- Name: Mary
- Age: I have the same birthday as the late Charles M. Schultz and John McVie of Fleetwood Mac; also the same day the single by Band-Aid, "Do They Know It's Christmas," was finished (1984), and when recording for the Lilac Time's "& Love for All" was completed (1989)
- Signs: Sagittarius I (Western horoscopes); sheep (Chinese lunar horoscopes)
- Occupation: in my free time music enthusiast and musically-directed culture vulture
- Hobbies: gig-going (when I can) and music appreciation (I will listen to anything except things degrading to any sector of society and those that insist on cussing every other word); web authoring; web design; logic puzzles (I wish I read Games magazine more often); creative writing; cooking and watching cooking shows on TV
- Likes: (short list) Morrissey; Duran Duran; the Beatles; Led Zeppelin; We Are Scientists, Patrick Wolf; British music; the Devils; the Lilac Time; the Smiths; Edward Norton; Robert Frost; Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac; the Yardbirds; old school Mariah Carey; Elton John; the Eagles; the Beach Boys; Sam Cooke; the Drifters; '60s oldies, British Invasion, '70s classic rock, and '80s synthpop; clubbing; people-watching and eating at trendy nightspots; tapas; Nick Rhodes and John Taylor; Douglas Adams; Robert Asprin; Piers Anthony; J.R.R. Tolkien; Alan Paton; the British accent; Stuart Maconie; George Orwell; stargazer lilies; Touch of Class roses; Maidenform; the Body Shop; Amazon.com; the Limited; almost any kind of seafood; sushi; oysters on the half shell; dim sum; Kyoto; San Francisco; Victoria, British Columbia; Manchester; London; Liverpool.
- Dislikes: bad health (as opposed to rude health); my many allergies (especially wheat and raw grapefruits); hospitals;
nasty nurses; being vertically challenged; harassment, libel, slander, and misrepresentation; people who plagiarize;
fakes (animated and inanimate); people who do not K.I.T. even tho they wrote that in your yearbook; yes-men and -women; most of Hollywood who thinks they can act and can't; musicians who are making money
off denigrating society (i.e. Eminem); eBay (because I am hopelessly broke!); people who aren't feeding the hungry and trying to get to the moon because they have the money; lima beans; asparagus;
most women's perfume (gag me); size 0 clothes (do designers think we can squeeze into size 0 clothes? I'm no whale but I hate clothes-shopping);
people who try to screw with me and my mind; poseurs
- Words of wisdom: Never, ever take what you have for granted - it could be gone tomorrow.
Take the time to understand and cater to the needs of someone less fortunate - this will immeasurably add richness to your life.
As someone with a chronic illness, it boggles my mind that so many people out there think the most important thing in their life is buying a Porsche or purchasing a leather furniture set for their living room. I have been to hell and back and it was not fun.Practice tolerance. This applies to music preferences, religion, personal philosophy, whatever is important. Because what is important to someone else might not be important to you, but to him it is the world. Different strokes for different folks.
Same goes for a guy who can put sentimentality to words. Stephen Duffy comes to mind.
Don't be afraid to be in touch with your feelings. Make sure you're comfortable with yourself - because if you can't even believe in yourself, what else in life is there to live for?
Take every opportunity you get and don't life pass you by. We only have this one life to live, don't we?
- Dream jobs: full-time publicist for a band that doesn't take itself too seriously (We Are Scientists, Patrick Wolf, etc.); freelance
science or travel writer; small-time
record shop owner (think Rob Gordon in "High Fidelity"); singer/songwriter
- Websites: the Fields of Eden - my site mostly on Duran Duran but I've got some Devils and Stephen Duffy stuff on there
The DEVILS Made Me Do It! - my humble attempt at the first-ever fan site on the Devils
Morrissey and the Printed Word - what it says on the tin, plus musings on things British I enjoy
- Famous last words: Drink to me, drink to my health. ~ Wings
Life without music would be a mistake. ~ Friedrich Nietzche
When you're young and you fall down, you're trying.
When you're old and you fall down, you're dead.
~ Stephen Duffy
if you are bored, write me!
