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[spike.leyva]

I am here for Friends

About Me

aloha -- surf the planet!

My Interests

surfing, writing fiction & film scripts, paste-up collage, making video, graphic art, high-quality storytelling, end-of-week NYT crosswords, love and affection, running with Buster

I'd like to meet:

a fool's fool

try www.watermanX.com

Music:

reggae, reggae, reggae, reggae, rock, blues and world -- Beatles to Led Zep, Dylan, Marley, Clapton, Bruddah Iz and beyond : Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Grateful Dead, the Ventures, Joni Mitchell, Patti Smith, Ramones, B-52's, Allman Bros., Pink Floyd, Yes, Nirvana, NIN, Tupac, Public Enemy, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, House of Pain, early Eminem, Garbage, Maire Brennan, Ziggy Marley, Tanya Stephens, Stephen Marley, Coldplay ...

1st single: "Puff the Magic Dragon" - Peter, Paul & Mary, age 3.

1st album: Iron Butterfly

Movies:

Sherlock, Jr. and all Buster Keaton, Sullivan's Travels, Sunset Boulevard, Goldfinger, Dr. Strangelove, Easy Rider, Taxi Driver, Blazing Saddles, Chinatown, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Terminator, Tender Mercies, Dangerous Liassons, Miller's Crossing, Casino, Goodfellas, Unforgiven, Like Water for Chocolate, Niagra Niagra, Monster Ball, Fight Club, Magnolia, Lord of the Rings, The Matrix, Gladiator, Kung Fu Hustle, Casino Royale, Ray, Kingdom of Heaven, The Fountain, Apocalypto, King Kong, The Devil Wears Prada, Blood Diamond, Babel

Television:

The Wire, Dexter, The Shield, Rescue Me, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Sopranos, Carnivale, Rome, Deadwood, Lucky Louie, John from Cincinnati, Def Comedy Jam, Jon Stewart, Futurama & sports & old movies & news & history & science fiction & cartoons

Books:

writers:Homer, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, William Kennedy, Naguib Mahfouz, Osip Mandelstam, Wallace Stevens, Leonard Cohen ...
recently: Queen of the South, The Secret Life of Bees, The Religion, Finn, Quicksilver, The Confusion, System of the World
all time: Moby Dick, The Scarlet Letter, Huck Finn, The Count of Monte Cristo, A Tale of Two Cities, War and Peace, Les Miserables, Of Mice and Men, East of Eden, Light in August, Old Man and the Sea, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ironweed, L.A. Confidential, The Cold Six Thousand

Heroes:

Willie Mays, Martin Luther King Jr., Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy, Nelson Mandela, Eddie Aikau, Laird Hamilton -- and all FDNY lost 9/11/01

My Blog

--- chiller paradise ... ---

killer chiller wintersleeping snow-capped volcanos spit icy windsdown vast open lava flats to me in the seaoffshore, yeah, onobut my old man back be achin'killer chiller winter pulls, strains,&nb...
Posted by [spike.leyva] on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:11:00 PST

--- where I live it is warm ... ---

i am a beach bumwhere i live it is warmbeach towels double as blanketsi shower in the rainmy neighbah keep one pig on da porchsay 'im akamaiwish 'im have hands steda hoofs dat oneso he could teach 'im...
Posted by [spike.leyva] on Sun, 09 Dec 2007 08:04:00 PST