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Carole Eddington, Writer

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About Me

MAKING HUMAN RIGHTS A GLOBAL REALITY -- SCROLL ALL THE WAY TO THE RIGHT poetic, writer, singer, harmony queen, songwriter, wisewoman, helper of anyone who needs help, friendly, somewhat in touch with the Otherworld, perceptive, sort of a faerywitch elfin hippie rocker Emily Dickinson wizardly type of unit -- Lady Gandalf or Dumbledore -- I am immortal -- so are you -- I like to free up language, explore other universes, leave my head, teach, learn, and go creatively crazy. PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO MY BLOG(S)!!!!!!!! I'm also on Live Journal at www.livejournal.com/users/vinakti.
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Here I am with my husband Steve in 1989:
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My Interests

The Arts, things beautiful/spiritual/magical/ mystical, reincarnation, creating a renaissance and a new golden civilization, helping people, replacing schooling with natural education, kids and teens, nature, reading, writing, Scientology, and homestarrunner.com

-- not necessarily in that order. Favorite comedian: Eddie Izzard

I'd like to meet:

My people. If you're one of my people, we'll find each other. ARTISTS!!! Truth seekers. And people who need help.

Music:

LANE EDDINGTON -- SEE VIDEO Other favorite artists in no particular order: Jimi Hendrix

Janis Joplin

Tori Amos

Soundgarden

Nirvana, Yes, Stephen Stills, Laurel Masse George Harrison, John Lennon

Paul McCartney, Billy Joel, Jefferson Airplane, Melanie, Sly and the Family Stone, Spirit, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Heartsfield

Craig Marsden

The Beatles

Joni Mitchell

Chris Cornell

Aimee Mann, Rufus Wainwright, Led Zeppelin

The Cream

The Mars Volta, Live, Loreena McKennitt

Barbara Streisand, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Michael Jackson

Chick Corea, Bruce Hornsby, Bonnie Raitt

Ella Fitzgerald, The Pretenders, Patti Smith .. .. Radiohead, Stevie Wonder, Dan Fogelberg

Neil Young, Pat Metheny, Lyle Mays, Sammy Davis Jr., Kevin Gilbert, Sheryl Crow

Elliott Smith, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

Crosby Stills and Nash, The Moody Blues, The Doors, Aretha Franklin, my parents, Aerosmith, Sting, Nine Inch Nails, Enya, U2, Whitney Houston, The Rascals, the Rolling Stones, the Hollies, Smoky Robinson, Bob Dylan

Steely Dan, Cher, David Pomeranz, Marc Bosserman

Evanescence

Todd Rundgren,

Alexander Scriabin, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Peggy Lee, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Debussy, Chopin, Yo-Yo Ma, Siegel Schwall, The Flock, Flyer, The Eddie Boy Band, Jethro Tull, Donovan, Chaka Kahn, Mark and Anne Burnell, Jackie and Roy, Marianne Faithful, Nina Simone, Dusty Springfield, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Jerry Lewis, Procol Harum, Rachel Hutcheson, Cathy Schenkelberg, Cathy Richardson, Kate McClanaghan, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills, The Beach Boys, Tina Turner, Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis Presley, Elvis Costello, Mitch Ryder, Steve Winwood, The Yardbirds, Jeff Beck, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Mamas and the Papas, The Fugs

The Vines, Weird Al Yankovic, Alanis, Christina Aquilera, Shakira, Blood Sweat and Tears, The Tamba 4, Weather Report, Frank Zappa, Nick Sanabria, Elton John, Laura Nyro

Celebrity Centre Kids On Stage for a Better World

Sting, Kenny Loggins, Linda Ronstadt, Cat Stevens

all great jazz and dixieland, and on and on and on . . . Bass Playing Champ:

Best Bass Player of All Time: Jaco Pastorius

My Favorite Most Excellent Bass Player/Singer/Songwriter/Poet/Headhunter: Steve (George) Eddington

Movies:

THE LORD OF THE RINGS
HARRY POTTER
DEAD POETS SOCIETY, A FEW GOOD MEN, FINDING FORRESTER, MASTER AND COMMANDER, THE LAST SAMURAI, MAGNOLIA, JERRY MCGUIRE, THE WIZARD OF OZ, BIG FISH, REALITY BITES, EDWARD SCISSORSHANDS, THE RED VIOLIN, KINGDOM OF HEAVEN, WEIRD SCIENCE, BULLETS OVER BROADWAY, FUNNY GIRL, ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE FOREVER, FAR AND AWAY, TO SIR WITH LOVE, MY BEST FRIEND'S WEDDING, all Coen Brothers movies
all Christopher Guest movies, TRUE LIES, SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE, GOOD WILL HUNTING, PLEASANTVILLE, SEABISCUIT, STAR WARS, HOUSE OF THE SPIRITS, THE OTHERS, WEST SIDE STORY, AMADEUS, GONE WITH THE WIND, REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, ET, AI, CATCH ME IF YOU CAN, THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE, HEAVEN CAN WAIT, THE BOURNE IDENTITY, THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE, THE BOURNE SUPREMACY, ROMANCING THE STONE,
THE SCARLET LETTER, IMMORTAL BELOVED, WHITE OLEANDER, THE COLOR PURPLE, ROOTS, EMMA, SENSE & SENSIBILITY, ROMI & MICHELLE'S HIGH SCHOOL REUNION, FINDING NEVERLAND, CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY, HOOK, THE POINT OF NO RETURN, A DAY WITHOUT A MEXICAN, COMING TO AMERICA, PHENOMENON, TRADING PLACES, I HEART HUCKABEE'S, EASY RIDER
TWELVE MONKEES, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE, THE GLADIATOR, PATCH ADAMS, HOOK, MICHAEL, LOOK WHO'S TALKING, FRENCH KISS, JOE VERSUS THE VOLCANO, MOONSTRUCK, BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, Marx Brothers movies, Laurel and Hardy movies, NATIONAL VELVET, all versions of LITTLE WOMEN, ALWAYS, THE MATRIX,
TANGO, TEA WITH MUSSOLINI, A ROOM WITH A VIEW, FRIDA, ARTHUR, SCENT OF A WOMAN, HI FIDELITY, SMOKE SIGNALS, ALL THE LITTLE ANIMALS, IL POSTINO, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3, V FOR VENDETTA, THE DA VINCI CODE,
THE NAMESAKE, LA VIE EN ROSE, STRANGER THAN FICTION, STARDUST, COPYING BEETHOVEN, ACROSS THE UNIVERSE, ENCHANTED, JUNEBUG, and so many more!!!!! Movies by Johnny Depp, Jeremy Irons, Anne Bancroft
Kevin Kline, Katharine Hepburn
Alan Rickman
Gary Oldman
Ralph Fiennes, Joseph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett, Leonardo DiCaprio, Vivian Leigh, Clark Gable, Alfred Molina, Meryl Streep
Peter O'Toole
Richard Harris, Gabriel Byrne . . .

Television:

Television is destroying the world in many ways. But good stuff can be found on it: FRIENDS

ROWAN AND MARTIN'S LAUGH-IN, EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND, INSIDE THE ACTOR'S STUDIO, PBS CLASSROOM shows on the arts, movies, THE TONIGHT SHOW with Johnny Carson, DAVID LETTERMAN, LATE NIGHT with Conan O'Brian, various awards shows

Books:

CLICK:
THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE by Steven R. Covey
ON THE ROAD by Jack Kerouac
THE MISTRESS OF SPICES by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni THE FOREST HOUSE, LADY OF AVALON, and
THE ONLY ASTROLOGY BOOK YOU'LL EVER NEED by Joanna Martine Woolfolk, GIFT FROM THE SEA by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, EMMA by Jane Austen
A KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR by Jude Deveraux, RIDERS ON THE STORM by John Densmore, GENIUS by Harold Bloom, BREAD LOAF TALKS by Alfred M. Hitchcock, THE TEENAGE LIBERATION HANDBOOK--HOW TO QUIT SCHOOL AND GET A REAL LIFE AND EDUCATION by Grace Llewellyn, NOURISHING TRADITIONS -- THE COOKBOOK THAT CHALLENGES POLITICALLY CORRECT NUTRITION AND THE DIET DICTOCRATS by Sally Fallon, DAVE BARRY'S GUIDE TO GUYS, THE LITTLE PRINCE by Antoine de Saint Exupery, LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME by James W. Loewen
anything by the following authors and poets: L. Ron Hubbard, Anais Nin
Barbara Kingsolver
John Lennon, Richard Brautigan, Mary Stewart, Russell Salamon, Lane Eddington, Pablo Neruda, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, Henry David Thoreau, Sherman Alexie, J.K. Rowling, J.R.R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Maya Angelou, John Taylor Gatto, Kahlil Gibran, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Woody Allen, poetry books, anything by or about Emily Dickinson, books about rock stars and fairies, biographies, art and photography books.

Heroes:

L. Ron Hubbard

CLICK:

Joke Reeder

Tori Amos

Tom Cruise

Lane Eddington

Emily Dickinson

Bob Dylan, William Shakespeare, Whoopi Goldberg, Dr. Weston A. Price, David Miscavage, Gigi Faraci Harris, Daniel Eddington, Steve Eddington, Chris Cornell, Sammy Davis Jr., Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Elizabeth Taylor

Lewis Carroll, Russell Salamon, TomM Hall, Todd Rundgren, Alfred Molina, Giovanni Ribisi, John Taylor Gatto, Bernadette Peters

Carol Worthey

Dean Blehert, Lois P. Jones, Pam Blehert, Jean Dale, Katharine Hepburn, Chick Corea, Rachel Hutcheson, Bob Hutcheson, Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, Jack Kerouac, Johnny Carson, Steve Allen, Peter Sellers, Sacha Baron Cohen, Christopher Guest, Bettie Ross, Amy Adams, Janet Fitch

My Blog

What Scientology Really Is

Dear Friends: Scientology® is the Technology to handle life.  It is the Tech of Living.  See, you go to school for 12 or more years and learn some stuff, but no one really teaches you how to...
Posted by Carole Eddington, Writer on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 04:43:00 PST

Examination of Self at an Early Age

Something I wrote in my diary when I was 23: "I am a lazy perfectionist.  Thus I destroy myself."...
Posted by Carole Eddington, Writer on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 01:37:00 PST

Hey y'all, help me write this blog! C'mon! I'm waiting!

I put a new lightbulb in the lamp that didn't have a lightbulb, and it was good.   But then, lots of things are good, until, suddenly, things are bad.  But when things are bad, you can ...
Posted by Carole Eddington, Writer on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 10:39:00 PST

tears

  when we swam through tears tonight, I felt the last drop of love pierce the wall of the universe what we would do without each other is simply the outline of the next game so sadness should b...
Posted by Carole Eddington, Writer on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 04:09:00 PST

The Flight of the Fish

You think you're a fish, but you're not.  Don't even entertain that idea for a moment.  Fish eat dinner very differently than you do, and you should be glad of that.  And you should be ...
Posted by Carole Eddington, Writer on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:32:00 PST

Emeralds and The Way Out

Savage deep mystical blue with the silver sheen of excitement stands before me and around me like a deep-breathing, heart-beating world, freaky with expectation that I resume my position as head ...
Posted by Carole Eddington, Writer on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 01:15:00 PST

Robots in Twilight Zone Wonderland

"Maybe I just put too much significance into how I get along with my husband," she said to herself in an imaginary conversation with some unknown person who might care to help her.  "Maybe I...
Posted by Carole Eddington, Writer on Sun, 25 Nov 2007 06:28:00 PST

yeah

Neil Young has always been a huge hero of mine for a number of reasons.  The MAIN reason is that he's one of the truest poets who ever lived.  He seems to have maintained an uncompromising p...
Posted by Carole Eddington, Writer on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 08:48:00 PST

divinity escaped tonight

there's no thunder anywherethe silence has wonbut the silence reveals itself to bea beloved backdrop a composite of the voices that were always thereset like an aural mosaica wall of whispersthe ...
Posted by Carole Eddington, Writer on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 02:34:00 PST

The Radiation Poisoning Of America

go to originalBy Amy Worthington Prior to 1996, the wireless age was not coming online fast enough, primarily because communities had the authority to block the siting of cell towers. But the Federal ...
Posted by Carole Eddington, Writer on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:29:00 PST