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About Me

I'm studying literature, work part-time at a New Age Bookshop and am devoted to Vietnam and all things Vietnamese. I would describe my spirituality as a complex melange - a bricolage, if you like. A Queer Buddhist, a fascinated Swedenborgian, a low-level Hindu and sometime Benedictine. I try to stay motivated and do my best to be a nice person...

My Interests

Spirituality, Literature, Self-help, Buddhism, Travel, Vietnam, Asia in general, Abundance, Art, Style, Swedenborg, Study and Queer Theory, meditation, Unitarianism

I'd like to meet:

Is this too much for Myspace?

Music:

Sophie Ellis Bextor, Boy George, Dead or Alive, Marilyn, The Blow Monkeys, Bananarama, Shirley Bassey, Bach, Lord Berners, Scritti Politti, Diana Ross, The Dugites, Eartha Kitt, Tracey Thorn, RuPaul, Al Green, Cilla Black, Petula Clark, Prefab Sprout

Movies:

Can't Stop the Music, Xanadu, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Glass Bottom Boat, Evita, Eyes of Laura Mars, Scent of Green Papaya, Unfolding Florence, The Lover

Television:

Doctor Who, Space 1999, Absolutely Fabulous, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, The Doris Day Show, George and Mildred, Are You Being Served, Big Brother, Monkey, Extras

Books:

Elinor Glyn, Ronald Firbank, Nancy Mitford, Oscar Wilde, E. F. Benson, Thich Nhat Hanh, Kathleen Norris, Marianne Williamson, Martha Beck, David Sedaris, Edmund White, Marcel Proust

Heroes:

Boy George, Oscar Wilde, Thich Nhat Hanh, Karen Armstrong, Divine, Louise Hay, Emanuel Swedenborg, Fr. Laurence Freeman, Ada Leverson

My Blog

Diana Ross - Love Hangover (Midnight Special 1976)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbC8PQdZ2ag ...
Posted by Walter on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:25:00 PST

Boy George-Keep Me in Mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsUfNo7e_hQ Ah, such wistful memories. This is George in calypso mode, recovering from heroin addiction. He is so beautiful here (weren't we all?) and this so...
Posted by Walter on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:58:00 PST

Car Wash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMJcQBJPcpA In between doing my essay I watched "Carwash", which put me into the perfect frame of mind for serious intellectual endeavour! Words can't express ...
Posted by Walter on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:57:00 PST

Ginger Rogers - Let Yourself Go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU6DAECGiQw Hmm, this little clip may be the reason I'm gay. When I was in my early teens I was in the habit of taping the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musi...
Posted by Walter on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:30:00 PST

Curiosity Killed The Cat - Name And Number

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3HAA4TmBx0 Does anyone really remember Curiosity Killed the Cat anymore? They were the prototype of the Boy Band. I loved them when I was a young thing....
Posted by Walter on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 09:37:00 PST

Michael Tolliver Lives

I've been briefly distracted from my thesis and an enormous essay by Armistead Maupin's wonderful new book Michael Tolliver Lives. OK, so I know it ain't high art, but it really didn't deserve the dru...
Posted by Walter on Wed, 28 May 2008 01:28:00 PST

Sweden must win Eurovision

I have absolutely fallen in love with Charlotte Perrelli, and think she is a shoe-in to win this year's Eurovision. Ukraine is pretty fab this year too, and following up close behind are the gorgeous ...
Posted by Walter on Sat, 24 May 2008 04:20:00 PST

Australia’s New Woman Bishop

Delighted to hear that the Anglican Church in Australiahas consecrated their first female Bishop, and I'd like to send my prayers and good wishes to Bishop Kay Goldsworthy. This is a landmark event, a...
Posted by Walter on Fri, 23 May 2008 08:57:00 PST

The Beatitudes

Because I love them:From Matt 5:3-10Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.Blessed are the meek: for they shall posses the land.Blessed are they who mourn: for they shall ...
Posted by Walter on Wed, 21 May 2008 05:12:00 PST

Boy George Has His Own Market Stall?

I think that perhaps the reports are exaggerated.I'm sure that Georgeis just doing a little publicity for his groovy fashion label B-Rude (if only they did plus-sizes that George and I could actually ...
Posted by Walter on Tue, 20 May 2008 12:58:00 PST