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About Me

Some days, it's like this...
well, but, my name's not Dorothy...
I'd like to thank my Mom for saving her circa 1971, groovy short-shorts for me to rock all these years later!
These are the golden children...
Oh, and, I do love the ballet...
"Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh."
*More about me... definitely an over-analyzer of people's synaptic misfires.
What I would have said if I had said it...
What I tried.... I once made a New Year's resolution to see every Broadway show ever! But, the next year, I made a different resolution, as NY's resolutions usually go... but, here's a fav
I have really happy, musically distinguished ears because of...
How I survived the late '90's musically, along with tea and carrots (not pictured)...
OF COURSE, GRACE TOO, BUT THE EFFECT THAT SKETCHES HAD/HAS ON ME IS TOTALLY UNGOOGLEABLE...
What makes me happy (really happy)... this is pretty little Gulab Jamun. IT'S OOZINGLY MAG HONEY-DRIPPING MMMM-NESS IS FOOD IN ART FORM.
I've fallen completely for the idea of the romanticized life of artists and the little bohemian gypsies that wander beneath their quirky, brighter exterior- but, what makes art beautiful is that it's everywhere, it's what's happening, it's experiencing, learning... art is in everything(my def of art- anything and everything that completely renders your senses helpless)... it's staying up so late that it's time to get up already... the avant garde... the edge... words and travel. Oh, wild, wonderful photography and art are truly diggable (esp my own- werd!)!
Pavement art is total madness! Check this out...
I'm pretty much a dog person. But, I dig cats too, and, right now, I have a cat- a stray cat currently named Al (cos it changes. Alot.). He usually wakes me up with a marathon meowing session. Oh, and I just discovered that he LOVES Miles Davis! When we just chill out around the Christmas tree, which has now been up since November (well, I finally took it down, but there were enough pine needles on the floor to make an entire new tree!), we put on some Miles and Al just glows in the warmth of those temperamental jazz vibes. He especially likes Bitches Brew. One day, I hope to have a dog with really great taste in music, too.
"The fact was I had the vision...I think everyone has...what we lack is the method" - Jack Kerouac
I'd like to work with kids, teaching expression through art-- not that I'm qualified or anything-- but I just think they need someone to care enough and show them the importance of exploring their individual creativity, esp now, since ART is being phased out in schools- WTS? ~~Or, rescuing animals from deranged morons who have no respect for them... ~~or, filling a spiritual and intellectual void--with words-- that seems to be leading the way of life for some... There's a lot of work to do... wow, heavy, I know.
But, I dunno, if you're still reading this, you're a gem- and then some. For now, I'm riding the heat wave of electric lights glaring down on me as I toil with a vengeance to shuffle papers from my hands to yours, but, check it, I'm not gonna let a little aimless toiling crash my positive wave. Totally.
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
I like to save things, like people, animals, bugs and the world, but need this once in awhile...
I plan to go to Cali and visit all of the lost souls, and then on to Carnaby Street to get lost myself, but that's much later. For now, I love to surf the web, bc, well, I can't surf anything else- my scheme is to learn to surf the real surf one day and just do it . My thoughts are always taking off and one of these days I hope to follow!
Libraries and book stores are my second home and, if you need me, you can usually find me there. I volunteer whenever I can- check it out, I'll hook you up!xo ..
I should have been a Scorpio, but I'm making the most of being a Sag and I can explain that.
You could make a lot of lemon juice out of these bees...
Oh, and, chances are, if you see me strolling down a street, I'll have a chai, latte' (you know it!) or a cuppa joe in hand... Also, I'll probably be chatting up some local, smiling drifters- they never get any respect!
Once, I stopped to talk with a man who noticed the books that I was carrying and we ended up chatting about Jack Kerouac and the Beat writers-- a totally great experience and I think he plans to run for Mayor or something... dunno, but he was a great guy and I still see him around sometimes.
In this case, it's ok to be a follower...

...in this case, too...

~Dont ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive~

My Interests

I'd like to see this, before I become this

Here's a not-so-brief, but-exceedingly-comprehensive, description of me, in lyric form, if you like...

Sadly, this star I mistrust- her pallor, I strangely mistrust...

Vancouver in its infancy... "You people don't know this one... neither do we." Oh, but they did, in a BLOW-YOUR-MIND RIFF, AURALGASMIC, SOUL-SHAKING-MELODIC kind of way...
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Strange movies/even stranger movie nights, dinner rendezvous with my peeps, numerous, failed snowboarding attempts, numerous (future) failed surfing attempts, busker(ing?), writing the soundtrack to my life, not sleeping (well, one eye does sometimes), picking tunes for my page, the balance (or imbalance) of chords, bass lines that make me cry- or at least space out, twisty, turny, churny melodies, overwhelming with emotion, the minor fall and the major lift, nicknaming my cat (currently Voltaire) and.... photobooths! I have a fab habit of speaking foreign languages at work-- no one knows what I'm saying, so they just look at me and smile. I don't know what I'm saying mostly, but it makes me mysterious, so... oh, and I'm incredibly jealous of my friends who constantly get to go to rock shows and leave me behind, um, incredulous and wo the kingly memories... it's all about geography- er, at least I thought it was. Take my darling bud, "B," whose world was rocked so hard by one of those rock shows (you might have heard of it? A little event known as Coachella?), that he now plans to move to Cali (from Ohio)... he didn't let a little thing like a few thousand miles stand in his way! Sigh... it's just so rock n roll

~I have a thing for politeness. It's obscure and I wonder... does anyone subscribe anymore??~

Pimp-My-Profile ~Me, at an age when I thought I would be what I'm still working on becoming~

This is a bird. He sings. He could save music if he wanted to.

~and Ocean City, NJ... I could spend a thousand childhoods here...

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~Reason is powerless in the expression of Love~
Rumi

Brain Lateralization Test Results
Right Brain (58%) The right hemisphere is the visual, figurative, artistic, and intuitive side of the brain.
Left Brain (48%) The left hemisphere is the logical, articulate, assertive, and practical side of the brain
Are You Right or Left Brained?(word test)
personality tests by similarminds.com

Where's the nearest coffee shop?

I'd like to meet:

Every piece of Jack Vettriano art,

These incredible-modern-musical lads...

AS WELL AS THESE...

music mathematician, Ash Bowie...

...in my living room, with a beverage. Mainly a beer beverage, and

THE coolest cat on earth (well, maybe not ON earth...) (David Hemmings), would've been nice for a chat over fish & chips

~These best friends~

~Oooh, Serge and Jane were so sweetly contagious... I'd still like to meet Jane, for real.

~Mary Quant, to thank her

More bookcases for my books, please, and more books, ANTI-MEAN PEOPLE. Peeps who research things... oh, for sure, Joni Mitchell, who I discovered while "playing" with my parents' stacks of albums as a wee babe, and who was the earliest reason that I fell in love with music...

Maybe a guy who's smarter than me...
or, a blind man...
Oh, and JOEL GION, who is very entertaining and makes me laugh. Hard.:

BUT, MOST OF THE PEOPLE THAT I WANT TO MEET HAVE CLOCKED OUT OF THIS LIFE... THERE'S ALWAYS THE NEXT.

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PLEASE BE NICE AND SAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE PENGUIN, AND REMEMBER, IF YOU EVER GET LONELY, JUST GO TO THE RECORD STORE AND VISIT YOUR FRIENDS... Penny Lane
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Music:

Pimp-My-Profile

NPR/World Cafe, and really good covers- they don't have to be fancy or anything and can take place at your local 7-Eleven(Elliott Smith covering the Kinks' Waterloo Sunset)...

"We were the chosen rejects. We chose not to be a part of the popular crowd... I would rather hang out with the people who didn't get picked for the baseball team, you know, who smoke cigarettes and listen to rock n roll music" ~Kurt Cobain

MUSICALLY SPEAKING... Jeffrey B. with a helping of 60's French, a dish of random acts of sound, a pinch of no-wave, a slice of new wave, a side of me, singing in the shower, oh, and maybe a beverage of beer.

And, mostly, music that flows like a soundtrack to a dream... all of the fab bands that have graced my page with their sonic rad-ness... oh, and all of those I have have yet to discover...Condensed version: Any and all music really (with the exception of almost all processed, packaged and hydrogenized country music) from Brit Folk to modern rock, lo-fi to punk, R&B to many variations of pop and jazz-- plus a zillion more, but you'll have to ask. Dig?

~FOR LONG YOU LIVE AND HIGH YOU FLY, AND SMILES YOU'LL GIVE AND TEARS YOU'LL CRY, AND ALL YOU TOUCH AND ALL YOU SEE IS ALL YOUR LIFE WILL EVER BE...~

More talent than one room can handle... (M. Cyr, photographer extraordinaire)

There's the THEN, and...
There's the sometime after then, on the way to now...

First & Last & Always...
All of the beauty and glory are yours...

~I have an over acute capacity for sadness as well as elation. I know what the cat who wrote the song is trying to say. I've been there - and back. I guess the audience feels it along with me~

~Let's exchange the experience~

~I am gone this afternoon... ~

~If you see her, say hello...~BD's latest release is killer!

Experimental + Punk + Avant Garde + Genius = Velvet Underground

~...except for the Smiths, maybe...~ Jeff Buckley

.. Ok, so, if man is 5, then the devil is six, then God is 7, or... whatever! You do the math...

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Frolicky little Frausdots

A brief history of amazing Lilys!

~BE THE BEST
No Negativity, No Weakness, No Acquiescence To Fear Or Disaster, No Errors Of Ignorance, No Evasion From Reality~ -JSB

Movies:

Television:

Sometimes it's on, sometimes, it's off. And, when it's on, Arrested Development. More please.

Books:

Well, I'll give ya just a glimpse, in some kind of haiku form... freestyle, maybe? Maybe not...

~Jack Kerouac breathed,

the beats came alive and some,

like Ginsberg, blossomed~

Any and all escapist lit

Heroes:

I have an ocean of heroes...

Mon amour, mon ami!

Expressionists/istas, the creatives and babies!

Anyone who can do this...

err, this...

Independent record stores for keepin' the faith.

My Blog

My (pre) New Years pre-nuptial resolution (more "pre" stuff)

Pattern for change (unless it changes...) Find true happiness- only the essentials, materialism in the dust Satisfy a hungry soul- real, genuine unaffected, honest, original, strive to BE Accept self-...
Posted by Vin et Fromage on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:53:00 PST

A new pre-dawn dream (from a previous pre-dawn)

This was a day dream that I managed to put into words ~As an apothecary fills a vial, so I will fill your dreams And trust is not an option, but an obligation, like truth- This could kill me, but ...
Posted by Vin et Fromage on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:41:00 PST

Pay for everything/everything 4 pay

What I wish I'd written... you'll see why, with this incredible, emotive energy... ~Pay for the sign on the hill that says you're homePay for the hole in the ground to place your bonesPay f...
Posted by Vin et Fromage on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 11:25:00 PST

Everything Copacetic??

...that I was driving, in a car, but backwards, everywhere I went.
Posted by Vin et Fromage on Tue, 01 May 2007 11:51:00 PST

Take 2 minutes

and just laugh!Baby laughing | ...
Posted by Vin et Fromage on Tue, 01 May 2007 11:46:00 PST

Doesn't work for late night drunk dialers, though

Dreamed up phone number leads man to a bride Mon Apr 9, 10:09 AM ET A British man has met and married a 22-year-old woman after, by his own account, dreaming of her phone number and t...
Posted by Vin et Fromage on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:04:00 PST

Marketing strategies at strangers' funerals

OMG, OMG! I usually have nothing but the nicest things to say about our clients- they are, after all, victims of something, somehow, somewhere... somewhat, and are just looking for a little help- yeah...
Posted by Vin et Fromage on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:40:00 PST

One for the hazy melancholies... legend Nick Drake

An amazing lyricist with an amazing voice... one of my fav artists who wrote some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard. Here's a link to a montage put together for Nick's song Riverman... Nick ...
Posted by Vin et Fromage on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 08:48:00 PST

The fact about Factotum

'nother update: Uh, I gave this one a shaky one-thumb up and that was only bc Matt Dillon's performace saved the movie from total oblivion. I soared like a meteor toward this movie, o...
Posted by Vin et Fromage on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 09:41:00 PST

Steve Irwin

Just thought I'd put my little homage to Steve here-- stop by, any time... "If we can touch people about wildlife, then they will want to save it." ...
Posted by Vin et Fromage on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:47:00 PST