Pizza night at Poor Paul's; lingerie parties at picnic tables; lighting boards and cue sheets; going through conditioner; theatre studies; mathematical history and problem solving (particularly probability); Black and White photography (latest subject - carnivorous plants); seeing plays (big fan of the ones that challenge and make the audience think [Marat/Sade + Rosencrantz and Guildenstern] rather than just entertain [Sweet Charity]); Building the Egyptian pyramids; writing and reading; rise and fall of Roman empire; more to come as I learn more about me...
the Bronte sisters, Papa Hem, F. Scott + Zelda Fitzgerald, Hannibal, Julius Caesar, Wilfred Owen and the other British War Poets, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Chuck Palahniuk (er, rather Tyler Durden), Pythagoras, Edgar Allan Poe, Archimedes, Aristotle, Billy Beane, the Brownings, Tom Stoppard, Bobby Fischer, Metallica, Axl Rose + Slash (at the same time...that'd be interesting!), Wallace Stevens, Ihmatep (built the first Egyptian pyramid), Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Byron, Elizabeth Wurtzel...now for the second day...start with Shakespeare and Marlowe and then Shoeless Jackson followed by Anais Nin...
Axl showed up! GNR played Veteran's Memorial on Halloween night...show started at midnight (as is custom) and didn't wrap up 'til 2:30. Welcome to the Jungle opened the show and Paradise City closed it down. I missed seeing Slash, Duff, and Izzy though. :(
American Beauty; Dangerous Liasons; 7; SpaceBalls; Fight Club; Das Boot; sex, lies, and videotape; Apocalypse NOW; 3.142857142...; Shakespeare in Love; Chasing Amy; Burton and Taylor's Taming of the Shrew; Trainspotting; the Alec Baldwin scene from Glengarry Glenross ("Put... that coffee... down!"); Dennis Hopper asphyxiation scene from Blue Velvet; Linda Fiorentino giving the fence a ride in the Last Seduction; Good Will Hunting; favorite play - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Daily Show; Colbert Report; Baseball Tonight; Cinemax after Dark :o
The Princess Bride by S. Morgenstern (abridged by W. Holden) is a book about medieval romance adventures before there were medieval romances but after adventures. A fresh and interesting new look (errrr...well figuratively at least as book came out in '73) through the eyes of Westley, Buttercup, Indigo, Miracle Max, Fezzick, Prince Humperdink, Count Regan (he of the 6 fingers), and William Holden of the modern fairytale before there were modern fairytales about life not being fair (but at least it's fairer than death). If you enjoyed the movie, give the book a chance and learn some more about the man in black, the Machine, and the greatest criminal organization to hit the medieval world (before there was crime but after criminal organizations) since the Bush administration. Also currently reading about 35 short stories and non-fiction pieces for the Tallahassee Comm. College literary and art mag. What the hell...someone has to do it.
Thomas Nashe, Wallace Stevens, Walt Whitman, Satchel Paige, Copernicus, Galileo, Jackie Robinson, Che Guevarro, Charlie Ward, Charles Bukowski, Jim Bouton (Ball Four writer and Yankee trasher), Thomas Paine, Christy Mathewson, Henry D. Thoreau, Chief Joseph, Branch Rickey, James Longstreet, Emmitt Smith, Chief Osceola (no, not the mascot...the historical figure who successfully fought off the US army for 7 years until he was betrayed), Thomas Jefferson, Socrates, Tim Wakefield, the anonymous, naked fat guy from the book 'Choke' [read it and you'll understand :)], Hoyt Wilhelm, Charlie Hough