Myself, mostly. I am a vain and shallow person. But I am considering social interaction.At street level: nature, music, books, movies and travel.
Music
Blossum Dearie, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson, Jean Sablon, Edith Piaf, Yves Montand, Tino Rossi, Charles Trenet, Maxine Sullivan, Ike Quebec, Chick Webb, Jimmie Lunceford, Billy Eckstine, Billie Holiday, Xavier Cugat, Ute Lemper, Mildred Bailey, Glen Miller, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, Fred Astaire, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Keith Jarret, Vera Lynn, Eva Cassidy, Albert Collins, Muddy Waters, Etta James, BB King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Rolling Stones, The Clash, The Mighty Bosstones, Ian Hunter, Thin Lizzy, The Kinks, The Who, The Dictators, Greenday, The Nighthawks, George Thorogood, Jimi Hendrix, Van Halen, Rush, Deep Purple
Movies
Liked:Reunion in France, Xmas in Connecticut, Valkyrie They Were Expendable, The Dark Knight, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, Transsiberian, Hancock, Ironman, 88 Minutes, Muppets in Space, Broadway Melody of 1940, Stage Door (1937), Miracle At St. Anna, The Last Metro, Witness For The Prosecution, House Bunny, He Was a Quiet Man, Nanking, Flawless, El Alamein-The Line of Fire, Sophie Scholl-The Final Days, Twelve O'Clock High, The Cranes Are Flying, Jumper, I Am Legend, Proud, Young But Not Young, Get Smart, The Bucket List, Atonement, No Country For Old Men, Saving Private Ryan, Citizen Kane, Camille, Broken Blossums, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Metropolis, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, 3:10 to Yuma, Factotum, House of D, Home of the Brave, Dreamgirls, Lonely Hearts, Ronin, Spies Like Us, The Couple, The Black Book, Soldiers and Saints, The Triple Agent, Hot Fuzz, Deathproof, Michael Clayton, The New World, The Bourne Ultimatum, La Vie en rose (about the life and legend of Edith Piaf), Indigenes (Days of Glory) about North African troops who fought for France in World War II, The Pianist, Oceans' Thirteen, Last King of Scotland, Wordplay, Blood Diamond, Thank You For Smoking, Casino Royale, Music and Lyrics, Letters From Iwo Jima, The Good German, Million Dollar Baby, The Good Shepard, Flags of Our Fathers, The Guardian, Hollywoodland, Idlewild, Mrs. Henderson Presents, Everything is Illuminated, The Lost City, The Matador, Lost in Translation, The Family Stone, Mystic River, Broken Flowers, American Beauty, Drumline, 2046, 8&1/2, The White Countess, Amarcord, Laura, Anna Christie, Grand Hotel, The Great Dictator, Alexander Nevsky, Rear Window, American in Paris, The Thin Man Series, The Harold Lloyd Collection, The Laurel and Hardy Collection, The Charlie Chan Collection and Moonlighting (Series DVD). As for History/War:The Color of War, The World at War, Victory at Sea, Walter Cronkite's World War II, Lest We Forget, The Blitz, The Battle of Britain, Why We Fight,To Hell and Back, Guadacanal Diary, The Thin Red Line, For Whom the Bell Tolls and Mrs. Miniver.
Television
The weather loop channel is nice, but I watch Infomercials mostly. I love getting rich and thin at the same time. Watch the Hitler.oops.History Channel and TCM (Turner Classic Movies).
Books
Currently reading: Hour Game by David Baldacci. Just finished: Alan's War (a graphic book) by E. Guibert, The Twilight Years (Paris in the 1930s) by William Wiser, Jailed For Freedom by Stevens, The Evening News by Arthur Hailey, Dragon by Clive Cussler, Absolute Friends by John le Carre, Jackdaws by Ken Follett, See No Evil by Robert Baer, [The Foreign Correspondent, The Spies of Warsaw, Dark Voyage, Blood of Victory, Kingdom of Shadows, Red Gold, The World at Night, The Polish Officer, Dark Star, Night Soldiers, Shadow Trade and Your Day In The Barrel by Alan Furst], Mobilizing America by Keith E. Eiler, Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen, Blood, Tears and Folly by Len Deighton, We Served--The Men of the USS Mason by Mary Pat Kelly, Just Enough Liebling by A.J. Liebling, Lady GI by Brion, Utmost Savagery-The Three Days of Tarawa by Alexander, Dreamland: Pirhana by Brown, Acts of Vengeance by Gandt, Stand Proud by Kelton, Vertical Coffin by Cannell, Op Center by Clancy, And If I Perish (about WWII Nurses), Benjamin Franklin by Isaacson, Triple Identity by Haggai Carmon, but enough about me by Jancee Dunn, The Hunters by W.E.B Griffin, The Broker by Grisham, Winter by Len Deighton, Day of Battle by Atkinson, [Faith], [Hope] and [Charity] by Len Deighton, Motion to Suppress by O'Shaughnessy, An Army at Dawn by Atkinson, Rising Tide by Shaara, Big If by Mark Costello, Sala's Gift (My Mother's Holocaust Story) by Ann Kirschner [Manhattan Transfer, The Big Money, 1919, The 42nd Parallel, Three Soldiers, From One Man’s Initiation: 1917 by Dos Passos], Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin (female writers running wild in the 1920s) by Marion Meade Sabotage and Subversion-The SOE and OSS at War by Ian Dear (nonfiction), The Spies Who Never Were (WWII) by Hervie Haufler (nonfiction), International Spy Museum Handbook of Practical Spying by Jack Barth (nonfiction), Navajo Code Talkers by Nathan Aaseng (nonfiction), Undercover-The Men and Women of the SOE by Howarth (nonfiction), CarpetbaggerS-America's Secret War in Europe by Parnell (nonfiction), Sisterhood of Spies by Elizabeth McIntosh (nonfiction), Burn After Reading by Ladislas Farago (nonfiction), The Saboteurs-An OSS Men at War Novel by W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV, The Bourne Ultimatum, The Tristan Betrayal both by Robert Ludlum, Term Limits by Vince Flynn, Rain Storm by Barry Eisler, The Hostage by W.E.B. Griffin, Perfect Justice by William Bernhardt, Lucifer Unemployed by Alexsander Wat, Crabwalk and The Tin Drum by Grass, [Three Comrades, The Road Back, Shadows in Paradise, Full Circle, The Night In Lisbon, Heaven Has No Favorites, The Black Obelisk, A Time to Love and A Time to Die, Arch of Triumph, Spark of Life, Flotsam, All Quiet on the Western Front--all by Remarque], Suite Francaise, The Good German, Ordinary Heroes, The Clearing, Rogue Warrior Series, Shooter, The Brotherhood of War and The Corps Series books by W.E.B. Griffin, David Letterman's Top 10 List Book. I also enjoyed Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story, Hemingway in Cuba, all Hemingway fiction and nonfiction, Ed McBain's books.
Also read the following nonfiction: Brothers in Arms, Road to Victory, Finest Hour, Rich Relations, Operation Cobra, Pacific War Diary, Backs Against the Wall (The people of London during the Blitz in World War II), Fresh Wounds (Holocaust), their secret diaries (children of the holocaust and WWII).
Metropolitan Art Museum Illustrated Guide, Treasures of the Louvre, Hopper, The Hudson River School, Beginners Guide to Harmonica.
Magazines(past and present): US News and World Report, Atlantic Monthly, Premiere, The New Yorker, Reader's Digest, Foreign Affairs, National Review and Rolling Stone.
Books/Lectures on Tape/CD/DVD: The Teaching Company.
Heroes
Hogan's. And the occasional Meatball Deluxe.
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Nurses. Mine kept me from going into shock in the recovery room. Nurses rule!
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On a more serious note, and because I can no longer embarass them I would like to acknowledge my Grandmother for giving up a life of leisure to work in the War Department in World War I as well as my Dad and Moms Brothers for their service in World War II in the United States Navy, Army and Marines. Tico and Cujo who survived being "guests" of Saddam some years ago are also a couple of nice guys. I worked at their unit for a few months before being kicked upstairs prior to the war!
Baby New Year Blur's Details
Status:
Married
Here for:
Friends
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
DaPAWoods
Body type:
2' 0"
Zodiac Sign:
Gemini
Children:
Undecided
Education:
Some college
Occupation:
Sprinter
Baby New Year Blur's Schools
Mansfield University Of Pennsylvania
Mansfield, PA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Major: Information Processing
Minor: Keggers
Clubs: The Search Warrant Club / Joe's Garage
1950 to Present
Mansfield Jshs
Mansfield, PA
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Major: College Prep
Minor: Getting Stomped
Clubs: Yearbook, Newspaper
1950 to Present
Baby New Year Blur's Companies
Various Temp Agencies Kingdom of Steve, PA US Office Work Mr. Personally Assisting
Couple of Years
A Big Data Company Kingdom of Steve, PA US Office Work A Good Bunch of People
Couple of Years
The Big Mother Big Bad City, PA US Jack of All Trades Read The Fine Print
Number of Years
Somewhere in the Justice System Kingdom of Steve, PA US Coffee Pot Boy Division of Lost Souls
Couple of Years
USAF Europe, Middle East, and Southwest, US SSgt
80s-90s
Baby New Year Blur is stalking Jack Frost with a hair dryer and an attitude. Posted at 1:03 AM Jan 15 view more
About me: I have hair, still. The teeth are intact. I guess you could say I'm ruggedly handsome in an Abe Vigoda kind of way. Send Lawyers, Guns and Money. ****Sorry kids, it's email only. ALL REMO, ALL THE TIME! Very married and not looking! More personal dirt in the blogs.---
I wanna thank the members of the academy.
Post no bills.
No deposit, no return.
Here, let me pick up my hair.
On the Brown Food Diet--Don't ask.
DON'T FORGET, HIRE A VET! AND VOTE!
TCM CHANNEL FAN!
Who I'd like to meet: Anyone with a sense of humor (friends only). My Rich Uncle, as well as any other WEALTHY and long-lost relatives. Ethel Merman. Jim Shortz. Earl E. Byrd. The guy who sits in front of me at the movies. The genius that gets in the express line with a third-party check filled out in crayon. My waiter, too.
The demented and the obsessed need not apply. Yuk Yuk.
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Have a Merry Christmas. I was trying to send you my Own E-Card that I did with beads in the background but you don't take Http. It was a cool looking card though
I had a feeling you would appreciate The Buttered Cat Array. Be informed that there is much more material than what you see on page 1 of google. Acutaly engineers did an analysis...it is hilarious!!
Good to meet you, Caffinated Blur, and thanks for the kind mention of my books!
BTW, have you seen my website discussion board at http://www.barryeisler.com/forum? It's a fun forum with a lot of interesting people from all over the world talking about the Rain Fall movie (recently wrapped shooting in Tokyo and NYC), the next book, writing, politics, single malt whisky, and anything else that strikes people's fancy, and we do a monthly chat on writing, too, so if you have a chance, stop by and say hello. It would be good to see you there...
