need 60 gig of music cause I rarely can narrow down my tastes in music -- main attraction to music it how it moves me -- so my collection is eclectic to say the least.
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Weeds, True Blood, Dexter, Nurse Betty, Tutors, Top Chef, anything Anthony Bourdain shoots, Mad Men,
Box sets I wash from start to finish on long weekends:AnyGen Star Trek, Xena, Carnival, Rome, Avatar,
Books
My reading list is everchanging - and my interest in literature is central to my core.
Currently intrigued by these authors: Jacqueline Carey, Neil Gaimen, Orson Scott Card, Jeanette Winterson, Sarah Cane, Adam Rapp, and Allison Moore.
literary intrests: Ritual Studies, Performance Theory, Religious Studies, Feminism Theory, Sci - Fi, cooking, Poetry, Drama, Erotica, Neoplatonism, Neopaganism, actor training, quantum physics, and metaphysics.
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Heroes
Dale Moffitt, David Kahn, Paul Walsh, Bill Lengfelder, Virginia Ness Ray, Allision Mc Kee, Glenn Turner, Nette, Victor and Cora Anderson, Bette Poindexter, Ethel Walker, Jim Houghton, . . . the girl in the mirror who keeps fighting for what she wants no matter how tough it gets.
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Always been a gypsy, 20 years as a professional actor, now getting into directing, teaching but still the first love is performing. Worked long enough in this business to have funny stories to share and to know not to tell ya them until your too drunk to remember the names. I'm a proud pagan and fire starter. My mentor tells me that her main purpose in life is to keep me from starting a cult -- but what she can't see she can't stop. MUHAHAHHAHAHAHA.
The rest of my friends describe me as a deeply wise soul stuffed in energy of a muppet. I like rings on my fingers, bells on my toes and I shall be bedeckled where ever I go. I have superior baking skills and like any good southern belle I show love through food. My words to live by: Learn to live, To risk, to love!
I am a wiccan/neopagan who is interested in creating, finding, and validating "meaning" in life.
I think that Victor Anderson's (Feri Tradition) prayer sums things up very succinctly:
"Who is the flower above me...
and what is the work of this god...
I would know myself in all of my parts"
Indeed, I would know myself as deeply as I possibly can.
I believe that reality itself is the process of the divine contemplating its own nature (knowing and experiencing itself).
I believe that our true purpose here is to do exactly the same,..... to experience ourselves as deeply as possible.
There are always parts of ourselves that we are not conscious of yet because
a) we still haven't deepened enough or
b) we are still too afraid to look.
I am both a polytheist and a monotheist.
Like the African diasporists, the neoplatonists, and many other religions/cosmologies, I believe that there is indeed a supreme being but that this being is far beyond our comprehension. It is indeed "ineffable". I also believe that there are divine beings on lower levels than this supreme being and that they are the "gods". I believe that it benefits us greatly to have relationships with these beings through worship, prayer, and trance. As to the argument of whether these beings are real "outside" of ourselves or whether they are psychological constructs, I believe the answer is that both are quite correct. I believe that because of the way in which we are built that the primary access we have to the gods is via parts of our subconscious that correspond to them in some way(s). So I believe that the gods are definitely real AND that they are inside us as psychological constructs.
Who I'd like to meet: Folks who won't bore me and will keep me laughing. Like-minded, fun-lovin, explorers.
Ruadh gu brath! - gaelic for "Red heads forever!"
There once was a girl,
With a little red curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good, she was very, very good,
And when she was bad she was HORRID!
Redhead Quotes:
"Out of the ash, I rise with my red hair. And eat men like air."...Sylvia Plath
"Even plain redheads get looked at quite a lot. A really good-looking one comes through every door like a thunderclap." ... Vogue, op. cit.
"Of course, part of the 'problem' with redheads is that there aren't enough of them. They make up just two percent of the population. So they're pretty extraordinary. Redheads are too numerous to be ignored, too rare to be accepted." ...Grant McCracken, from his book Big Hair: A Journey Into the Transformation of Self
That's just to say that we're going to shine, so big and so bright and so hot that the rest of the galaxy will revolve around us. That's how black holes work.
It was great seeing you and Jeff at Pcon, I especially enjoyed dancing with the both of you at Pomba! Hopefully it wont be too long before we all see eachother again.
