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Lisa Black

pixie stick madness

About Me

I hardly sleep and have trouble sleeping. The rest goes from there.

My Interests

Music, photography, cinematography, classic films, foreign cinema, saucy dwellings, your mom, traveling, exquisite cuisine,collecting movie scores, getting my foot in my mouth and then desperately trying to remove it, dancing, random (and so-called) inappropriate bursts of laughter and punning.

I'd like to meet:

whomever
How to make a slush puppy
Ingredients:
1 part mercy
3 parts courage
3 parts empathy
Method:
Stir together in a glass tumbler with a salted rim. Top it off with a sprinkle of lovability and enjoy!
Username:

Personality cocktail
From Go-Quiz.com

Music:

HIM, A Perfect Circle, Alice in Chains, Type O Negative, Pist.On, 30 Seconds to Mars, any project by Ken Andrews, VAST, Ours, Our Lady Peace, The Dreaming, Bauhaus, Peter Murphy, The Cure, Marilyn Manson, Black Sabbath, The Pixies, Drain STH, Stabbing Westward, Frontline Assembly, Wolfsheim, Delerium, NIN, Hum, Depeche Mode, Sense Field, Burning Down, Crushed, Cocteau Twins, Massive Attack, Portishead, Placebo, Pulp, The Cult, Pantera, Tori Amos, Switchblade Symphony, Elton John, Billy Joel, The Deftones, Maroon Five, Postal Service, Enigma, Cafe Tecuba, old school R&B and hip-hop, 70's funk, reggae. I also make the occassional wandering to country music every once in a while. I will pretty much listen to anything.One of my favorite songs of all time.

Movies:

Amelie, The Fifth Element, Kiss the Girls, Hannibal, The Last Samurai, Napoleon Dynamite, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Still Breathing, Dirty Pretty Things, Office Space, Happy Gilmore, Legend, Any Audrey Hepburn flick, Strange Days, Fight Club, Friday, Braveheart, Red Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs

Television:

Law and Order:SVU, Daria, M2, Seinfeld, Friends, Everybody loves Raymond, Adult Swim cartoons, X-Files

Books:

anything by Chuck Palahniuk, The Starlight Crystal, Lightning, The Redneck Manifesto, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs, Natasha, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Karma Manual, Guns Germs & Steel, The Asian Mystique, Running with Scissors, The Time Traveler's Wife, Blindness, Brave New World, Serendipity books, Ulysses (oh yes, it's true), Shakespeare plays, An Unquiet Mind, Touched with Fire, The Count of Montecristo, Auditioning, The Four Agreements, The Mastery of Love, Hello He Lied, The Velveteen Rabbit, No Acting Please!, biographies on historical figures

Heroes:

Kay Redfield Jamison, Freud, douglas adams, alice sebold, the outrageous and bizarre

My Blog

what...?

I will admit it. My idea of fun gets carried way too far. I suppose I should stop pulling clothes off of mannequins and exposing them to the public. I know someone worked very hard to put up the pe...
Posted by Lisa Black on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:23:00 PST

workshop

Hey guys! If any of you L.A. writers, directors, producers and actors would like the opportunity to get a leg up on the industry, now is your FREE chance! you will also get the opportunity to meet t...
Posted by Lisa Black on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:12:00 PST

too much

My call tomorrow morning is 6 a.m. it wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have to get up extra early to shower and do my own hair and make-up. I don't neccesarily regret my decision but I am certain that...
Posted by Lisa Black on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 06:36:00 PST

the long haul

I did it. I finally finished the biography on Genghis Khan. I must have been feeling overly ambitious because I just decided to read "ulysses". Just what the doctor ordered if I ever need:1. to fall...
Posted by Lisa Black on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 10:17:00 PST

more

As an addendum to my quirks list, here are some others:1. I often wear mismatched socks because I am too lazy (and broke) to go out and buy new ones. 2. I live in terror of the night, mostly because...
Posted by Lisa Black on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:04:00 PST

quirky

Some quirks about me some may not know:1. I do not like going to movies I know are going to be huge in the first weekend. I just hate fighting crowds for seats, for parking, popcorn, etc. People ge...
Posted by Lisa Black on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 05:02:00 PST

current events

current music: Jimi Hendrix "angel"current book: Genghis Khan's biography (this thing is impossible to get through. It's taken me several months and ten different other books in between to finish. ...
Posted by Lisa Black on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:35:00 PST

my honest life

It's never gonna beNormal, you and meWhat you're signing on forIs a storm at seaSo if you think you're toughGive me all your loveAnd I'll give you every little piece of meCatch a falling star you'll g...
Posted by Lisa Black on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 12:58:00 PST

published

Neat! http://www.potomacbooksinc.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?product ID=151565My dad is published!
Posted by Lisa Black on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 09:28:00 PST

Top Ten Albums

I got into a conversation with Alex about my favorite top ten albums and I had a very hard time picking just ten. I told him that it depends on the genre of music. I told him to specify best heavy m...
Posted by Lisa Black on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 10:30:00 PST