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About Me

I'm a therapist, writer, and social researcher. I spend too much time, or perhaps not enough, seeking decent electronic music here in Seattle. Please don't tell me how miserable and dark your life is unless you plan to let me bill your insurance. If you catch me either before or after the evening's entertainment I could tell you why I think the Chinese Economy might be a tempest in a chai pot, or I perhaps impress you with my spot-on impersonation of The Monarch (or should I say *THE* Monarch!!!). If nothing else I promise to be an empathetic listener... it's what I do for a living.
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My Interests

Psychology, Music, Politics (a little more to the LEFT), hanging out in libraries, live music of many genres, walking in the autumn rain, catching late showings at the Crest followed by cheap pizza in the U-District.

I'd like to meet:

People who have something to say and are passionate about saying it; preferably ones who don't take themselves too seriously. I'm a TOTAL conversation junkie and will easily stay up obscene hours of the morning passionately discussing everything from the interestingly obscure to the admittedly inane. It all depends on the mysterious alchemy of connection, caffeine, and exhaustion.

Music:

Wow. How much time do you have? Wait a sec... why would anyone want to try to define, and therefore limit, the boundaries of what they love in music? All I will absolutely say is that I love speeding to Sufi devotional hymns, which I think is in keeping with the ecstatic worship of The Divine.

Movies:

Indie, Foreign, pretty much everything by Zhang Yimou (except for House of Flying Daggers - WTF? Zhang ZiYi might as well have been saying "I'm not *quite* dead..."), Japanese faves last year were "Twilight Samurai" and "Zatoichi","Two Sisters" from Korea scared the crap out of me AND all my tough-guy friends, so it's sure to be a shitty US remake any day now. Most recent favorite documentary was "Enron: The Smartest Guys In The Room", and don't get me started on Michael Moore, he's a sensationalist, not a documentarian. Also nurse a guilty love for spaghetti westerns and Clint Eastwood's "Man With No Name" series, but hardly surprising as he modeled "Fist Full Of Dollars" after "Yojimbo". Oops, that's my geek alarm, I'd better stop there...

Television:

You mean that box in my room I use to watch DVDs?

Books:

"On Killing" (Grossman), "NonZero" (Wright), "Dr. Zhivago" (Pasternak)

Heroes:

Zhou Enlai and T.E Lawrence, flawed though all heroes are...

My Blog

Gamers and Lightbulbs...

I'd never heard this particular variation of the lightbulb joke before... I laughed till I cried. How many tabletop role-playing-gamers does it take to change a lightbulb? At least four. Two to argue...
Posted by Madalayne on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 03:15:00 PST

With... a HERRING!

Yesterday afternoon, we drove out to the wilds of Arlington known locally as Farmer Brown's Tree Farm, and captured our Very First Christmas Tree. It was an afternoon of surprises... as in, once we si...
Posted by Madalayne on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:43:00 PST

Christmas Tree Decoration Throw Down

For the first time ever, my kid and I will have our own Christmas Tree. Yes, of our very own - not a roommates, not a relatives, but OURS. In planning for the tree, I realized that the downside to no...
Posted by Madalayne on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 02:00:00 PST

Disturbing Conversations...

I'm feeling a little disturbed today. I got a letter from a fellow therapist, telling me about her hopes regarding a different kind of Domestic Violence treatment. She would like to see women take res...
Posted by Madalayne on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 07:05:00 PST

Stupid logic! Failed me again...

So once again I have to remind myself that you really do have to use the appropriate tool for the situation... and applying a logical solution to an emotional problem is rarely productive. It certainl...
Posted by Madalayne on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:21:00 PST

I dont have the heart...

Sorry... I just don't have the heart right now. Well, it's not that... I do have a heart. But right now it's a bit bruised. Or under the weather. Maybe it has a really bad cold. No, I wish that w...
Posted by Madalayne on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 12:03:00 PST

Hating the poor - good times!

When people speak in anger about ethnic groups we usually back up and call it racism... sneering at either gender as a whole is usually considered sexist... so what the hell do we call it when people ...
Posted by Madalayne on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:10:00 PST

End of a Journey, 13 days and counting

It's hard to believe that my grad school journey is almost at an end. Instead of heading out this weekend for one of the many live music opportunities, I've been studying with my team for our Orals pr...
Posted by Madalayne on Mon, 29 May 2006 12:38:00 PST

Christmas and Kurosawa...

I wasn't making it up about Christmas and Japan... here's another article you're welcome to check out on the subject. http://www.straight.com/content.cfm?id=7248 My favorite exerpt: "Thirty years of i...
Posted by Madalayne on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:56:00 PST

Holiday Hellishness!

I don't buy O'Reilly's 'War Against Christmas', but I've heard quite a lot of complaining about the words 'Merry Christmas' being sloganed around when there are so many other winter holidays belonging...
Posted by Madalayne on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:52:00 PST