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a.c. on the d.l.

Often Invisible, Always Around ..

About Me

Highly anxious, moderately intelligent, slightly hot.

My Interests

Vintage Clothes & Curios, Music, Literature-periodicals & Social Activism.

I'd like to meet:

Those with like-minded interest & activity. No propositions, singles scene-related messages or invites from unknowns, though. Seriously. This probably means you.

Music:

Ultima Indie Rocker; Original/Traditional Folk, Country, Blues & Jazz, Ska, Dub & Reggae, Psychedelic, Garage & Alt. Americana, Euro-Chambre & Dream Pop, Tribal-Trance & Trip-Hop. The Storybook, Kaleidoscope, Electric Flag, Electric Prunes, Strawberry Alarm Clock & Peppermint Trolley Co.; The Monks, Sonics & Wailers; Love, Flamin' Groovies & Big Star; The Volebeats, Sadies, Miracle Legion, Lambchop & Ass Ponys; Half Japanese, Luna & Yo La Tengo; The Heart Throbs & Lush; Inspiral Carpets, Ride & Charlatans UK; Opal, Dream Syndicate & Dino, Jr.; Paula Frazer, Lisa Germano & Dido; Magnetic Fields, Massive Attack & Morcheeba.

Movies:

Foreign & Indies through the years - French, Italian & Spanish, mostly, w/some Netherlands, UK, US & Canada, as well - plus any Friedman, Wishman, Waters, Corman & Lewis classics. Cinema Paradiso, Mediterraneo; Wide Sargasso Sea, Intersection; Before Sunrise, Before Sunset; Gas, Food, Lodging, My Life Without Me, The Girl In The Cafe; Waking the Dead, Slingblade, Limbo; Head, Easy Rider, Psych-Out, The Trip; Frankenstein: The True Story, The Reincarnation of Peter Proud; A Small Town In Texas, The Last Picture Show, The Paper Chase, The Panic In Needle Park; Rivers Edge, A Simple Plan; Shaun of the Dead, But I'm A Cheerleader; Basquiat & Barcelona.

Television:

Mostly mezzo-echelon cable; BBC, Trio & Ovation (rip), Sundance & IFC. Plus, MPLEX & AmerLife w/movies & shows of the '50s - '70s. Big Love, Sex And The City, The Sopranos, (I'm not made of stone), House, Felicity, Six Degrees; Homicide: Life On The Street, Law & Order (all of them), Real Time w/Bill Maher, Love American Style, Ryan's Hope, Taxi, Seinfeld, That '70s Show, The Office, Extras, Dr. Katz, Reno 911, Halfway Home, Dog Bites Man & Strangers With Candy.

Books:

The Anatomy Of Hope, Man's Search For Meaning, The Year Of Magical Thinking, The White Album, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung, Mainlines, Blood Feasts and Bad Taste: A Lester Bangs Reader, Let It Blurt, And I Don't Want To Live This Life, The Diary Of Anne Frank & To Kill A Mockingbird.

Heroes:

Present: The Sacred Trinity that is Eds., DiMartino, Holdship & Kordosh; Al Gore, Howard Dean, George McGovern; Michael Eric Dyson, Jason Whitlock, Walter Mosley, Cornel West; Forrest Sawyer, Keith Olbermann, Dominick Dunne; Dr. Susan Forward, Betsey Johnson, Jerry Casale & Daisy Faragher. Personal: Sonia, Kathy, Heather & Amalia. Past: Jane Addams, Golda Meier, Barbara Jordan, Viola Liuzzo, Gerald Ford, Liviu Liberescu, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce & Lester Bangs.

My Blog

Susan Stroud.. Departs This Mortal Coil

 It's with great sadness that I heard the news about Susan Stroud. I was just thinking today about how when I learn news of someone's demise I immediately translate it into Greek; it seems to sou...
Posted by a.c. on the d.l. on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:34:00 PST

The Trip to the Dentist

For some reason all this month - all right, probably b/c the subject of script drugs has been a theme - my mind keeps drifting back to my third ever trip to the dentist. My pop's college pal was a den...
Posted by a.c. on the d.l. on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:43:00 PST

One More, Trauma Kiosk

Some years after the glass eye episode and before the lounge incident there a similar enough experience occurred. Like the first this one took place in the old country.. plenty of old to go around, ar...
Posted by a.c. on the d.l. on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 01:08:00 PST

Hey, Here's Another One ..

Somewhere along the line of my last yesteryear post, I recalled one later in my development. My godfather, a business owner, had a motel off the main highway. It had a coffee shop on one end & a n...
Posted by a.c. on the d.l. on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 12:20:00 PST

I Smoked A Refer In..

Sometime during the course of my undergrad studies an interesting theory came to my attention. I now remember it being from my Lifespan class. The professor noted a couple of studies that said as peop...
Posted by a.c. on the d.l. on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 12:23:00 PST

When I Was Young(er)

Today, as I was driving - I forget where as I was baddaydreaming anyway - in my neurotic haze I thought of my second cousin Georgie. One of two twins, in Greece, he would visit w/me when all the nutty...
Posted by a.c. on the d.l. on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 01:05:00 PST

The Twins Are Here - Early

I knew they couldn't wait until Halloween, let alone November when they were supposed to show up. So, I get a message on my machine from Sonia that she had the boys last night around midnight. Jacob &...
Posted by a.c. on the d.l. on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 12:40:00 PST

An Afternoon At The Urologist - They're Beginning To Ask

So, my day today, was filled w/forgetting to go to the pharmacy & taking my dad to the urologist, which wound up going into the early afternoon.Of course, the new-ish office was devoid of ventilation ...
Posted by a.c. on the d.l. on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:42:00 PST

I Saw The News Break Today, Oh Boy

What is this pathetic, yet ruthless, motherfucker doing on tv? Shouldn't Cheney be coaxing him off w/a cookie or something? He can't even spit out a sentence without some kind of jingoistic cliche o...
Posted by a.c. on the d.l. on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:57:00 PST

New Kitten, Finally!

This was becoming a bigger hassle than I thought it should be. Then I thought, the last two times I got kittens, one inferred its way into my life (via the old office) & the next were from an overcrow...
Posted by a.c. on the d.l. on Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:09:00 PST