I'm actually a 17 year old British teddy boy who fell through a time warp into 21st century Austin. I'm still adjusting to living in colour.
He waved hello, silent like a mime
There's no changing my mind
I won't walk the stairs with you tonight
Going nowhere
The clock moved a quarter of a turn
The time it took a cigarette to burn
She said, "You got a lot of things to learn"
Going nowhere
Saw you move a certain way
Missed you a lot
Return to this abandoned place
Should have been forgot
Echoes drown the conversation out
Echoes that only seem to bring about
A silent expression
Things you may allow
Going nowhere
The steps made a pattern
I'd never seen
I felt like a kid of six or seventeen
I was off in some empty daydream
Going nowhere
It's dead and gone, matter of fact
Maybe for the best
Said some things you can't take back
Honestly I guess
The old records
Sitting on the floor
The ones I can't
Put on anymore
He walked over to her like before
Going nowhere
Going nowhere
Going nowhere
(Elliott Smith, Going Nowhere from New Moon)
LB at 50
I love road trips or any kind of travel. If you speak Spanish and want someone to go to Costa Rica with you, I'd be on the plane the next day. If you don't speak Spanish, I'll go anyway. Besides anywhere tropical, I also love Europe and would like to see a lot more of it, especially Italy, Australia & New Zealand, Thailand, wherever. I have been to London, Paris, Gent, Belgium and Amsterdam. At home, I like gardening, cooking (mainly vegetarian), doing things on my iMac G-5, household stuff. I am a big movie buff and a filmmaker member of Austin Film Society, I subscribe to Netflix, which catches me up on all the great indie films I missed. I acted in a couple of independent films when I lived in San Francisco. I also love music and don't have to be talked into seeing a live band. And I'm kind of a karaoke junkie.
I'd like to meet:
"Any loving touch can release substances that ease pain, bolster immunity and elevate mood long after the immediate pleasure passes." -Proof that hugs are good for you from Consumer Reports on Health
"I keep closest to me those that have had opportunities to abandon me, and REPEATEDLY refused to." -Rev. Ralf
PARTNERS: I am no longer in any kind of primary relationship. That's been my choice for me the past few years, I guess I'm pretty independant and enjoy the freedom. But at this stage of my life I can visualize myself in a mutually supportive relationship. The kind of person I'm looking for is someone with similar interests and outlook, physically on the lean side, closer to my age than not, someone who respects my current friendships and need for time with friends too, either as a couple or separately. This is like a general outline, not a mandate (interesting term, "man date"). I try to remain open at all times to new possibilities.
FRIENDS: In the meantime I place a really high value on friendship, especially long term friends who are there for one another and available to do things together regularly. Or at least talk regularly. The real friends I've had have lasted. I try to treat everyone I encounter as a friend until they prove otherwise. I respect people for who they are and I don't try to make you something you're not. If I fail in this, I will work hard to correct it. I am forgiving and , I hope, caring. I adore people who are open and honest about themselves and I will return the same. If I do fall in love, I will never abandon my friends. Friends are bridges over rough times and it's never a good idea to burn bridges. If a friend is attacked, I will be the first to intervene. I can be very loyal that way. But casual friends are cool too.I look for people with similar interests but I also seem to get along with people with contrasting personalities. I love a good sense of humor, social awareness, people who take good care of themselves and those around them, people who are nurturing, outgoing or somewhat shy, have an interest in their spiritual side, are open minded, free spirited and fun. I am quiet at first and have had to learn to be more aggressive in meeting people.
Although not necessarily a believer in astrology, I seem to be having a lot of encounters with Aquarians that are very interesting. I moved the details of this to a long ago blog.
Slides show a few of the cool people and things in my life. Many are taken from the iSight camera built into my Mac. Some were added after figuring out how to get pictures out of my phone.
Music:
A favorite local band (whose singer/songwriter lead is a very good friend) is A. Rex. Their second album, "Moving Backwards" shows off singer/songwriter Andrew Espinola's amazing songwriting ability . Check them out at
A. Rex. A new EP was just released and it rocks!
Check it out at CD Baby here:
A. Rex: Who Said I Was Running?
Another local favorite is Omar Lopez, an amazing violinist, who fuses rock with a sort of European classical and a bit of club dance thrown in. He performs around town. And Brett Bachus, a concert pianist and music teacher, also on my friends list.
Other favorites are The Beatles, including some of their solo work Elliott Smith, Perishers, Sufjan Stevens, Nada Surf, Radiohead, Ben Kweller, Wilco, New Pornographers, Sparklehorse, Green Day, Killers, Get Set Go, Brian Wilson, Magnetic Fields, the soundtrack music from "Once". I kind of favor alternative pop rock genre. The lead singer of Magnetic Fields has a voice like mine. I haven't figured out if that's a compliment or not.And...Damien Rice, Coldplay, Franz Ferdinand, Soundtracks, Willie Nelson, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Eva Cassidy, Vangelis, Sting, The Turtles, The Kinks, Mickey Dolenz, REM....I have pretty eclectic tastes but a weakness for melody. I lean toward alternative these days.
Movies:
I love movies and I am currently training in editing, videotaping and this is where my primary creative interests lie. I prefer to see films in theaters and will rarely turn down an invitation to go to the movies. My favorite movies tend to be indie/art/foreign films, but I look forward to some Hollywood films too.
My favorite movie of all time is one almost no one agrees with, Stephen Spielberg's, "A.I." It was like someone successfully filmed a haunting and unforgettable dream. The abandonment theme strikes a strong chord for me. "A.I" was essentially a Stanley Kubrick film that Spielberg finished after Kubrick died. Another that stands out, perhaps the weirdest movie of all time, is "Fellini: Satyricon". I'm a romantic, straight or gay, and loved "Brokeback Mountain" and "The Notebook" equally. A big sci fi fan, I won't miss "Star Trek" or "Star Wars", but the recent "Star Wars" films were a disappointment. There are some great classic sci fi films too...like "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "Day of the Triffids". Comedies never get much respect, but some recent ones like "Wedding Crashers" and "40 Year Old Virgin" were pretty good. Plus the original Pink Panther films, the original Bedazzled, Victor/Vicoria, etc. Love directors Lee, Spielberg, Fellini, Hitchcock, Woody Allen, Godard, Linklater, Amoldovar and especially look forward to anything from M. Night Shyamalan. Other favorites, in no particular order, King Corn, Breach, Once, A Home at the End of the World, The Queen, Erin Brockovich, Semper Fi: One Marine's Journey, Billy Elliot, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling For Columbine, Sicko, An Inconvenient Truth, Latter Days, The Insider, Into the Wild, Wide Awake, The 24th Day, Donnie Darko, L.I.E., Batman Begins, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, It's a Wonderful Life, Wonder Boys, Motorcycle Diaries, Deep Impact, Meet Joe Black, Unbreakable, The Illusionist and many more. Loved the Spiderman movies, the first two X-Men, the Bourne movies...and an endless list.
Television:
I'm actually watching very little television these days. They cancelled a favorite series, "Book of Daniel", because of political pressure. "Boston Legal" is as good though. I do watch three series regularly...Boston Legal, Medium and Smallville. Old shows favorites: Lou Grant, Picket Fences, Twin Peaks, Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, I Love Lucy. Also PBS, British comedies are great.
Books:
Check out The Moonquest A True Fantasy by Mark David Gerson at http://www.myspace.com/mdg888I recently finished a really great book about the Beatles, "Here, There and Everywhere by Geoff Emerick, their engineer. It left you feeling you were there. I tend to read non-fiction, like books on nutrition or politics, things that interest me. I'm reading a biography on Cole Porter and Al Franken's "The Truth With Jokes". Also started "Fooled Again" about how the 2004 Presidential election results were fraudulent (our government's own accounting office agrees...the press is oddly silent).
Heroes:
My heroes are people with the courage willing to take unpopular stands to affect change or, who rise above their circumstances to be everything others said they couldn't be...some examples would be student journalist Andrew Meyer, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Martin Luther King, Oscar Wilde, Bono, Gore Vidal, Bill Maher, Kurt Vonegut, Michael Moore, Barbara Boxer, Al Franken, Tom Hayden, Harvey Milk and some well known people I know, like Ted Rall, Molly Ivins, Professor Robert Jensen (pictured) and a certain young singer/songwriter I know.
