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Leslie -:{Paravati}:-

Fantastic!

About Me

I'm a self-employed graphic artist and photographer. I love portrait work, band and concert photography, and most things art-related.
Visit my other MySpace page to see more of my artwork and photography:
Paravati Design

I love my work, making people happy, traveling, teaching literacy, taking photographs, painting with my fingers, the smell of charcoal dust in sweat, learning and speaking foreign languages, and deeply personal conversations with other interesting and creative people. I'm tactile, synaesthetic, easily trusting, fiercely loyal, intense... and I love in loud, loud colors.
I spend as much time as possible learning about life and love,
and how to make the best of both.
You can usually find me at home in my pajama pants with music going, spending time with my friends, or capturing my impressions of the world from behind an 85mm f/1.8 lens. I'm always on LiveJournal because I fancy myself a storyteller.
Paravati_99 on Yahoo Messenger
LeslieShaye on AIM.
I have such WONDERFUL friends, and I'm so grateful for all of them! Friendships are for life.

My Interests

Music, the arts, art shows, theatre, foreign films, foreign languages, other cultures, drawing, painting, pen & ink, charcoal, acrylic, nude photography, portrait photography, cooking, eating, exercise, reading, writing, politics, homeschooling, government, anarchy, anti-socialism, political discussion, philosophy, objectivism, literature, working out, weight lifting, the beach, animals, communication, languages, small venue concerts, improv comedy shows, getting lost in crowds, massage, people watching, kiteflying, dancing, drum circles and handmade tone drums, friendship, provocative sensuality that stops short of smut porn, love, lovemaking, physical worship, amazing encounters, getting to know new people, the process of endless self-discovery, learning, cloudbusting, good wine, good film, art in everything that breathes, and the way that light attaches to a beautiful face...

I'd like to meet:

Anyone interested in photography or graphic design.

I love to make new friends, but you must be honest, moral, sweet, selfless, physically fit, creative, and funny. You should like cooking, being outdoors, animals, daydreaming, love, laughter, and being ridiculous.

"I swear, by my love of life and living it, that I will never exist for the sake of someone else, nor expect anyone else to live for my sake."

Music:

Nobody really cares, right?

All of my friends rock, and I love their music.

I also dig on classic rock, alternative rock, whatever the fuck you want to call NEW rock, blues, jazz, classical music for piano & guitar, old school electronica, house music, DnB, psygoatrance..

Some Internet Radio Highlights:
SomaFM, Groove Salad, 1.FM, Digitally Imported, Radio Paradise

In no particular order:
Alice In Chains, Agent Cooper, Alan Parsons, Laurie Anderson, Barenaked Ladies, The Beatles, Belly, Black Sabbath, Blue Man Group, Edie Brickell, Kate Bush, CCR, Concrete Blond, Counting Crows, Dead Can Dance, Drivin' N Cryin', Brian Eno, Evanescence, Everything But The Girl, Fish, Fleetwood Mac, Peter Gabriel, Kevin Gilbert, David Gray, Green Day, Guster, PJ Harvey, Jack Johnson, James, Jane's Addiction, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Eat World, Billy Joel, Live, John Mayer, Alexi Murdoch, Dave Matthews, Massive Attack, Marillion, Modest Mouse, The Moody Blues, NIN, Nirvana, No Doubt, Norah Jones, Oi Va Voi, Phish, Pixies, Pink Floyd, Old Genesis, Radiohead, Portishead, Sade, REM, Paul Simon, Supertramp, The Police, Rehab, Toad The Wet Sprocket, The Smiths, Tracy Chapman, Travis, Tori Amos, Ween, William Shatner, The Violent Femmes, Metallica, Tom Petty, Leonard Cohen, Shawn Mullins, Santana, Thomas Dolby, VAST, U2, Outkast, Dr. Dre, Digable Planets, Jamiroquai...

Art of Noise, Baxter, Deep Dish, Cryogenic Studios, Daft Punk, Delerium, Fila Brazilia, Front 242, Gus Gus, Orbital, Propellerheads, Satoshi Tomiie, Skinny Puppy, Sophie & Ives, The Dining Rooms, Oakenfold, Patient Saints, Dirty Vegas, Zero 7, The Orb, System 7, Tangerine Dream, The Crystal Method, Thievery Corporation, Paul Van Dyke, Eddie Amador, David Guetta, Ian Pooley, Wamdue Project, Kraftwerk, and a whole bunch of other eclectic stuff.

I hate country music.

Movies:

Crash, Moonlight Mile, The Piano, Go, Good Will Hunting, Jacob's Ladder, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Snatch, The City of Lost Children, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Abre Los Ojos, Talk To Her, Meet Joe Black, Cube, the Koyaanisquatsi series, Baraka, Delicatessin, Una Pura Formalità, Magnolia, The Life of David Gale, Camille Claudel, American Beauty, Pi, Run Lola Run, The Princess and the Warrior, Picture Claire, Amelie, Identity, Bound, Jacob's Ladder, The Fisher King, anything by Kurosawa, Lynch, Almodovar, Tarantino, or Kubrick...

Television:

I rarely watch TV. There are so many more interesting things about this world to enjoy and discover! Stop being a brainless follower; create your own entertainment. :)

Books:

Ayn Rand, Wendy McElroy, Robert Ludlum, Diana Gabaldon, Richard North Patterson, Sue Grafton, Robert Jordan, Alex Patterson, Stephen King, Pablo Neruda, Silvio Rodriguez, the classics...

Heroes:

My mom, my dad, myself.

My Blog

Check out the Paravati Design MySpace page!

Paravati Design
Posted by Leslie -:{Paravati}:- on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 04:49:00 PST

The Last Song of Dusk

"...she saw people for what they truly were.  And they hated her for it.  Hated her.""...the only purpose of innocence is that it had to be lost, and the most defining characteristic of love...
Posted by Leslie -:{Paravati}:- on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:05:00 PST

A million little pieces

I am alone.  Alone here and alone in the world.  Alone in my heart and alone in my mind.  Alone everywhere, all the time, for as long as I can remember.  Alone with my Family, alo...
Posted by Leslie -:{Paravati}:- on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:05:00 PST

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

"It is so hard to be a girl and want what you have never had. To be a child and want what you cannot imagine. To look at women and think, Nobody else, nobody else has ever wanted to do what I want to ...
Posted by Leslie -:{Paravati}:- on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:05:00 PST

A language older than words.

What if the point of life has nothing to do with the creation of an ever-expanding region of control? What if the point is not to keep at bay all those people, beings, objects, and emotions that we so...
Posted by Leslie -:{Paravati}:- on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:05:00 PST

C.S. Lewis on Tyranny.

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robb...
Posted by Leslie -:{Paravati}:- on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:05:00 PST

What is real?

"What is REAL?" asked the Rabbit one day. "Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, bu...
Posted by Leslie -:{Paravati}:- on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:05:00 PST

The largest roach ever.

The largest roach I think I have ever seen just glared at me when I went to walk my dogs outside.He had large spiny spikes sticking out of his head and he had to be at least three inches long.I did no...
Posted by Leslie -:{Paravati}:- on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:05:00 PST

Friendship

I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you.I love you, not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me.I love you for the part of me tha...
Posted by Leslie -:{Paravati}:- on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:05:00 PST

Taste a little bit. [100_Words]

The secret is that there is no secret.  There is no substantive sweat-and-gore stained eternal truth to impart to others.  Things are, or they are not. So why struggle?  Why not just em...
Posted by Leslie -:{Paravati}:- on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 02:05:00 PST