FLYERS FOR UPCOMING EVENTS:
Kitchen experience, raw vegan cuisine (I am not vegan), discovering new foods and restaurants, rock-n-roll/punk rock karaoke, self-improvement, going to see live music shows, researching information about various bands on the internet, adding to my music/art/pro-action calendar, photography, jewelry making, yoga, native plant gardens, architecture esp. historical buildings, art especially mixed media and functional art, old wives tales and ancient intelligence that we have phased out because of technology, foreign culture, zen buddhism and other religions although I don't consider myself a religious person. Drum circles.This is one of my favorite karaoke songs...
I'd like to meet:
Clara
Odin, Huginn, and Muninn I'd like to go river fishing with John Lurie , go shopping with Paul Reubens, make some noise with Yoshimi drummer extraordinaire, party with Kiki de Montparnasse , go to a poetry slam or karaoke with Kathleen Hanna, make some jewelry or go thriftshopping with Carla Bozulich, dance with Christopher Walken, get high on life with Walt
Can you cut a rug? Swellegant kats. Anyone that tells good stories with funny sound
effects. Care to go to karaoke? Anyone
that has a strong passion or extreme curiosity about
anything. Someone I can learn from. Good huggers. Anyone that would like to go to a yoga class or do something outside of a bar/also somebody that would like to check out a new club or discover an ol dive-bar or restaurant. People that are
stoked on life. Free spirits. Vinyl collecters that would wanna have a record party. Don't use the word 'hate' too often. People that would tell me if I had lipstick on my teeth or flick lint off my shoulder.
People that do what they love
inspire me. Especially
when they have style.
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I ain't lookin' to compete with you,
Beat or cheat or mistreat you,
Simplify you, classify you,
Deny, defy or crucify you.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.No, and I ain't lookin' to fight with you,
Frighten you or uptighten you,
Drag you down or drain you down,
Chain you down or bring you down.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.I ain't lookin' to block you up
Shock or knock or lock you up,
Analyze you, categorize you,
Finalize you or advertise you.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.I don't want to straight-face you,
Race or chase you, track or trace you,
Or disgrace you or displace you,
Or define you or confine you.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.I don't want to meet your kin,
Make you spin or do you in,
Or select you or dissect you,
Or inspect you or reject you.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.I don't want to fake you out,
Take or shake or forsake you out,
I ain't lookin' for you to feel like me,
See like me or be like me.
All I really want to do
Is, baby, be friends with you.
Copyright © 1964~Dylan
Music:
> Not in any particular order...the Faint, Guttermouth, Fishbone, Go-Go's, patti smith,television, X, I love X,Dave Alvin, 'I kissed you in the water
And made your dry lips sing I saw you look Like a Japanese baby In an instant I remembered everything'...- the Cure,ECHO and the Bunnymen, Remember Electrafixion??!TALKING HEADS, the Cars, Duran Duran, drums in Adam Ant andBow Wow Wow, Arcade Fire, 'Make a Circuit with Me' - Polecats, Roxy Music, 'Intruder'- Van Halen, 'Use your mentality, wake up to reality'- COLE PORTER, 'I fall in love too easily'-Chet Baker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus (named my cat after him!), Ornette Coleman, Santana, WAR, 'Judy Blue Eyes'-CSN&Y, NEIL YOUNG, DYLAN, Missy Elliot, Outkast, NIN, Fischerspooner, New Order, the COWS,THROW RAG,BECK Hansen, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Boss Hog, Prince, DEVO, B-52's, U2, 5.6.7.8's, CrAmPs, L7, Snoop, NELS CLINE guitar genius, mike WATT BASS MAN, seeing BANYAN live is like the best drug, Stephen Perkins is amazing, Free Kitten (muah!), Boredoms, Sonic Youth, 7 Year Bitch, Bikini Kill, TRIBE 8, Babes in Toyland, Pussy Galore,Tom Waits, Red House Painters, Red Hot Poker DotsRed Hot Chili Peppers, RAGE, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Stray Cats, Groove Armada, 'Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegroove'- Dead Can Dance, Electric Sky Church, Thievery Corp, Depeche Mode, the "Ultra Chilled Compilations", Latin Playboys, DEADBOLT, My Morning Jacket, Yma Sumac, Etta James, Nena Simone, Edith Piaf, KD Lang, Joan Jett,
Runaways, Laurie Anderson, Polly Jean Harvey, Pretenders, 'Crimson and Clover'-Tommy James and the Shondells, George Thorogood,'When the Levee Breaks'-Led Zeppelin, John Lee Hooker, 'Cause just like a tree planted - planted by the rivers of water That bringeth forth fruits - bringeth forth fruits in due season; Everything in life got its purpose, Find its reason in every season, Forever, yeah!'- Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, King Tubby, LENNIE HIBBERT, Nina Sky, 'Believe it if you need it if you don't just pass it on'- Grateful Dead, Offspring, Manic Hispanic, Suicidal Tendencies, Patsy Cline, the Stitches, die Hunns (Corey Parks is bitchin!),The CLASH, Ozo, Detroit Cobras, Gore Gore Girls, Black Keys, DOORS,Los Lobos, Los Villains, Geraldine Fibbers, Scarnella and any project with CARLA BOZULICH <3, Mark Eitzel, American Music Club, Lou Barlow, Folk Implosion, Sebadoh, Kasey Chambers, Hope Sandoval, Deerhoof, Yesterday's New Quintet, Quasimoto, Dntel, Galaxie 500, Morphine, Flamin Groovies, Zombies, RAMONES, IGGY, DEAD BOYSOblivions, Dickies, BOWIE, Nick Cave, Beastie Boys, MC Solar, Yardbirds, 'Like a liar at a witch trial You look good for your age'- HOLE (Courtney rages), those Haden sisters Petra and Rachel, the Cherry family, That Dog,Buzzcocks, Yeah Yeah Yeah's, THE REV, Queens of the Stone Age, Audioslave, Blur, 'Pucker up and kiss the asphalt now'- At the Drive-In, Alex CHILTON...just about everything except for elevator music which is supposed to be calming but it drives me crazy. local soundz: 8th day fall, Xseven generationsX, resistant culture, dancing with my friends at dirty bird on World Anthem thursdays, Rebel Rockers, A.D.D., Groove Syndicate, the 420 band, the Strangers, Sensitive Side, Indigents, 80's night at ocean ave. ; even country (everyone needs to check out 'watusi radio' show on sundays on indie 103.1), prog rock and positive vibrations (KEXP seattle internet radio, I love, love, love internet radio!), K-space Claremont and Rhino records, Fingerprints Long Beach, garage- little steven show on KLSX late night Sat., exciting music, hawaiian slack key, intelligent punk, insane classical, booty shakin grooves, I'm just rediscovering psychobilly, there is a kewl rockabilly scene here in OC... some names for bands I made up- The Sandy Crotches, Unbalanced Load of Chaos :pfavorite versions of 'Summertime Blues'- BLUE CHEER and FLYING LIZARDS
Movies:
TRACY WALTER- MILLER: A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, plate, or shrimp, or plate o' shrimp out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconciousness.
Otto: You eat a lot of acid, Miller, back in the hippie days?
Miller: I'll give you another instance: you know how everybody's into weirdness right now?... REPO MAN
Dead Man,
HARVEY KIETEL-Mr. White: When you're dealing with a store like this, they're insured up the ass. They're not supposed to give you any resistance whatsoever. If you get a customer, or an employee, who thinks he's Charles Bronson, take the butt of your gun and smash their nose in. Everybody jumps. He falls down screaming, blood squirts out of his nose, nobody says fucking shit after that. You might get some bitch talk shit to you, but give her a look like you're gonna smash her in the face next, watch her shut the fuck up. Now if it's a manager, that's a different story. Managers know better than to fuck around, so if you get one that's giving you static, he probably thinks he's a real cowboy, so you gotta break that son of a bitch in two. If you wanna know something and he won't tell you, cut off one of his fingers. The little one. Then tell him his thumb's next. After that he'll tell you if he wears ladies underwear. I'm hungry. Let's get a taco.
Reservoir Dogs,True Romance,
Wild at Heart (all time fave),River's Edge,Cry Baby,Drugstore Cowboy, Young Frankenstein, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Henry and June, Ed Wood Aranofsky's "Pi" , Killing Zoe, Gas Food and Lodging, Blade Runner, Amelie, RAN, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Apocalypse Now, Legend, Ghost World, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Sheltering Sky, Like Water for Chocolate, Lonestar, Napolean Dynamite, Secretary, Traffic, Virgin Suicides, Indian Runner, anything with Juliette Binoche- Blue, Damage, Horseman on the Roof, Widow of St. Pierre, CRISPIN GLOVER, anything directed by David Lynch (t.v. stuff too), Jarmusch, John Waters, Pedro Almodovar(the spanish John Waters, no?!)...Gus Van Sant, Spike Lee, the Polish brothers trilogy, Hitchcock, Francis Ford and Sophia Coppola, Jean-Pierre Jeunet,David Russell, Wes Anderson, Roberto Begnini is a modern chaplin, Jeremy Irons rules Joaquin Pheonix I watched Walk The Line 3 times in the theatre. and I love Udo Kier,
Noni Ryder, Uma, D.H.
Television:
comedy cental, food network, Bravo, cartoon network and home and garden network,Turn Off the TV If You Want More Time
Never say you don't have enough time again
By Barbara Bartlein
Looking for more time? Glance no further than the TV. The latest research on television viewing demonstrates that the average American watches 1,669 hours of the tube each year. That is about 70 days per year according to the Statistical Abstract of the United States.
That's right, 10 weeks per year; watching television. The study does not include all the hours the TV is simply in the background adding to the noise pollution. It's direct viewing time. Mind numbing time watching re-runs, reality TV and commercials.
This is time you never get back. These are hours that could be used to learn something new, be with your kids, exercise and weight train, give back to community, or read a book. For that matter, you could write a book. It is hours for tennis, golf, travel, hobbies and sports. Or here's an idea, time to do something that makes you money. I never receive checks from the television stations for watching re-runs of MASH or Seinfield. In fact, I rarely even remember the next day anything I watched the night before.
TV has a hypnotic effect on people. A passive activity, it doesn't require any interaction or much thinking. It makes folks feel lethargic, lazy and dull. I can't prove it, but I think TV dumbs me down. When I watch more than hour or so of TV, I lose my momentum and drive. I don't feel like starting projects or working on anything that takes too much effort. All I feel like doing is watching more TV and maybe opening up a bag of chips, preferably with some dip to go with it.
Is watching TV all bad? Of course not. It provides entertainment and a diversion. It can be an excellent way to relax a bit after a busy day. But we aren't reaching 10 weeks per year with just a little viewing. The TV habit can interfere with living a life. So how do you wean off the tube?
• Log the habit. How do you stack up against the national averages? Only one way to really know, and that is to write down your TV time for one week. Is there a pattern? You may find that you are watching a lot more than you realized.
• Start with a "no-TV" night one or two nights per week. No TV, zip, zilch. Go for a walk, bring out some games to play with the kids, or read a book. At first, you may see a family of "zombies" as they wander aimlessly unplugged from one activity to another. But you will be amazed how quickly everyone adjusts to other activities.
• Take a class. Any class. It can be one that gives you additional skills to advance your career, or one that broadens your interests. A literature review, a foreign language or simply relaxing making pottery will do more for you than watching folks with minimal talent compete on American Idol.
• Organize a project. This can be with other family members or by yourself. It can include cooking, baking, household chores, working outside, building something, painting, crafts, quilting, etc. Think about the best days you have. Chances are good that they are days you were able to complete your 'to do' list.
• Identify a replacement goal. What do you plan to do with all your "new" time? This is a great opportunity to focus on something you have been "meaning" to do but never had the time to accomplish. It could be that garden or reading the classics. You may try that sailing class you have talked about for the last ten years.
Time is the most important non-renewable resource we have. Don't lose a fifth of your life doing nothing.
Books:
Franny and Zooey, As I Lay Dying, Araby, Hemingway, Camus, Walt Whitman, Beat poetry, Hunter Thompson, Kafka, Anais Nin, Pablo Neruda, William Blake, Shakespeare, Amy Tan, The 4 Agreements, The Hasheesh Eater, How to Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui which I have let about a dozen people borrow. Self Help books. I collect old Sunset cookbooks and I love DOVER Publications for inspiration.
Edgar Allen Poe:
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.
Heroes:
Strong women and good mothers. Single parents. People that don't BS and refrain from gossip. Real dreamers that don't care what others think. Optimists. People that don't just think about themselves and help to create a better world for future generations. Politically-aware-hardcore-punk-straight-edge kids. Those with good math skills and excellent credit. Self-taught musicians. Kim Gordon and Carla Bozulich. Hunter Thompson~~Goodnight Champion
