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Joni

Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart...

About Me

"And why does it make you sad to see how everything hangs by such thin and whimsical threads? Because you're a dreamer, an incredible dreamer, with a tiny spark hidden somewhere inside you which cannot die, which even you cannot kill or quench and which tortures you horribly because all odds are against its continual burning. In the midst of the foulest decay and putrid savagery, this spark speaks to you of beauty, of human warmth and kindness, of goodness, of greatness, of heroism, of martyrdom, and it speaks to you of love." ~~Eldridge Cleaver, Soul on Ice

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"...Physics made me sick the whole time I learned it. what I couldn't stand was this shrinking everything into letters and numbers... I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big chart of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all of the perfectly good words like gold and silver and colbalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them..."~~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

My Interests

In some particular order: art history, contemporary art, art museums, Prince music, Marcel Duchamp/Rrose Selavy, Mark Tansey, reading, learning, movies, geography, roller skating, chess, Africa, tattoos, Marilyn Monroe, Les Français/La France

I'd like to meet:

intelligent people, art lovers, Prince fans (not fams), Sheila E., Prince, Mark Tansey, Dennis Rodman, fellow Gemini, guys with nice teeth, earring(s), and a smattering of tattoos, an investor for the tour guide company I want to start, worldly travelers...

Music:

In some particular order: Prince, the Minneapolis Sound, Sam Cooke, Everything But the Girl (Walking Wounded), house music, Stevie Wonder, funk, old school (e.g. Kurtis Blow, Dana Dane, Kool Moe Dee, Slick Rick), The Time, Bill Withers, JJ Fad, Salt n' Pepa, Parliment, Funkadelic, Pfunk, James Brown, Motown, Sade, Beasties, New Jack Swing, SWV, Tony Toni Tone, Juliana Hatfield 3 (Become What You Are), Outkast, West Coast laid-back beats (e.g. Dre, 2Pac, Snoop), The Doors, Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Donovan, William de Vaughn's Be Thankful for What You Got

Movies:

Beautiful Girls, Rize, Some Like It Hot, Heathers, Malcolm X, Sliding Doors, The Fifth Element (and most anything by Luc Besson), most Spike Lee joints, Friday, Felix in Exile, Under the Cherry Moon, Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Television:

There aren't many shows I watch regularly, but I do like Everybody Hates Chris.

Books:

The Bell Jar, Soul on Ice, The Beautiful and The Damned, The Gita Govinda, Le Petit Prince, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Trixie Belden, Agatha Christie, and Sherlock Holmes mysteries, The Drowned and the Saved, Giovanni's Room

Heroes:

Marcel Duchamp, Nelson Mandela and the ANC