I've been fascinated with the Amish since I was a young child. I love vintage clothing, antiques, Raggedy Ann, reading before bed, the smell of gasoline and black magic markers, red tulips, orange pumpkins, writing poetry and fiction, writing in on-line diaries (I refuse to say "blog"), black cats, fat cats, psycho cats, murder victim survivors, Buddhism, Taoism, Me-ism.
I'd like to meet:
Ultimately, my doppelganger? Just kidding. My favorite people know how to laugh at themselves and the absurdity of this planet we live on. I'd love to meet people that like to laugh until they can't breathe. I'd also love to meet people that not only are neurotic but embrace being so! Make me laugh, make me cry. Just make me feel SOMETHING! Some fave movie moments:
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Music:
Arthur Lee/Love, The Seeds, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Standells, 13th Floor Elevators, Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, Flamin' Groovies, MC5, Iggy Pop/The Stooges, Back from The Graves comps, Pebbles comps, The Stones, The Velvet Underground, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Howlin' Wolf and other Delta Blues, The Wailers (I don't mean Bob Marley, though I do like reggae too, and old ska like Desmond Dekker), The Sonics, The Buzzcocks, Bowie, Big Black, Killing Joke, Sham 69, Patti Smith, The Scientists, The Saints, Wire, Gang of Four, Mission of Burma, The Stranglers, Siouxsie, Japan, The Cure, Joy Division, The Birthday Party and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Grinderman, Echo and the Bunnymen, Tubeway Army, Adam and the Ants, Devo, Dirty Three, Sonic Youth, The Mars Volta, Pixies, X, THE CRAMPS, Grant Lee Buffalo, PJ Harvey, Cat Power, Caesar, Hole, Babes in Toyland, Pandoras, Nick Drake,Sixteen Horsepower/Woven Hand/Lilium (and all the other lovely and spooky Denver-ish bands), Trailer Bride, Fairport Convention, Neil Young, Old 97's, The Carter Family, Les Mysterie Des Voix Bulgar (sp?), Cocteau Twins, Jesus and Marychain, The Dark Fantastic, Interpol, The White Stripes, Queens of the Stone Age, Black Sabbath, The Beatles, The Kinks, The Who, The Dirtbombs, The Gories, Pavement, The A-Frames, The Gloryholes, The Briefs, The Replacements, Husker Du, Bauhaus, Billie Holiday, Edvard Grieg, Chopin, The Specials.....and tons and tons more (like things I've been listening to lately:) The Monks, Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, The 5,6,7,8's ..Trail of Dead, Chrome, Morphine, Arctic Monkeys, Bomboras, Brianjonestownmassacre.....) The list never stops growing as I discover new music or remember stuff I've loved for years!
Movies:
The Wizard of Oz, Harold and Maude, The Graduate, Blow Up, To Sir With Love, The Knack and How to Get It, Wings of Desire, The Lady from Shanghai, Dazed and Confused, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, stuff by Jean Cocteau, stuff by Kenneth Anger, Citizen Kane, The Stranger, Over the Edge, Secretary, Naked, My Left Foot, The Commitments, The Snapper, In the Name of the Father, Back Beat, Faster Pussycat Kill, Kill!, Mudhoney, Village of the Giants, Psych Out!, The Loved One, Shadow of a Doubt and other Hitchcock, Pretty in Pink, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Mystery Train, Night on Earth, Ghost Dog, Ghost World, Harvey....Recently been watching Richard Kern shorts.
Television:
I love Six Feet Under (but since I don't have cable, I've only been able to rent the first season), Twin Peaks was the best series on TV EVER (well, the original Twilight Zone was hard to beat, too!) These days I don't watch much TV..mostly PBS stuff like Globe Trekker...
Books:
Steppenwolf, Demian, The Lovely Bones, She's Come Undone, Alias Grace, Love Medicine, Memoirs of a Geisha, White Oleander, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, short stories by Flannery O'Connor, Please Kill Me, stuff by Lester Bangs, Choke, Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith, Cry of the Peacock, The Robber Bride, The Virgin Blue, The Kitchen God's Wife, Becoming Madame Mao, Red Azalea, Lizard, Kitchen, This Much I Know Is True, The Sorrows of Young Werther, White Teeth, Geek Love, Fall On Your Knees, In the Fall, Cold Mountain, The Time Travelers Wife, The Book Thief, Kafka on the Shore...
Heroes:
"NO MORE HEROES ANYMORE"....Ok, the Stranglers AREN'T my heroes but they prove a point (and I like 'em, too!)
