Well, I will try anything at least once! Woohoo! Good times!
Friends, Cohorts, Deviants, Roller Derby Referees, Miscreants, Disco Queens, Mimes, Vagabonds...
as long as you are creative, interesting, intelligent, reflective, passionate, honest, compassionate, and involved feel free to drop me a line!
I do NOT like bigoted, small minded, angry, violent, negative people.
But who does?!? Mean peple suck!
Here is the list of some music that has grabbed my attention lately - for one reason or another! Please note that this list is in NO discernible order! I like some more than others, but I do like them all! The dense block of musical confection that follows this rather long list consists of a sampling of my "Old Standards" - music that will always hold my heart and own a piece of my soul. It may not always make sense to others, but it makes perfect sense to me....
MGMT http://www.myspace.com/mgmt
Foals http://www.myspace.com/foals ~I first heard them in London! Hot!~
Monkey Swallows the Universe http://www.myspace.com/mstu
Malakai http://www.myspace.com/malakaibristol
Harrisons http://www.myspace.com/harrisonssheffield
British Sea Power http://www.myspace.com/britishseapower
The Good, the Bad, & the Queen http://www.myspace.com/thegoodthebadandthequeen
Barcelona http://www.myspace.com/wearebarcelona
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. http://www.myspace.com/getcapewearcapeflyfans , http://www.myspace.com/getcapewearcapeflydemo
Asteria http://www.myspace.com/asteria
The Winter Sounds http://www.myspace.com/thewintersounds
Mashlin http://www.purevolume.com/mashlin
Farewell http://www.myspace.com/farewell
The Waifs http://www.myspace.com/thewaifs Aussie blues...
Maximo Park http://www.myspace.com/maximopark (Ignore the first song.....)
Cut Off Your Hands http://www.myspace.com/cutoffyourhands (touring with Foals)
Polar Bear Club - haven't made my final decision, but they are growing on me http://www.myspace.com/polarbearclub
Looking glass Wars - not bad http://www.myspace.com/lookingglasswars (free downloads)
Driving East http://www.myspace.com/drivingeast http://www.absolutepunk.net/artists/showlink.php?do=showdeta
ils&l=3697 (Free EP Download)
Patrick Wolf - Fun http://www.myspace.com/officialpatrickwolf
Minus the Bear http://www.myspace.com/minusthebear
The Forecast http://www.myspace.com/theforecast
Pulp (old)
Sleeping at Last http://www.myspace.com/sleepingatlast
Mayday Parade http://www.myspace.com/maydayparade
Thieves and Villains http://www.myspace.com/thievesandvillains
The Maine http://www.myspace.com/themaine
Edison Glass http://www.myspace.com/edisonglass
Goot http://www.myspace.com/goot
The Summer Set http://www.myspace.com/thisisthesummerset
Rainer Maria http://www.myspace.com/rainermaria
The Blakes http://www.myspace.com/theblakes
Silversun Pickups http://www.myspace.com/silversunpickups
Friday Night Boys http://www.myspace.com/thefridaynightboys(DC band)
My Favorite Highway http://www.myspace.com/myfavoritehighway (DC Band)
Split Fifty http://www.myspace.com/splitfifty
The Emilia Band http://www.myspace.com/theemiliaband
Sneaker Pimps (old)
The Static Age (old - forgot how much i like the Blank Screens album) http://www.myspace.com/thestaticage
Arctic Monkeys http://www.myspace.com/arcticmonkeys
Pigeon Detectives http://www.myspace.com/thepigeondetectives
The Wombats http://www.myspace.com/thewombatsuk
Fiction City http://www.myspace.com/fictioncity
Johnny One Match http://www.myspace.com/johnnyonematch
My American Heart http://www.myspace.com/myamericanheart
Monty are I http://www.myspace.com/montyarei
Inkwell http://www.myspace.com/inkwell
Out of Sight http://www.myspace.com/outofsight
The Coming Weak http://www.myspace.com/thecomingweak
Blonde Redhead http://www.myspace.com/blonderedhead
Bloc Party http://www.myspace.com/blocparty
Cat Power http://www.myspace.com/catpower
Liam and Me http://www.myspace.com/liamandme
Eleventh, He Reaches London http://www.myspace.com/eleventhhereacheslondon
The Eels (Electro Shock Blues Album)
French Kicks http://www.myspace.com/frenchkicks
Jet Lag Gemini http://www.myspace.com/jetlaggemini
Valencia http://www.myspace.com/valencia
Bel Air Academy http://www.myspace.com/belairacademy
Trophy Scars http://www.myspace.com/trophyscars
We the Kings http://www.myspace.com/wethekings
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness
Zero 7
Bigger Lights http://www.myspace.com/thebiggerlights
Say Anything - not bad http://www.myspace.com/sayanything
The Matches http://www.myspace.com/thematches
Th Progress http://www.myspace.com/theprogress (every breath is gold)
Kiss Kiss http://www.myspace.com/kisskiss
Stay http://www.myspace.com/stayrock
The Format http://www.myspace.com/theformat (fun)
Parade the Day http://www.myspace.com/paradetheday
Morning Light http://www.myspace.com/themorninglight
Brighten http://www.myspace.com/wearebrighten
Flickerstick http://www.myspace.com/flickersticktarantula
The Pilot's Wife http://www.myspace.com/thepilotswifemusic
Band of Horses http://www.myspace.com/bandofhorses
Dear and the Headlights http://www.myspace.com/dearandtheheadlights
Moss Icon - Old Skool....
http://www.myspace.com/mossiconemo
As Tall As Lions http://www.myspace.com/astallaslions
Audrye Sessions http://www.myspace.com/audryesessions
Thieves and Villains, Mayday Parade, Spitalfield, The Decemberists, Coheed & Cambria, This Providence, We the Kings, Fugazi, The Shins, The Vines, Offspring, The Cribs, Marry Me Jane, Everclear, Von Bondies, Mudhoney, Interpol, Honeychucks, G-Spot, 7 Year Bitch, Alice in Chains, Pavement, Black Flag, The Academy Is, Simple Plan, Melvins, Nirvana, NIN, Pixies, Early November, New Found Glory, Belle & Sebastion, New York Dolls, Fall Out Boy, Bright Eyes, Morrissey, The Bravery, The Darkness, Soundgarden, My Chemical Romance, The Smiths, Blink-182, Sex Pistols, Beastie Boys, Violent Femmes, Cupcakes, Franz Ferdinand, Panic at the Disco, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Default, Acceptance, Staind, Damien Rice, Billy Bragg, Madness, The Cure, The Clash, Cyndi Lauper, Jamie Cullum, Josh Ritter, Barry White, Marvin Gaye, Jackson Browne, Don Henley, John Hiatt, Foreigner, Peter Gabriel, Amy Mann, Lindsay Smith, Weezer, Big Audio Dynamite, Collective Soul, Creed, Goo Goo Dolls, Joni Mitchell, Billy Idol, David Bowie, Tom Waits... I also have a thing about singer-songwriters of the 70's. Uh - huh.... laugh if you must... :D I could go on... but I'll stop. I have eclectic musical predilections..... however, I obviously prefer Indie / Punk / Alt Rock, with a splash of jazz and sexiness thrown in for good measure.
This is just a sampling of the films that I love....
Donnie Darko
9 Songs
Love Me If You Dare (Jeux D'Enfants)
Ponette
Little Miss Sunshine
Sideways
Anna - Ot Shesti do Vosemnadtsati
Acts of Worship
Night and Fog
Soy Cuba
Two Weeks
The Royal Tenenbaums
Cecil B. Demented
Magnolia
Freeway
21 Grams
Good Will Hunting
Dead Poets Society
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
I Heart Huckabees
The Last Kiss
Frida
The Motorcycle Diaries
Ma Vie En Rose
The Constant Gardner
What Dreams May Come
Dogma
But I'm a Cheerleader
Saved
Serendipity
Napoleon Dynamite
The Sweetest Thing - Unrated Version
Babel
Secretary
Strictly Ballroom
Virgin Suicides
Garden State
Vanilla Sky
Anchorman
Beyond Borders
For the Boys
The Italian Job
40 Year Old Virgin
Crash
Traffic
Fame - I'm an Actor & a writer.... You really shouldn't be surprised!
Plus a slew of old school horror flicks - think Hammer Films - and some new stuff, too! Love the Zombie movies!
I love movies! Independent, Art, and Foreign films in particular. I especially enjoy films that make me laugh, cry, and think.....
Heroes, Eureka, The 4400, Scrubs, The Office, Jericho, Project Runway, Hell's Kitchen, BBC.... you get the idea! Random & ecclectic....just like me!
I'm an avid reader, so anything that gets thrown my way is worth reading! But I do have a particular affection for intense, dramatic, thought provoking, and counter culture works. Check out "Civil Disobedience" by Thoreau: http://thoreau.eserver.org/civil1.html
I admire and respect any person who, despite intense opposition, adversity, & oppression chooses to stand up for themselves and the rights of others. Doing the "Right Thing" is very rarely the "Easy" choice, and it takes an amazing person to proceed despite the odds.
Thoreau said "... most men lead lives of quiet desperation." That is NOT me. I take risks and I fly and I fall and I pick myself back up again. I've good experiences and bad, some tragedies, some comedies, and a few catastrophes thrown in for good measure. Some from the harsh injustices of others, and some were my my own damn fault. But they ALL count! Because If you don't take those risks, you will never enjoy the greatness that can come of it.
They say you die the way you live - so, I figure I'm going to get tied to train tracks by a deranged Lillian Gish fan, eaten by a lion, or get shot by a poison dart fashioned by a cannibalistic indigenous people....