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Mary

The stars are underground.

About Me

"As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on the surface of the world like oil on a clear pond, these occasions being varied, of course, with those in which he thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than anyone else he knows."
- F Scott Fitzgerald (from The Beautiful and Damned)

My Interests

Reading, writing, arithmetic.

I'd like to meet:

I'm just here to check out the bands and have some laughs.

Music:

The Babys
The Beatles
George Benson
Big Audio Dynamite
The Blow Monkeys
The Blue Nile
David Bowie
Dave Brubeck
Candlebox
Cheap Trick
The Chimes
The Clash
Concrete Blonde
Harry Connick Jr
Elvis Costello
Curiosity Killed The Cat
Bobby Darin
Miles Davis
The Donnas
The Doors
Dovetail Joint
Nick Drake
Duran Duran
Don Ellis
Four Star Mary
The Frames
Freddy Jones Band
The Gents
The Gipsy Kings
The Godfathers
The GoGos
Fareed Haque
Juliana Hatfield
Skip Heller
Jimi Hendrix
INXS
Chris Isaak
Jimmy Eat World
The Kinks
Diana Krall
Led Zeppelin
Lyle Lovett
The Lustkillers
Matt Bianco
Joni Mitchell
The Monkees
Michael Moriarty
Morphine
Oingo Boingo
The Pasadenas
Pearl Jam
The Police
Public Image Ltd
The Pursuit Of Happiness
Sade
Nina Simone
Frank Sinatra
Soundgarden
Terminal Bliss
Malachi Thompson
Pete Townshend
Ultralights
Zen Bastards
"Ultra Lounge"
"Once More With Feeling"
- 80s British pop
- hard rockin' girl bands
- songs that show me the long road...

Movies:

Amelie
Babe
Blow Up
The Blues Brothers
Bridget Jones' Diary
Casablanca
The Double Life Of Veronique
Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
The Fountain
The Fugitive
The Good The Bad And The Ugly
Groundhog Day
Happy Gilmore
Hero
High Society
Indiana Jones
It Could Happen To You
It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
It's A Wonderful Life
Key Largo
KILL BILL
La Notte
Lady Snowblood
Life Is Beautiful
The Lord Of The Rings
Lost In Translation
The Magnificent Seven
The Maltese Falcon
The Matrix
Memento
North By Northwest
Napoleon Dynamite
Ocean's Eleven
Once
Once Upon A Time In The West
Pulp Fiction
Rashomon
Reservior Dogs
A Room With A View
The Seven Samurai
Shakespeare In Love
Singin' In The Rain
The Sixth Sense
Stalag 17
Star Wars
That Funny Feeling
This Is Spinal Tap
Tom Jones
The Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
Three Colors Trilogy (Blue/White/Red)
Von Ryan's Express

Television:

Angel
Battlestar Galactica
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Coupling (UK)
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Heroes
Jeeves and Wooster
Lost
The Monkees
Monty Python
The Newsroom
The Office (UK & US)
The Simpsons
Three Sheets
Veronica Mars
The Young Ones

Books:

Isabel Allende
Jane Austen
Paul Auster
Aimee Bender
The Bronte sisters
Mikhail Bulgakov
Italo Calvino
Albert Camus
Kate Christensen
Julio Cortazar
Philip K Dick
Fyodor Dostoevsky
F Scott Fitzgerald
Jonathan Safran Foer
Stephen Fry
Anna Gavalda
Graham Greene
Thomas Hardy
The Harry Potter series
Ernest Hemingway
Siri Hustvedt
Eric Idle
Sebastien Japrisot
Hugh Laurie
Alan Lightman
Yann Martel
Haruki Murakami
George Orwell
JD Salinger
David Sedaris
JRR Tolkien
Kurt Vonnegut
Banana Yoshimoto
- anything that makes me laugh out loud on the train

Heroes:

Ronald Reagan
Walter Williams
Teri O'Brien
Zell Miller
Ann Coulter
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
I laugh when people write things in this section like "I don't have heroes, it's dangerous, they end up letting you down"...stuff like that. So what! It's not wrong to look up to people, to admire qualities and achievements, to know they are human and fallible and love them anyway. (There's a difference between "heroes" and "idols".)

My Blog

The best person I know

Some ask "what would Jesus do?" or "what would Bruce do?" (that one's from Glen)&but I know I would be a better person in this life if I stopped more often before my actions to ask "what would David d...
Posted by Mary on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 07:39:00 PST

The sexiest woman alive is YOU

A recent survey by some ridiculous men's magazine resulted in Sarah Jessica Parker gaining the title of least sexy woman. She defended herself, stating that she'd had no cosmetic surgery to make her...
Posted by Mary on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:30:00 PST

My dark past

I have something in my past that I'm not proud of, something I did for years, almost compulsively, regardless of the continually worsening depths of degradation I was subjected to in its clutches.&nbs...
Posted by Mary on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:08:00 PST

A short blog about music

I can't imagine being one of those people who doesn't care about music - one of the people who sees my already massive and continually growing CD collection and actually thinks that I'm craz...
Posted by Mary on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:33:00 PST

PLEASE READ BEFORE YOU ADD ME - 2nd update

I find it necessary to add one more caveat.  If you submit a friend request I will look at your page.  If I find that your top friends or any other part of your page is dedicated t...
Posted by Mary on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 07:17:00 PST

What happens when my heart just stops

I'm not the kind of woman who insists on being right all the time. I never wanted a man who would just say "yes dear" to everything, and apologize in every argument. I wanted to be with someone who wa...
Posted by Mary on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 02:35:00 PST

New Orleans

Ten years ago or so I decided to take a trip. I was between jobs, and sick of going nowhere (literally and figuratively), so with two-hundred bucks, a couple of credit cards, fifty or sixty of my favo...
Posted by Mary on Thu, 01 Sep 2005 01:32:00 PST

Boys

We all have our "I hate men" phases.  For me it usually happens when I'm involved with one of them.  But right now I'm enjoying the best part of a relationship - the "he likes me"...
Posted by Mary on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

What happens in Vegas...

Las Vegas is Fabulous! I knew it would be fun, but I had no idea& A bunch of us went a couple weeks ago  Vegas virgins (like me) and Vegas veterans (like M, our 30th birthday girl)  for five days. S...
Posted by Mary on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

I LOVE STAR WARS!

Yeah...I f-ing love it man.  You don't have to love it, too, and we can get along just fine.  But don't come at me with your smarter-than-the-room wannabe bullshit, repeating what all the na...
Posted by Mary on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST