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MAPPY KWANUKKMAS EVERYONE!

My Interests

Acting, directing, theatre, film, writing, travel, communion with good peeps (not the wafer kind, but the jab at the bar til 3AM kind), MUSIC of alll kinds, softball tennis, football, museums, hiking, good food, fine women, sculpting, photography, wolves, yoga (NEVER thought I would live to see the day when I'd say THAT), good food (oops, I already said that. Well, you can't say it enough. A good Carbonara is like a brush with heaven), my fantabulous Dilettentes, pool (the kind with balls and pockets, not the splashy, splashy kind), Guitar, home improvements on Craigslist (What would I do without you), woodwork, reading (though I never have time and am backed up now, like, thirty books! Grrrrrrrrr!) Cats (because only they can say 'Fuck off' with such pinache), Roadtrips, Sand, The Pittsburgh STILLERS, cooking (which I don't do NEARLY enough), all things SCOTLAND, and oh, I'm sure I'll think of more crap later, but really, I must get back to work

I'd like to meet:

Humans. They're so darned dazzling and fascinating. I'm through with the lower mammels. Especially anteaters. GOD they're boring. All they do is talk about themselves. YAPYAPYAPYAPYAP!

Music:

Once Soundtrack, Porcupine Tree, Bob Schneider, Loop!Station, Stellastarr, Amy Raasch, Gar Robertson, Ray LaMontagne, Tom Waits, Dead Can Dance, The Sundays, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, The Fire Theft, The Young Dubliners, Shelby Lynne, Aimee Mann (goddess), Dashboard Confessional, Soundtrack music, Chet Baker, The Chairman, Amir Diab, Enigma, Coyote Oldman, Indigenous, Ani DiFranco, Femi Kuti, Joan Osborne, Zeppelin, Mike Ness, Bruuuuuuuuce, DMB, Sarah Vaughn, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Uncle Bonsai, Django Reinhardt, the Pogues, the Lampshades, Damien Rice, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, the Chiftains, oh this could go on forever

Movies:

Hannah and Her Sisters, sex, lies......, Shawshank, Best Years of Our Lives, Tootsie, Once, Naked, Career Girls, The Snappper, In the Name of the Father, Matrix, All About Eve, Starship Troopers, The Killer, Next Stop Wonderland, The Jerk, Manhattan, Henry V (Branaugh), Raiders..., Bob Roberts, The Quiet Man, It's a Wonderful Life, Pulp Ficton, Dogma, My Life as a Dog, Harold & Maude, Malcom X, The Barbarian Invasions, Miller's Crossing, Go, Raising Arizona, Proof, Sophie's Choice, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine, North Dalllas Forty, Bull Durham, Lady and the Tramp, The Great Muppet Caper, The Dark Crystal, LOR, etc, etc, etc

Television:

I don't have nearly enough time to watch TV, man, but here are the ones that have hooked me over the years: Angel, Buffy, Sports NIght, the Larry Sanders show, Slings & Arrows, Rescue Me, Seinfeld, The Muppet Show, The Storyteller, Hill Street Blues

Books:

Fountainhead, Unbearable Lightness, Crime and Punishment, Wonder Boy, Survival at Auschwitz, The Awakening, The Periodic Table, Franny & Zooey, Dress Your Family in Corderoy & Denim, Beloved, The Invisible Man, Rumi, cummings, Joyce, Dandelion Wine, Heartbreaking Work........, On the Road, etc., etc., etc.

Heroes:

The Dilettentes inspire me almost daily, my Aunt Mimi, my grandmother, Estelle Williams, Jim Hilborne, Peter O'Toole (artistically)