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About Me

Wanna have a dance party?

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My Interests

Dance parties, art, kayaking, ridiculousness (and all it entails getting there), stupid babies, fun things, shiny things, cool girls, liberation.

I'd like to meet:

Bjork, Dolly Parton, Merryl Streep, Joni Mitchell, Kim Catrall, Roseanne, Patty Griffin, Annie Dillard.

Music:

For the time being: What's Andrea listening to? and His Name is Alive, Kate Bush and joni Mitchell, new Bjork, new Tori, Bonnie Prince Billy.

Movies:

Myra Breckenridge, Baraka, Grey Gardens, Rize, Bringing Down the House, She-Devil, Winged Migration, Rivers & Tides, Steel Magnolias, Erin Brokovich, Pollyanna, Parent Trap, Nanny McPhee, Family Stone, The Color Purple, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Jesus is Magik, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Swiss Family Robinson...

Television:

Desperate Housewives. Strangers with Candy (the funniest show ever), Family Guy(a close second), Ab Fab, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, Project Runway, The Office (Brit version), Ali G. and the show with Lorelai and her daughter in it.

Books:

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek & Holy the Firm--Annie Dillard//One Hundred Years of Solitude & Of Love and Other Demons--Gabriel Garcia Marquez//Written on the Body--Jeannette Winterson//Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden--John Steinbeck//A Prayer for Owen Meany & Hotel New Hampshire--John Irving//Cat's Cradle--Kurt Vonnegut//To Kill a Mockingbird--Harper Lee//I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings & Gather Together in My Name--Maya Angelou//Assata Shakur's autobiograhy//X--the autobiography of Malcolm X//Cloud Atlas--?//Poetry:The Men and the Women--Nikki Giovanni//Leaves of Grass (with special love for the Calamus section)--Walt Whitman//The Fact of a Doorframe--Adrienne Rich//The Leaf and the Cloud--Mary Oliver//I Heard God Laughing--Hafiz

Heroes:

J.C., Max, Sheldon, John Irving, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Walt Whitman. oh, walt.

My Blog

the power of DARE

My sister lived in Puerto Rico for two years. She, with the help of her husband, ran a boy's home with 14-16 boys from ages 8-17. Before returning to the lone star state, they decided to a...
Posted by Black John on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:14:00 PST

the floating graveyard

Last night I went out to visit my dad's grave. In his section of the graveyeard the sprinklers had apparently been on for a long time. Many of the flat head stones were under water by a fe...
Posted by Black John on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:56:00 PST

The land of bibles, bigots and beer, with a rebel yell...

My neighbors at the trailer park, accurately and so appropriately named, Amarillo Estates, have three flags hanging from the eaves of their astro-turf lined porch: The U.S. flag, the Texas flag ...
Posted by Black John on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:21:00 PST

Likeness

recently i had a lot of family visiting at the same time. my brother roy , my sister-in-law sarah and niece megan, my uncle roy (dad's brother) and aunt patsy, my brother jerry who was...
Posted by Black John on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 04:09:00 PST

friends

the hints that life throws out are sure to not be missed. friends that are true are deep and lasting. i have realized that each person who really acts and exists as they feel teaches a dee...
Posted by Black John on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 01:08:00 PST

cock clock

Thrifting with my dad recently, he saw a cat clock. he was immediately laughing and pointing. a shitty old wood-carved cat clock. he loves crap like this and in more modern looks, i ...
Posted by Black John on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:08:00 PST

riding the snake

the life blood that seeps through the veins of the air around me is pumped with a mixture of longing, sadness, appreciation and reflection. friends so far and wide plague my mind daily. so...
Posted by Black John on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:15:00 PST