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The Bede in Exile

I am my own sockpuppet.

About Me


I edited my profile with Thomas’ Myspace Editor V3.6 !
Grew up in Nashville. Moved to Waco; got tired of it. Moved to New Orleans; loved it. Got displaced by Hurricane Katrina; moved back in with my parents. ::rolls eyes::
TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Bede
Birthday: 10/13/66 (I am Mad Old)
Birthplace: Baptist Hospital
Current Location: the bonus room
Eye Color: Hazel (not that that's a color)
Hair Color: brownish/auburnish
Height: 6'2 and shrinking
Right Handed or Left Handed: left
Your Heritage: I've already spent it.
The Shoes You Wore Today: none. also, I'm not wearing pants.
Your Weakness: the female thigh
Your Fears: anything startling
Your Perfect Pizza: pepperoni & onion
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: have people quit bugging me
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: ~waving~
Thoughts First Waking Up: where's my dog at?
Your Best Physical Feature: none
Your Bedtime: as late as possible
Your Most Missed Memory: New Orleans
Pepsi or Coke: COKE! (duh)
MacDonalds or Burger King: it's "McDonald's"
Single or Group Dates: at this point, anything
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: I was once in a Chinese restaurant that served "Ripton".
Chocolate or Vanilla: Chocolate
Cappuccino or Coffee: Moccasippi
Do you Smoke: when drinking
Do you Swear: all day
Do you Sing: all day
Do you Shower Daily: only if I want my scalp to flake off
Have you Been in Love: all night
Do you want to go to College: what, again?
Do you want to get Married: not until she does
Do you belive in yourself: existence preceeds essence
Do you get Motion Sickness: somewhat
Do you think you are Attractive: in a Quasimodo sort of way
Are you a Health Freak: no
Do you get along with your Parents: let me yell downstairs and ask. . . .
Do you like Thunderstorms: yes
Do you play an Instrument: yes
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: yes, but it was Rubbing Alcohol
In the past month have you Smoked: yes
In the past month have you been on Drugs: only legally
In the past month have you gone on a Date: no
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: yes
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: no
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: no
In the past month have you been on Stage: no
In the past month have you been Dumped: no
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: no
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: found, yes; stole, no
Ever been Drunk: yes
Ever been called a Tease: no
Ever been Beaten up: yes
Ever Shoplifted: yes
How do you want to Die: from Quiz exhaustion
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: a fly on the wall
What country would you most like to Visit: Egypt
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: blue
Favourite Hair Color: any (n. none)
Short or Long Hair: long
Height: any (n. none)
Weight: slightly under
Best Clothing Style: minimal
Number of Drugs I have taken: enough to know to quit
Number of CDs I own: all of them
Number of Piercings: few
Number of Tattoos: few
Number of things in my Past I Regret: proportionate to age
CREATE YOUR OWN! - or - GET PAID TO TAKE SURVEYS!I'm still figgering out MySpace. This is gonna get longer..........

My Interests

Making a fool of myself. .. For details, see http://thebedespeaks.livejournal.com/.

I'd like to meet:

You.

Music:

Long form: The Beatles's Abbey Road, Kate Bush's Hounds of Love, and David Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. Short form: Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb, U2's One, and Squeeze's Tempted.

Movies:

Casablanca; It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; and Mary Poppins.

Television:

Hill St. Blues, M*A*S*H, and Letterman. Unless you meant currently, in which case it's Battlestar Galactica, Veronica Mars, and My Name Is Earl.

Books:

Henry Adams's The Education of Henry Adams, Charles Dickens' Bleak House, Sigmund Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude. and Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. And it should be pointed out that Katrina ruined about a third of my books.

Heroes:

Gomez Addams, Bill Walton, and Secretariat.

My Blog

ya know what I hate?

When I sign in to http://www.myspace.com/thebedeinexile, hit the "Home" tab, and it takes me to MySpace's general Home/Sign-In page instead of my Home page. Happens all the time....
Posted by The Bede in Exile on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:18:00 PST

Mardi Gras is 4 weeks from Tuesday.

*sigh* In the late fall and early winter, I didn't think much about New Orleans, but it started popping up again about a week ago.  I miss strange, personalized things--certain trees, the parking...
Posted by The Bede in Exile on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:20:00 PST

Merry Christmas, you MySpacers you!

from Little Willow, Even Littler Willow, and Willow's human pack
Posted by The Bede in Exile on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 12:08:00 PST

Teh Bede reviews the new tv season (November Sweeps Edition)

MondaysThe Class--It's Jason Ritter's world and everyone else in Hollywood is gonna have to rekonize. And Jesse Tyler Ferguson does a good job as Rockboy/Richie, too.Heroes--YATTA! This show rules on...
Posted by The Bede in Exile on Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:05:00 PST

someone explain MySpace to me.

A few days ago, two Bloggings showed up in my Updates queue.  Both are dated in November, so I can't get rid of them.  Both are from " ' " [yes, that's an apostrophe].  There is no such...
Posted by The Bede in Exile on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 01:40:00 PST

things on my Pics page

1.  "My fifth birthday, 1971."  By the front door of the house officially known as The House I Grew Up In. 2.  "Kissing the Blarney Stone, 1987."  From the fabulous trip to Ireland...
Posted by The Bede in Exile on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 07:51:00 PST

Just venting here.

(Feel free to ignore it unless you are the person being addressed--and, really, what are the odds that that person will notice?)   Hey, nice job making me feel like chopped liver *again*.&nb...
Posted by The Bede in Exile on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 12:12:00 PST

Live Journal is broken, and that makes me angry.

However, that creates a good opportunity to make an actual MySpace comment: Looks like my VCR has a malfunction.  But it might be the TV or even the remote, so tommorow I'm gonna have to disconne...
Posted by The Bede in Exile on Wed, 03 May 2006 07:49:00 PST