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jou jou

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of pheno

About Me

Unrestrained by convention and propriety.


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My Interests

knowledge, art, beauty,
instinctive happiness,
and relations of friendship and affection.

I'd like to meet:


Christopher Walken, I hear he's a great dancer.

Music:

can't live without it.

Movies:

Paris, Texas,
IT'S HAPPINESS, a polka documentary,
Cinema Paradiso,
La Lectrice,
Election,
Say Anything,
The Breakfast Club,
The Professional,
Delicatessen,
The Triplets of Belleville,
Billy Elliot,
To Kill A Mocking Bird,
Harold and Maude,
Trainspotting,
Alien,
Resevoir Dogs,
Babe,
Milo and Otis,
Blacula,
The Princess Bride,
The Unbearable Lightness of Being,
Amelie,
Sense and Sensibility,
Little Voice,
Taxi Driver,
After Hours,
Pee-Wee's Big Adventure,
The Philadelphia Story,
GiGi,
Wings of Desire,
Wizard of Oz,
Breakfast at Tiffany's,
Repo Man,
Purple Rain,
Buena Vista Social Club,
Blue Velvet,
Blade Runner,
Stand By Me,
River's Edge,
The Insider,
Grease,
Dog Day Afternoon,
The Last Emperor,
Heavenly Creatures,
Sick:The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist,
Krush Groove,
Boogie Nights,
Natural Born Killers,
Jaws,
Finding Neverland,
The Pope of Greenwich Village,
Ladyhawke,
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen,
Brazil,
The Fog of War,
Lone Star,
El Mariachi,
everything with Fred Astaire, Cary Grant,
Kate and Audrey Hepburn,
Bogie and Bacall,
most everything by Alfred Hitchcock,
David Lynch,
Jim Jarmusch,
Hal Hartley,
Tim Burton,
Pedro Almodovar,
Wim Wenders,
John Waters and
Spike Lee,
Woody Allen and the list goes on...

Television:

Sometimes.

Books:

At the moment...Lullaby Supermarket(Yoshitomo Nara),Groucho Letters, Letters to and from Groucho Marx,A Curmudgeon's Garden of Love..."Read it with someone you love-while you still do."

Heroes:



Epicurus

Ira Glass

My Blog

In anticipation of the new Coen brothers movie

Based on the acclaimed novel by Pulitzer Prize-winningAmerican master Cormac McCarthy -The title of the novel comes from this classic Yeats poem- "Sailing to Byzantium"THAT is no country for old ...
Posted by jou jou on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:30:00 PST

A Polish Blessing

May your heart be as patient as the earthYour love as warm as harvest gold May your days be full, as the city is fullYour nights as joyful as dancersMay your arms be as welcoming as homeMay your faith...
Posted by jou jou on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:51:00 PST

The Fiddler of Dooney

By William Butler Yeats When I play on my fiddle in Dooney,Folk dance like a wave of the sea;My cousin is priest in Kilvarnet,My brother in Moharabuiee. I passed my brother and cousin: They read in t...
Posted by jou jou on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:34:00 PST

to me from w.b.

Jo Jo's World   Hark! For its that special day, when love is pledged and lovers say "I love you baby, will you be mine" or "Be my special valentine" But as for me, I'm not so sure Cuz love is fle...
Posted by jou jou on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 08:09:00 PST

by erica mann jong

The Buddha in the WombBobbing in the waters of the womb,little godhead, ten toes, ten fingers& infinite hope,sails upside down through the world.My bones, I know, are only a cagefor death.Meditat...
Posted by jou jou on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 10:24:00 PST

a poem by tim burton

VOODOO GIRLHer skin is white cloth,and she's all sewn apartand she has many colored pinssticking out of her heart.She has a beautiful setof hypno-disk eyes,the ones that she uses to hypnotize guys.She...
Posted by jou jou on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 03:17:00 PST

each friend

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born....
Posted by jou jou on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

aesthetics

"I think that natural truths will cease to be spat at us like insults, that aesthetics will once more be linked with ethics, and that people will become aware that in casting out aesthetics that they...
Posted by jou jou on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST