I love the musical RENT. It is one of the most awe-inspiring, emotionally gut wrenching and spiritually redeeming shows that has ever been written. You owe it to yourself to see it.
Dario, singing, musicals, dancing, acting, music, film, Yacht Rock, star-gazing, music, Eddie Izzard, day dreaming, sleeping, music, coffee, cocktails, my cat, my dog, animals in general, SHAG, the beach, music, 1920's, 1940's and 1950's stuff, Tiki, reading, music, Paris, Italy, going to shows, Yacht Rock, Ireland, hanging out with my friends and being a smart ass, the company of an intelligent AND hilarious man (there aren't that many, really), did I mention music in there?
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I'd like to meet:
I HAVE TO START WITH WHO I **DON'T** WANT TO MEET OR TALK TO...
IF YOU DON'T HAVE A BASIC GRASP OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, DON'T BOTHER. THIS INCLUDES PEOPLE WHO TyPe LiKe ThIs AND DON'T USE PROPER GRAMMAR OR PUNCTUATION. ALSO, IF YOU DON'T HAVE A CLUE WHO THE PEOPLE ARE IN MY "HEROES" SECTION...GET AN EDUCATION. (HINT: YOU WOULD HAVE TO READ OR REALLY KNOW THE ARTS TO KNOW THEM.) IF YOU WANT ME TO "HIT YOU UP" AND THINK COOL PEOPLE USE THAT PHRASE, GO AWAY. I DON'T LISTEN TO RAP OR SHOP AT THE GAP/ABERCROMBIE/ETC. WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO TALK TO ME? IF I DON'T KNOW YOU ALREADY THEN I DON'T WANT TO MEET YOU FOR A DRINK, DINNER, A DATE OR SEX. PISS OFF. I KNOW ALMOST 99% OF MY FRIENDS ON MY LIST PERSONALLY, INCLUDING THE BANDS. IF YOU ARE A GIRL COLLECTOR****FUCK OFF*****!!!!! YES, I CAN BE STRAIGHTFORWARD, EVEN DOWNRIGHT BLUNT, BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE ME A BITCH OR ANY OTHER WORD DESIGNED TO PROTECT YOUR SELF CONCIOUSNESS, JEALOUSY OR EGO.
This is not to suggest that there aren't cool people out there that I'd like to meet, but please have a brain in your head and go about it creatively. Non scenester, non drama queen types who are able to laugh at themselves. Witty, acerbic types and those with a scathing sense of humor are welcome! Mean people need not apply. And those who are ignorant just for the sake of being so? UGH, who told you that was attractive??
Someone who makes me smile. Someone not afraid to be uncool. Someone HONEST and OPEN. Someone who isn't afraid of passionate people. Passionate people. World Travellers. People who love kids but don't necessarily want them. Strong women and the men who are strong enough to hang out with them. ***The entire Yacht Rock Crew.*** TOM WAITS and EDDIE IZZARD (again)!!!!
And Dario again...over and over and over and over and over and over...you get the point. He's the best man I've ever known and am ever likely to meet.
***I AM ENGAGED!! PLEASE NO PICK UP LINES OR ANY OTHER SUCH NONSENSE. I WARN YOU NOW I WILL WRITE BACK SOMETHING VERY MEAN AND THEN BLOCK YOUR ASS.***
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Music:
Some of everything and only the first few are in any sort of order...Ryan Adams/Whiskeytown, The Rolling Stones, Tom Waits, KISS, AC/DC, Good Ol Boys, L.A. Guns, Motley Crue, The Cramps, Ruston Mire, Candye Kane, The Posies (also Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow solo stuff), Roy Kay Trio, Jo Miller and her Burly Roughnecks, The Swains, Dusty 45's (and all of their side projects), Evil Twin, The Extraordinaires, Rosemary Clooney, Ella Fitzgerald, Edith Piaf, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Rat Pack, Harry Connick Jr, Michael Buble, Johnny Mercury, Dawn Shipley, Truly Lover Trio, Marshall Scott Warner, Ruth Brown, Katie Webster, Patsy Cline, The Pretenders, Pat Benatar, Blondie, Journey, Robbie Williams, Deke Dickerson, Wayne Hancock, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, Johnny Cash, Stevie Wonder, Prince, Marianne Faithfull, Dinah Washington, Ray Price, Waylon Jennings, Hank's 1 2 and 3, Yacht Rock...there's more...I just can't remember it all right now.
Movies:
The Goonies, RENT, Dangerous Liasions, Chicago, Suspiria, Young Frankenstein, Boondock Saints, Equilibrium, Gilda, Now Voyager, To Have and Have Not, Key Largo, all Eddie Izzard stand-up and movies, Sweet Dreams, Coal Miner's Daughter, Rock N Roll High School, Grace of My Heart, Velvet Goldmine, Match Point, The Women, Stage Door, Phantom of the Opera, Some Kind of Wonderful, Amelie, My Life Without Me, Dark Crystal, Willy Wonka, Big Chill, Super Troopers, Pride and Prejudice, Watcher in the Woods, John Waters movies (even though, after what he did to Candye Kane, I consider him a fucking douche), ANYTHING with Mark Ruffalo or John Malkovich in it.
Television:
Six Feet Under, Sex and the City (when it was on HBO), History, Learning and Travel Channels. My favorite show is GHOST HUNTERS. I absolutely adore all of the ghost-chasing shows...I want to visit all of the haunted places they feature. I've been to two of them so far!
Books:
Dorothy Parker, Eve Ensler, Augusten Burroughs, Edgar Allan Poe, Anais Nin, Goethe, Charles Bukowski, Shakespeare, Jane Eyre, Mansfield Park, Pride and Prejudice, Anne Rice, Amy Tan, Bridget Jones' Diary, etc.
Heroes:
My Dario, for being MY Dario.
Sean and Tracie Lynn, who showed me it can work.
My IDOL, Mae West.
Rosemary Clooney, whose vocal warmth I strive to emulate.
Dorothy Parker, who I aspire to write as well as.
Patsy Cline, who taught me to sing.
Ruth Brown, who inspired a white girl to sing R&B.
Edith Piaf, who infuses her soul into every song she sings.
Nina Simone, who doesn't give a damn what you think.
Jo Miller, who paid me the best compliment ever.
Candye Kane, who sings all the styles I want to and proves a bigger, white girl can pull it off with style.
Eve Ensler, who is the bravest woman in theatre.
Eddie Izzard, who is a brilliant AND hilarious man. Rare.
Tom Waits, who is the true King of Cool.
