Alcohol, X-Files, Books, Live Music (pop-punk, indie, and/or artsy-fartsy classical), Playing Tennis, Bowling, Running, Rock Climbing (like a mofo in the chinatown), Urban Planning & Architecture, Beaches (lately).
I'd like to meet:
- and -
I would like to meet someone who would kiss me in Fibonacci Sequence.
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I love Edna St Vincent Millay, Madeleine Albright, CS Lewis and Toni Collette.
Read this very closely:"Foolish Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.--"Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood."--Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood." -- R W Emerson
After careful consideration, I have decided to endorse Hillary Clinton for President of the United States. We can benefit from Clinton's 30+ years as a public servant. She represents
change,
leadership,
unity, and
electability. Please visit my blog, "100 Resons..." for a bulleted list of why she is the best Democratic candidate.A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote to elect someone who has proven over time to me and to this country that she has the experience to make things happen and the vision to return us to a place of prosperity while also leading us to a new place of positive change in our healthcare system, education system, our social issues, and our economy.
The need for these changes is urgent, and this is no time for waiting and hoping for solutions from a man who is unable to deliver these things.
This is not a game. This is about real people's real lives.
I endorse her with confidence and it is an informed decision. She is the only candidate whose past experience and hard work shows that we can elect her with the assurance that real, positive change will begin immediately. You can give my blog, "100 Reasons...", a read, and feel free to comment.
Although I am not a revolutionary, I'd like to meet a revolutionary! Revolution is war. Of all the wars known in history, it is the only lawful, rightful, just, and truly great war. This war is not waged in the selfish interests of a handful of rulers and exploiters, like any and all other wars, but in the interests of the masses of the people against the tyrants, in the interests of the toiling and exploited millions upon millions against despotism and violence.
I seek in other people one thing: 'humility'. You have to be able to laugh at yourself.
ALSO:
Madeleine Albright, Francis Fukyama, Toni Collette, and Katherine Porter (even though she's dead).[Written in 2004:] There are two things in this world that I want:
1) A sequel to the 1998 X-Files Movie (update here )
2) Me to publish one great novelIf you ever say 'Woot', you will never fall into the category of someone 'I'd like to meet'.I love Lamonica 's AbFab quote:
You can't buy happiness, but you can bloody well charge it!
I identify with Jenny 's quote:
I'm clumsy. And not in that sexy Don Knotts way.
Music:
Show line-up:
15 Nov 07 - Stars
ABBA
Ash
Beastie Boys
Catie Curtis
Ani Difranco
Melissa Ferrick
Spoon
Muse
Add (N) to X
Freezepop
Ladytron
I Am World Trade Center
Agnostic Front
Le Tigre
The Servant
Clinic
Injected
Pansy Division
Kate Wolf
Mamma Cass
Old 97s
Ours
Patti Smith
Sheryl Crow
Local H
NOFX
Snow Patrol
Die Toten Hosen
Embrace
Die Artze
The Streets
U2
Common Rider
The New Pornographers
Alphaville
LCD Soundsystem
Alkaline Trio
Less Than Jake
Gurdas Mann
John Southworth
Elliot Smith
Mary Prankster
Dar Williams
Cake
Stars
Ramones
The Smiths
Fenix TX
Fly Mordecai
Blondie
The Gourds
Interpol
Grandaddy
Frou Frou
Sugarcult
Sondre Lerche
David Garza
Aimee Mann
Fiona Apple
Electrolese
Bonkin' Clapper
Louis Armstrong
Count Basie
Ella Fitzgerald
Etta James
Duke Ellington
James Brown (!)
Badly Drawn Boy
The Pixies
Cake
At The Drive In
Belle And Sebastian
David Bowie
Clap Your Hands And Say Yeah
Elvis Perkins In Dearland
Sublime
Cole Porter
The Sounds
Wir Sind Helden
Guano Apes
Hot Hot Heat
Placebo
Ben Lee
Steve Earle
Velvet Underground
The Butchies
Star Sailor
South Austin Jug band
Billy Idol
Scissor Sisters
Paris Combo
The Cloud Room
The Transplants
Ditty Bops
The Ms
Toni Collette and the Finish
Tegan And Sara
Frida Lyngstadt
Agnetha Faltskog
Benny Andersson Orchestra
Derb
Naked Eyes
Lisa Fraser
Lipps Inc
Louis XIV
The Faint
Ich + Ich
This is just a list of my favorites; of course there are a lot of other bands that are really great. My favorite band (obsession) is ABBA and I've even spent a lot of money to see individual members, collector items.. go ahead and judge me, I deserve it..My favorite live band is Ash by a long stretch. Sometimes their music sounds too overproduced on album, though.The best voices in Europe are Sweden's Peter Joback and Helen Sjoholm.Recently I've been listening to Oasis' new album (shut up and stop judging me - I like their new album even if everything else is shit; I don't care what you say). I like Beck's new album. I like Gomez, particularly their song, 'Silence'. I like that Bombshell Crush cover - Time After Time (and the original, too). I like any bands' covers of ABBA, even though there's some truly horrific ones. A great set is Salma and Sabrina's ABBA covers in Hindi, no kidding. Jason Harwell, Aimee Mann, Jason Mraz, and, yes, even Enya get some airtime on a rainy day.
I love classical music and have a huge collection. My favorites are Mendelssohn and Chopin. I like Hector Villa-Lobos, Liszt, Tchaikovsky, Puccini, Leoncavallo, Philip Glass, and the usual suspects: Mozart, Verdi, Giordano, Delibes, Vivaldi, Wagner, Bizet, Massenet etc. My favorite opera is Carmen; my favorite musical is Mamma Mia! although it's no great musical by any stretch of the imagination (well.. it's the largest selling musical ever, so there's something); I also like The Threepenny Opera, Kristina fran Duvemala, and the movie version of Evita.I've been really pleased with The Arcade Fire. I saw them live, and I saw them on SNL (though I can't find that video anywhere), and I like their music. Anyway, this is a great way to put their music to a classic movie (VERY well done; it's also one of my favorite songs - the lyrics are so powerful and haunting):
Introducing, The Stars. This song has great lyrics:
And, of course, my favorite band of all time: ABBA. And yes, you can make fun of me, but I will always love them:
Movies:
X-Files
Frida
Lawrence of Arabia
Not Without My Daughter made for tv special on Lifetime
Spaceballs
The Princess Bride
Clue
The Hole (the porn version of The Ring; look it up)
Baghdad Café
Playing by Heart
U-Turn
Go
Saved
Mishima
Dawn of the Dead (2004)
Transamerica
Velvet Goldmine
Deep End
Muriel's Wedding
Dr. Zhivago
Love in the Time of Cholera
Snakes on a (mutherfuckin) Plane
Snow White (the one with Sigourney Weaver)
Mind Walk
Dancer in the Dark
The Hours
An Ideal Husband
Mystic Pizza Jurassic Park
Alien(s)
Angels in America
The Jackal
Beloved
Y Tu Mama Tambien
Priscilla
But I'm a Cheerleader
The Station Agent
Saved
I Heart Huckabees
Sister Act
Splash
Mindwalk
Raising Arizona
2000 Cigarettes
Overboard
Starman
Roxanne
Amelie
Marie Antoinette
Hoodlums
Connie and Carla
Snow CakeAnything with Toni Collette, Gillian Anderson, Parker Posie, Tilda Swinton, or Catherine O'Hara; I also like Kenneth Branaugh's Shakespeare movies.
The greatest movies are Mindwalk, Mishima, Lawrence of Arabia, and maybe The Princess Bride.
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My true love, Toni Collette, in "Cosi":
Television:
...."-2"Adult Swim and X-Files only it seems. Everybody Loves Raymond can sometimes make me laugh out loud. I really liked Count Duckula when it was on. Absolutely Fabulous, of course. TV isn't my favourite sport, but I can be persuaded to watch it sometimes, such as the entire NBA Playoffs, the World Cup every four years, and some College Football. March Madness only interests me when there's teams I care about, but I always love the bracket.
Books:
Currently reading:
America at the Crossroads, by Francis Fukuyama. Also browsing around some Marilyn French, or something in that style. Oh, and some Nabokov before bed.There are two camps: Those who prefer Stephen Hawkings, and those who know that Fritjof Capra is the better writer on systems theory.
Edna St. Vincent Millay, Catherine Porter, Paul Bowles!, Daphne du Maurier, Kevin Lynch, Jane Smiley, Virginia Woolfe, Robert Friedman, Michner, Ralph Waldo Emerson, CS Lewis, Sylvia Plath, Susan Faludi, Colleen McCullough, Ben Bova, darkly - David Sedaris, Madeline Albright, - Madame Secretary, The Thorn Birds, Anna Karenina, Fritjof Capra, Kim Stanley Robinson: Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, A Thousand Acres, Nobokov, Rilke, Renault, Thomas Keneally's Shindler's List, and Bill Watterson's Calvin & Hobbes. Love in the Time of Cholera (they're making a movie out of it!), and anything else by Gabriel Marquez.
I notice there are categories for Books, Music, Television, Movies, but why isn't there Art? And Theatre? Myspace could be much improved; and perhaps the minds of we, its users..
Heroes:
Madeleine Albright, Edna St. Vincent Millay, CS Lewis, Ann Todd, the brave military men and women abroad.
