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About Me

You know those people that tend to confuse kindness for weakness, well I REALLY enjoy seeing their faces when they realize their mistake! I pose the challenge to name a Disney movie in which the main character has BOTH living parents throughout the entire movie. I think there is a super secret auto club in which all of its members agree to never use their turn signals, ever... and I don't like them. I return shopping carts to the little rack at the supermarket parking lot- not so much because its the right thing to do, but because I like to push the hell out them - you know--really really forcefully and make them crash into the others so they end up all tucked in nice and neat(and my brute force helped) I think that adults that yell at their kids before, during, and after kiddie sporting events are emotionally retarded and I believe one day scientists will find a cure. I think valentine's day is a really awful holiday and must only be used by the romantically challenged. I eat all my vegetables. I heat peanut M & M's in the microwave because the nut gets nice and warm and the chocolate gets all melty-yet the colorful shell stays intact- I have had since childhood, a crush on Errol Flynn.

My Interests

Running with tin snips, kayaking, writing, Ninjas, listening to live music, The League of Right Brains, restoring the Fiat Spider, painting, plotting world domination, reinventions, start-ups- the magic in the creative- "There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost."-Martha Graham-

I'd like to meet:

Grover from Sesame Street

Music:

Clem Snide, Brass.Bed, My Morning Jacket,Clumsy Lovers, Bob Schneider, Sonny Landreth, Patty Griffin, Jude Johnstone, Al Green, Gorrilaz, Otis Redding, Gerald des Palmas, Dread Clampitt, Modest Mouse, Lou Reed, Neal Finn, Jawbox, Angela McClusky, Sam and Dave, Arcade Fire, Robert Earl Keen, Chantal Kreviasuk, Marvin Gaye, Tom Waits, Amp Fiddler, Aaron Neville, John Gaar Band, Aimee Mann, Peter Salett, Lauryn Hill, Lonnie Brooks, Ben Folds, Sly and the Family Stone, Red Stick Ramblers, and James Brown

Movies:

Amelie, Captain Blood, Big Lebowski, White, Red, Blue, Everything Is Illuminated, Princess Bride, Ponette, Uncle Buck, Still Breathing, Salesman, Cold Comfort Farm, Dirty Pretty Things, Elizabethtown, Garden State, High Fidelity, The Power of One, Sliding Doors, Wizard of Oz, anything Monty Python, Still Breathing, Double Dare, Fight Club, Kill Bill(s), No Country For Old Men, and on and on and on.

Television:

Ace of Cakes, The Office(both BBC and NBC versions), Deadwood, Freaks and Geeks, Entourage, Sopranos, Weeds, Grey's Anatomy, It's Always Sunny in ..., Little Britain, and, Big Bang Theory.

Books:

War of Art, (yes the War of Art), Another Bullshit Night In Suck City, Razor's Edge, New Stories from the South, Illusions, Confederacy of Dunces, Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now?, Writing Down The Bones, A World Lit Only By Fire, Goodnight Moon, A Prayer For Owen Meany, James Whitcomb Riley Anthology, Toothpaste for Dinner, Les Bon Mots, Proust Was A Neuroscientist,

Heroes:

Bennett Miller, Brockdar, Grover, all of the artists that keep painting, writing, and making music even when all about them urge them differently, Maw Maw B -

My Blog

obituary for a hero

My hero died today. I am supposed to write her obituary and offer words for her funeral.I just keep remembering her oatmeal raisin cookies and the sound of her voice.I want to ensure my words do her ...
Posted by D. on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:38:00 PST

Remembering Mr. Al

Mr. Al G was a bona fide eccentric, therefore a great candidate for a friend of our family. Or rather, he was one of my Father's oddly interesting friends. "Mr. Al", as we were instructed to call hi...
Posted by D. on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:43:00 PST

word of the day- MAJUSCULES

She became enamored with majuscules at an early age, in part , because the view from her crib was a small gallery of them. They held her attention with their deep, rich colors and curving lines all w...
Posted by D. on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 06:38:00 PST