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Hallo space boys and girls. This page might seem somewhat boring to you as currently it merely includes MY interests...
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Special greetings to Ed, Richie, Brian, Gregg, Chelsey, and Phillip!
Also, some interesting, pointless facts for your enjoyment:
Lions and koalas can sleep up to 20 hours per day whereas giraffes only sleep around two hours per day --and dolphins even less. They sleep under water and have to come up about every five minutes for air...
Tenzin Gyatso, the XIVth Dalai Lama was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in December of 1989...
Oscar Wilde was born on 16 October 1854 and died on 30 November 1900. My great grandmother (whom we called Grandmere) was born the very next day!...
I just got two Mandarin Slamanders named Hyacinth and Cosmo. Hyacinth has a small wound on her foot (which we are treating, and it is healing) but I'm not worried b/c Apollo (the god of healing, among other things) was in love with Hyacinthus, a beautiful youth of his day...
Also, Oscar Wilde is known to have written to Bosie, "I know Hyacinthus, whom Apollo loved so madly, was you in Greek days"...
Percy Shelley was born on 4 August 1792 and drowned on 8 July 1822. On 25 March 1811, he was expelled from Oxford for writing THE NECESSITY OF ATHEISM. Luckily people are a bit more broad minded today...
Aaron Copeland wrote APPALACIAN SPRING for Martha Graham's dance by the same name...
The woman who plays the young Dalai Lama's mother in the movie KUNDUN is actually his sister in real life...
In Tibet, sticking your tongue out at someone is a sign of respect and clapping at them has the opposite connotation...
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**My Interests**
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ANIMALS: giant pandas, elephants, bonobos, owls, mandarin salamanders, gorillas, bearded dragons, black swallowtail butterflies, lady bugs
ART: Edward Gorey, Vincent VanGogh, Manet, sanrio;
ASIAN CULTURE: Buddhism, Tibet, Tenzin Gyatso(H.H. the XIVth Dalai Lama), Japan, India, philosophy;
DANCE: Martha Graham, Merce Cunningham, Paul Taylor, Tina Kambour;
FILMS: David Lynch, Woody Allen,/ Barton Fink, Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, The Man Who Fell To Earth, A Clockwork Orange, 1984, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Labyrinth, Legend, The Little Buddha, Kundun;
LITERATURE: Oscar Wilde, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Edward Gorey, J.R.R. Tolkien; Victorian Nonsense
MUSIC: Morrissey, The Smiths, Belle and Sebastian, Pulp, Traschcan Sinatras, Gene, David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Natalie Merchant, Blondie, The Cars, The Cure, The Cars, Billy Idol, Tortoise, Charles Mingus, Django Reinhardt, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Dvorjak, Beethoven, Mozart, Greig, Phillip Glass;
PSYCHOLOGY;
THEATRE: Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett,
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