Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, John Lee Hooker, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Ella Fitzgerald, Etta James, Fiona Apple, Liz Phair, Lauryn Hill, Arlo Guthrie, John Lennon, etc.
Movies
Fight Club, Crash, Closer, Labyrinth, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Muppet Christmas Carol, I Heart Huckabees, Spaceballs, Robinhood Men in Tights, Hero, Nightmare Before Christmas (and most any Tim Burton flick for that matter); and recently, oddly enough, Pride and Prejudice
Television
I have a serious crush on House. So You Think You Can Dance and America's Best Dance Crew make me smile.
Books
I have a very intense figurative love-affair with Modernists and Plato. Throw in some Vonnegut, O'Brien, Catch-22, Shakespeare, Byron, and Jonson, and that just about covers my favorites. Plus Don Delillo.
Heroes
Elisabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, Abigail Adams, Rosa Parks, Plato, Democritus, Epicurus,
And this guy:
Verno's Details
Status:
Single
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
Nowhere in particular
Body type:
5' 4"
Ethnicity:
White / Caucasian
Religion:
Atheist
Zodiac Sign:
Sagittarius
Education:
College graduate
Verno's Schools
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA
Graduated: N/A
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: English Literature
2007 to 2009
University Of California-Los Angeles
Los Angeles,California
Graduated: 2005
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Bachelor's Degree
Major: American Literature and Culture
Clubs: Mock Trial
2001 to 2005
Palmdale High
Palmdale,California
Graduated: 2001
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
1998 to 2001
Verno's Companies
Fruitland/Payette School Districts Fruitland/Payette, Idaho US Substitute teacher
Verno shoulda been a cowgirl. Posted at 2:22 AM Aug 20, 2008 view more
About me: There is a thing like twisting in human relations. Twister without the colored flat bubbles to guide the feet and hands and give excuse for adolescent touching inappropriate places while parents chat wine drunk and giggles and gossip by the bbq manning over searing dogs. And it continues and doesn't let up, perpetual motion and back and forth, I love you and I love you nots, stalking and romancing, guided by paths chipped away like rushmore, but slower, and less kitzch-y and parts flying out because the center can't hold except that it does and defies expectations-- like everything else.
There are flashes of brilliance, and glimpses of truth that fill a guilty pleasure hole of the self-same soul-less substance that forms these bags of flesh, like the first flame rushing touch of another who ceases to be because at the moment it's only you and you're greater than yourself but don't understand how and yet it is, and even all the explanations -- hormones and pleasure receptors and neurons and synapses and blood rushing to nerve-stuffed flesh-spots that throb when used as directed -- can't make it all make sense because it's all just madness anyway.
"And it is not enough to defend them with the pen"
Man, some of the comments left for that shirt are pretty funny:
"My whipped ice dairy drink brings the attention of many males to my place of residence and/or employment, and they declare that its quality far surpasses that of yours. Absolutely, it far surpasses yours. I could convey to you the recipe, but I would have to demand compensation. "
hm...i tried to invite you, but for some reason youre not on the list of people i can invite... maybe youre already a member? its the A&A&A, Aislings group. you know the regular A&A was destroyed, right?
anyway, have you been talking to that guy, or what? he asked for my thesis like 2 years ago... you know this is my undergrad thesis, right? nothing new. if you want it, hey, you got it... but i cant imagine youd want to read 60 pages on apocalyptic.
Hey! Hahaha I just wanted to say what's up & see how things have been going for ya'...things here in Good ol' SD have been pretty cool. I'm going to Alaska next month for a few weeks so that should be fun. Anyways, hope all is going well & I'll ttyl!
Hahaha, well that IS how I got through seeing Loves Labors Lost at the Shakespeare Theater at the Navy Pier. The lead guy - yummy. And manly, like you'd like.
That's like saying "If you ever tried eating rat feces you'd think celery is delicious". Hamlet is like celery. The only good that came from reading it was understanding one of Atwood's funny little stories where she spoke as Gertrude.
