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Cinnamon, esq.

Fallin out a window with confetti in my hair...

About Me

I'm an Insomniac Hollywood Honky Tonk with a Gothic Rock n Roll soul and a penchant for Jack Daniels, dancing on tables (or bars or fireplaces or rooftops or the Lido Deck) and for crooning along loudly to the jukebox (or band or car radio or fog horn).
Yes...my real name is Cinnamon. Stop asking...
I also believe there is nothing better than sleeping in.
Plus, there's a million stories in the naked city...and I know them all.

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My Interests

, music, novels, pulp, playing guitar, my cat, drinking, dancing, coffee, cooking, my friends, sushi, shooting pool, big air, jack n' coke, singing, yoga, Chopin martinis that are just a little dirty, snuggling down under the covers, Cosabella G-strings, tikis, Sunday Brunch Bloodys in NYC, Yoshitomo Nara, chicanery, Mark Ryden, Blythe

I'd like to meet:

    Like-minded folks who love to laugh uproariously, rock their socks and toss back a Jack or two (or seven).
    People who air drum along to Iron Maiden's "Run to the Hills."
    Anyone who thinks that Heavy Metal Parking Lot is a make-out movie.
    Boys with black hair and blue eyes -- Peter Murphy style.
WHO I WOULDN'T LIKE TO MEET:
People with a bunch of embedded videos on their profile page and tiling background photos that make you dizzy. People who leave oversized, pre-designed, mass-distributed "Thanks for the Add" images in your comments. Especially animated ones. YUCK. Go back to the 1990's when animated gifs were cool, you plebeian twat.
WHO ELSE I WOULDN'T LIKE TO MEET:
Anyone who types messages that look like this:
U R 2 HOTT 2 B 4-GOTTEN
(I think I just vomited a little even typing that.)
Unless you're 13 years old, you should be using whole words and proper grammar, asshole.
And if you ARE 13 years old, why the hell are you contacting ME in the first place?
::shudder::
NO MORE BAND ADD REQUESTS UNLESS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR LEGAL REPRESENTATION!
I'm no longer accepting generic friend requests from bands. There are just too damn many of you, and my box is full (so to speak. Ahem).
If I know you or your band already, feel free to message me and I will add you on my own.
OR
if you or your band is looking for a lawyer, please contact me by message.
SORRY, GUYS. Good Luck & Keep Makin' the Rock.
Oh, yeah...please, no WHORING in my comment box.
Feel free to post me some love, but blatant flyers for your band or upcoming gig will be DENIED.

Music:

Radiohead, Tom Waits, Patty Griffin, Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, Johnny Cash, Can, Guns n Roses, David Bowie, NIN, Mary Lou Lord, The Sweet, Motley Crue, Gram Parsons, Cocteau Twins, Iron Maiden, Grant Lee Phillips, Nick Cave, Beth Orton, Scorpions, Doves, Joseph Arthur, Waylon Jennings, Madonna, Old 97s, Kid Lightning, Joe Purdy, Dio, The Postal Service, Concrete Blonde, Mark Eitzel, Saxon, Dwight Yoakam, Japan, Blur, Sabbath, Nick Drake, X, Jeff Buckley, Terry Reid, Siouxsie, Portishead, PJ Harvey, Soundgarden, Damien Rice, AC/DC, Motorhead, Edith Piaf, Morphine, Beck, T. Rex, Richard Thompson, Dead Can Dance, Judas Priest, Stooges, Louis Jordan, The Cult, Dokken, Nina Simone, Meshuggah, Uncle Tupelo, Sisters of Mercy, Butch Walker, Willie Nelson, Laurie Anderson, Sunny Day Real Estate, Josephine Baker, Cary Brothers, Django Reinhardt, Nina Hagen, Jesus and Mary Chain, Twilight Singers, Pantera, Merle Haggard, Eva Cassidy, Eric Satie, Krokus, Death Cab for Cutie, Velvet Underground, Cheap Trick, Death Angel, Y&T, Devendra Banhart, The Section Quartet, Ray LaMontagne, Jose Gonzalez, Jim White

Movies:

Apocalypse Now, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Breathless (Godard), Spinal Tap, Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Manchurian Candidate (original), Paper Chase, Night of the Hunter, The Killer, Hardboiled, Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs, Fame, Princess Bride, To Kill a Mockingbird, 12 Angry Men, Pink Panther, Rebel Without a Cause, Dogtown and Z Boys, Chinese Ghost Story, Big Time, The Wall, Waiting for Guffman, Office Space, Rashomon, Double Indemnity, Fargo, The Graduate, Repo Man, Devil in Ms. Jones, Henry & June, Memento, Sunset Boulevard, Rushmore, Seventh Seal, Mystery Train, El Mariachi, Decline of Western Civilization (Pt.I and Pt.II), House of Flying Daggers, Trust, The Unbelievable Truth, Blue Velvet, The Lover, The Professional

Television:

Now: Sopranos, Big Love, CSI, Law & Order (all of them), Changing Rooms, Curb Your Enthusiasm, nip/tuck, Cheap Seats, LOST, Family Guy, Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, Project Runway, Heroes, Weeds, anything on FUEL TV
Then: Six Feet Under, Twin Peaks, MST3K, Kids in the Hall, Picket Fences, X-Files, Buffy, Politically Incorrect, Dead Like Me

Books:

Heart of Darkness, Time's Arrow, Master and Margarita, The Passion, Good Omens, The Lorax, The Subterraneans, Sexus, High Fidelity, Love is a Dog from Hell, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, Blindness, Naked, A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, After Dark My Sweet, Lemmy: White Line Fever, A Million Little Pieces, The Time Traveller's Wife, JTHM, Lenore, Stray Toasters, The Sandman, Killing Yourself to Live

Heroes:

my mom, Lance Armstrong, B.K.S. Iyengar, Steve McQueen, Thurgood Marshall, Bob Burnquist, Cesar Chavez, Danny Way, Bowie, Thich Nhat Hanh, the Enron whistleblower, the NYFD, anyone who is the first person to try something.

My Blog

Dancing Fool

I really hate that Evanescence song. As in...I REALLY REALLY HATE IT. You know the ONE. I hate the band enough that the only song I know is that popular one. And it's awful. And old. And so played out...
Posted by Cinnamon, esq. on Sat, 26 May 2007 06:26:00 PST

breakthru

You never know when it's going to happen. When someone will break through your hard candy shell and finger the gooey jelly filling until you bleed.It happens at the most inopportune times. At the most...
Posted by Cinnamon, esq. on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:52:00 PST

sxsw stream of consciousness

fueled by booze and bbq and passion for pop where the streets have no names except 6th and red river and congress and madness fire in the hole and in the belly the good the bad and the queen and a top...
Posted by Cinnamon, esq. on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:55:00 PST

"Don't Stop Believin"

My Journey story is now up on Ground Control mag at:http://www.groundcontrolmag.com/detail/9/247/It even has its own lil soundtrack player...Please, go check it out....
Posted by Cinnamon, esq. on Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:38:00 PST

Esq.

I passed.After the swearing-in, I'll be a real-live licensed attorney in the state of California.It's totally bizarre. Now I just need a job. ...
Posted by Cinnamon, esq. on Sat, 18 Nov 2006 09:52:00 PST

Recruitment

I usually only post poetry on here. But to keep the writer side of my brain mushing along, I thought I would post a story from my life. From when I was a kid in Sacramento. And I was recruited into th...
Posted by Cinnamon, esq. on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Number 9...Number 9...Number 9...

9...then 8...then 7...and so on.Decided to blog it, rather than make a bulletin, since I posted about Storm recently and didn't want to become one of THOSE people.Also, the quiz was missing #3 and #2,...
Posted by Cinnamon, esq. on Fri, 07 Jul 2006 12:54:00 PST

I'm Too Sexy...

Quick rant: The song, "I'm Too Sexy" by the idiotic Right Said Fred should be removed from every karaoke list on the planet. I hated the actual song within the first 35 seconds I heard it, and hoped...
Posted by Cinnamon, esq. on Thu, 25 May 2006 12:20:00 PST

No more teachers' dirty looks...

I'm done. Or, at least I hope I'm done. There is that Income Tax final hanging over me like a drunken blackout I can't quite remember. But, we'll cross our fingers and pray I passed. Sunday = graduat...
Posted by Cinnamon, esq. on Fri, 19 May 2006 11:09:00 PST

leaves

today it smelled like autumn when I was a kid a combination of wet and leaves and smoke I was fevered and warm I stepped gingerly amongst the leaves and the wet and the smoke to meet you I rounded...
Posted by Cinnamon, esq. on Tue, 18 Oct 2005 02:53:00 PST