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Red Varyag

THERE'S NO CERTAINTY - ONLY OPPORTUNITY.

About Me

VOILA`! IN VEIW, A HUMBLE VAUDEVILLIAN VETRAN, CAST VICARIOUSLY AS BOTH VICTIM AND VILLAIN, BY THE VICISSITUDES OF FATE. THIS VISAGE, NO MERE VENEER OF VANITY, IS A VESTIGE OF THE VOX POPULI! NOW, VACANT, VANISHED. HOWEVER! THIS VALOROUS VISITATION OF A BY-GONE VEXATION, STANDS VIVIFIED, AND HAS VOWED TO VANQUISH THESE VENAL AND VIRULENT VERMIN VAN-GUARDING VICE AND VOUCHSAFING THE VIOLENTLY AND VICIOUS AND VORACIOUS VIOLATION OF VOLITION! THE ONLY VERDICT, IS VEGEANCE; A VENDETTA, HELD AS A VOTIVE, NOT IN VAIN, BUT FOR THE VALUE OF VERACITY OF SUCH SHALL ONE DAY VINDICATE THE VIGILANT AND THE VIRTUOUS! VERILY, THIS VICHYSSOISE OF VERBIAGE VEERS MOST VERBOSE, SO LET ME SIMPLY ADD THAT IT IS MY VERY, GOOD HONOR TO MEET YOU AND YOU MAY CALL ME "V".

My Interests

GOOD FRIENDS, GOOD PEOPLE, TRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE AMERICAN WAY!!! MY HERITAGE, RUSSIAN STUFF, POETRY, REAL ART, PUSHKIN, SHAKESPEARE, SURFING, SURFING, SURFING, PHILOSOPHY, LATIN PHRASES, ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY, GREEN EYES, LOVE, PASSION, PEACE, FAITH, SPIRITUALITY, STOICISM, , POOL, MUSIC, UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE

I'd like to meet:

"WHAT A PIECE OF WORK IS MAN! HOW NOBLE IN REASON! HOW INFINITE IN FACULTIES! IN FOR AND MOVING, HOW EXPRESS AND ADMIRABLE! IN ACTION, HOW LIKE AN ANGEL! IN APPREHENSION, HOW LIKE A GOD! THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD! THE PARAGON OF ANIMALS! AND YET.... TO ME... WHAT IS THIS QUINTESSENCE OF DUST? MAN, DELIGHTS ME NOT, NOR WOMAN NEITHER, THOUGH BY YOUR SMILING YOU SEEM TO SAY SO."

Music:

MUSIC IS LIFE. COUNTRY MUSIC SOOTHES THE SOUL, RUSSIAN RAP.. (STARAYA SHKOLA)... THE CURE, JACK JOHNSON, GREENDAY, MAZZY STAR..... KENNY G, HASSELHOFF(YOU KNOW, THE OLD STUFF;)......, MODEST MOUSE, THE FAINT,WEEZER, RYAN ADAMS, MUSE, NIN, NADA SURF KILLERS, NIRVANA, 80'S MUSIC, RAMONES, COLDPLAY, 10,OOO MANIACS, JET, RAGE, LIVE, JANIS JOPLIN, PORTISHEAD, RUSSIAN CHURCH MUSIC, ooohyea. STEVIE RAY VAUGHN, TCHAIKOVSKY, CHOPIN, COUNTRY, BLUE GRASS, THE CURE, THE CURE, THE CURE, UGH I'M DRAWING BLANKS, MOST EVERYTHING, EXCEPT DISCO..

Movies:

THE CROW, WAR AND PEACE (WITH AUDREY HEPBURN), THE UNTOUCHABLES, NORTH SHORE(AS CHEESEY AS IT WAS) POINT BREAK(AS CHEESEY AS IT WAS) THE PRINCESS BRIDE(SURE WHY NOT) BRAVE HEART, BURNED BY THE SUN, CINDERELLA MAN, AS FOR MOVIES I'D LIKE TO WATCH, WELL I'M KINDA DESENSITISED WITH ALL THE SEX AND VIOLENCE AND BLAH OF IT ALL, ANYTHING CLEVER WITH GOOD DIALOGUE AND A DECENT PLOT AND DEVELOPED 3-DEMENSIONAL CHARACTERS, OR SOME INTENSE PLOT I HAVE TO PICK APART WITH MY BRAIN, I'LL DIG. AND IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO BLOW UP IN THE PROCESS AND THERE'S A BOOB OR TWO, SO BE IT!

Television:

THE WEATHER CHANNEL, GRIPPING STUFF. I HOPE IT DOESN'T GET CANCELED. CNN, I LIKE THE CONSTANT UPDATES, FBI FILES, CSI'S, LAW AND ORDER, SCIFI, HISTORY CHANNEL

Books:

FAULKNER, HEMMINGWAY, SHAKESPEARE, POETRY, YEATS, ALESKANDR SEDGAVICH PUSHKIN, LOVE A MYSTERY,A. CONAN DOYLE,TS ELLIOT,HORODUTUS,THYUCIDEDES, AGATHA CHRISTIE AS A KID, BUT OTHERWISE, WAR AND PEACE, A LAND REMEMBERED, PIPE DREAMS. THE BIBLE, ANTHEM, NABOKOV (HE'S A RELATIVE, NOBLE PRIZE WINNER... I ONCE WON A T-SHIRT) SOMETIMES ANYTHING THAT'LL JUST PUT ME TO SLEEP. I WISH I WOULD READ MORE.

Heroes:

ANYONE WHO GENUINELY LOVES WHAT THEY DO AND HAVE SOMETHING GOOD TO TEACH, LAIRD HAMILTON IS COOL,MOST CERTAINLY LIVIN' THE LIFE AS A GNARLY BIG WAVE SURFER. SICKLY DEVOTED, SOMETHING I GET STOKED JUST THINKING ABOUT. GENERALLY MY HEROS ARE ANYONE WHO IS JUST A GOOD PERSON, DOES THE RIGHT THING,PASSIONATE FOR A GOOD CAUSE, PEOPLE WITH BIG'OL HEARTS, HONORABLE, TRUTHFUL,MORAL,KNOWLEDGABLE, DUDES THAT AREN'T EASILY SUCCUMED TO EVIL INFLUENCES AND ON OCCASION SOMEONE WHO JUST HAPPENS TO HAVE SOMETHING REALLY WITTY AND FUNNY TO SAY WHEN I'M FEELING DOWN, WILL BE MY HERO OF THE MOMENT!

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Posted by Red Varyag on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 09:39:00 PST