 SELF-ABSORPTION!name: Atsuhiro Lee. gender: Male. bloodtype: A+. ethnicity/nationality: Korean/American. born and raised in: The San Francisco Bay Area. family: Mother, stepfather, younger brother. sign: Scorpio (second decanate, Taurus/Gemini Rising, Moon in Cancer, Virgo North Node/Pisces South Node). Myers-Briggs/Keirsey Temperament type: iNFp (temperament: idealist; role: advocate; variant: healer). label my sexuality: Gay. metaphysical categorization: Agnostic, secular humanist, nature lover. society calls my views: Leftist bleeding-heart socialist tree-hugging tax-and-spend hippiedom. I call my views: Common sense. childhood career goals: Lapidary, entomologist, doctor. adult career goals: Marine biologist, musician, writer, local government, activist. role models: Ani DiFranco, Jane Goodall, Justine Henin, Carl Sagan. person/people I most want to meet: Cf. "role models." Also, add Tommy Robredo and Bruno Eierund. nicknames: Iacobus (pronounced "ya-KOE-bus"), Ganymede, Jeddy Bob, Bob, J'torian, Kasama Haruhiko, Smongolia, Mexicola, the Birkenstalker (with Wings). phobias: Acrophobia, arachnophobia. things I like about myself: Honesty (usually :p), grasping concepts easily, intensity, logic, my voice. things I hate about myself: Procrastination/Inertia, bad eyesight, escapism via books or the computer. words/phrases I hate: "Technically"; "ethnic"; "exotic." handedness: Right-handed for writing, left-handed for eating, left-handed or ambidextrous for everything else. I was switched from left-handedness to right-handedness as a kid, and later I sort of switched myself back, except for when it came to writing. coolest experiences: Trip to New Orleans, Civilization all night with Rick, having a school of fish swim and jump around me while swimming in the Gulf at Florida, accidentally getting as close as a few meters to several elephant seals, any of my trips to Año Nuevo State Reserve on the California coast. on whether the glass is half-empty or half-full: Depends on what's in the glass! miscellaneous: Politically active, multilingual, into British TV (comedy, sci-fi, drama), love of all things related to water (e.g. swimming, the ocean, water politics, marine sciences, etc.). random favorite things: "my mom is gaun" *rofl* This is a note I wrote for my mother on 1 February 1984. Back then I was still in preschool and my parents were not yet divorced, and each day after school my dad would pick me up and watch me at his office for an hour or so, at which point my mom would pick me up on her way home from work (my dad worked longer hours than my mom). On the day I wrote this note, I was at my dad's office and he had just yelled at me for some reason (I forget what it was), and I ended up crying and saying that I wanted to go home with Mommy NOW - and of course that just upset him more. :p Anyway, he left the room after yelling at me, and I was so sad that I wrote this note for my mom while I was waiting for her to pick me up. *rofl* The note was kept in random drawers for years, but my mom had it framed around the time I got out of high school. This picture is scanned at twice the size of the actual note (the note was written on a small piece of light blue tissue paper, and is really flimsy and transparent). Utah Phillips' Stories, Songs, and Poems Korean War vet and "radical folkie" Utah Phillips was an awesome storyteller, poet, and activist—click the link above to read my transcription of some of his work. I transcribed them from Utah's two collaborative CDs with Ani DiFranco, an incredible folk-punk guitarist/poet/activist in her own right; they're called The Past Didn't Go Anywhere (1996) and Fellow Workers (1999). If you can't find them in music stores they can be ordered through Righteous Babe Records. Do have a read if you have the time. Even if my transcription can't capture the hilarious and moving aspects of his live performances, you'll at least be able to understand see why Utah was just so darn cool. I say "was" because he passed away recently and the world is poorer for it. (I also recorded a few quotes Utah on his radio show, which used to air on a few public stations across the nation.) favorite quotes: ~ Miscellaneous Quotes ~ favorite colors: Mostly dark/deep blues, but I also like any dark, watery colors and dark earth colors in general. favorite flowers: Most orchids, red-black roses, white calla lilies, dark purple irises (not the pale purple ones you normally see). favorite metals/stones: Silver, malachite, hematite, tiger's-eye, black opal, dark blue sapphires, jadeite, black pearls, amber. favorite animals: Dolphins, dragons. favorite numbers: 9, 0. favorite holidays: Vernal equinox, summer solstice. favorite vacation spots: Korea, New Orleans, nearly any place by the ocean. favorite physical activities: Swimming, tennis, dancing, sex. favorite parts of the newspaper: Comics, world news, local section, arts section. favorite subjects: Biology, writing, music, philosophy, political science, ecology. favorite actors: Leonard Whiting, Patrick McGoohan, Tom Baker, Stephanie Cole, Rowan Atkinson, Chris Barrie, Joanna Lumley. favorite British comedies: Waiting for God, Red Dwarf, Absolutely Fabulous, Mulberry, Mr. Bean, The Vicar of Dibley, As Time Goes By, Are You Being Served? favorite British sci-fi series: Red Dwarf, Neverwhere, The Prisoner, Dr. Who, Blake's Seven. favorite U.S. shows: Firefly; practically any PBS show about nature, science, mathematics, and/or cooking; Strangers with Candy; Drawn Together; The Wild Wild West; Animaniacs; old Warner Brothers cartoons. favorite movies: Serenity, Taboo, Sharkskin Man and Peachhip Girl, Brokeback Mountain, Strangers with Candy, Happy Together, The Closet, Romeo and Juliet (Zefirelli's version), The Secret Garden (Hallmark Hall of Fame version), Better off Dead, A Life Less Ordinary, In&Out, Good Morning Vietnam, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Awakenings. favorite artists/sculptors/et cetera: Jacques-Louis David, Maxfield Parrish. |
