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houseopaul

WE ARE NEVER GONNA SURVIVE UNLESS WE GET A LITTLE CRAZY!!!!!!

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Anyone Who has something interesting or very funny to say.

Music:

Different genre for different mood. I dance to Jazz, like rap when i am angry, Rock or hip hop when happy, Blues to melancholy, classical when I'm soul searching and African-drumming ....well....you know.Si Pero No,by Alex Cuba.Rach singing Norah Jones - "Don't Know Why"Midnight Star "Freak-a-zoid"

Movies:

Lawrence of Arabia. Two for the money. The great debaters. The Thomas Crown Affair. American gangster, "V For Vendetta", "Scent of a Woman","Ferris Bueller's Day Off". "The Shawshank Redemption" "Wall Street" "Good Will Hunting" "A Few Good Men" "City Of God" "The God Father trilogy" "Blood Diamond". The Breakfast Club. Murder of crows, PBS House of cards trilogy. Boiler Room

Television:

Rick Mercer Report, This hour has 22 minutes, Nightly Business Report, Knowledge Network, Comedy central, Fortune Hunters, Dragon's Den, Boston Legal and Business News Network.Boston Legal Clip

Books:

Reading "A Long Way Gone" by Ishmael Beah "Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom "The Book of Five Rings" by Miyamoto Musashi. James Patterson's "Pop Goes The Weasel" and "Cross" Daniel Yergin's "The Prize" and "The Commanding Heights" everything that has ever been written by James Baldwin. Niccolo Machiavelli's "The Prince"&" The Art of War" Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations". Who moved my cheese by Spencer Johnson. Goerge Orwell's Animal farm. "Things fall apart" by Chinua Achebe. Salman Rushdie's "Satanic verses" and "Fury" David Sedris "Me talk pretty one day"&"Children playing before a statue of Hercules". Plato's "Republic" Think big act small by Jason Jennings.J D Salinger's " The Catcher in the Rye".Aaaaah Can't think of any more books i've read.

Heroes:

"Any man holding a Sledgehammer in his hands." The wise old washingtonian who told me "It's not how much i make but how much i keep in my pocket" And whoever wrote this Rhyme(A WISE OLD OWL LIVED IN AN OAK THE MORE HE SAW THE LESS HE SPOKE,THE LESS HE SPOKE, THE MORE HE HEARD, WHY AREN'T WE ALL LIKE THAT OLD BIRD)

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My Blog

UPSIDE-DOWN CHURCH

For sometime now there has been uproar over a piece of art in my neighborhood. The Upside down church as it is called; the name basically describes the Art. Our city council has decided to remove the ...
Posted by houseopaul on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 07:20:00 PST

Illegitimis non carborundum.

Lots of my friends wanna know the meaning of Illegitimis non carborundum. I was in my teens when i first saw those words on the office wall at World Bank down in Washington DC. It has been my creedo e...
Posted by houseopaul on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 01:04:00 PST

Goals and Savings

If you do not know your goals in life you may as well go out partying everyday and travel constantly. Traveling and partying is good just not constantly. The Tories unveiled the budget last week, gla...
Posted by houseopaul on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:43:00 PST

Proposed Tax Measures.

To all my Canadian friends who are consumers or own businesses.Effective January 1, 2008. GST reduces from 6% to 5%, HST from 14% to 13%GST/ HST re...
Posted by houseopaul on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:18:00 PST

Cohiba is Cuban Period

This is a reality check! I am not a smoker, in fact I am allergic to smoke and dust but the Cuban in me on special occasion puff just enough Cohiba not to get sick. Cohiba is only made in Cuba period ...
Posted by houseopaul on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:19:00 PST

Where is the respect for the Loonie ?

It is clear to most that the Loonie has soared to heights not seen since the 50's. At this very moment .94 loonie will get you one Greenback. The loonie's gain is mostly in part of the American econo...
Posted by houseopaul on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 09:14:00 PST

Mortality

The first time I grappled and questioned mortality was the horribly tragic automobile accident that took the life of my grandmother. I was  young enough to believe she will resurrect just like Je...
Posted by houseopaul on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:46:00 PST

IPhone verses HTC Touchflo

As i peck away......the biggest hoopla of the day is IPhone. For the past year and a half i have had a similar device that runs on windows. I am not knocking down IPhone......Trust me i ...
Posted by houseopaul on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:25:00 PST

Elsa's own words

Written by Elsbro. Member of the Del Toro klanEvery so often, I like to audit my life. The first couple of times I tried this, I was so disappointed a wave of subtle depression overcame me. The next c...
Posted by houseopaul on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:52:00 PST

Beer verses Makeup

Hard to tell who won..........   ...
Posted by houseopaul on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:43:00 PST