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Jolene

If Music be the food of love... Play On!

About Me

This is something that is better you find out for yourself... :) But I hope it's worth it... I have to say that I am in search of peace and beauty right now... also excitement and a little bit of mystery. I have always been fascinated by the powers that lie in the unknown. I have a tendency to get wrapped up in a noble cause (and will follow it to its bitter end - this I inherited from my maternal grandfather). I can give my heart away too easily. But what's life if you don't love readily and deeply? I think there are too many people who miss out on what they have in front of them by spending all their time looking for the next best thing... life is short - and there is something to be said about that Joanie Mitchell song - how does that lyric go? "you don't know what you've got til it's gone..." I've embraced a new attitude when it comes to that... I am living for now - not for what comes next... I hope to meet you NOW!

My Interests

MUSIC - all kinds, as long as it's good :) (And yes, I believe I do have taste... at least I think I do. Well my dog doesn't run from the room when I play most of the music I love - so that should be an indicator, right?), Reading - books of any and all kinds Travel - I've been most places in Europe - My mother is from there so half my family is there. I really want to see the rest of the world because it truly is magnificent and it's much bigger and simultaneously smaller than anyone's imagination can admit.

I'd like to meet:

YOU!

Music:

YES! Oh, trick question. Here it goes: U2, The Police, The Beatles, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Bob Marley, Bach, Earth, Wind & Fire, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Damien Rice, Sam Cooke, Robert Johnson, Beethoven, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Tori Amos, Coldplay, Mozart, Feist, oh this list is ENDLESS, And then new stuff: Quincy Coleman, Simon Lynge, The Teenage Prayers, Dead Rock West, Geoff Pearlman, Buck Johnson, Heather Waters, Adam Levy And believe it or not I was a - what do you call it - an early adopter or some such shit... on AMY WINEHOUSE and PAOLO NUTINI (Yes, I actually heard of them before they were on any silly radio show or big on the, um, - what does that guy who calls himself president call it? the "internets") ;-)

Movies:

Too Many to name - I love old movies and new... The Graduate, Dog Day Afternoon, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Woody Allen films, more recent stuff included the Penguin movie (brilliant), Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, OK - More movies - Little Miss Sunshine, Motorcycle Diaries, The Notebook, Help!

Television:

Not that much - mostly HBO shows - ROME, loved Curb Your Enthusiasm, I do watch The Daily Show with Jon Stewart... hilarious, Real Time with Bill Maher. Also HBO's Deadwood, The Wire, Extras, Entourage, I think I single-handledly fund HBO...

Books:

SOOOOO MANY BOOKS... I'll just give you the currently reading: The Quiet American, Pigs at the Trough, Marley & Me (upon recommendation :), It's All Lies, and that's the Truth...

Heroes:

My mother and my grandmother for what they lived through. My grandfather for what he died for... an unbelievable story - ask me sometime.

My Blog

This week's musical journey - old school in style

It's come to this... I feel like we've come so far and yet, really, we've come full circle.  This week's musical adventures went as follows: Tuesday - U2 at the Staples Center - this is THE band ...
Posted by Jolene on Sun, 06 Nov 2005 12:05:00 PST

State of Limbo

Ever wonder why the word Limbo is used both as a term identifying that intermediate state or place between two definitive directions in life and a wild West Indian dance adopted by Fraternity brothers...
Posted by Jolene on Wed, 19 Oct 2005 11:39:00 PST