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Diane

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I unwillingly squeezed out of my mother's womb around 5 am Atlantic time. With great time restraint and difficulty my dad drove my mom and my sleeping sister to the Orlando hospital. But a skunk blocked the trail and my mother yelled "Frank watch out!" Which probably made him more nervous and irritable. And a worse driver.
Funny enough, I recall this incident. Whether I was hovering over the rusty Rambler in spirit, waiting to spring the womb or because I heard the story a zillion times over pork chops and gravy. My sister doesn't remember; she was asleep, taking up the whole back seat. But not for long...he-he. When I said I remembered the skunk, she said "No you don't, ya moron!" She said it in a loving way as she twisted my arm artfully behind my back.
I figure the skunk was the beginning of a life-long motif. Even though I was apprehensive about leaving the womb, I did. But the poor skunk died.
VANETA -Vancouver English Through Art School Inc. I am currently working on my business plan-I am opening a performing arts school for ESL in Vancouver. I taught ESL for 8 years and used all my experience in acting, directing, dancing, voice, script writing and film to teach English. My students learned quickly. I am now working on my curriculum for VANETA. The school will be opening in 2008. When we have a location and website I will post it. There will be testimonials of students, links to video I shot with them and more.BACK BURNING PROJECTS:
'Peace Through Music' project - needs funding
Fountain's Follies- script is in circulation
Children's book with illustrator from LA- we will be starting on this project again soon
Documentary on Fran Dowie-'Last of the Vaudevillians' - he justed passed at age 86- will put the link for his demo doc on soon along with the short bio I wrote for Hal Sisson's book on the burlesque in 2005!!
but this takes time-we're busy editing!!!! Of course, there are other back burning projects-
Like getting more film clips on this site...check 'Dueling Lotus' below!!!!!!
Yes, the pic of the beautiful meditating dancer below is a link to the short that screened in NYC and Cannes Market Place in 2004-
Dueling Lotus clip is ... Click Here to view it.
More clips will be added to this page.
Myspace.com Blogs - How Real Is Your Reality? - Mr Highland Seer MySpace Blog
http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog....

this is worth a read-we definitely need to remind ourselves that we are always creating and are responsible for our realities.

My Interests

staying sane.

I'd like to meet:

inspiring, unpretentious people...like Gandi, Virgin Mary (how'd she do that?), Mother Therasa, Jane Roberts, Edgar Cayce, Buddha, Santa Clause- hmm, they're all dead.

Music:

SHEEPBELLY - Adam Lautsch

Billie Holiday, BB King, Tom Waits, Dylan, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, Band, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, Jimi Hendrix, Doors, Marvin Gaye, Mana, Yellow Monkey, Coldplay, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, Bonnie Raitt, Joni Mitchell, Jann Arden, Toni Amos, Jane Sibery,David Bowie, Nirvana, Leonard Cohen, Pearl Jam, Blondie, Roxy Music, Talking Heads, Rammones, Go-Gos, Joan Jett, Sex Pistols, Pat Benatar, Tori Amos, Little Feat, Kinks, Daniel Johnston, Ricky Lee Jones, Jeff Buckley, Mario Lonza, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Nick Cave, Tracy Chaplin, Johnny Cash, Carter family, Jimmy Rogers, Willie Nelson, Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop, Pretenders, Louis Armstrong, Bette Midler, Annie Lennox, Kate Bush, Madeliene Peyroux, Cat Power, Traveling Wilburys, Ry Cooder, John Prine, Neil Young, George Harison, Ravi Shankar, Mozart, Amos Lee, Jenny Lewis, Damian Rice, Billy Bragg and Wilco, Seu Jorge, Lucinda Williams, Lhasa, Arcade Fire, Sheepbelly Revue, Carl Craig...................old jazz, blues, new folk.

Movies:

don't get me started- from The Thin Man series, Hitchcock films, Casablanca, Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton and Chaplin films, Harold and Maude, Usual Suspects, Hedwick and the Angry Inch, The Last Walz, The Commitments, Strange Fruit, Spinal Tap, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, La Diner de Cons, Truly, Madly, Deeply, La Cage aux Folles, La Lingua del Santo, Princess Bride, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Full Monty, Lock Stock and two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Waking Ted Devine, An Everlasting Piece, Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Edward Scissorhands, Rossana's Grave, El Mariachi, Le Placard, Neuve Reinas, Annie Hall, Pulp Fiction, Virgin Suicides, Freda, Beautiful Mind, to newer films like Edukator, Hana, Paris Je t'aime...

Television:

House, Medium, Monk, Family Guy, Rescue Mediums, some documentaries and reruns of Ab-Fab, Sex in the City, Fawlty Towers, Thin Blue Line, My Family, Red Dwarf, Blackadder, Jeeves and Wooster, Waiting for God and British murder mysteries like Inspector Morse, Sherlock Holmes...

Books:

Ham on Rye, Post-Office, Seth books by Jane Roberts, There is a River, James Baldwin's work, Steven King's book on Writng, Jitterbug Perfume, Confederacy of Dunces, Disappearing Moon Cafe, Trout Fishing in America, Travis McGee paperbacks, White Teeth, Fear and Loathing, Mark Twain, Wally Lamb's first 2 novels,Amy Tan's work, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austin, Alice Walker, Robertson Davies, Glory Days by Rosie Scott, Wonderland, Memoirs of a Geisha, PG Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster...

Heroes:

Gandi, my dad for raising my sister and I single-handedly in a time when few men did, Rosa Parks, my sister for hitting a bully on the head with a geography book after he hit me on the school bus, (she was pregnant), Martin Luther King, Gloria Steinem, my son, Adam for sticking up for the underdog, Mother Therasa, my partner, Carl for taking on a single mother 12 years ago when he had no intentions of having kids and his mother, Dorothy for not killing her 10 kids.

My Blog

THE FUNERAL

I went to a funeral the other day. It was for an 86-year-old vaudevillain I'd worked with 20 years ago...back when I was still keen on dressing in a pink fuzzy rabbit suit to do the can-can. A gig's a...
Posted by Diane on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:01:00 PST

NATURAL DISASTERS

          I remember hurricanes in Florida as a kid; palm trees collapsing in the night, wading in shin-high rain water under citrus trees and the joy of h...
Posted by Diane on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 08:01:00 PST

'INVISIBLE' published 1996 journal

Not whencamouflagedmaskedveiledshroudedincognitosauntering downside streetshair stuffedin a fedoraa trench coatsilently following.Only whencraving recognitionfor that jobthat decorates checkbookswith ...
Posted by Diane on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:16:00 PST

COMPUTER GRAVEYARD

My basement is full of metal skeletons, lifeless and cold. No one mourns their passing. Not even the human who left them on the cement beside the kitty litter. When their usefulness expired they wer...
Posted by Diane on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 05:47:00 PST

'MARGARET' published in Siren, 1997

Propped up on play-doh thighsI felt significantly safewe conspired in hope,the grey spirals that I plucked for a penny a pieceto make you feel better,eyes that were deeper than the Dead Seabut calmer,...
Posted by Diane on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:53:00 PST

MY SPACE SHOW-OFF

Well, I've been on myspace for 2 days. And even though I had a rocky start  by losing everything I'd written after my first sitting, it's been quite satisfying- It's down right addictive. Especia...
Posted by Diane on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 07:39:00 PST