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Bean

I'm beginning to hurt those I tolerate.

About Me

My mom has a house in Florida near Disney World that she rents by the week for vacations. Check it out! Get Your Own! | View Slideshow Which solo Morrissey song are you?
You are Tomorrow! Dreamy, heart full of emotion, you want what you know you cannot have.
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My Interests

Being with my family when I get the opportunity, travel including visiting Walt Disney World and the Florida house (www.fla4u.com) and checking out museums and historical places, reading, going to the movies as well as watching the classics, going to concerts when I get the chance (saw Morrissey three times this year and got to see the Police earlier this summer), spending time with my iPod

Music:

Morrissey, The Smiths, The Cure, The Beatles, Ella Fitzgerald, The Guess Who, Bread, America, Chicago, Lenny Kravitz, Smashing Pumpkins, Talking Heads, Johnny Cash, Cole Porter, Moby, Barenaked Ladies, Frank Sinatra, New Order, The Cranberries, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Strokes, Radio Dept, Tom Jones, Roxy Music, Beck, The Neilds, Vance Gilbert, Brenda Kahn, Max Raabe & Palast Orchester, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Marvin Gaye, The Cranberries, The Rolling Stones, The Breeders, Simon and Garfunkel, The Killers, The Temptations, David Gray
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Movies:

Christopher Guest movies (This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind), Bette Davis movies (Now, Voyager, Mr. Skeffington, All About Eve, etc.), Marilyn Monroe movies (Some Like It Hot, Bus Stop, The 7 Year Itch, etc.), The Third Man, Annie Hall, Gone with the Wind, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Brazil, Citizen Kane, The Wizard of Oz, It's A Wonderful Life, The Godfather, Notorious, the Kill Bill movies, Star Wars, Ed Wood, Casablanca, The Women, Mildred Pierce, Bottle Rocket, Shaun of the Dead, The Royal Tenenbaums, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Braveheart, A Clockwork Orange, Sunset Boulevard, The Apartment, Lost in Translation, Gladiator, Sin City, A Beautiful Mind, Howard's End, Quills, Marie Antoinette, Chicago, Funny Girl, The Parent Trap, Pollyanna, The Strawberry Blonde, Dr. Zhivago, Office Space, Walk the Line, Capote, Hotel Rwanda, Corpse Bride, Singin' in the Rain, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Match Point, To Kill a Mockingbird, North by Northwest, The Philadelphia Story, Amadeus, Raiders of the Lost Ark, A Place in the Sun, Little Miss Sunshine, The Planet of the Apes (the original version), Party Girl, De-Lovely, The Devil Wears Prada, Pan's Labyrinth

Television:

The Office (the BBC version is best!), Curb Your Enthusiasm, 30 Rock, extras, Pinky and the Brain, Sex and the City, Farscape, The Daily Show, Lingo, The X-Files, MST3K, Battlestar Galactica (especially on my iPod!), Canucks Hockey, AandE crime shows like Cold Case Files, Star Trek (the original and TNG)

Books:

East of Eden (John Steinbeck - I love everything he has written but this most of all), Here Be Dragons (Sharon Kay Penman), Devil in the White City (Erik Larson), Tigana (Guy Gavriel Kay), Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan (Will Ferguson), The Handmaid's Tale (Margaret Atwood), Lord of the Rings trilogy (J.R.R. Tolkien), On the Road (Jack Kerouac), Goodbye Tsugumi (Banana Yoshimoto), Book Lust and More Book Lust (Nancy Pearl), Harry Potter series (J.K. Rowling), Running with Scissors (Augusten Burroughs), Bridget Jones's Diary (Helen Fielding)

Heroes:

Morrissey, Larry David, Michael Palin, Orson Welles, Nancy Pearl, Noel Coward, Tina Fey, Strong Bad, Jon Stewart, Llywelyn ap Iorwerth, Orson Welles, Ricky Gervais, Marilyn Monroe, Cole Porter, Walt Disney and, of course, dear old Mom and Dad :)

My Blog

The War made me remember

I've been trying to watch "The War", a film by Ken Burns that has been on PBS all week.  It made me remember the visit to Normandy and Omaha Beach that I made with my parents and Leigh the Spring...
Posted by Bean on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 01:08:00 PST

Most people keep their brains between their legs

Now that I saw Leigh had gone to the trouble of actually counting how many times she's seen Morrissey live, I decided to do the same.  Basically all I had to do is cut and paste from her list and...
Posted by Bean on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:09:00 PST

Are you pondering what Im pondering?

Ok.  I don't hate everyone.  A guy in a wheelchair just came in and asked a question and I didn't hate him for it.  It was a legitimate question that did require some reference work and...
Posted by Bean on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:41:00 PST

I hate people

To all you people out there reading this, I apologize in advance. I hate people on a routine basis.  I don't like them.  I am not joking. There was a fella in my piano class last night. ...
Posted by Bean on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:04:00 PST

Some things

I bet Robert Osbourne is fun to talk to at parties. I get misty eyed every time I see the "In Memoriam" segment during any awards show no matter who has died (and even more so if I didn't know that th...
Posted by Bean on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:16:00 PST

Are you listening?

I am trying to think of how to sum up the past week or two but I am having trouble.  Things have happened, I guess, but I can't seem to remember them that well.  I guess I'll start with the ...
Posted by Bean on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:38:00 PST

A Day in the Life

I really wanted to write a blog exclusively about an obnoxious patron who I had on the phone tonight.  More on that later -- all about that, in fact. This morning I actually woke up not too late ...
Posted by Bean on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:04:00 PST

An Epiphany on Mount Charleston

I made a decision while I was looking out from Mount Charleston. I was determined that this weekend was not to be another sleepfest, which is generally what I celebrate when I am not working.  I ...
Posted by Bean on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:35:00 PST

GB HP

I've just completed HP7 and I have all kinds of emotions racing through me not to mention eye strain -- this is for sure the fastest I have ever read a book 700+ pages.  I couldn't...
Posted by Bean on Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:13:00 PST

Its Alive!

My downstairs neighbor is alive.
Posted by Bean on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 04:14:00 PST