This is Paul Francisco Chien

About Me

**NOTE: PLEASE READ!!! My friends list is now comprised of: family, old and current friends, recent acquaintances, music figures, and new myspace peeps from my groups I would like to keep up with. If you find me interesting and want to ADD me, please just message me first, and I may ADD you. If you DO NOT message me first, which implies you are NOT even bothering reading my profile, I will DENY the request automatically. Contrary to some myspace members, I am not here to amass an army of fantastic looking strangers, listed as friends. I will delete myspace connections, if we do not "speak" on a regular basis, thank you.
My proper name is Paul Francisco Chien and I am a gifted amateur. I am Chinese/Japanese and Mexican (Mexica Indian/Spanish) and nowhere near being photogenic. Funny looking and I know it, I enjoy the arts, mythology, anthropology, history, science, drinking water, dancing at least twice a week, and potassium-rich bananas. I AM A CAT PERSON, though I have love for all animals. I buy too many DVDs, records and CDs and have nothing to complain about, I love my life, who I am, and the painful turning which made it all possible. Idealistically, you could describe my political ideology is fiscally responsible governments that know when to regulate, a tree-huggin' pragmatist who is all about fair bid contracts, state's rights, and campaign finance reform. I believe in being rational, tolerant, and humane over any religious dogma. Usury kills. Somewhat agnostic, I am deeply spiritual.
Truth in advertising: On my darker side, I can be a walking rant at times, co-dependent and sensitive, overly passionate and idealistic. Procrastinator and log bump, I do things when I feel like it or inspiration hits me like a flood. Manic like a Robt. Williams painting, I am magma one moment and then cool as an Otter Pop the next. Typical Leo and Type 7 Enthusiast . It takes a lot of strife to heat me overall as a lion aquatique. I am tilling my patience, working on grace.
I am a Wood Rabbit
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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

A representative of Publisher's Clearing House at my doorstep, holding a ridiculously over-sized check made out to me. Aishwarya Rai...mmm. David Sedaris on a passenger plane in the midst of touching the back of someone's head. Anyone who would stimulate mutual laughter, thought, or pleasure from us hanging out. A muse. Friends only for right now.

I am definitely a work in progress...

What You Want Paul Francisco Chien to Know Right Now

Music:

I am a deep house hooker, but love the entire spectrum of music that exists. In case you are wondering, some samples: The Bad Plus, Lady Sovereign, Iron and Wine, RJD2, King Britt, Horace Andy, Public Enemy, Boards of Canada, Placebo, Zap Mama, Liquid Liquid, Fila Brazillia, Grace Jones, Royksopp, Handel, Roots Manuva, Cheb-i-Sabbah, Helmet, M.I.A., DJ Krush, Guns N' Roses-(Appetite for Destruction only!), High'n'Mighty, LCD Soundsystem, Massive Attack, Biz Markie, Stereolab, Matisyahu, David Bowie, Freaky Chakra, MC chris, Seelenluft, Quasi, Ozomatli(I've only seen them 5 times), Kid Koala, Beau Jocque, Munk, Dead Can Dance, Esthero, Kaos, Del the Funky Homo-Sapien, Yello, Out Hud, Toshinori Kondo, Jeff Buckley, Future Sounds of London, Jamiroquai, A Certain Ratio, Cesaria Evora, Lorin of Bass Nectar, Morphine, Bach, Santessa, Ms Kittin, Chucho Valdes, ESG, Bill Laswell, Blackalicious, Nick Drake, Presence, Pre-Black album Metallica, Latyrx, CHK-CHK-CHK(!!!), Depeche Mode, Ekova, Brighteyes, Led Zeppelin, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Herbie Hancock, Kool Keith. I indulge in ALL types of music, including REAL country, i.e. Ray Price, Hank Williams Sr.

MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUTS!!!

Into the Galaxy

Movies:

Pan's Labyrinth, Thank You for Smoking, Devdas, F for Fake, Mirrormask, Oldboy, Black Orpheus, Shaun of the Dead, Bride & Prejudice, Goodfellas, 8 1/2, The Incredibles, Human Traffic, Xanadu, The Maltese Falcon, Bad Education, The Lost Boys, almost any Coen Bros film, Sin City, M, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Wes Anderson's films, Waking Life, Fight Club, Joint Security Area, Dead Alive, Blade Runner, Cinema Paradiso, Once Upon a Time in the West or any Sergio Leone's western films, Downfall, Ong-Bak, Ichi the Killer, The Wiz, Run Lola Run, City of Lost Children, Amelie, Legend, Terry Gilliam's films, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Zatoichi, 12 Angry Men, Capote, Manchurian Candidate (Sinatra Version), Kurosawa's films, The original cuts of the Star Wars trilogy, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Bugsy Malone, Shogun Assassin, Quentin Tarantino's Films, The first Matrix, Little Big Man, Akira, Kung-fu Hustle.

Television:

Little Britain, also I enjoy Iron Chef, any random interesting educational program (Discovery/TLC/Nova/Frontline)...ok, ok, Grey's Anatomy.

Books:

Bill Bryson's "Short History of Nearly Everything", Any David Sedaris book, Huston Smith's "The World's Religions", Gregory Maguire's "Wicked" and "Son of a Witch", Jane Robert's Seth Books i.e. "Seth Speaks", Graham Hancock's "Fingerprints of the Gods", Jim Marrs' conspiracy books, Phillip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", "Gilgamesh", Gibran's "The Prophet", "Choose Your Own Adventure" books. What I'm reading now: Jeremiah Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel" and Tom Robbins' "Jitterbug Perfume".

Heroes:

Elmyr de Hory, Da Vinci, Einstein, Buddha, Bill Murray, Jesus the Christ, Tony Jaa, Helen Thomas, Gregory Hines, Mohammed, Bruce Lee, Tesla, MLK, Orson Welles, Mother Teresa, my sister, my parents, and grandparents.

My Blog

Finally...

...life has me held in time with harmony of mind, heart, and spirit. I feel space is not compressing to crack my character or too vast enough to lose myself or the direction I ebb or seek to follow.Th...
Posted by This is Paul Francisco Chien on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:52:00 PST

iPod Survey Results

~I wanted to post these as to not lose them, as bulletins are auto-deleted. I loved this survey and thought it was more a fun fortune telling device, assuming the person participating had a fairly dee...
Posted by This is Paul Francisco Chien on Wed, 10 May 2006 10:02:00 PST

Blog Tag

The first player of this game starts with the "8 weird orrandom things/habits about yourself" and people who gettagged need to write a blog about their 8 weirdhabits/things as well as state this rule ...
Posted by This is Paul Francisco Chien on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 04:44:00 PST

Pain and the Self

With great joy in my life, arrives with certain punctuality and irony, pain. Last night after what I thought was a mild day of diet, struck an awful ulcer attack, of which I had not had in some time a...
Posted by This is Paul Francisco Chien on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 12:42:00 PST

What George Bush Thinks About OUR Constitution:

From an article in Capitol Blue's Doug Thompson: "GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the Pre...
Posted by This is Paul Francisco Chien on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 09:53:00 PST

My Views on Civil Liberties and the New Measures

A really well spoken conservative in my GWBAsshole group asked me a deliberate and honest question. I thought I would post my reply as a blog.His question: "How can we effectively listen to our...
Posted by This is Paul Francisco Chien on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 12:09:00 PST

A Christian's Burden

So this lady posts in my Bush group posted this fine piece of re-post of an even more long-winded diatribe of the contemporary "tribulations" of today's Christians: "For all the so called intellectua...
Posted by This is Paul Francisco Chien on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:42:00 PST

Ulcer?

After 12 yrs of partying, I do believe I have an ulcer. Stop giggling Tiff! Its not funny. Three different times in the last two weeks, when I bought and enjoyed spicy food, I later suffered through e...
Posted by This is Paul Francisco Chien on Sun, 18 Dec 2005 05:42:00 PST

I INVENTED A SURVEY BULLETIN!!!

-Some of my friends know that I abhor surveys (thank Adrian's swelling abuse of them for that). Instead of apathetically receiving them or passing on the sloppy 77ths of someone elses, I decided to i...
Posted by This is Paul Francisco Chien on Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:22:00 PST

Off the Treadmill...

Last night I decided to come out of my retirement for my friends' event called DIG at the Kava Lounge. Mega Blast from Vienna, Austria spun last night, playing an eclectic set of dance records. It had...
Posted by This is Paul Francisco Chien on Fri, 11 Nov 2005 08:54:00 PST