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JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE
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Male 59 years old Hendersonville N.C.-LessburgFl United States Profile Views: 150
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I LIKE TO READ AND REFLECT...MAYBE TOO MUCH !!!
I ALSO LIKE TO WATCH MOVIES AND DOCUMENTARIES..
THEN THERE'S TRAVEL, I OWN A 1965 AIRSTREAM AND LOOK FORWARD TO ONE DAY MAKING IT TO MAINE FOR A WEEKS WORTH OF LOBSTER FEST..THINK OF IT, LOBSTER FOR BREAKFAST, LUNCH, AND DINNER...AFTER A WEEK'S WORTH, NEVER AGAIN !!! BEING ANTI-SOCIAL, I HAVE SPENT MY LIFE TRYING TO ASSIMILATE...A HOBBY?
NOT REALLY, MORE LIKE A NECESSITY...
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REAL ECLECTIC; ALL THE 'BOURNE' FILMS, SHAWSHANK, MOST ACTION FILMS, MOULIN ROUGE, GEISHA, FIGHTCLUB, CLASSIC LIKE THE DIRTY DOZEN, GREAT ESCAPE, ANYTHING CLINT EASTWOOD, ANYTHING BY DIRECTOR SPIKE LEE (MALCOM X W/ DENZEL MY FAVE),
THEN THERE ARE THE DOCUMENTARIES, THE TRUTH ABOUT 911, WHO KILLED THE ELECTRIC CAR, MOST OF MICHAEL MOORES FILMS, BIOGRAPHIES, FORIEGN FILMS LIKE MOTOR CYCLE DIARIES, CINEMA PARDISIO,& ON & ON.
LIKE I SAID ECLECTIC...
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THE MUSIC THROUGH-OUT MY LIFE HAS PROBABLY BEEN WHY I AM STILL ALIVE..THE MUSIC OF THE 50'S & 60'S GOT ME THROUGH AN OTHERWISE ROUGH CHILDHOOD AND THE VIET NAM WAR..MOWTOWN, ROCK, FOLK, IT WAS ALL GOOD. IRONICALLY, NEVER CARED MUCH FOR COUNTRY, AS DESTINY WOULD HAVE IT, MY FIRST RADIO JOB OUTTA COLLEGE, AFTER THE WAR, WAS A COUNTRY STATION IN ASHLAND OREGON..I GOT IN TROUBLE FOR TRYING TO SLIP IN SOME JAMES TAYLOR AND JOHN DENVER..GOT ME THE RADIO NICKNAME "DANGEROUS DAVE". BY 1977 I'D HAD IT WITH COUNTRY MUSIC AND THE UPCOMING OREGON WINTER, GAVE AWAY ALL MY WINTER CLOTHES AND DROVE 3,000 MILES TO FLORIDA AND GOT SNOWED ON THERE...ALSO DISCOVERED DISCO AND ENDED UP WORKING THE CRUISE SHIPS OUTTA THE PORT OF MIAMI AS A DISCO DJ..DANGEROUS DAVE OF COURSE...WHEN DISCO DIED (MID 80'S) I WAS INVITED TO ATLANTA TO RUN A TEEN NITE CLUB WHICH ROCKED EVERYNITE TO MADONNA, AND ALL THE 80'S BANDS & ARTISTS'..WHEN THAT DIED, I WENT BACK TO COUNTRY WHICH HAD LITERALLY BECOME THE NEW ROCK AND THROUGH-OUT THE 90'S I WORKED COUNTRY STATION'S IN ATLANTA AND TEXAS...RAP NEVER DID ANYTHING FOR ME, BUT I DID GET A KICK OUTTA "SLIM SHADY"..
TODAY, I FIND MYSELF LISTENING TO A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING, OLDIES,COUNTRY, LATIN, EVEN HAVE SOME CHINESE MUSIC (DUBBED BY A FRIEND WHO OWNED A CHINESE RESTUARANT) CAT STEVENS' HAS COME BACK AS YUSEF, AND IS MAKING SOME INSIGHTFUL STUFF, AND AS SONNY & CHER SANG, "THE BEAT GOES ON" !!!
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OH, TALK ABOUT ECLECTIC, LOVE BIOGRAPHIES, POLI/SCI, nOAM CHOMSKY, NAOMI KLEIN, HOWARD ZINN,
AND RCENTLY PICKED UP A 1936 COPY OF 'OUTLINE OF GREAT BOOKS', COMPRISING 250 OF THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS WORKS OF HISTORY, PHILLOSOPHY, SCIENCE, RELIGION, POETRY, BIOGRAPHY, TRAVEL AND CRITICISM OUTLINE IN THEIR AUTHOURS' OWN WORDS..BEST OF ALL, IT'S ONLY 1282 PAGES LONG..STEVE MARTIN'S LATEST 'BORN STANDING UP' COMES HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, ESPECIALLY IF, LIKE ME, YOU EVER DID OR DREAMED OF DOING STAND-UP COMEDY...WATCH FOR AN OLD COMIC NAMED 'DAVEY BOOMER' COMING TO A DIVE NEAR YOU, MAYBE !!!
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BECAUSE OF MY DISORDER(S) LIFE AS SOME FOLKS DESCRIBE IT HAS BEEN DIFFICULT TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE REALM OF FAMILY, WIVES, AND FRIENDS, EITHER CASUAL OR CLOSE. I TEND TO STAY TO LONG IN UNHEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS, HOPING THINGS WILL CHANGE. I'VE NEVER KNOWN UNCONDITIONAL LOVE AS ALL THE LOVES I'VE BEEN EXPOSED TO HAVE BEEN HIGHLY CONDITIONAL..I KNOW I'M THE PROBLEM AND BELIEVE ME WHEN I TELL YOU I'VE READ EVERY SELF-HELP BOOK THERE IS, BUT TO DATE, HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO EITHER COMPREHEND OR PUT INTO ACTION ALL THE ADVICE GIVEN BY THE VARIOUS GURU'S...AS HARD AS I AM ON OTHERS, I'M THREE TIMES AS HARD ON MYSELF..AS THE LATE GREAT 'JOHN LENNON' ONCE CROONED "HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO LOVE WHEN I DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS?"..NEITHER OPRAH OR DR. PHIL'S PEOPLE RETURN MY CALLS, SO I'VE STOPPED CALLING...AND AS MY UNMEDICATED FREIND, WHO SUFFERS DEEPLY FROM DEPRSSION AND I HAVE CONCLUDED; AT THIS POINT WE'RE LIKE SCHOOL KIDS, OUT ON THE CURB, WAITIN' FOR THE BUS...AVOIDING STIGMA BY HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT...AND ASSIMILATING AS BEST WE CAN.
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