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Lisa

More cowbell.

About Me

I am me. While I am being me these days, I am also directing a film. Please check it out: www.hisnameisbob.com. Kenny Withrow of the New Bohemians is writing the score. We're going to have a screening of the rough cut this fall so please show up and support this film!

My Interests

Reading,comedy,theology, painting from my dreams...

I'd like to meet:

People who get me. But as far as dead people go, Mother Teresa, and Lucille Ball, for starters. For alive people,Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, Christopher Guest,David Cross, Wil Farrell, Conan O'Brien, and Ellen. And for pure animal instinct purposes: Gavin DeGraw and Christian Bale.

Music:

Silversun Picksups,Frou Frou, The Shins, Frank Black,The Slits, Citizen Cope, Umbrellas, The Appleseed Cast and all the other guys on The Militia Group CD, Flaming Lips, Badly Drawn Boy, Gomez, Bob Mould, Richard Thompson, The Raconteurs, Flyleaf, New Bohemians, Def Leppard, Ozzy Osborne, Yo La Tengo, Elliot Smith, Rufus Wainwright, Jeff Buckley, Rage Against the Machine, Keane, Muse, The Thrills, Puddle of Mudd, Audioslave, Chris Cornell (LOVE Tom Morello), Dandy Warhols, Crash Vegas, Edith Piaf, Patty Griffin, The Roots, The Donnas, Chaka Khan (guilty pleasure), Morphine, Beck, Shawn Colvin, Korn, Joni Mitchell, Nine Inch Nails, The Who, Ravonettes, The Verve, Prince, Johnny Marr, Nina Hagen, Dominatrix, The Cure, Led Zeppelin, OutKast, Kings of Leon, Parliament, ACDC, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, Billy Bragg, Requiems (Rutter, Faure), Perfect Circle, Radiohead, La Boehem (by Puccini), Switchfoot, Madonna, Massive Attack, Coldplay, Samuel Barber, Ravel to name a few.

Movies:

"What About Bob?", "Annie Hall," anything Woody Allen, Christopher Guest, Whit Stillman ("Metropolitan", "Barcelona") or Jim Jarmusch ("Stranger Than Paradise"), "Diva," "Liquid Sky," "Harold & Maude," "Rushmore," "The Graduate," (especially) "Office Space," "Amelie," "Trading Places"...there's more. You'll have to ask. .. .. ..

Television:

"Reno 911", "I Love Lucy," "Family Guy," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Seinfeld" (of course), "The Office (from England, not the US)," "South Park," "Carol Burnett," "Ali G," "Sopranos," "Sex and The City," "Waiting for God," "Wil and Grace," "Saturday Night Live" (when Wil Farrell was on), "The Vicar of Dibley," "Are You Being Served?" "Conan," and any news show like CNN. Oh, and "King of The Hill," and "X-Files."

Books:

"A Confederacy of Dunces," "The Secret History," "Seven Story Mountain," there are so many...Sarah Vowell and Al Franken's works, Tennyson, Woody Allen, Sylvia Plath, Ann Sexton... .. .. ..

Heroes:

Bill W., Conan O' Brien, Ann Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Woody Allen, Mark Rothko, John F. Kennedy, my mother, my father, my brothers, everyone at Cornerstone,Henry Nouwen, Thomas Merton, Joseph Campbell, Ghandi, Jesus, the Essenes...just for starters.

My Blog

Can someone please explain...

..the cult of the dj? The disc jockey? The person who simply puts music in order? And then plays it?
Posted by Lisa on Wed, 09 May 2007 09:06:00 PST

Dad

  When I meet you in the netherworld when I am nothing and you are nothing we can tell each other the secrets we hid, the secret lives we led inside and out you can sleep with nameless men if ...
Posted by Lisa on Tue, 08 May 2007 07:01:00 PST

I fall

I fall into laughing waters, knowing their green knowledge will save me and take me to a place where roses dance.     I fall into my fear, grasping my left hand, looking for purple hope an...
Posted by Lisa on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 05:32:00 PST

The Beautiful Ache

  ...is where I live. If I were a song, I'd be "Do You Realize?" by the Flaming Lips. I am emotionally generous because if I see a beautiful face, or a dazzling sunset, I will address them/it and...
Posted by Lisa on Sat, 29 Jul 2006 03:41:00 PST

As John Patrick Shanley...

the playwright said, and I'm paraphrasing, there is a man that lives who is frightfully aware of every second of every day and lives it with all the depth of his being and with the knowledge that at a...
Posted by Lisa on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 10:04:00 PST

I can't resist

this rant. Okay...it's late night. Conan is over. I'm ready for bed. The face is washed. The requisite lotions are applied. I've taken my said tinctures and prescriptions and I'm very c...
Posted by Lisa on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 11:17:00 PST

Not to be a naysayer, but...

okay, I have to take on this saying: "Everything happens for a reason." EVERYTHING? Even a convenience store clerk who got a second job to pay for his wedding who got shot in the head and chest and di...
Posted by Lisa on Mon, 09 Jan 2006 09:03:00 PST

Aaaahhh, the holidays...

Well, it's here. Those days in which you are supposed to be filled with glee and joy and happiness and gratitude and all that crap. Truth is, it's the time of year when a lot of suicides take place. L...
Posted by Lisa on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 09:53:00 PST

Vanity glasses and other sundries

Okay, so I've known a couple of people who wear these glasses, you know, glasses they don't really need to see. You know how you can tell? Stand behind them, like by their shoulder, and look THROUGH t...
Posted by Lisa on Fri, 09 Dec 2005 01:27:00 PST

The epitome of post-modernism

I don't get "Lost." Or other serial shows that usurp people's lives. Maybe it's me. I understand the purpose of art is many: One, perhaps, is to escape the doldrums of one's life. I just like my art f...
Posted by Lisa on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 06:50:00 PST