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crocodilejudith

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters. -Aeso

About Me

artist, dreamer, peoplewatcher, stranger, friend...

My Interests

LIFE-laughing-God-printmaking-desire-relaxing-dancing-freedo m-belief-ART-books-reading-nature-solitude-dream analyzation-science fiction-ambition-crocodilians-love-hope-beauty-friendship-se lf control-patience-humility-addiction-variety-happiness-baseba ll-hot showers-red wine-sleeping late-the sounds of the city-the smell of rain-

I'd like to meet:

positive, creative, kind, intelligent people.

Music:

kate bush, tarantula a.d., mars volta, roxy music, pj harvey, patti smith, james hall, apples in stereo, the cure, stereolab, tosca, eliot smith, crystal method, world party, aphex twin, wilco, my morning jacket, gang of four, joan jett, skinny puppy, spoon, jenny lewis, neil young, willie nelson

Movies:

Beowolf, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Bladerunner, American Beauty, Bonnie and Clyde, The Manchurian Candidate(original), Alien, Night of the Living Dead, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Evil Dead, Mary Poppins, Rosemary's Baby, Total Recall, Terminator, Adaptation, The Shining,

Television:

Simpsons, Family Guy, adult swim, the Office, Medium, Conan O'Brien, PBS, The Outer Limits

Books:

the Bible, Fountainhead-Issac Asimov, the Wisdom of Insecurity-Alan B. Watts,Stranger In A Strange Land, I Will Fear No Evil, Friday, Robert A. Heinlein, The Illustrated Man, Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury, Music for Chameleons, Truman Capote, A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway, Bluebeard, Kurt Vonnegut, The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka, The Stars,Like Dust, The Bicentennial Man, The Tragedy of the Moon, Issac Asimov, Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke, Delta of Venus, Anais Nin, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Laurell K. Hamilton, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Clive Barker, Phillip K. Dick, Neil Gaiman, T.S. Eliot, William Blake, Shakespeare...

Heroes:

Anita Blake, Daphne Du Maurier, Anais Nin, alot of my friends...

My Blog

mistakes...

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC) Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his...
Posted by crocodilejudith on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:42:00 PST

Ecclesiastes 7

Ecclesiastes 7Wisdom 1 A good name is better than fine perfume, and the day of death better than the day of birth. 2 It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of fe...
Posted by crocodilejudith on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 01:02:00 PST

rules for being human

here it is again...The Rules for being HumanWhen you were born, you didn't come with an owner's manual; these guidelines make life work better.1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, b...
Posted by crocodilejudith on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 11:40:00 PST

beings who are born to reason, hope, create, and love...

By all outward appearances our life is a spark of light between one eternal darkness and another. Nor is the interval between these two nights an unclouded day, for the more we are able to feel pleasu...
Posted by crocodilejudith on Fri, 04 May 2007 02:05:00 PST

patti smith's wise words...

The last ten days or so I have been the lucky recipient of a lot of  well wishing. For my 60th birthday, New Years and for being an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for 2007. I have t...
Posted by crocodilejudith on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 01:14:00 PST

The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan B. Watts (A Message for an Age of Anxiety)

At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but they do not seem to make a "problem" of it. Their lives seem to have so few complications. They eat when they are hungry and sleep ...
Posted by crocodilejudith on Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:43:00 PST

rules for being human

The Rules for being HumanWhen you were born, you didn't come with an owner's manual; these guidelines make life work better.1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's the only th...
Posted by crocodilejudith on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 10:47:00 PST

Art and Song

We are all under sentence of death but with a sort of indefinite reprieve - we have an interval, and then our place knows us no more. Some spend this interval in listlessness, some in high passions, t...
Posted by crocodilejudith on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:45:00 PST

Tao

15 The ancient adepts of the Tao were subtle and flexible, profound and comprehensive. Their minds were too deep to be fathomed. Because they are unfathomable, One can only describe them vaguely by th...
Posted by crocodilejudith on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:15:00 PST

Our Deepest Fear

Our Deepest Fear by Marianne Williamsonfrom A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powe...
Posted by crocodilejudith on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:54:00 PST