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RK

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On the road to find out... the pursuit of happiness. Fortune has smiled upon me with love and friendship. My friends are my inspiration. My family, especially my mom, has been my strength throughout my journey. I adore my kitties, Tallulah and Tybalt and I will always love my Ollie, the King of Kitties. Our new addition to the family is a Jack Russel Terrier named Doris Day. She is awesome. Music was always the biggest part of my life, though not since moving to NOLA. There have been many bends and some big bumps in the road, but that's about to change... I can feel it! I love to sing. I love to listen. I love the feeling I get when I watch and listen to my talented friends perform. I play the piano, guitar and flute, but I really need to practice. REALLY. I'm a jazz chanteuse, blues belter and a rock n' roll superstar! I'm a singer with a song writer trapped inside of a self-editing perfectionist. [Let me out!] In my leisure time I enjoy shopping for unique and delicious food and beverages, then I really love to cook them up and eat them. I also enjoy doing modern dance, ballet, yoga, walking anywhere the air is fresh and the scenery beautiful... and lounging around the house in my pyjamas. I love spending Sunday morning watching some good cooking shows. I'd like to host one some day. I have a wonderful idea for one if anyone would be interested in helping me produce it. I hate cleaning and will do anything to get out of it including letting my friends do it for me. Be my friend.

My Interests

Music, Anything that my friends have to share with me, Eating and drinking really good stuff, Cooking, Modern dance, Ballet, Art, Volvo P-1800's, Sharing my Spot-a-Star experiences, Trying to understand why I am here and how to make the most of it.

I'd like to meet:

My mom's parents, Billie Holiday, Elton John, Betty Carter, Henry Mancini, Mel Torme, Sam Shepard, Peter Sellers, Diana Rigg, Anne Bancroft & Mel Brooks, Harry Dean Stanton, Willem DaFoe, Jimmy Carter, Julia Child, Jacques Pepin, Ina Garten, Jon Stewart, Paul Weller, Joe Strummer, Elvis Costello, Prince, Hugh Heffner and whoever it is who really knows what happens to us after we die.

Music:

I love Jazz, mostly older stuff and especially female vocalists, Billie Holiday, Chris Connor, Sarah Vaughn, Anita O'Day, Ella Fitzgerald, Betty Carter, Dinah Washington and June Christy. X, the Clash, the Jam, the Knitters. The Rolling Stones. The Who. Elton John. Queen. Andres Segovia. Satie. Bach concertos for the cello. Willie, Johnny, George, Merle, Waylon and Dale Watson. Zero7, Sia, the Decemberists, Yo La Tengo, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, the Arcade Fire. Irma Thomas, the Jazz Vipers, Happy Talk, Galactic and Rebirth. Bob Mould, Elliot Smith, Elvis Costello and Prince. I have a lot of friends who make awesome music: Buddy Blue... I miss my sweet friend, Dave Alvin, the Dragons, Mario Escovedo, West Bank Mike, Gilbert Castellanos, the Deere Johns, Sue Palmer, Rocket From the Crypt, A.M. Vibe, Lady Dottie and the Diamonds, Bunky, the Glossines, CLA.

Movies:

The Graduate, Annie Hall, The Wizard of Oz, Harold and Maude, Being There, The Pink Panther, The Year of Living Dangerously, Paris TX, Casablanca, This Is Spinal Tap, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Monty Python and The Holy Grail, Blazing Saddles, The Big Lebowski, Best in Show, Reds, Moonstruck, Valley Girl, Sweet Charity, My Geisha, The Thin Man, The Red Shoes, Breakfast at Tiffany's, A Streetcar Named Desire, Ghostbusters, The Innocents, The Others, The Sixth Sense, The Ghost and Mr. Chicken.

Television:

Barefoot Contessa, Nigella Bites, Good Eats, House Hunters, No Reservations w/ Anthony Bourdain, The Daily Show.

Books:

The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kozinski, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, Death on the Installment Plan by Celine... these have always stuck with me. Tristam Shandy... Uncle Shelby rides again!!! Mastering the Art of French Cooking by Julia Child. Billie Holiday's autobiography... amazing. High Times, Hard Times by Anita O'Day. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Anything by Euripides... why?... Eumenedes???

Heroes:

My beautiful mother, Nancy. I miss her everyday. My Dad, Harry... handsome, good cook and a Green Beret. My grandparents, Art and Eileen. My cousin Tiffany and her amazing children. My fiance, Lance, who makes me laugh and teaches me something new each day. Buddy Blue, my friend and mentor, who shared with me his passion for music and life.

My Blog

Breathe me...

Godamnit...  ya think ya go through the most horrific and personally devastating experience once, twice, thrice... then... Buddy Blue was my fucking lovey-love drinkiest late-night convo abo...
Posted by RK on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 10:45:00 PST