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Beck

What do you do with a revolution?

About Me

I'm outgoing, type A personality; i love the smell of rain; i'm worried about finding the right topic for my dissertation; i'm silent except when i speak; i accept defeat (sometimes with a smile); i've fought cancer and won; i'm nerdy-cool; i've done things i'm not proud of (and i'm sorry); i'm still in love after nine years; i've lost 140 lbs in the last 2 years and i've never felt so alive; i crack jokes and am usually the one laughing the loudest at them; i love my friends like family, they are my anchor and life-line; i'm definitely liberal...casually call myself a PM Marxist feminist; i miss my family; i don't like second place; i'm tenderhearted but will rip you a new one if you threaten me or my people; i don't have a favorite holiday anymore (at whose expense are we celebrating...); i teach kids how to write and perform comedy; i'm surprised at how calm i've become as i've aged; i make it a point never to be afraid

My Interests

Stand-up comedy; reading; cooking; hiking; hanging with my love; swimming; theatre; rock-climbing; biking; yoga; dancing; feminist activism; poetry; teaching

I'd like to meet:

old pals...familiar faces...current friends...former flames...other comics or commies (whichever).

Music:

God-dess & She; Bob Dylan; Lucinda Williams; Meryn Cadell; K.D. Lang; India Arie; Citizen Cope; Erykah Badu; Norah Jones; Nellie McKay; Bitch & Animal; Aimee Mann; Rob Dougan; Ellen Alien; Ben Harper; Ani Difranco; Indigo Girls; Peaches; Eminem; Damien Rice; Dre; Outkast; Ella Fitzgerald; Kristin Hersh; My Abraham; Le Tigre; Northern State; Missy Elliot; Fannypack; Ryan Adams; Tori Amos; Queen Latifah; Tenacious D; Regina Spektor; Patty Griffin; Louis Armstrong; Wierd Al; Instrumental and World music

Movies:

Stand and Deliver; Dead Poets Society; Dancer in the Dark (or anything by Lars von Triers); Hurly Burly; Four Rooms; The Sweetest Thing; Mall Rats; Bring It On; Crash; Show Girls; Whatever Happened to Baby Jane; Two Girls and A Guy; Sound of Music; Playing by Heart; Jiminy Glick in Lalawood; Space Balls; Dirty Dancing; The Journey of Natty Gann; Newsies; White Men Can't Jump; This Girl's Life; Eulogy; G.I. Jane; The Village; House of Yes; Imagine Me & You; What's Cooking; Hotel Rwanda; Better than Chocolate; Vera Drake

Books:

Not in any particular order: Oranges are not the only fruit; The Fountainhead; The Stand; Pillars of the Earth; Women of Brewster Place; Sacred Cows and Other Edibles; Information for Foreigners; Dessa Rose; The Art of Loving; Me Talk Pretty One Day; We the Living; A Prayer for Owen Meany; Tangled Memories; Brecht and Co.; Stone Butch Blues; Beach Music; Lords of Discipline; Bastard out of Carolina; The Bodies that Were Not Ours; Poetry by Rainier Rilke, Nikki Giovanni; Marge Piercy; Anne Sexton; Allen Ginsburg; Sylvia Plath; Kelly Cherry and Carole Maso

Heroes:

My mom.

My Blog

The politics of me: investigations into journaling and social apathy

The idea of a public journal is quite the mind fuck, considering that the original purpose of journals and diaries was a "private" record of one's life, thoughts, desires, failures and successes. The ...
Posted by Beck on Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:03:00 PST