In a relationship - deeply and loopily in Love. Here for music and friends.
Lip-kissing, eye-gazing, sky-staring, lassoing dreams and riding them o'er the plains. . .Music, Literature, Exploring the Mysteries, Food & Wine, Chartreuse (see Exploring the Mysteries), writing excessively long letters to far-away friends. Linguistics & revitalizing indigenous languages, Quenya, World Travel, Buddhism and other paths of compassion, Tai Chi & Qi Gong.KITTEN HERDING!!!(CLICK HERE) - Hyah!
New musicians / bands & out-of-touch friends who are too busy to write letters.Here are a few of my favorite sites. Please click on the banners below to learn more:
Read about Sophie Lancaster Here!
Save Gaelic - The Scottish Gaelic information site!
NEKO CASE!, TINA DICO, JOANNA NEWSOM, MARTHA WAINWRIGHT, VISQUEEN, VERUCA SALT, BETH FOURACRE, FAIR WITNESS, Gnarles Barkley, U2, Dionysis, Capercallie, Zero 7, Sia Furler, Sophie Barker, Nous Non Plus, The New Rags, Fiona Apple, Coldplay, Blonde Redhead, Electric Six, Grant Lee-Phillips, The Dansettes,*.*.* CLASSICAL *.*.* Hesperion XXI (and anything by Jordi Savall, Monserrat Figueras, Arianna Savall, etc.), Monsieur De Sainte Colombe, Marin Marais, Mozart, Gluck, Wagner, Dowland, Francois Couperin, Anonymous 4, William Lawes, Opera (especially Bel Canto and French Opera or anything featuring Natalie Dessay) *.*.* JAZZ *.*.* GRETCHEN LIEBERUM! Coltrane, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Australian Jazz Quartet, Dexter Gordon, Cannonball, Dizzy, Basie, Ella, Astrud Gilberto, Stan Getz, Djavan, Gilberto Gil. . . *.*.* 80's-90's *.*.* Cocteau Twins, Soundgarden/Chris Cornell/Audioslave, Peter Murphy/Bauhaus, Roland Orzabal/Tears For Fears, Colin Hay(Men At Work), The Church, The Waterboys, Portisehead, Morcheeba, Radiohead, Peter Gabriel, Alice In Chains, Nirvana, Mudhoney, Stone Temple Pilots, The Verve, Television, Maestro Corgan and his Smashing Pumpkins, The Pretenders, Psychadellic Furs, Thompson Twins, Alphaville, Heaven 17, The Beat, Selecter, The Specials, Fun Boy Three, Tribe Called QUEST, DeLa Soul, KRS-1, Stray Cats, Adam & the Ants, The Cure (pre-Disintegration) Siouxie/The Creatures, The Cowboy Junkies, The Police, Marlyn Manson, Depeche Mode, NIN, *.*.*CLASSIC.ROCK/FOLK *.*.*Zep, Doors, Who, Stones, Donovan, Dylan, Eagles, Airplane, Free, Traffic, Joni, Judy, Jimi, Allmans, Dire Straits, Steely Dan, Doobies, Beatles, *.*.* OTHER *.*.* Reggae, Goth, Rock, Electropop, Dance, Samba, Tango, Swing, Ol' Country, Highland Airs, *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.* No ex-Mickey Mouse Clubbers or American Idols, PLEASE. Gimme the REAL thing (and I'm not a-talkin' 'bout a sodapop)! Ptooie!
If you haven't seen "Trouble In Paradise" with Miriam Hopkins, Kay Francis and Herbert Marshall, I strongly advise renting it! *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*. *.* ANYTHING with Richard E. Grant - a solid actor with a sharp wit (he's f*cking hilarious)! "Withnail and I" is a perennial favourite! *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*. *.* Bond is back and better than ever! Bravi, Daniel Craig and Eva Green! *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*. * Period Movies (Pride & Prejudice, Four Feathers, A Room With A View, etc.), I especially liked Depp in "The Libertine" and "Finding Neverland" but "Pirates" is definitely a guilty pleasure (Avast!). Tim Burton, Film Noir (Bogart, Hepburn, Grant, etc.), Vampire films (especially the older ones with Bela Lugosi, Peter Crushing or Christopher Lee), Almodovar, Star Wars, LOTR, The English Patient, Fellini, Kuberick (especially EWS, Barry Lyndon, and 2001: A Space Oddysey), Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, House of Flying Daggars, Dune, Matrix (though, one would have been sufficient). "Fearless" with Jet Li.
Throw it out the window!!!
Currently reading several books on Anthropology and about to start a book by Phillipa Gregory. Re-read "The Sheltering Sky" for the first time since my mid-teens. Recently enjoyed Washington Irving's stories and essays. Ripped through "Treasure Island" while bumming on the beaches of St. Thomas and St. John. Ahhh. "The Salmon of Doubt" by Douglas Adams,"The Diary of Lewis and Clark," "Mind of the Raven" by Bernd Heinrich, which was fascinating and fun. "Buddha Da" by Anne Donovan and "Atonement" by Ian McEwan. I love anything by Umberto Eco, J.R.R. Tolkein, Paul Bowles, Charles Palliser, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Iain Pears, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Dostoyevsky, Pushkin, J.M. Barrie, "Wuthering Heights" by Bronte, Tom Robbins, Douglas Adams, J.K. Rowling, Diane Ackerman's "The Natural History of the Senses" Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States" Favorite poets are Byron, Shelley, Paz, Rumi, Neruda, Shakespeare, E.B. White, Tagore, Thoreau, e.e.cummings. . .and a little erotica never hurt anyone.
Doug (me bro), *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.* Click on the links below to read about my heroes: *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*. *.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*.*Debi & The Alliance - ,Mitra Ranjana and Share-IT - ,Mukhtar Mai - ,Sorely MacLean - ,Bono & Co. - ,Neko Case - ,Washington Irving - ,Douglas Adams