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About Me

My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist, in pre-war Paris, smuggling bombs for the underground. She met my father at a fete in Aix-en-Provence. He was disguised as a Russian cadet in the employ of the Axis. There in the half-light of the provincial midnight, to a lone concertina, they drank in cantinas and toasted to Edith Piaf and the fall of the Reich. So my parents had me, to the disgust of the prostitutes, on a bed in a brothel. Surprisingly raised with tender care 'til the money got tight and they bet me away to a blind brigadier in a game of high stakes canasta. But he made me a sailor on his brigadier ship fleet. I know every yardarm from main mast to jib sheet. But sometimes I long to be landlocked and to work in a bakery.

You Belong in 1956
You're fun loving, romantic, and more than a little innocent. See you at the drive in! What Year Do You Belong In?

My Interests

Music, Books, Pirates, Old Chevys, Coffee, Record Stores, boys and the library system (not necessarily all at once).

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I'd like to meet:

Ponyboy Curtis

Music:

Radiohead, The Decemberists, Elliot Smith, The Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, Aimee Mann, The Verve Pipe, John Mayer, Weezer, Ben Kweller, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Mountain Goats, Nick Drake, Clonehero, Hobo Jazz, Cake, Beck, Save Ferris, Andrew Bird, Mates of State, Sam Phillips, The Shins, Belle and Sebastian, Elvis Presley, Harry Connick, Jr., Frank Sinatra, Luis Armstrong, Diana Krall, Samuel Barber, Glenn Miller, Christopher O'Reilly, Craig Armstrong, John Williams, Henri Mancini, Soundtracks, I love soundtracks.

Movies:

Empire Records, Fight Club, Breakfast at Tiffany's, High Fidelity, The Royal Tenenbaums, An Affair to Remember, Indiana Jones, Star Wars (old ones), Anne of Green Gables, Terminator(s), Pride & Prejudice (BBC), 10 Things I Hate About You, Moulin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet, Good Will Hunting, Top Gun, Almost Famous, Boondock Saints

Television:

The Office, Boston Legal, Lost, Gilmore Girls, Wonderfalls, Northern ExposureMcGyver

Books:

The Outsiders, Sophie's World, The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings, The Little Prince, The Never Ending Story, Peter Pan

My Blog

The Complete Novel

The Outsiders: The Complete Novel When I was twelve I read The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton. I was hooked after the first sentence. Those of you that know me well understand why. But the following parag...
Posted by Hilary on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 11:43:00 PST

Loathed Labels

Loathed Labels By Hilary Hackleman I take great pleasure in the obscure. I like diversely populated coffee houses, used bookstores (now on the endangered species list), and unrecognized but passionate...
Posted by Hilary on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 08:32:00 PST

South Park Republicans

http://www.techcentralstation.com/100702A.html South Park Republicans By Stephen W. Stanton Picture a typical Republican. Perhaps you see images of George Bush, John Ashcroft, Ronald Reagan, ...
Posted by Hilary on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Corporate Coffee

by Hilary Hackleman In decades past, the suit made the man. Today the same can be said about coffee. The common caffeineated beverage that the blue-collar man used to gulp before a long day on the jo...
Posted by Hilary on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST