I'm a writer; songs, blogs, big long emails. I'm a performer; guitar player/songstress, cabaret singing, acting, improv. I love theater, and music, and movies, and yoga, and philosophies, and cooking. I love talking, unraveling, debating, expanding. Laughing my ass off.
I really, really love being with people; family and friends...
Albert & Scout, the black one
Constance & Habitat for Humanity dudes
"I do not wish to treat friendships daintily, but with roughest courage. When they are real, they are not glass threads but the solidest thing we know."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bardo Brothers. Jill Sobule. Dan Bern. REM. David Bowie. Joni Mitchell. Paul Simon. Steely Dan. The Who. B-52s. Pretenders. Lou Reed. T. Rex. Randy Newman. Fleetwood Mac. Donovan. Harry Nilsson. Rusted Root. James Taylor. Lisa Loeb. Loudon Wainwright III. I love the John Pizzarelli Trio and that type of old school jazz and American popular standards… Louie, Ella, Anita O’Day. Folk/rock chick stuff; Indigo Girls, Eddie From Ohio. Show tunes. Fire circle chants. Blues in a small club. Anything with an upright bass.
Great Notch Inn... a favorite hang, and always always always great music.
Movies
(in no particular order)
Gregory's Girl
the In-Laws (1979)
Norma Rae
the Sound of Music
Billy Jack
Almost Famous
Coming Home
Pulp Fiction
Resevoir Dogs
Sabrina (the remake)
Stand By Me
Wait Until Dark
Animal House
Shallow Grave
Arthur
the Sixth Sense
They All Laughed
the Usual Suspects
the Wizard of Oz
And the Band Played On
the World According to Garp
the Goodbye Girl
Tootsie
the Big Easy
the Big Chill
the (original) Stepford Wives
A&E's Pride and Prejudice
A&E's Emma
Sense and Sensibility
the Hours
You've Got Mail (I can admit it),
Times Square
Bonnie and Clyde
the Impostors
Young Frankenstein
A Walk On the Moon
Lady Jane
a Little Romance
Dogfight
Buffalo 66
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Starstruck
(1982... the best new wave musical ever)
the Accused
the Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane
Breaking Away
Sybil
You Can Count On Me
the Full Monty
As Good As It Gets
And Then There Were None
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon
Fame
To Kill a Mockingbird
Kinsey
Rushmore
Serenity
the Family Stone
Cabaret
Ordinary People
Pollyanna
My Favorite Year
Saturday Night Fever
Broadcast NewsDog Day Afternoon
Princess Bride
Rocky (just the first one)
Sixteen Candles
Breakfast Club
Pretty In Pink
the Rocky Horror Picture Show
Chicago
Television
Most recent weaknesses have been Project Runway and Grey's Anatomy.
If a Buffy, the Vampire Slayer repeat comes on, unless it's a first season, I am pretty much powerless not to watch it.
Past obsessions at different times of my life... thirtysomething, West Wing, My So Called Life, Star Trek Next Generation, the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Friends.
Books
The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Klay, the Color of Light by William Goldman, (and many others by Goldman, including Princess Bride, Marathon Man, Magic...), Ikea Catalogue, Pollyanna, the Little House and All-of-a-Kind Family series, early Stephen King, and yeah yeah yeah the Harry Potter books.
I have been described as fun, funny, warm, sweet, absolutely outspoken, outrageous, and earthy. I am a grounding and dead-on insightful listener and advice-giver; soft and compassionate... and a silly and sarcastic creator of all things trouble.
My day job is at a promotional medical education agency (similar to
pharmaceutical advertising), but my real passion lies in the performing arts. I'm a singer, a songwriter,
a guitar player, and I've done a lot of theater and improv. AND I am in the process of kick-starting a career in professional voiceovers. I also have an autobiographical one-woman-show in development.
"May your drama turn into either comedy or romance"
--Billy Bardo 4/15/06
Born Jewish, love the Jews! I find comfort in the heritage,
the relationships, and some tradition. I am a Wiccan/Pagan.
I am working hard on deciphering and expanding upon...me.
And expanding my methods; more yoga and its teachings, shamanic journeying. There is magic in and
around us and I want in.
"to dance beneath the diamond sky with one hand waving free"
Who I'd like to meet: I'm looking for a long term... boyfriend, husband. A kind, sane man. Someone sparkly. Extraordinary. And grounded. With a sense of fun and joy in life, someone who is honest and responsible in their communications, and who listens well.
Warmth, kindness, tolerance in the world. And crazy about me…always a plus.
I want to be kissed by someone who thinks I am so wonderful, so beautiful, so amazing, that they cannot bear the thought of another moment going by without kissing me.
"For a kiss to be really good, you want it to mean something. You want it to be with someone you can't get out of your head, so that when your lips finally touch, you feel it everywhere. A kiss so hot and so deep, you never want to come up for air.
-- Grey's Anatomy
A Blog to Boys
February 4, 2006
To all of you from all of us,
(ahem.)
We're sorry.
Really, really apologize here.
Sorry that sometimes we are insane.
that we get really really mad at you and
don't tell you why
and are mad at you for not knowing why
or for not knowing how to fix it
and then when we DO tell you
and you DO fix it
we are mad that we had to tell you.
We are complicated
and tricky
and really
it's not your fault
that we count on you so much
to make us feel good
and that we often
take you down in the process
of getting our own needs met.
You'd think we'd have all worked this out a long time ago
this misunderstanding between the genders
and in case you haven't noticed
it crosses all relationship types
sister brother
lover
friends
co-workers
Sometimes we (the women)
just have to operate under the assumption that you
(the men)
just suck.
Because you often do.
Sorry about that.
Sorry we are so needy
Sorry we want your attention
and approval
and attention again
so so badly
We know that you just want us happy
Because your lives are so much better
when we are happy
but you get it wrong a lot
And we are quite unforgiving of that
plus we want to keep talking about it
a
lot!
So
Again
Sorry.
Really sorry.
Please don't give up on us
keep loving us
and we will try to do the same
even when we are so angry we want to rip out body parts
and you are so frustrated you never want to speak to us
I know! I have to graduate and be a big kid and everything, it's so weird! But also super exciting and awesome. I'm also auditioning for the American Musical and Dramatic Academy (also in NYC) and four Florida schools. NYU is 100% my dream school, though, so keep your fingers crossed for me! =D
hellow lovie, how have you been. it seems for ever since we last wrote. we should start doing that again. you are a deep and wonderfull person. and i hope all the best for you in your life! L.
Was she/it not AMAZINGGG?!! My friend and I were only in the city for a couple days, but we saw Gypsy THREE times while we were there! Seriously, like after "Everything's Coming Up Roses" he and I were both numb. And thenn, after "Rose's Turn" we couldn't even speak to each other for like fifteen minutes. It was the most incredible thing Ive ever seen in my life. She is mind-blowing. And we met her at the stage door and got pictures of her!
Okay, so my mom told me that you saw Patti Lupone in the original London cast of Les Mis?!! Is this true?? Cause I just saw her as Rose in Gypsy, and my mind was/still is completely and utterly blown by that woman!
