I'm artistic and creative to the extreme, eclectic, esoteric, emphatic, empathetic, elusive, exotic, with an edge towards eccentricity.
Oh, and I think I'm a Pirate, too...
Just humor me and enjoy the ride, (my therapist would be grateful):
Aye,my guilty pleasure aka treasure is dining at a voluminous and opulant Sunday Brunch with really good friends (Dim Sum works, too)!
I often go to Disneyland just for the breakfast buffet at the Storyteller's Cafe:
I don't even go into the park. I savor the meal and sample everything, enjoy the company of my guests then I drive home and pass out in front of the TV!
ALL KIN-DRED PIRATES IN SPIRIT (inside or out).
And, even after ALL of these years, I STILL have a thing for Dorothy Hamill!
Go figure? Can you believe that? Or should I say go figure...skate?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure Freud would have a field-day with that one.
Arrh, this be a good place fer a non sequitur:
SELF PITY
"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."
-D.H. Lawrence
Arrh, I know it sounds like a cliche, but I really do listen to EVERYTHING from Luciano Pavarotti to Linkin' Park (seriously)
Ohh, and of course, The Pussycat Dolls!:
Arrh, and I be as serious 'bout films as I be 'bout piratin'! Thusly, I stand vigilante to defend or debate in depth these choices...
MY TOP FORTY-FOUR favorite films (OK, 45 if you don't consider The Godfather Parts I & II as ONE long movie like I do). Also, this order is not set in stone and is subject to sudden mood swings:
1. Casablanca (1942):
2. Seven Samurai (1954):
3. Diva (1981):
4. The Godfather:I&II (1972,1974):
5. Singin' in the Rain (1952):
6. Wings of Desire (1987):
7. Stop Making Sense (1984):
8. Fight Club (1999):
9. Shall We Dansu? (1996):
10. Memento (2002):
11. The Matrix (1999):
12. Gross Point Blank (1997):
13. The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984):
14. Being There (1979):
15. Rear Window (1954):
16. Ghost Busters (1984):
17. The Long Ships (1963):
18. Sense and Sensibilty (1995):
19. The NeverEnding Story (1984):
20. L.A. Confidential (1997):
21. Tampopo (1985):
22. King of Hearts (1966):
23. Lilo and Stitch (2002):
24. Team America:World Police (2004):
25. "300" (2006):
26. "Young Frankenstein" (1974):
27. "The Warriors" (1979):
28. "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead" (1990):
29. "Dark City" (1998):
30. "Murder By Death" (1979):
31. "Joe Versus The Volcano" (1990):
32. "My Favorite Year" (1982):
33. "Dead Again" (1991):
34. "The Point" (1971):
35. "Soleil Rouge" (1971):
36. "Hear My Song" (1991):
37. "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994):
38. "The Golden Child" (1986):
39. "Real Genius" (1985):
40. "La Femme Nikita (1990):
41. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000):
42. "Dances With Wolves" (1990):
43. "Big Trouble In Little China" (1986):
44. "Subway" (1985):
In no particular order(isn't TIVO wonderful?!):
History Channel
Sci-Fi Channel
ESPN
LOST
Law & Order
Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
Aaron Sorkin's West Wing
Kung Fu
E.R.
South Park
Farscape
Animaniacs:
Twilight Zone (original series)
Whose Line is it Anyway?
Monty Python's Flying Circus
MI-5
The Muppet Show
Xena-Warrior Princess:
Stargate SG-1
NYPD Blue
Veronica Mars
Star Trek (original series, of course):
Shogun
by James Clavell:
ALL the Harry Potter Books
by J.K. Rowling:
The Minds of Billy Milligan
by Daniel Keyes:
Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams:
The Man Who Planted Trees
by Jean Giono:
Dune
by Frank Herbert:
Where's Waldo?
by Martin Handford:
Who Moved My Cheese?
by Dr. Spencer Johnson:
"Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?"
-Benjamin Franklin
"Exagerate the essential and leave the obvious vague." - Vincent Van Gogh:
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them, well, I have others."
-Groucho Marx:
"I'm the best there is at what I do."
-Wolverine/Logan:
"My method is different."
- Nikola Tesla:
"And you may say to yourself: How do I work this?"
-David Byrne/Talking Heads:
"Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable."
-William Shakespeare:
"Total Concentration: It is like a finger pointing the way to the moon. But do not concentrate on the finger or you will miss all the heavenly glory."
- Bruce Lee:
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
-Albert Einstein:
"People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want."
- Terry Gilliam:
"Why don't you and your friends stay for dinner, Boy? I cooked this for you."
-My Pop (pHoto circa 30's):
...still wish we had more time.
Albert Einstein
asked the
question that
sometimes drives
me hazy:
"AM I...
OR THE OTHERS,
CRAZY?"