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About Me

We are Matthew Ziegler and Jennifer Willis (aka thesparkles) I am from Peoria, Il originally and Jennifer is for Salem Oregon. We live in the best city in the world (San Francisco.) We are deadheads who met at a Jerry Garcia Band show at the Warfield theatre. We share our lives with our two beautiful kittys China and Daphne. We enjoy live music, bad tv, and street gardening. We also collect toys and action figures. Jennifer is in law school now I am working full time. We are also very in to Michael Franti and Spearhead. I run a fan site called www.lovisdashit.com and work on archiving live shows on archive.org. We are both very liberal people who are working to make the world a better place.

My Interests

Live Music, Politics, Toy Collection, The Simpsons, Reality TV, Food , True Crime, Comic Books, Art, Visual Media,

I'd like to meet:

People from our past. Spearhead fans, deadheads, activitists, artists, musicians, good loving people committed to changing the world.

Music:

Michael Franti and Spearhead, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia, Indigo Girls, The Who, Queen, Bob Marley, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, David Bowie, The Beatles, Sound Tribe Sector Nine, Miles Davis, Stevie Ray Vaugn, Madonna, Britney Spears, Spice Girls, We dig it all. :-)

Movies:

Prof Noam Chomsky


Noam Chomsky speaks to BBC's Francine Stock at London's St Paul's Cathedral, Dec '02.Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture video: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/2005 /pinter-lecture.htmlFrancine Stock: Since you first started in political activism in the sixties, do you feel that you have made a great deal of headway?Noam Chomsky: I think the country has made a great deal of headway and I'm happy to participate in it, but it's not traceable to individuals....If you go back to the sixties…there was no feminist movement, no Third World solidarity movements, no substantial anti-nuclear movement, no global justice movements. These are all developments of the last twenty or thirty years and they come from all over the place. For example, the solidarity movements...are quite unique - there's never been a time when people from the aggressor country went to the victims and lived with them to try to protect them.That happened in the eighties - tens of thousands of Americans did it and they came from conservative circles. A lot of it was church based. And it came from Main Street in the United States, and now it's all over the world.

The Power of Nightmares - Part 3: The Shadows in the Cave


Public Domain (2004)

The Power of Nightmares Part 2: The Phantom Victory - by Adam Curtis


This originally aired on the BBC in 2004.

The Power of Nightmares Part 1: Baby it's Cold Outside - by Adam Curtis


This originally aired on the BBC in 2004.

Television:

The Simpsons, Fast Lane, Survivor, CSI, Amazing Race, Frontline, Big Love, Roller Girls, Married with Children, Star Trek, Project Runway, America's Next Top Model

Books:

Noam Chomsky, Arundhati Roy, many more... "Free Thinkers" Susan Jacoby, Karen Finley, Bad Star Wars books, Piers Anthony, Douglas Adams. Jennifer is a big reader but I will not speak for her.

Heroes:

Marla Ruzicka,Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Jerry Garcia, Jean Luc-Picard, Jello Biafra, David Brock,

My Blog

Is this thing on?

My first blog entry. Hopefully more to come
Posted by the sparkles on Tue, 09 May 2006 08:17:00 PST