writing - art - politics - music - people... i suppose that sums up life for me.I want to understand people as well as I can... it used to be to try and save them, now it's to try and save myself from them.I'm interested in the impossible - a baggage free life... world peace... a productive government... mutual respect among people... a balanced eco-system... chocolate for every meal... not gaining weight... aging gracefully... being a good friend and sister... forgiving my parents... separation of church and state... the never-ending orgasm... unlimited free anytime minutes with no roaming charges... a cat that cleans its own shitbox... total self-acceptance without vanity or hubris...
you in the morning... 56th and WabashaSONNET 81Or I shall live your epitaph to make, Or you survive when I in earth am rotten; From hence your memory death cannot take, Although in me each part will be forgotten. Your name from hence immortal life shall have, Though I, once gone, to all the world must die: The earth can yield me but a common grave, When you entombed in men's eyes shall lie. Your monument shall be my gentle verse, Which eyes not yet created shall o'er-read; And tongues to be, your being shall rehearse, When all the breathers of this world are dead; You still shall live,—such virtue hath my pen,— Where breath most breathes, even in the mouths of men.
I thought I already did this - The Smiths; EBTG; BNL; Bob Dylan; Joni Mitchell; Joan Armatrading; Fiona Apple; Elvis Costello; Rod Stewart (older stuff); Talking Heads; Eminem; Kid Rock; El Vez; John Pizzarelli; Chet Baker; Betty Carter; Carmen McRae; Ella; Sinatra; Miles; Coltrane; Oscar Peterson; Dino; Bob Marley; Prince; Beatles; Led Zepplin; Rolling Stones; Patricia Barber; Stacy Kent; showtunes; jazz standards; Jon Brion; Jill Sobule; Eben Schletter; Gary Stockdale; Gary Shapiro; Ricardo Lemvo; St. Germaine; Garbage; NRBQ; The Cure; Velvet Underground; Beastie Boys; 80's music; Dixie Chicks; Uncle Bonzai; Macy Gray; Norah Jones; Rufus Wainwright; Raggae stuff; Me First and the Gimme Gimmies; dammit... i have hundreds of CDs... I don't know... stop pressuring me!
Annie Hall; Diner; Giant; Diva; East of Eden; Tommy Boy; Y Tu Mama Tambien; The Godfather Iⅈ Royal Tenenbaums; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; The Right Stuff; Adaptation; Monty Python's Life of Brian; All That Jazz; A Star Is Born (JG); Showgirls (anniversary edition w/commentary - brilliant!); Lost In Translation; Notorious; Manhattan; Husbands & Wives; Soapdish; The Doors; On The Town; Singing in the Rain; Funny Girl; Metropolitan; Barcelona; Casablanca; Bringing Up Baby; The Philadelphia Story; Empire Strikes Back; documentaries & biographies; Capote; The Shining; The Four Seasons; The Forty-year old Virgin; Saved; Hoosiers; Miracle; Remember The Titans; Mommie Dearest; South Park The Movie; Team America (fuck yeah!); Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown; Casablanca; Metallica - Some Kind Of Monster; Wet Hot American Summer; Picnic at Hanging Rock; Confessions of a Dangerous Mind; Stripes; Taps; Igby Goes Down; Goodfellas; The Lover; Au Revoir Les Enfants
Anything my friends worked on I'll cheer for and keep my fingers crossed for them; What's on my Tivo right now? Countdown with Keith Olbermann; Life On Mars; Ugly Betty; Studio 60; The Closer; South Park; That 70's Show; Nip/Tuck; The Daily Show; The Colbert Report; Real Time w/Bill Maher; Entourage; Sopranos; BBC's Coupling; AbFab; Project Runway; Penn & Teller's Bullshit; Grey's Anatomy; House; historical documentaries; BBC's Murder In Suburbia; Dog Bites Man; Robot Chicken; The Showbiz Show with David Spade; Felicity; Mind of The Married Man;Guilty Pleasures: Guiding Light, American Idol; America's Next Top Model;
CHECK OUT MY SISTER HALLI'S PUBLISHING CO IN CANADA - WWW.TIGHTROPEBOOKS.COM (SHE'S A BAD-ASS POET AND CHAMPION OF ALL THINGS COOL) Anyway, my fave books, types of books, and books I'm reading are:The Fountainhead; Minor Characters; Sex, Drugs & Cocoa Puffs; anything by Nicholson Baker, Bukowski, Terry Southern, Paul Feig, Christopher Buckley, Dorothy Parker, Sam Shepard; Biographies; psychology; science & books on skepticism; 9/11 Commission Report; Demon Haunted World; Stuff about and by the Beats; Books on tape...easier than finding the time to read
Those who fight injustice, those who risk their lives for the innocent, those who defend the weak, those who do what's right because they KNOW it's right and not because someone or some g-d told them it's right, and those who bring me chocolate when I'm about to just DIE if I don't have some soon.Oh yeah, and Towelie... "How spicey would you like your chang sauce?"