fans in summer instead of A/C, acquiring tattoos and piercings as necessary, FIRE, knowing who I am and what I want, sincerity, the distraction of SHINY things, living naked and real, lazyassedness, good WRITING, bad spelling, innuendos and double entendres, OXYMORONS, snickering, blogging, GROWing, STALKing, LURKing, knowledge, the logic and rationale of emotion, emergent ENERGIES, education reform, half-assed recycling and a poor attempt at boycotting consumerism, social economics, power tools and HOME repair, backPACKing, hiking, (sea)kayaking, cooking, reading: scifi, vamp/gore, classics, non-fiction and (auto)biographies, jigsaw puzzles, burnin' shit, SUN, light, shadow, retaining some semblance of naivety so as not to become jaded, mumbling DRUNK half truths in poor Japanese, laughing HARD enough to squirt liquids out my nose, martial arts flicks, RPG, talkin' smack to get laughs, hot guys in DRAG, pictures in sepia, and the TRUTH...
I'd like to meet:
I'm primarily here for my existing friends but also to meet new friends and networkers of the literary persuasion. I love being surrounded by people who feed my creativity and make me think. (Meaning conversations are cool but marketers get tossed.)
professional networking:
Music:
pink floyd, the eagles, GOLDEN earing, t.a.t.u., snake river conspiracy, WHITE stripes, ELEKTRIC 6, social distortion, sade, old metalica, luscious jackson, cowboy junkies, portishead, cheap trick, the divynals, L7, ice tea/body count, violent femmes, neil diamond, blondie, queen, berlin and any 80s, duane eddy, cherry poppin daddies, rod stewart, jason mraz, jamie cullum, jonny lang, lou reed, bette midler, the kinks, the cure, OMD, wall of voodoo, the smiths, steve miller, tommy dorsey band, nina simone, butthole surfers, suicidal tendencies, ramstein, the who, helen reddy
Movies:
The Station Agent, Pleasantville, Empire of the SUN, Erik the Viking, Logan's RUN, Papillion, Auntie Mame, Blade Runner, Army of Darkness, The HOURS, Bubba Hotep, ERic the Viking, EQUILIBRIUM, Lock Stock Two Smoking Barrels, MRS PARKER, Shawshank REDEMPTION, American History X, Fight Club, Swing Kids, A Fish Called Wanda, Monty Python's Holy Grail, Muriel's Wedding, TRUE ROMANCE, Let the Devil Wear Black (1999 based on the play Hamlet), Surburbia, SLC Punk, Sid and Nancy, Queen Margot, El Mariachi, RocketMan, The Crying Game, Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, Amelie, Romeo is Bleeding, Valley Girl, Secretary, Big Trouble in Little China, Princess Blade, Blade, In the Company of Wolves, Johnny Neumonic, PALE Rider, Dirty Dozen, Bridge on the River Quai, HARD Boil, Resevoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, The Outsiders, Lisa and the Devil, Los Vampiros Lesbos (that's the isle of Lesbos, not "lesbians" you pervs...), Angel Heart, Escape from New York, Love Song for Bobby Long, Once We Were Warriors ..
Television:
Movies on the IFC, Mavs, college football, Moonlight, Supernatural, Smallville
Books:
A very small selection would be: The 4-hour Workweek, the poems of Dorothy Parker, Andrew Henry's Meadow, Five Little PEPPERS and How They Grew, Hamlet, Obsidian Butterfly, To Kill a Mockingbird (Lee), BRAVE NEW WORLD (Huxley), Gawain and the Green KNIGHT, A Seperate Peace (Knowles), The Riverside Chaucer, Mr. MAJESTYK (LEonard), The Thin Man, et al (Hammett), The Dream Songs (Berryman), If Chins Could Kill (Campbell), Black Boy (Wood), The Soul of Rumi, Candy (Mian), Western Europe in the Middle Ages: 300-1475 (Tierney), Literary Theory (EAgleton), The Voyage of the Beagle (Darwin); lexicons and books on rhetoric. For graduation my friends gave me: ..
Heroes:
Anyone who dares to dream and live life in the middle of the sun cause getting burned ain't nothing compared to the slow decay of stagnation.
