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Get a scroller sign at Myspacehive.comMusic, friends, animals, outdoors (ok, indoors too), art, movies, books, vampires, live theatre and musicals, trying new things, breaking rules, singing and laughing out loud. Needed to survive: chocolate, burritos and Coca-Cola products. I love to meet people who show/teach me things I did not know and get me to do things I have not done yet.
I'd like to meet:
...new friends, find old friends, music fans, people who share cool interests. Mr Right would be nice too, but he must not spend too much time surfing the web!
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Music:
The soundtrack of my life. I can pinpoint a moment in time in my life by the song that played in the background (sometimes if only in my head). I'll give just about anything a listen. Wang Chung used to really get on my nerves in the late 80's but I've mellowed. I'm not heavily into country or rap I guess. I love 80's rock, 70's harmony rock, classical, jazz, heavy heavy shit, sappy lite stuff, new stuff, old stuff.... Top faves that have withstood the test of time.....Bon Jovi, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Rush, Queensryche and Jimmy LaFave. Femmes sing-along anyone? I could list hundreds I love, but who'd read all that? I'm the type of person who will buy a cd after hearing a great song just once. I am usually not disappointed. I've also been into the local Chicago scene since the 80's. From Kats, the Thirsty Whale, Gateway, etc....thru today. I'm happy to still be stuck in the scene.
Movies:
I love comedy and horror - if they are combined, even better! Animal House is probably my all time fave. It's just so classic and has some of the best movie quotes ever! As in books, I love anything to do with vampires. Movies I can watch over and over.....The Doors, Velvet Goldmine, any Blade, Rockstar, Sid and Nancy, Spinal Tap, Birdcage, Desperado, The Muppet Movie, EverAfter, Interview with a Vampire, Farinelli, Blues Brothers, Parenthood, Moulin Rouge, ohhhhh I am starting to go blank. I need to check what's on the shelf at home.....
Television:
.. width="425" height="350" ....I am guilty of watching too much tv! This will probably be an ever changing category.....Shows I am addicted to: Nip/Tuck, The Soup (the best way to catch all the best/worst clips of the week), The Daily Show, Rockstar INXS (till JD won), Talk Sex with Sue, MythbustersGuilty pleasures: Gilmore Girls, Inked, Miami Ink, Mindfreak, A&E Biography, Surreal Life, Real World, Behind the Music, True Hollywood Story (I love the MTV/VH1 reality shows - they seem to get that they are silly....and they are replayed so much I can usually keep up with the story lines - or lack thereof....). I really do not like any of the major network reality shows. I love Headlines every Monday on the Tonight Show.Reruns: Buffy, Angel, Living Single, My So Called Life, Absolutely Fabulous, Vicar of Dibley,Shows that need to come back somewhere: The Young Ones, Twin Peaks, Gigglesnort Hotel, Dinosaurs (I'm the baby, gotta love me!), Schmoo (anyone else remember that?) MTV with music videos!
Books:
Books are a close second to music in my life. I've been a ferocious reader since I learned how to read. It's a great escape. As a kid I'd take on all the Greek and Roman myths. Judy Blume taught me what my mother would not. I tried War and Peace one summer - around 5th grade. Never made it through though! Same thing with the Satanic Verses a few years later. Other than that, I love to read almost anything.I'm in a book club at my local library. I get to read things I'd normally never see. Lovely Bones by Alice Siebold was a great find. Illusions by Richard Bach and An Enemy at Green Knowles have been faves since childhood. I love books that make you think or teach you something. A Skeleton in God's Closet and Memnoch the Devil have caused a lot of thinking!Top faves are always vampire books - I have tons. Anne Rice (fan forever), Dan Brown, Andrew Greeley are top fave authors right now. I love to read biographies and auto-biographies - not just to learn about the person, but to see what the world was like around them at that time. I love music books as well. I've started a collection of erotic fiction - I call it research. My goal is to start writing again - there's a vampire book in my head and tons of "adult" short stories. ;)I always am reading at least 2 books at once - with a stack of a dozen or five to get to! But please feel free to recommend some of your faves!
Sept 24th - just finished reading All Souls - A Family Story from Southie by Michael Patrick MacDonald - his account of growing up in Southie, poor end of Boston, during the early 70's with poverty, drugs, forced busing/integreation - WOW! I was floored when I realized this guy is only 4 years older than me and all this stuff was happening at that time.
Heroes:
my dad, my brother. Dad "on garde" (far right) in WWII, Luxembourg City, approx Jan/Feb 1945 Dad Nov 1960 so I am guessing on their honeymoon in FL. Gary with Paige & Kirstin Feb 2004 Daddy Daughter DancePeople who are true to themselves and those they love. People who surive and deal well with adversity. Definitely people who can laugh at themselves. Not sure who said it, but a fave quote: "Blessed are they who can laugh at themsleves for they shall never cease to be amused"
