Collecting creative, interesting and funny people; helping to creatively promote and "build up" Baltimore; building connections and bridges across communities; promoting social justice; chasing arts events; laughing, telling jokes and spinning stories; swimming; hiking; reading; "webbing"
Music
Rock, blues, jazz, new wave, acoustic, folk. Pat Benatar; Marc Cohn; Joni Mitchell; Aretha Franklin; Melissa Etheridge; Anne Lennox; Joan Baez; Paul Simon/ Simon & Garfunkel; Sting / The Police; B. B. King; Billie Holiday; Dizzie Gillespie; Ray Charles; Peter, Paul and Mary; Erasure; Abba; Suzanne Vega; Van Morrison; John Waite; Chris Isaak; Billy Joel are among my favorites. Woody Lissauer (Baltimore-based musician) and Kal Toth (NJ/ NY-based) are great friends of mine and two of my all-time favorite musicians. They're also great artistic muses for me generally.
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Movies
Alien and Aliens, Amelie, Angels and Insects, Being John Malkovich, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Garden State, Frida, Hairspray (both versions), Highlander, Juno, Inventing the Abbots, Late Marriage, Like Water for Chocolate, LIVE NUDE GIRLS UNITE!, Lost in Translation, Misery, Monty Python's Holy Grail, Music and Lyrics, My Date with Drew, Office Space, Rosemary's Baby, Say Anything, Scream, Spanking the Monkey, Star Wars Trilogy (Original of Course!), Terminator 1 & 2, The Color of Paradise, The Syrian Bride, The Tolkien Trilogy, The Life of Brian, The Wedding Singer, Thelma and Louise
Television
Extras, Flight of the Conchords, King of the Hill, Mad Men, Office Space, Sex and The City, Girlfriends, Absolutely Fabulous, Scrubs, Seinfeld
Books
Complicated Women (Sex and Power in Pre-Code Hollywood), Devil in the White City, Hitchcock and Philosophy--Dial 'M' for Metaphysics, Insect Dreams: The Half Life of Gregor Samsa, Jane Eyre, Living My Life (Emma Goldman), Middlemarch, Pride and Prejudice, Primer Romancero Gitano (Lorca), Reading Lolita in Tehran, Strange Fruit-The Biography of a Song, The Devil and Daniel Silverman, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World, The Golden Notebook and Stories (Doris Lessing), The Handmaid's Tale, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Lorax, The Life of Charlotte Bronte, The Magic Mountain, The Metamorphosis, The Symposium (Plato), Wuthering Heights
Heroes
Jim Henson, Emma Goldman, Charlotte Bronte, J.R.R. Tolkien, Julia Child, Bea Gaddy, Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Harriett Tubman, Martin Luther King, Jr., Margaret Sanger, Anne Frank, Hannah Senesh, Fredrico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda, Borges, Maya Angelou, Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, Audre Lorde, Thurgood Marshall, Earl Warren, Gertrude Berg, Georgia O' Keefe, Abel Meeropol, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jane Jacobs, Henrietta Szold, Frederick Douglass, Harriett Beecher Stowe, George Peabody, Gertrude Stein, Etta and Edna Cone, Mr. and Mrs. Mechanic, George Soros, Barack Obama, Jamie Raskin, my cousin Lori and really all my wonderful creative and nurturing girlfriends especially, Woody Lissauer, Kal Toth
About me: The most trouble you can find in under five feet! ;)
Seriously, check out my new Bmore local/indie arts, music & community oriented Blog "Lois' Life as a Sitcom - The Baltimore Blogshow," LoisLife
, and you'll see what I mean.
Who I'd like to meet: Creative and socially-oriented people of all stripes. Baltimore and Maryland-based artists, musicians, performers, socially-oriented people and community organizations especially. More wacky, zany Bawlmoreans; people who love Baltimore and artistic, non-pretentious, fun mid-sized cities like it (Philly & LA are two examples I can think of).
Anyone who can help me promote the city I love and have come to live (Baltimore) in healthy, positive ways and continue to build it into a healthy, vibrant, creative & increasingly "green" (in the most generous and comprehensive sense of the word), and nurturing-for-everyone, community.
Also check out the "Bmore green community bulletin board Blog" I created with local artist/ community activist Doug Retzler, at: GreenCityBaltimore - more info/ developments to come!
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appreciate all your support here on MySpace and we are hoping that you will check
out our new street team page! It’s a great way to get to know other fans while
helping our band grow. Plus you'll be earning rewards points for every task you
complete which can be redeemed for prizes such as autographed special items,
concert tickets and meet & greet passes. We made a little video explaining
the site. You can check it out on the street team page.
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