somaphx
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Occupation | writer, perpetual student |
| Location | marfa, Texas |
| Introduction | I am a seeker of peace and knowledge, like you, sharing our common universal need to understand and be understood. "For you are who you are, you know what you know, and there are no words for loneliness, black, bitter, aching loneliness, that gnaws the roots of silence in the night." -- Thomas Wolfe "Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one's own opinion." "Politeness, n.: The most acceptable hipocrisy." -- Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary quot;In this city the heaven of ecstasy is up-raised & the world-illuming sun of yearning shineth, & the fire of love is ablaze, and when the fire of love is ablaze, it burneth to ashes the harvest of reason." -- Baha'u'llah The Seven Valleys, p. 7 "The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering." -- Ben Okri .... way, way too much, right? |
| Interests | writing, reading, poetry, Nature/animals/hiking, music, cooking/eating, gardening, feng shui, numbers, physics/quantum mechanics, astrology, psychology/psychosophy, sociology, neuroscience, science & science fiction, creek-sitting, border crossing, ghost stories, collecting rocks/fossils/old rusty metal things, movies, Sunday brunches, people-watching (from a safe distance) .... selective solitude & pharmaceutically assisted moements of personal introspection. Yeah, that'll do, Pig. That'll do. |
| Favorite Movies | The Big Lebowski, The Big Chill, Office Space, The Longest Day, Bridge on the River Kwai, Shawshank Redemption, Octopussy, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Clockwork Orange, Napoleon Dynamite, O Brother Where Art Thou, Six Degrees of Separation, The Final Countdown, Red October, Good Morning Viet Nam, Fandango, The Count of Monte Christo, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Rocky, Soylent Green, The Omega Man, any Star Trek, Back to School, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Weird Science, Little Dorsett, American Beauty, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, American Pie, Old Twilight Zone Series, Northern Exposure, Original SNL, Soul Train, 8 Mile, Freedom Writers, The Wonder Boys, A Knight's Tale, 21, 23, Rapture, Man From Earth, The Replacements, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Space Odyssey 2001, The Time Machine(ALL versions), Fried Green Tomatoes, Black Stallion, Charlotte's Web, Nova Series: The Elegant Universe, etc., et cetera |
| Favorite Music | I'm not a huge fan of jazz, but I love everything from classical (Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven) to blues (Etta James, John Lee Hooker, B.B.) and Motown; classic rock (Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Petty, Stones, CCR) to alternative/80s (INXS, The Normal, Billy Idol, Talking Heads, Underworld, Enigma) country to rap (Billy Joe Shaver, Guy Clark, Joe Ely, Johnny Paycheck & CASH) to eminem & Missy Elliott), nickelback to Soggy Bottom Boys & Tribal music.... love it all! Have to say, tho', that I'm unreasonably partial to Bob Dylan |
| Favorite Books | Eckhart Tolle's A New Earth, Elbert Hubbard, C.S. Lewis, Charles Bukowski, Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, Women Who Run with Wolves, William Burroughs, The Celestine Prophecy, The da Vinci Code, Cherokee Feast of Days, Voltaire, 1984, Aldous Huxley's Brave New World & Brave New World Revisited, Fahrenheit 451, Molecules of Emotion, Birds of Texas (field guide), self-help books and, of course, The Bible (great poetry!) |
If mud is dirt plus water, what is clay?
Who cares? I'm still grieving Pluto's loss of planet status.