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About Me

Born in Georgia. Fled to California. The full story at Zauberwelt .

My Interests

piano, flute, opera, classical music, music, theater, ballet, dance, modern art, TV, movies, dreams, hypnotism, the perverse, the tragic

I'd like to meet:

People who make things and do things

Music:

Richard Strauss, Beethoven, Duparc, Bjork, Bowie, Nina Simone, Aznavour, Judy Garland, Morrissey, Rufus Wainwright, Francis Poulenc, Mahler

Movies:

And the Ship Sails On, City of Women, I Heart Huckabees, Vertigo, eXistenZ, Juliet of the Spirits, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Birth, Maurice, Donkey Skin, The Man Who Fell to Earth, The Tenant, Death in Venice, Polanski, Cronenberg, Lynch, Fellini, Hitchcock, Peter Weir, Nicolas Roeg

Television:

Golden Girls, Wife Swap, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, Sex in the City, CBS5 News with Ken and Dana, Buffy, utter trash

Books:

Dhalgren, Imajica, Stanislav Lem, Patricia Highsmith, A.S. Byatt, E.M. Forster, Samuel R. Delany

Heroes:

Blanche Devereaux, Vladimir Horowitz, George Balanchine, Mark Morris, Kiri Te Kanawa, Ken Bastida, Dana King, Jean-Pierre Rampal

My Blog

San Francisco for Chicago

It's vacation time! Time to leave the eternal vacation of San Francisco for the temporary vacation of Chicago.And I've been sent off well. Last night I explored San Francisco in new ways with a new fr...
Posted by Paul on Thu, 08 May 2008 01:01:00 PST

Showgirls

Whee!I'm playing two little pieces -- Debussy's second Arabesque and a Moszkowski etude (Op. 72, No. 2) -- in a student recital at the San Francisco Conservatory's beautiful recital hall at 2:00 on Sa...
Posted by Paul on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:34:00 PST

Every stranger, heck yeah

Umm, okay. No one likes a sloppy drunk.But I’ve earned this drunk fair and square, and I bet the friends who helped me earn this drunk would even attest that I was only slightly drunk. Ah, well....
Posted by Paul on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 10:36:00 PST

Louis

Historically, I’ve been driven to write when I’m feeling most sorry for myself. I’m beginning to break out of that -- sometimes by patently censoring the negative feelings (which com...
Posted by Paul on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 11:04:00 PST

google

This is what I google: "why is vampire weekend so cute?"
Posted by Paul on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 12:11:00 PST

Recital time

It's time for a recital again! It seems like we just had one, but my records show that it was way back in August. This time we're focusing on the second Mendelssohn trio. I've been working on it dilig...
Posted by Paul on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:06:00 PST

Crabs

I could tell you about how water started pouring into my apartment at about 5:45 this morning, and about how I repositioned my neighbor's various chamberpots, but instead I'll share with you the happy...
Posted by Paul on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 04:15:00 PST

Reveille

The wind zipping through the slats reminded me of that morning several months ago. He had leaned across the back of the bed to grab the pull of the blinds, and his bare back had competed with the sacr...
Posted by Paul on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:03:00 PST

It’s my party.

Well, all in all I had a nice birthday. I'm pleased to be 32. Thirty-two is flirty, too.I spent the bulk of the day in intense jury deliberation. I'd love to tell you how it's going, but I'd have to k...
Posted by Paul on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:40:00 PST

Tchaikovsky and a special guest

The concert Wednesday night was so stunning I barely had enough time to feel sorry for myself. One of life's chiefest glories is to be within a dozen feet of a human who has turned his or her body int...
Posted by Paul on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 07:52:00 PST