hanging with friends, art, photography, live music, guitar, fun sports, football, writing, anthropology, history, and science. Hey, i'm ok with being a dork, what can i say? Hoping to get a new motorcycle next year (or new used bike), i miss going out on a bike. I'm open to trying all kinds of new stuff. Discovering is like christmas morning all the time without having to wait for one day a year to do it.
Music
pretty much anything BUT pop, boy bands, twangy country and just incoherent noise. i'll even tollerate polka....for a little while. I'm a punk at heart, but anything goes :) from X to Muddy Waters to Bach to Black Halos to Johnny Cash to Ramones and Ryan Adams/Whiskeytown....it's fun to connect the dots the way you want to :)
And speaking of which, here's the ad i wrote/directed for Austin Guitar School:
Movies
some, i'm not really a film person, i'll watch them, but i don't go out of my way to do so. i don't hate film, i just don't gravitate readily towards it. i really don't like being in theaters with the general public either. it's not a superiority complex, i just don't like screaming kids, cell phones, people sneezing coughing and snorting up lugis all over the place. and hearing the person in the 100th row chewing popcorn all in the same place at the same time. it kinda ruins the mood (for me anyway).
Television
don't watch it too terribly much these days, but i'm a PBS nerd and don't mind watching M*A*S*H re-runs. I don't have cable, and don't want it.
Books
yes please. all kinds.
Heroes
quite a few...it's extremely difficult to admire a whole person without bastardizing their image a bit in order to do so.
but mostly, i'd say the underlying factors in all of them are these:
-they dedicated their lives to being themselves (i.e. being original because it was who they were...and they paid for it, dearly) It takes a lot of balls to do that your whole life. A lot of these folks died young as a result of that. Their hearts, minds and dreams were too big for their bodies.
-they fought...and didn't give up. they fought to be good. they fought to exist. they fought to share their dreams.
-they were and are original. they weren't trying to be original, that's all they knew. they had a vision and a muse, and they stuck with it.
-they were and are extremely passionate and driven. sometimes, that made them the worst kind of people - they drank too much, smoked too much, did too many drugs, worked too much, yelled too much, gambled too much, slept around too much, had a terrible temper...etc. they all had their faults, which were often just as big as their talents. that part of them doesn't have to be loved, but it can't be ignored. It's part of who they were.
-they were and are just people - human beings - and they never forgot that.
-None of them settled. "Good enough" just simply wasn't and isn't.
-they fought and continue to fight the good fight - to enrich life, not detract from it
twas good seeing you too! been pretty full on being back at work and all and it feels like i was never even on holiday in the first place - sad but true! counting down the days to the next one at the end of july... hope things at your end don't get too nuts! xo
Hey Leah, how are things? Still loving the life in NYC?
The weather here has been chilly and overcast...not such a great segue into summertime.
Not much new here, just chilling doing my own thing (I got laid off and it's the best thing to ever happen to me, not my bank account mind you, but to me, yes indeed!)
This is how big of an idiot I am...and it's not like I even have to tell you this, because you really never had to know, but I feel so bad.
That sweet, pretty card you sent me was my first Christmas card this year! I was so excited! The next day, I shredded the envelope it had come in, and I realized later that I had misplaced your card. I looked all over for it, feeling like I was going crazy, and then I thought, I didn't shred it...did I? How could I? Convinced it was impossible and wanting to prove it to myself, I opened up the shredder drawer...and saw telltale signs of pretty silver shredded moon.
HOW DID I DO THAT?????????????
I have no idea. I'm sorry!!!! :( It was so pretty, and I really did appreciate it. I guess I just got shredder happy. *sigh*
i got your card today - thank you so much!! totally made my day. and i am not even kidding, man, the week i've had... happy holidays to you as well! :) xo
