Book addict, poet by habit, writer, hiker of long distances, loud laugher, talker in the small hours with my best friends, contemplater of eternity within a moment, meditator in the park on my lunch hour, finder of ways to add playfulness to daily life, seeker of meaning, and the list grows...
I'd like to meet:
People who read the following quote and want to discuss it by writing, speaking or music:Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.
Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), quoted in New York Times, March 19, 1940
Music:
Music lives in my soul and those of you who have it know what I am talking about. I hear it and I want to dance or sing... jazz, classical opera, Latin beats that make my hips wiggle, and good rock and roll. I refuse to make a list. All music is better live. Sometimes a girl just needs to bang her head.
Movies:
Pi, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Star Wars (the original three), Tank Girl, Rocky Horror Picture Show, BBC specials especially when covering a classic
Television:
I don't really have time for it, and I stopped reading the magazine in the breakroom at work because the new guy brought Time. So now I can't even talk to people about what's new, I have no idea what is "hot" on prime time, but I am using my free time to enrich my mind and be in tune with my body.
" I find television very educational. Every time someone turns on the set, I go into the other room and read." Groucho Marxs
Books:
I have an interest in Gothic Victorian lit and I was particularly amused by The Mysteries of Udolpho, by Ann Radcliffe. There is also an attraction to the new gothic that is becoming so popular with its supernatural love of vampires. Jane Austen was a college obsession. I have a weakness for the Romantics such as Byron, Shelly, and Keats. Shakespeare is the love of my life, but his works must be seen live to truly understand their value and emotional quality. Mythology has a central role in my own self understanding as well as my goals as a writer, so naturally I have read both Homer and Ovid intensely. I think I have read the Metamorphosis at least ten times. My dark side which tends towards the off-the-wall Borges, sometimes painful Kafka, dream-like Edgar Allen Poe, and emotional richness of Dostoevsky. I also like pop fiction: Dark Tower, Kushiel trilogy, and sci-fi stuff.
Heroes:
Edna St. Vincent Malley,
Graciela Iturbide,
Frieda Kahlo,
Sylvia Plath,
Amanda,
The Flash ~you know who you are~,
Erica,
Kristi,
my mom,
me
