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Rosemary Nissen-Wade's Interests
General
Freedom, truth, beauty, love, sex, and saving the planet.
and great art, literature, and above all POETRY!
Music
The song you'll most often find on my profile page, though I do vary it sometimes, is my poem 'Traveller' set to music by Clive Price.
The things I always turn up to full volume whenever I hear them are Janis Joplin singing Me and Bobby McGee, Jeff Buckley or k.d.lang singing Halleluia, Frankie Laine singing Cry of the Wild Goose, Rawhide or High Noon, Leadbelly singing C. C. Rider, Paul Robeson singing Waterboy, and any version whatsoever of Summertime from Porgy and Bess. I sing along – very loudly if no-one else is around, otherwise sotto voce.
In general I like blues, jazz, grand opera and folk. Favourite instrument the human voice. Favourite singers Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Muddy Waters, Paul Robeson, Eartha Kitt, Cleo Laine, Aretha Franklin, Harry Belafonte, Maria Callas, Victoria de los Angeles, Ute Lemper, Annie Lennox, Paula Held ... not necessarily in that order. Love the protest singers: early Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Billy Bragg. Quite keen on Roger West and Clive Price too, obviously — for their song-writing talents as well as their musicianship. I'm finding new treats here on MySpace all the time.
Movies
I like good acting, good scripts, good direction, great photography.... For escapism, I love the Harry Potter films...
Television
Permanently mourning the coming to an end of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (and of course Angel). Rejoicing at the new Dr Who, though it's always too long between series. I also like good British crime (NOT The Bill!). For comedy, always satire. Can't stand so-called reality TV.
Books
Poetry, Magick and New Agey stuff mostly. Somewhere along the way I stopped enjoying novels, except for good fantasy or the truly great such as Cold Mountain. Great believer in reading for pleasure, not "self-improvement". (Great believer that pleasure IS what improves self and that self-denial is unhealthy!)
Heroes
Aung San Suu Kyi; Nelson Mandela; Paul Robeson; Diana, Princess of Wales; Werner Erhard; Greenpeace.
This rates my Passionate Crone blog (see link above) which is the same as what I post here, but poetry only. You will find me in the list as Rosemary Nissen-Wade.
It makes me laugh to see how absolutely right I think they got it. (What a good thing I never married that lovely Catholic I was so crazy about when I was 19!)
My Results:
The top score on the list below represents the faith that Belief-O-Matic, in its less than infinite wisdom, thinks most closely matches your beliefs. However, even a score of 100% does not mean that your views are all shared by this faith, or vice versa.
Belief-O-Matic then lists another 26 faiths in order of how much they have in common with your professed beliefs. The higher a faith appears on this list, the more closely it aligns with your thinking.
1. Neo-Pagan (100%)
2. New Age (94%)
3. Liberal Quakers (88%)
4. Unitarian Universalism (85%)
5. Mahayana Buddhism (76%)
6. Reform Judaism (75%)
7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (68%)
8. New Thought (60%)
9. Bahá'í Faith (60%)
10. Secular Humanism (59%)
11. Theravada Buddhism (59%)
12. Taoism (55%)
13. Jainism (55%)
14. Sikhism (55%)
15. Scientology (50%)
16. Orthodox Quaker (48%)
17. Hinduism (45%)
18. Orthodox Judaism (44%)
19. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (37%)
20. Islam (37%)
21. Nontheist (34%)
22. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (23%)
23. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (22%)
24. Seventh Day Adventist (20%)
25. Eastern Orthodox (14%)
26. Roman Catholic (14%)
27. Jehovah's Witness (11%)
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, VIC
Graduated: 1962
Student status: Alumni
Major: English / Philosophy
Minor: History
1957 to 1961
Mildura Senior College
MILDURA, VIC
Graduated: 1956
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: English
Minor: French
Clubs: Debating team.
1954 to 1956
Launceston College
LAUNCESTON, TAS
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
Major: English
Minor: French
Clubs: Choir. 6th hockey team.
1951 to 1953
Rosemary Nissen-Wade's Companies
Life Magic Pottsville Beach, New South Wales AU Partner
Rosemary Nissen-Wade 's back is improving, glad to say!
The Cat (You scored 55% domestic, 15% gregarious, 42% trickster, and 58% intellect!)
Domestic, Solitary, Serious, Intellectual: you are the Cat!
Cat represents a balance of strength in both physical and spiritual, psychic and sensual powers, merging these two worlds into one. Curious, intelligent, and physically adept, cat people tend to live in a world all their own.
This test categorized you based on four different axes of personality, which were then associated with a different animal.
Wild/Domestic: This first axis categorizes you based on how much you are drawn to the outdoors, versus how much you are drawn to civilized situations. Domesticity has many shapes and forms, and varies from the joy of dolphins leaping next to a ship to the steadfast loyalty of a family dog.
Gregarious/Solitary: This axis measures how solitary you are. If you scored high, it means that you enjoy the company of other people, while a low score indicates that you prefer a more solitary lifestyle.
Trickster/Serious: This axis measures how well you line up with conventional trickster archetypes. People who fall into this archetype have a sense of humor and an excitable, highly chaotic streak. Scoring low doesn't mean that you don't have a sense of humor; it just means that you probably don't think dynamite is very funny.
Intellectual/Emotional: This last axis determines whether you are more emotional -- acting based on feelings and instinct, or rational and intellectual -- acting more on thought than on your gut feelings.
Who I'd like to meet:
Nelson Mandela (wouldn't everyone?), Johnny Depp (wouldn't every woman?), Cate Blanchett, Harry Belafonte, Kirsty Sword, Xanana Gusmao, Aung San Suu Kyi, Werner Erhard, Dr Hasnat Khan.
If you want to be my friend:
If you're someone in my real life, welcome! Love to have your company here too. Otherwise ...
Already I am blessed with so many friends on MySpace, it's hard to give them all the attention they deserve. I now very seldom add more. If your profile is set to private, send me a message too. Otherwise you haven't a hope. Why should I add someone without being able to see in advance whether it could be meaningful? If I can see who you are, please don't be offended if I still don't add. There's a limit to how many I can truly interact with!
Poets - check out my Haiku on Friday profile. Pagans and mystics - check out my DragonStar Rose profile.
Both are still happily accepting friends.
How long? Can't we work something out? Build a comfortable, different kind of computer station? Computer in bed? Hurry and get well; Thinking of you. Love, Pam
Oooh, so sorry to hear about you putting your back out Rosemary. I've had the same several times, and it's fuckin agony...you have my sympathy, and many,many good wishes for a speedy recovery. love, Katia
Thanks for the suggestions; since I am not remotely a candidate, (at this time), for moderating my breathing without also controlling it, I thought I'd try asking. So, I have bluebird, for "yes", and yellow butterfly for "no". Neither of these are rare; and at the same time, neither of them do I see all the time. I have to admit that butterflies are more common than bluebirds, in a day, around here. That, then, is a safe-guard, giving a slight, cheating edge to the answer, "no". Biased toward the defense! :-)
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