, Johnny Boyd, Chris Gaffney, Joss Stone, Jack Johnson, Dwight Yoakam, The Blasters (mmmmm...Dave Alvin), Michael Buble, Bobby Darin, Social Distortion, Hot Rod Lincoln, The Pretenders, Bruddah IZ, Lavay Smith & The Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Etta James, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, X, The Reverend (Horton Heat AND Al Green), Cigar Store Indians, The Stones, Jet, Joan Jett, Jeff Buckley, Allison Krauss, Mayfield 4, Miles, Charlie, Ray, Thelonius (Monk AND Monster), Mahalia Jackson, Art Pepper, Leonard Cohen...and on & on. If it doesn't suck, I'll give a whirl! .. .. .. ....
Salton Sea, Princess Bride, The Usual Suspects, The trial of Mary Dugan, Casablanca, The Women, Boondock Saints, Heathers, Crash, 40's film noir, 30's pre-code films, Dogs in Space (if you know of ANYONE who has a copy....send them my way PUHLEEESE!!), All That Jazz, Dogma, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Kung Fu Hustle, The Last King of Scotland, Big Wednesday, Chasing Amy, The Game, Old Hollywood Musicals, Ray, Auntie Mame, Pinero, Preaching to the Perverted, Valley Girl, The Wizard of Oz, Mullholland Drive, Mullholland Falls, Mean Girls, Love Actually, Double Indemnity, Swimming With Sharks, Blazing Saddles, Bubba Ho-Tep, Sordid Lives, Scarface, LA Confidential, The Way of the Gun ("Shut that cunt up or I'm going to come over & fuck start her head!"), Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, Better off Dead, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Secretary, Zoot Suit, Bring It On (don't start with me...there is more joy than you deserve in the first 5 minutes of that movie)
I don't have one. I watch movies on my laptop and listen to old time radio dramas...guilty pleasure.
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate." ~~~~ Henry Miller~~~~Authors are easier to list: Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Jack Kornfield, Joe R. Lansdale, Michael Connelly, Andrew Vachss, Hubert Selby(May the god of your understanding hold you in the palm of his hand. Good night, sweet man), Edward Lee, Robert Crais, Lee Child, Raymond Chandler,Tom Robbins, WM Burroughs, Augusten Burroughs, Charles Bukowski, John Irving, David Sedaris, Laurie Notaro, Ridley Pearson, Robert McCammon, Jim Carroll, Henry Rollins, Don Bajema, Elizabeth Cosin, James Ellroy, John Albert, Noah Levine, Stephen Levine, HH the Dali Lama. I read a lot...an abnormal amount...pick up a book and fucking read it. NOW.
My parents. Anybody stepping up and making it...those who realize the size of their paycheck does NOT reflect the size of their talent...are you honest, true to yourself and others? Then get on the hero train...