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Tonia

I am here for Friends

About Me

I was just told that I am intense for the hundredth time.

My Interests

Movies, Bass Guitar, Impressionistic Art, Music, Poetry, Philosophy, Dancing, Painting, Quantum Physics, Psychology

I'd like to meet:

other intense people

Music:

PJ Harvey, Fugazi, Radiohead, Sleater-Kinney, Tom Yorke, Feist, The Verve, Giant Drag, Interpol, Oslo, Smashing Pumpkins, Monsters Are Waiting, Muse, The YeahsX3, Goldfrapp, Les Savy Fav, Red Monkey, Black Cat Music, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Elliot Smith, Kings of Convenience, Mazzy Star, Massive Attack, Daft Punk, Portishead, Blonde Redhead, Last Days of April, The Stills, BRMC, The Happy Hollows, and many many more.

Movies:

Great documentaries like Heima, Confessions of a Superhero, Constantine's Sword, What the Bleep Do We Know, Rize, and My Kid Could Paint That. Fav movies: Harold and Maude, Children of Men, Little Miss Sunshine, Somersault, Waitress, I (heart) Huckabees, Buffalo 66, and many more.

Television:

This American Life, Arrested Development, Six Feet Under (I need to let it go, but I can't), The Office, The Daily Show, and many more.

Books:

Psyc theory books, philosophy books, art books, poetry, Tao te Ching, Godel Escher & Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, A Brief History of Time, The Rapture of Canaan, The Developing Mind, The Bell Jar, Siddhartha, A Circle of Quiet, R is for Rocket, Neurosis and Human Growth, Glickhauf-Hughes and Wells(as the insiders know it), Minding Spirituality, To Have or To Be?, The World is Flat, all Alice Miller books, all Nancy McWilliams books, and all Stephen Mitchell books.

Heroes:

psyc theorists, public artists, female bass players, Berthe Morisot (the first female Impressionist) who encapsulated femininity (vanity/beauty and introspection) in 2 paintings: The Psyche and Study At The Water's Edge. Daniel Siegel, Stephen Mitchell, Nancy McWilliams, Alice Miller, Douglas Hofstadter, and James Carroll.

My Blog

You can quote me on this:

The greatest thing we can do for ourselves and others is to acknowledge the truth in our self, and not deny it or judge it, but to exist in it.  ~Tonia Vojtkofsky, Psy.D.  ...
Posted by Tonia on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 01:04:00 PST

My life WITH me

I just watched the movie, My Life Without Me, and it inspired me to make my list now and not before its too late. 1. Say what's on my mind and not care what people think. 2. Love intensely. 3. Feel c...
Posted by Tonia on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:45:00 PST

History is not in the past when it has not passed.

Tonight I saw James Carroll's documentary "Constantine's Sword". The main topic was the history of christian's anti-semitism and promotion of racism/hatred/violence/war, but really it was about so muc...
Posted by Tonia on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 12:09:00 PST

Kandinsky

I recently read Kandinsky's 'Concerning the Spiritual in Art' and was so intrigued by his ideas. There were several different theories he put forth, I'll summarize some of them and open them up for di...
Posted by Tonia on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 10:56:00 PST