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George

...you can't hide when you're crippled inside...

About Me

Capricorn (Aquarian rising).Creative.Free Spirit.Music Lover & Player.Cubs/Bears/Bulls Fan through thick and thicker.

My Interests

Besides Music...road trippin', writing, reading, walking, meeting street people, coffeehouses, museums, photography, drawing, Chicago, interesting bars, fascinating architecture, nature, Autumn...

I'd like to meet:

Anyone with a response to the following:There's no resistance to your existence, only the shadows that you create.

Music:

Anything & Everything!!! Some notables...Beatles, John Lennon, U2, Savopoulos, Open Road Love Affair, Motown, Hip Hop (esp. Old Skool), Dylan, G. Love, Bumpus, Cure, Radiohead, Switchback, Muddy Waters, Art Blakey, Dizzy, Coltrane, Davis, Jazz (no fusion!), Bob Marley, Jimi, Billie, Frank, Sammy, Stevie, POLL, Smiths, Cat Stevens, Johnny Cash, Portishead, Stravinsky, Old Skool Funk, Zeppelin, Leadbelly, Tzitzanis, Grateful Dead, Elvis, Aretha Franklin, Electronica, Acid Jazz, African Tribal (Trad.), Rebetika, Irish Drinking Songs, Da Bears Fight Song, Digital Esti, the Clash, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente...and everything else in between...

Movies:

The (Original) Trilogy, Karate Kid, Casablanca, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Say Anything, Reality Bites, Good Will Hunting, the Graduate, Scarface, Goodfellas, Metropolis, Wizard of Oz, Hiroshima Mi Amore, Zorba the Greek, Never On Sunday, Blues Brothers, Much Ado About Nothing, Impromtu, Run Lola Run, Wedding Crashers, Swingers, And God Created Woman, Hard Day's Night, Help!, the Shining, Old School, Il Postino, Airplane, Forest Gump, So I Married an Axe Murderer, L.A. Story

Television:

Simpsons, South Park, Infomercials, Three's Company, random channel flipping...

Books:

Again, a mass hysteria of anything! Some highlights: Zorba the Greek (Kazantzakis), Mephisto (K. Mann), Doctor Faustus (T. Mann), Notes from Underground (Dostoyevsky), Master and Magarita (Bulgokov), Dhammapada, Ideas and Opinions (Einstein), Pre-Socratic Philosophers, Derrida, Lem, Live from New York, the World's Biggest Bathroom Reader, Beckett, Brecht, Ritsos, Cavafy, Wicked (MacGuire), Nausea (Sartre), Lamb: the Gospel Accoring to Biff (Moore), Burning of the Fragile Fire (Mihalopoulos), the Onion, and, of course, a good periodical...

Heroes:

The Open Road