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Cos

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.

About Me

Favorite haunts

Benicio Del Toro fan board: Beni's Angels
(Digital)Art and resources: DeviantART
Film information: IMDB
H'wood hijinx and news: Defamer

My Interests

Film, acting, digital art, travelling, reiki, spirit guides, tarot, runes...watching clouds roll by, dreaming.

I'd like to meet:

Joseph Campbell, Groucho Marx, Marcus Aurelius, Marc Chagall and a slew of actors too numerous to mention.

I love Bugs Bunny.

I think monsters are the most interesting people!
~Bugs Bunny


I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.
~Groucho Marx

Music:

The Police, The Rolling Stones, Neil Young, The Beatles, U2, Ozomatli, Wolfmother, Tom Waits, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, The Police, Foo Fighters, Van Morrison, Stan Getz, Vince Guaraldi, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Joni Mitchell, Ben Harper, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Dianne Schurr, Nina Simone, George Winston, Paco De Lucia.

Movies:

Films by John Huston, Akira Kurosawa, Pedro Almodovar, Martin Scorcese and Alfred Hitchcock. Breakfast at Tiffany's, anything by Hitchcock, The French Connection, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Scarface, The Godfather, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, Get Carter.

Actors I admire: Benicio Del Toro, Ed Norton, Al Pacino, Michael Caine, Sean Penn, Paul Giamatti, William H. Macy, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Kate Winslet, Judy Dench, Cate Blanchett, Laura Linney

Television:

House, Grey's Anatomy (I got sucked in), British crime shows, Little Britain and just about everything the BBC produces. Oh - and I Love Lucy.

Books:

Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Maya Angelou, Wallace Stegner, Harper Lee, Truman Capote, W. Somerset Maugham, EM Forster, Joseph Campbell, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, David Mamet.

Heroes:

People who think for themselves and have the cojones to go after their dream.

My Blog

Know any goddesses...?

The Gallery of NSW has a exhibit of Goddess Divine Energy, which sounds inspirational so I'm making an artist's date with myself (as per The Artist's Way).  You can send a goddess message&n...
Posted by Cos on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:14:00 PST

Ed Norton

I've been thinking a lot about Ed Norton after having seen The Illusionist (I liked it - Ed Norton was great as was Paul Giamatti but the chemistry between Norton and Jessica Biel was zilch). He's one...
Posted by Cos on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 05:48:00 PST

Outfoxed...

An interesting documentary worth watching is Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism... It has a definite opinion - and from my personal observation of Fox News, it's spot-on.  Foxnews is sh...
Posted by Cos on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 05:30:00 PST

John Huston's birthday

IMDB had a poll commemorating John Huston's birth 100 years ago, asking which movie of his would be considered your favorite.  Which would you choose?  The Maltese Falcon The Treasure o...
Posted by Cos on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 12:40:00 PST

Lon Chaney classic

If you are interested in film history, silent and/or horror movies, Lon Chaney or Joan Crawford, I recommend seeing The Unknown (1927).  Lon Chaney plays an armless circus performer in ...
Posted by Cos on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:13:00 PST

MySpace a launch pad for next-gen media biz

There's an interesting article re: Myspace on Hollywoodreporter.com.  Did you know this website was the second largest on the Internet?  What the hell is the first I wonder.  That's a l...
Posted by Cos on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 11:58:00 PST

A movie worth seeing...

Jindabyne is a new movie by Ray Lawrence (of Lantana fame), starring Laura Linney, Gabriel Bryne and Debra Lee-Furness.  It's an engrossing, taut drama; Laura Linney is wonderful as is ...
Posted by Cos on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 11:03:00 PST

Tarot...

These cards are from the Cosmic deck; the imagery is beautiful....
Posted by Cos on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 10:11:00 PST

Marc Chagall and Marcus Aurelius are on my brain these days.

I was in Nice a couple years ago - unfortunately the  Chagall Museum was closed but I was able to see an exhibit of his work in Vienna, which was wonderful.  I love his use of colours a...
Posted by Cos on Sat, 15 Jul 2006 02:03:00 PST

...pictures...

Okay, some of the other work I've created which aren't posted in the pics area (I think, lol). ...
Posted by Cos on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:01:00 PST