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Spending time with my fantastic family and friends, learning from my bright and loving niece, "Ambie", walking Mighty boy (when it's not too hot in Cali), writing poems, show and film reviews and the occasional screenplay, singing, dancing, working on my website (www.libranpoet.com), going to the gym, exploring the fine and mystic art of bellydance, probing the City of Angels for ghosts of the past, running the Eddie Cantor Society, still photography, making jewelry, designing t-shirts, bargain hunting (hence the name, Dimestore), and generally goofing off. I'm a clown with a winning personality (if I do say so myself...ha!). Going to movies new and sometimes very old are my thing too...I guess so, since I got my masters in screenwriting. I also like the occasional sporting event, like a good basketball or hockey game. I absolutely love the Hollywood Bowl and outdoor concerts.
You Should Be a Song Writer
You have the ability to evoke emotion, tell a story, and hook someone...
In a very small amount of words, perhaps with some deft rhyming.
Even if you can't write music, you can sure write compelling lyrics.
Lyrics so good, people will have them stuck in their heads!
What Type of Writer Should You Be?
I'd like to meet:
Cool, honest people that like to unwind with a glass of wine and magnificent conversation. Spiritual people are very intriguing, since I consider myself one. Some beautiful men I would like or would have like to have met, Daniel-Day Lewis, one of the greatest actors of our time, the fantastically talented, Terrence Howard, the magnanimous Johnny Depp, and the beloved and now late, Heath Ledger.
Music:
Buried at PhotoCasket.comMy interest in music is insatiable and crosses over many eras and styles. My latest favorites are Kate Nash, Mook, Pricks, and Foxboro Hot Tubs. Other relatively "new" stuff: Beastie Boys, Beck, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Green Day, Aimee Mann, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Goldfrapp, Norah Jones, Lily Allen, Jem, Corrine Bailey Rae, Alicia Keys, The Bangles, Ariel, The Killers, The Cure, 311, Muse, Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction, New Order, The Living End, Weezer, The Doors, Grateful Dead, Tom Waits, Journey, The Kinks, Flogging Molly, The Carpenters, Velvet Underground, Janis Joplin, classic Heart, Linda Ronstadt, The Mamas and the Papas, most 80s music, old school Michael Jackson, The Jackson 5, 90s dance music, 2Pac, Ludacris, New Edition, Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, Erkyah Badu, Holly Cole, K.D. Lang, Harry Connick Jr., etc. etc.! You'd be hard-pressed to find music I DON'T like, except maybe speed metal (sorry guys).
Timeless Music: Classical (Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Bach, Mozart, Shubert, Strauss), The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Big Band, Swing, Cool Jazz, Hot Jazz, Dean Martin, Bobby Darin, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Andrews Sisters, Boswell Sisters, Eddie Cantor, Al Jolson, Keely Smith, Peggy Lee, June Christy, Blossom Dearie, Eydie Gorme, Doris Day, Rosemary Clooney, The Happiness Boys, Helen Kane, Ruth Etting, Greta Keller, Annette Hanshaw, Billy Murray, Nick Lucas.
Movies:
..Movies are my life! My very favorites out of hundreds I can watch over and over: Whoopee!, The Kid From Spain, Roman Scandals, Palmy Days (Eddie Cantor-Goldwyn features), Dinner at Eight (1933), Sunrise (1927), Sunset Boulevard, The Kid, Modern Times, Singin' in the Rain, The Wizard of Oz, Double Indemnity, Key Largo, Pathar Panchali, The African Queen, Rebel Without a Cause, most Alfred Hitchcock films (Vertigo, Strangers on a Train, Rope, Notorious, North by Northwest), Marx Bros. films, especially Animal Crackers and Duck Soup, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Marty, Lady in White, The Goonies, Dead Poets Society, John Hughes films (Sixteen Candles, Some Kind of Wonderful, Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club), Armed and Dangerous (John Candy and Eugene Levy), The Color Purple, Waiting to Exhale, In the Name of the Father, LA Confidential, American Beauty, Star Wars, The Godfather trilogy, Four Weddings and a Funeral, American Splendor, most Tim Burton movies (especially Ed Wood and Edward Scissorhands), Lord of the Rings films, Harry Potter films, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Amelie, Chocolat, Three Amigos, Muppets Take Manhattan, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Small Time Crooks. Biopics: Chaplin (Robert Downey Jr.), James Dean (James Franco). Cinderella Man, Sideways, Batman Begins, Maria, Full of Grace, Revenge of the Sith, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, School of Rock, Crash, Hustle and Flow, new favorite, Little Miss Sunshine.
.. Acting with James Franco Episode 3: Scene Work on FunnyOrDie.com ..
Television:
Newer and Discontinued: Paranormal State, Medium, House MD, Numbers, City Confidential, Forensic Files, American Justice, 20/20, 48 Hours Mystery, The First 48, Ghost Whisperer, Merry Melodies Cartoons, What About Brian, Dancing with the Stars, Crossing Jordan, Without a Trace, HGTV, Def Poetry, Judging Amy, Freaks and Geeks, Sex and the City, 60 Minutes, Unsolved Mysteries, E! Mysteries and Scandals, The Twilight Zone, The Jeffersons, most Norman Lear and Garry Marshall shows, In Living Color, The Golden Girls, Celebrity Mole (otherwise, not much into reality TV), Remington Steele, Bewitched.
Books:
THE GOOD BOOK, To Kill a Mockingbird, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, The Rise and Fall of David Levinsky, The Bluest Eye, most entertainment biographies like Stephen Bogart's: In Search of My Father, most Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Robert Frost, ee cummings, T.S. Eliot, Boy by Roald Dahl. For magazines, Architectural Digest (especially the special edition issues on old Hollywood homes), Writer's Digest.
Heroes:
Jesus Christ , my family (immediate and extended), the kids I worked with, St. Therese (the Little Flower), Mother Theresa, St. Anthony, Eddie Cantor, Abraham Lincoln, FDR, Eleanor Roosevelt, Audrey Hepburn, Princess Diana, Tammy Faye, all those who have survived horrific trials yet maintain their faith and live life to the fullest!
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