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About Me

I prefer to stay indoors with dim lighting, so not surprisingly, my favorite activities are sedentary ones like reading, writing, painting, listening to music, and occasionally (though increasingly rare), lame attempts at playing music of my own. Most of all, I like to fixate on obscure topics or ideas that have hidden or unexpected metaphors, then spend months or years learning, collecting and/or obsessing on everything I can unearth about that particular idea or theme. I rarely connect with people who share my assorted and diverse interests and I've learned to keep most of my ideas to myself. I am a writer stuck in a long-term state of writer's block - though I once had an obnoxious amount of enthusiasm and a fair amount of promise in this realm. Before my self-imposed hiatus from creative expression, I wrote a novel, a few scripts, some magazine pieces, etc. -- with topics ranging from punk rock bands and shows to the creation of the International Criminal Court for war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity. I am interested, inspired and/or entertained by war correspondents, Watergate, Hamlet, 19th century Russian literature, Jon Stewart, early SNL, bioethics, national and international politics, peace treaties, The Simpsons, animals (especially my cats), the U.S. Constitution, Lenny Bruce and Nick Cave (not in that order, and not by any stretch a comprehensive list). I have 3 cats who've kept me alive when I wasn't sure life was worth all the hassle, amazingly talented and interesting siblings, a few much-loved friends, a shitload of difficulties and anxities about whatever lies ahead... Basically I'm lucky though. I've come through dark periods I wouldn't wish on anyone and have somehow survived relatively intact. Considering the alternatives, things could be much worse.

My Interests

Watergate; politics; war crimes tribunals/ICC; Hamlet; music; reading the entire Sunday New York Times (except the business and finance sections); having time to read a novel in one sitting; writing; dark, crashing thunder storms when I don't have to leave the house; drinking coffee; smoking cigs; Oscar, Luigi and Isabelle (my cats). I don't like telephones; unanswered mail; guilt; cruelty; prejudice; ignorance; pettiness; violence; poverty; and most of all, my tendencies toward inertia.

I'd like to meet:

Nelson Mandela, Bono, Bob Geldof, Vaclav Havel, Seymour Hirsch, David Foster Wallace, Mary Robinson, Susan McDougall, Madeline Albright, Christiane Amanpour, Michael Stipe, Kofi Annan, George Soros, Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Wole Soyinka, Jim Jarmusch, Harry Dean Stanton, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Joan Didion, Bill Maher, David Letterman, Bill Moyers, Bill Murray, Jon Stewart, Johnny Depp

Music:

Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, The Pogues, U2, The Clash, Popdefect, Van Morrison, Carla Bozulich/Geraldine Fibbers, Patti Smith, Patsy Cline, Lou Reed, Elmore James, Bessie Smith, Janis Joplin, Hans Hackenberger, Fastbacks, Girl Trouble, Hank Williams, Beck, X, Billie Holliday, Jeff Buckley, Courtney Love, Thin Lizzy, Bob Geldof, 7 Year Bitch, Fiona Apple, Pavement, PJ Harvey, Camper Van Beethoven, Flaming Lips, Lowell Fulsom, Trailer Bride, Neko Case, Sigur Ros, Placebo, Radiohead, Modest Mouse, Bob Mould, Violent Femmes, Virgin Prunes, Gavin Friday

Movies:

Wings of Desire, Being John Malkovich, All the President's Men, Lady Sings the Blues, Harold and Maude, Trainspotting, Camille Claudel, Caddyshack, Sid and Nancy, Adaptation, Drugstore Cowboy, Blue Velvet, Paris Texas, The Big Chill, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Wit, Love and Death, Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Spinal Tap, Life of Brian, Man With a Golden Arm, Requiem for a Dream, Down By Law, Mysterious Skin, Strangers in Paradise, Mystery Train, the Barbarian Invasions, Coffee and Cigarettes, Before Night Falls, Syriana,

Television:

West Wing (the Aaron Sorkin years); The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Entourage, The Simpsons, Reno 911, Clone High, Freaks and Geeks, Six Feet Under, Law and Order, Arrested Development, The Showbiz Show with David Spade, The Colbert Report, The Wire, The Sheild, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, 60 Minutes

Books:

[My favorite authors would be easier to list -- there are way too many favorite books ...] David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, Dave Eggers, Amy Hempel, David Sedaris, Donald Barthelme, Jonathan Franzen, Joan Didion, Dorothy Allison, Roger Cohen, William Burroughs, Tennessee Williams, Dororthy Parker, James Baldwin, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, WB Yeats, Brendan Behan, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, Simone deBeauvoir, Gunter Grass, Shakespeare, Goethe, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy, Michele Matheson [favorite tv writers: Aaron Sorkin, Tom Martin] [favorite screenwriters: Charlie Kaufman, Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders, Coen Brothers, David Lynch] (many more... i'm just drawing a blank)

Heroes:

First and foremost, my Dad. Bob Rehmar, Jerry Johnson, my sister Julie, my brothers Tom and Mike. My friends Alexis, Graye, Lisa, Ray, Pollyanne, Michele, Patty, Kimberly, Nathan, Lovella, Kenny, Howie and many more (who never seem to give up on me even when i give up on myself). Oscar, Luigi, Squeaky (aka Isabelle). Last but not least, my soon to be ex-husband, Hans. Oh yeah, I have to add one more to this list - Jon Stewart. I couldn't survive the Bush era without him.

My Blog

crazy sock story

Flashes of hope are fragile. Especially for me. Especially lately. If I let it slip away, it might be weeks or months before another spark comes my way. I just had the most unbelievable experience, bu...
Posted by molly on Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:37:00 PST

NTVJ - 01

Never Trust a Vegetarian Junky Chapter One It was dark and cool inside Hazels living room; the fraying red velvet curtains sealed out all but a sliver of the hot afternoon light. A dim glow flic...
Posted by molly on Sat, 10 Sep 2005 12:38:00 PST

"The Missing Shoe" (for Kate)

Alix stood at the bus stop, alone in a waiting crowd. She was disheveled, detached from her surroundings and oblivious to the chill in the early morning air. The Line 4 bus heading west down Santa...
Posted by molly on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

music business...

"The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." - Hunter S. Thompson...
Posted by molly on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

dirty corolla

I haven't been this excited about driving since I was 16. I absolutely love it. I'm momentarily happy, even looking forward to my weekly journey down the 405 to Newport to visit my dad... I've ...
Posted by molly on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

on being a girl

Ive had two life-altering events in the past two days. One, I found out my Dad has cancer. Two, I got my first manicure and pedicure today. It seems incongruous and insensitive to group these vas...
Posted by molly on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Mysterious Skin

I tried my luck with another movie today, this time in the theatre near my apartment. It was Pattys idea. I went along because so far, every place weve gone or everything weve done has turned int...
Posted by molly on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Assassination of Richard Nixon

Its Sunday morning and my newspaper wasn't delivered... Anyone who knows me understands the tragedy this represents. Actually Im looking out my living room window and I see the distinctive NYTimes...
Posted by molly on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST