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Bottlebrush

Sure, I'll knit you an igloo. What color...???

About Me

"If Scooby Doo has taught me anything, it's that there's nothing spookier than a crooked real estate agent. ********************** ********************** **********************

My Interests

Travel, Ferrets, music, my guitars and mandolin, Knitting Igloos, long romantic walks along the Red Light District, with my best girly by my side...all animals, going to Utah very soon... palindromes (go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog), good beer and good wine...and good food (can anybody make 'Hackbraten'???, Schweinehaxen...Sugar-coated-chocolate-covered-pizza-pickle- bites, Good food WITH Flintstones Chewable Morphine...and wine, I guess...Tangine (not 'Tangerines', silly) at that Moroccon place on Clark, Castillas de la puerco al carbon at that El Llana place on Lincoln....travel, languages, Schwarze Kat Wein********* ********** ********* ******** ******* ****** ******* ******** ********* **********

I'd like to meet:

Catherine The Great, Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
Your Inner European is Scandinavian!
Only the best!!!.
You're up for just about anything. You like things done right. Who's Your Inner European?

Music:

PJ Harvey, The Ditty Bops, The Muffs, The Asylum Street Spankers, JSBX, Ute Lemper, Oompah, Iggy, Tom Waits, Devil In A Woodpile, Violent Femmes, Holly Golightly, The Fontane Sisters, Eddie Lang, Joe Venutti, Cheap Trick, Pixies, Ampop, theStart, Gore Gore Girls, P-Funk, ABBA, Prince, Gal Costa, The Andrews Sisters, !!! (Chk Chk Chk), Jesca Hoop, Os Mutantes, The Boswell Sisters, Beatles, The Charms, The Breeders, K.U.K.L., Bjork, Bowie, Regina Spektor, Belly, Johnny Mercer, The Jazz Butcher, Hank Williams, R.L. Burnside, Lush, X-Mal Deutschland, The DeZurick Sisters, Carly Simon, The Amps, Flying Burrito Brothers, Kurt Weil, Luscious Jackson, That Dog, Vladimir Vysotsky, Frank Zappa, Tampa Red, Syd Barret, Marlene Dietrich, International Submarine Band, Gram Parsons, Ivy, Boss Hog, Robyn Hitchcock, The Soft Boys, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, that girl who always plays guitar when she sings, The Dillards, Nena, Johnny Cash, New York Dolls, Throwing Muses, that guy who everybody really likes, but is really no good, Tanya Donnely, The Amps, Tina Dico, Diamanda Galas, X-Mal Deutschland, Cocteau Twins, The Dillards, Gang O' Four, Tina Dico, Infectious Grooves, Scatterbrain...

Movies:

Train Spotting, Pulp Fiction, The Saddest Music In The World, Blow, Casablanca, Bond Movies, Cafe Flesh, True Romance, Chocolat, Donnie Darko, Amelie, The Bad Seed (1956)w Good Fellas, Dummy, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Spinal Tap, Amadeus, Aimee & Jaguar, Blue Velvet, Sideshow Fez, Taxi Driver, Requeim For A Dream, Repo Man, Donnie Darko, Liquid Sky, A Clockwork Orange, Natural Born Killers, Crybaby, Bin Ich Shoen?, Monty Python flics, Run Lola Run, Nadja, Angel Heart.....Johnny Depp, Franka Potente, Sean Connery, Louise Brooks, Elina Lowensohn, John Cleese, Rboert Carlyle, Samual Jackson, Connelly, Nicholson, Milla Jovovich, that guy who's always wearing nice suits...Mifunes Sidste Sang,

Television:

Ach, ja...die Qual der Wahl!

Books:

Travel narrations, history Find your inner European Part Two
Gratuluje! You are Polish!
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Heroes:

Whoever came up with the "work from home" concept...
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Billy
Birthday: March 25, 1960 (same as Elton John's...not the year, just the date
Birthplace: Chicago
Current Location: Chicago
Eye Color: Baby Blue
Hair Color: Blondish
Height: 5"10
Right Handed or Left Handed: Right
Your Heritage: Swedish & Polish
The Shoes You Wore Today: Slippers. I worked from home.
Your Weakness: Cheap airfare
Your Fears: Das wort verstehe ich nicht
Your Perfect Pizza: Peppermaroni and snausage. And fresh tomatoes, thin crust
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: Get to the Arctic Circle
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: Don't use IM
Thoughts First Waking Up: Drive to Lisle, or work from home???
Your Best Physical Feature: You're asking the wrong person....eyes, I suppose.
Your Bedtime: Varies
Your Most Missed Memory: Too personal
Pepsi or Coke: Coke. Why'd they stop making Vanilla Coke?!?!?!?
MacDonalds or Burger King: Ugh. When I must, McDonalds.
Single or Group Dates: It's been a long time....
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Hot tea
Chocolate or Vanilla: Vanilla
Cappuccino or Coffee: Tea
Do you Smoke: No
Do you Swear: Only to tell the whole truth, and even that's a little iffy...
Do you Sing: I've been known to, but I'm really too shy.
Do you Shower Daily: Yes. Unless I'm going nowhere and just don't give a crap that day.
Do you want to go to College: Did it, but love taking courses when I have the time & $$$
Do you want to get Married: Don't think so.
Do you belive in yourself: To a point, yes.
Do you get Motion Sickness: No
Do you think you are Attractive: Used to be, now I'm old and weak. Sigh.
Are you a Health Freak: Hah!!!!
Do you get along with your Parents: I take care of my mum right now...she's in bad health. So, yeah.
Do you like Thunderstorms: They're okay.
Do you play an Instrument: Many. Just started on Mandomalin and musical saw.
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: Lots
In the past month have you Smoked: Never
In the past month have you been on Drugs: Prescription painkillers. I'm old and weak. Need knee surgery.
In the past month have you gone on a Date: No
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: Maybe....around a month ago.
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: No
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: Never. Ate herring a couple weeks ago in Denmark, that's IT!!!
In the past month have you been on Stage: For karaoke. Spent most of my life on stage, I've had enough.
In the past month have you been Dumped: No
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: No
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: No
Ever been Drunk: Yes
Ever been called a Tease: Maybe...don't know if they were serious or not
Ever been Beaten up: No...lucky. I was the runt of the litter.
Ever Shoplifted: When I was
How do you want to Die: Overdosing on something sure to do the trick, then falling into a volcano in Iceland, never to be found.
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: I always wanted to be a secret agent, but my mum said I was too handsome, and all the other agents would be jealous.
What country would you most like to Visit: After Iceland, Norway.
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: Anything that fits their face and personality
Favourite Hair Color: Again....
Short or Long Hair: Both
Height: Stop this. Everybody makes traits work or not work.
Weight: Ahem...
Best Clothing Style: Somebody who looks good rolling out of bed and jumping into a pair of jeans and a t-shirt, with no make-up.
Number of Drugs I have taken: I used to be a musician, so....
Number of CDs I own: Too many
Number of Piercings: Had two, removed them when I went to work in Saudi Craparabia
Number of Tattoos: One
Number of things in my Past I Regret: I just don't dwell on it. There are plenty, but....
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My Blog

Home

I think I finally am set to move, AND have an apartment. I am sooooo psyched.  If they (apartment people) pull the rug out, I will be soooo pissed....no telling. Walking around my "new neighborho...
Posted by Bottlebrush on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:29:00 PST

Idiots

Okay, I know I live in the proverbial glass house, but..... On this trip to Iceland, I just beat the hell out of my fragile old self.  Kept pushing and pushing until I could take no more, and the...
Posted by Bottlebrush on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 05:49:00 PST

Standing on the edge of America...

This I did not know.  On one of the tours about Iceland, we stopped at The Althing (Icelandic Parliament, formed in 930), and it's right at a point where the tectonic plates seperating North Amer...
Posted by Bottlebrush on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 01:16:00 PST

Volcano Rokk

I saw a dormant volcano somewhere in Iceland...beautiful, and filled with ice blue water. I was told they've lowered rafts/floats into the water with equipment a few times, and held concerts in the vo...
Posted by Bottlebrush on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:26:00 PST

Appologies to the Danes

Sure, the beer is expensive in Denmark.  It costs to be somewhere great. But jeeeeez.....Iceland is absolutely phenomenal.  Inspiring, diabolical, absolutely magnificent...   But t...
Posted by Bottlebrush on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 10:21:00 PST

The Whale I Missed....

If you've grown up near the Pacific where the mighty whale congregates, or where any of the inland whales, like the Great Iodized, of The Great Salt Lake, reside, you've seen them. Not me, so even tho...
Posted by Bottlebrush on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 12:57:00 PST

Cheating at MySpace polls...

Jeeez.  Nothing wrong with the Dutch, or being Dutch, or especially visiting Dutchland, or Dutchmania, or The Dutchlands or Nederlands or whatever us Americant's are calling it....  But I d...
Posted by Bottlebrush on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 08:07:00 PST

Døden nær

Jeg føler mig, jeg er døden nær.  Det er meget deprimerende.  Skæbnen var mig ubehagelig.  Siden jeg kan husker, livet var godt.  Menneskerne var godt.  Jeg var alltid lykkeli...
Posted by Bottlebrush on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

American'ts

A couple weeks ago, around noon, it was 12:34-05-06-07, or 12:34, May 6, 2007.  So that's over; won't see anything like that for a while.But of course, us Americans (or as I like to say, "Ameri-c...
Posted by Bottlebrush on Tue, 29 May 2007 11:06:00 PST

Really f***ing pissed

I was supposed to have ortho surgury on my knee yesterday...got all the way into pre-op, spent hours being prepped and waiting, then they cancelled at the last minute because my blood pressure was too...
Posted by Bottlebrush on Thu, 10 May 2007 08:42:00 PST