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~jodycakes~

Are you kidding me right now?

About Me

I am an extremely outgoing person - most people say that I am exhausting, but perhaps it is just that they can't keep up. I am an incurable insomniac, cynic and romantic - not necessarily in that order.I LOVE music...photography...writing (the more satirical, the better....) - Am a freelance writer for a couple of different publications and LOVE IT!Total foodie...my pornography is cookbooks - good ones (i.e. French Laundry, etc.)Just started my own cake business and LOVE it!One thing that most people think is odd of me - I like to collect (usually on napkins....LOL) the phrase "Where is Mr. Potato Head?" in different languages...I think that I currently have almost 40 different languages. I eventually want to post all languages on the web, as I feel that it is extremely important that you know where to find Monsieur or Senor Potato head...more on that later...Oh, and I collect Rhinos - my obsession came shortly after finishing Eugene Ionesco's play, Rhinoceros'...In Rhinocéros he (Ionesco) watches his friends turning into rhinoceri one by one until he alone stands unchanged against this tide of conformism. It is in this play that Ionesco most forcefully expresses his horror of ideological conformism, inspired by the rise of the fascist Iron Guard in Romania in the 1930s...' One day, from my journals, I will publish my memoirs...I guess I am a narcissist. Hee hee hee :)Get Your Own! | View SlideshowGet Your Own! | View Slideshow
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My Interests

Too AD/HD/ADD to list...many, many things. I LOVE FLYING & ALL THINGS AIRPLANES (thanks Dad for letting me steer the plane at the age of 5!!!) and I love good noseart... The sound of a jet engine makes me tremble... Writing, wine, travel, cooking/baking, recipe deconstruction, good company, my own restaurant critiquing, cerebral conversations, music, photography, scuba diving - did I mention wine? I digress...How do I love thee? Let me count the ways...

I'd like to meet:

People who love to travel, eat and experience the world, raw...uninhibited.Would love to meet Alan Alda. Would love to meet the Dalai Lama. Would love to meet the person who invented pantyhose, so I can bop 'em in the nose...:)Would have loved to have met Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, Oscar Wilde and perhaps a few moments with John Lennon
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Music:

I love all music (boring to say this I know...) - stuck in the 80's a bit, but have expanded my horizon through the years. Was just exposed to Scandinavian Trance (Ticon, Atmos, etc) at Burning Man & LOVED IT, Electronica, PsyTrance, Goa Trance, Indian House Music, Blues, Punk (thanks M~), but again, LOVE MUSIC and if I don't have it in my IPOD then I wanna know about it!!!

Movies:

So many - all types - love Indie & Foreign films. I really dig military films for some reason (was in USAF and like to see what truthes are stretched and overembellished.). Get a bit nostalgic when I see a John Hughes film or Bret Easton Ellis books on film (sans American Psycho...ick). My library contains many genres, many titles...and I am a sucker for an old black and white movie.

Television:

Weeds, Six Feet Under, 24, CSI NY (love Gary Sinise), The Office (BBC version), AbFab - anything French & Saunders, any of the forensic shows on Discovery, etc., No Reservations (Anthony Bourdain) - am addicted to Food Network (food porn...:) )

Books:

Dave Sedaris, just about any cookbook, Sylvia Plath, Anthony Bourdain, eastern philosophy...serial crimes...mixed bag, really.

Heroes:

My father...a few others - you know who you are :)~...any chef that has made it to where they are today...

My Blog

When life tells you to slow down...it ain't always fun...

So when life tells you to slow down, isn't it just a bitch...?I moved to Cali a mere 6 months ago not knowing a soul, not knowing the town that I live in and I picked up life as I knew it from Houston...
Posted by Narcisse~ on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:47:00 PST

Post Burn Blahs...

Well, I am back from Black Rock City only 3 days and feel as if I've been stripped of everything that I know.  How do you describe this adventure to anyone who has never been?  Well, it is ...
Posted by Narcisse~ on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:02:00 PST

Just a little over 2 weeks to Burning Man!!!

Began packing this evening for BM - So excited.  I have decided to put pink flamingos outside of my tent, so that I know where to find my "home" - also bot some windchimes - what a nerd am I???Ou...
Posted by Narcisse~ on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:39:00 PST

A path to choose...

was told this weekend that a mutual friend had been in contact with one of us...and not the other.  I asked if I might have the email addy to send a short letter out too. Well, I did send it - I ...
Posted by Narcisse~ on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 11:49:00 PST

for me........................

okay, so i'm torn between my creative minds...frustratring, truly is. do i cook/bake or do I write???? Hmmm....???? Just can't seem to find the gig...will continue looking. glad you're here........ j~...
Posted by Narcisse~ on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 12:30:00 PST

burning man 2006

So, living in SoCal and a good friend that I've known for a MILLION years has asked me to go with he and his sweetie to Burning Man this year.  Should be fun.  We've talked about i...
Posted by Narcisse~ on Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:01:00 PST

Book Signing - Father's Day

I am very, very excited - tomorrow, I am going to meet one of my favorite people of all times - Tony Bourdain, chef extraordinaire and travel junkie. I have read all of his books, fiction and non and&...
Posted by Narcisse~ on Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:42:00 PST

A couple of photography exhibitions that are here in the Los Angeles area...

Awesome exhibit out near the Santa Monica Pier - the work is housed in a construction made up of paper, beams and cargo bins... www.ashesandsnow.org Secondly, a wonderful photographer, named Jill...
Posted by Narcisse~ on Sun, 07 May 2006 10:40:00 PST

What's up with that....???!!!

Okay, so I really do live in Agrestic, CA - for those of you who have EVER seen the Showtime series Weeds...I was getting a coffee today and these 'housewives' were standing there discussing their tee...
Posted by Narcisse~ on Tue, 02 May 2006 11:12:00 PST

Manic crazy, manic...

Friends coming up from the city to stay - just decided to open the 2nd bedroom of the 2 bedroom apt I rented 3 months ago...scary.  It looks like a storage unit.  Oh well, whipped it into s...
Posted by Narcisse~ on Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:01:00 PST