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The Gay Expat

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About Me

American expat freshly in Paris with mere months of twentysometing left in me.You say dilletante, I say elcectic.Perpetual optimist with heavy-handed convictions and a past that could give 100 Euro perms daily to a long line of innocents.I believe in the power of love. You can call me naive, but I still believe.

My Interests

Now. Right Now.

I'd like to meet:

Babes In The Woods. Babes In Arms. Babes In Toyland.

Music:

Saint Etienne, Morrissey, Marr + The Smiths, Rufus Wainwright, The Sundays, Lady Miss Kier + Deee-Lite, Acid House, Edith Piaf, Massive Attack, Blondie, Esquivel, Madonna, Serge Gainsbourg, Ella Fitzgerald, Stereolab, Belle & Sebastien, Dinah Washington, Saint Saens, Mozart, Bootsy Collins, Pizzacato 5, Richard Rodgers, Felix Da Housecat, Kander & Ebb, Simon & Garfunkel, Cole Porter, The Indigo Girls, Françoise Hardy, The Cardigans, Ms. Dusty Springfield, ABBA, Prokiev, John Lennon + The Beatles, Steven Sondheim, Marc Almond, Mint Royale, Erasure, Q-Tip + A Tribe Called Quest, Etienne Daho, Martha Reeves + The Vandellas, Boy George + Culture Club, Streisand, Xavier Cugat, Willie Nelson, Rachmaninoff, Spandau Ballet, Roxy Music, Ms. Elaine Stritch, Metric, The Postal Service, The Marvelettes, Clannad, Doves, Jamirouquai, Jimmy Somerville + The Communards + June Miles Kingston, Leonard Bernstein, Judy Garland, Bell & Sebastian, Patti LuPone, Cocteau Twins, Thelma Houston, Beethoven, Lemon Jelly, Patsy Cline, Diana Ross + The Supremes, Crystal Waters, The Gogos, Sade, Petula Clark, Annie Lennox + Eurythmics, The Specials, Janis Joplin, Ibrahim Ferrer + Buena Vista Social Club, Donna Summer, New Order, Cyndi Lauper, Moby, Damon Albarn + Blur, Hendrix, Tina Turner, Patti Labelle, Liza Minnelli, Bach, Miss Lauryn Hill + Fugees, Air, Ms Chita Rivera, Sarah McLachlan, Mahalia Jackson, Dubstar, The Andrews Sisters, Siouxsie Sioux + The Banshees, Verdi, The Flaming Lips, Groove Armada, CSR, Anita Ward, Chrissie Hynde + The Pretenders, R.E.M., The Ronettes, Leslie & The LY's, The Innocence Mission, The Cure, Shaker Hymns, The Beastie Boys, Queen, Puccini, Neneh Cherry, Nina Simone, Sonic Youth, Kylie Minogue, Yves Montand, Olivia Newton-John, Public Enemy, George Michael + Wham!, The Pixies, Tchaikovsky, Beth Orton, Zero 7, Dolly Parton, Mama Cass + The Mamas and the Papas, Nellie Mckay, Lulu, David Byrne + Tom Tom Club + Talking Heads, Stevie Nicks + Christie McVie + Fleetwood Mac, G.F. Handel, Grace Slick + Jefferson Airplane/Starship, Steve Perry + Journey, Lisa Stansfield, Mark Farina, The Cars, Frost, Lush, Mary J. Blige, Björk + The Sugarcubes, Pat Benatar, David Bowie, Rosemary Clooney, Andre 3000 + Outkast, Gladys Knight + The Pips, Juie Andrews, The Rev. Al Green, Madeline Kahn, The Bee Gees, Chakha Kahn, U2, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Enigma, Lightening Seeds, Kermit the Frog + The Muppets, Digable Planets, Texas, Laura Branigan, Jarvis Cocker + Pulp, Mozart, Paul Oakenfold, ELO

Movies:



Artwork by Laura Pelick @ Fallenlights.net

Books:

Howard's End, I Am Not Myself These Days, The Corrections, Dancer From The Dance, The Gods Will Have Blood, Nana, The Red And The Black, Kitchen, Faggots

Heroes:

You. Keith Haring. Lady Miss Kier. Ragan Fox. John Lennon. Edith Piaf. Johnathan Franzen. E.M. Forster. Wanda Wisdom. John Waters. Fred Rogers. Dawn French. The Lady Bunny. Rebecca Spang. Morrissey. Harvey Milk. Roy Lichetenstein. Rufus Wainwright. George Chauncey. Robert Doisneau. Cindy Sheehan. Ella Fitzgerald. Lacey Templeton. AA Milne. Harry Hay. Ella Fitzgerald. Emma Thompson. Bob Fosse. John Cleese. Andrew Tobias. Victor Hugo. Hibiscus. Kenny Sharf. Gene Wilder. Diane Arbus. Cole Porter. Fernand Leger. Craig Lucas. Frank Zappa. Nelson Mandela. Chita Rivera. Anatole France. Madge Weinstein. Yoko Ono. John Singer Sargent. Michel Foucault. Divine. Allen Ginsburg. Steven Sondheim. Wittgenstein. Andy Warhol. Lao-Tze. Mike Wallace. Julia Child. Armistead Maupin. Robert Darnton. Lenny Bruce. Emile Zola. Peter Tatchell. WH Auden. Margaret Meade. Botticelli. David Wojnarowicz. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis. Jim Henson and the Muppets. Michael Moore. Judy Garland. Roger Stendahl. Brini Maxwell. Gilda Radner. Josh Kilmer-Purcell. Anne Frank. Parker Posey. John Peel. Mother Jones. Joan Crawford. Larry Kramer. Alan Rowland. Jennifer Saunders. Christian Dior. Georges Seurat. Audrey Hepburn. RuPaul.

My Blog

GEV 40: Five Minutes

The Eiffel Tower and I gave the earth a five minute break. You can read more about it by clicking on this text....
Posted by The Gay Expat on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 11:53:00 PST

Mizez Slo's Blog

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Posted by The Gay Expat on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 01:55:00 PST

GEV 37: World AIDS Day

I walked in on my senior year physics teacher listening to this now-emblematic song between classes 12 years ago. He died of AIDS six months later, and of the thousands of students he had, I ...
Posted by The Gay Expat on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 03:58:00 PST