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Rixter Profile
Rixter (Madison, WI)
Member since Saturday, February 23, 2008
Last login 10/16/2008 1:07:04 AM
What is your current occupation? Do you enjoy it?
I'm currently a student. But, I have worked for a major publishing firm and a newspaper either on a part time basis or full time during summer breaks since my final year in HS.
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What is your educational background? Are you currently in school?
Isn't it obvious from my profile picture that I am highly intelligent. ...and why does every form, application and document I fill out want to know this information about me anyway. ...hmm.
Oh, alright!
I have an Associate of Arts degree in Business Management and currently finishing up a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism.
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Describe your lifestyle and current relationship status:
I'm single. I temporarily live in what is considered a large multi story historically significant house near the University that I attend. I live with my kid sister and a few of her college friends sharing different floors and the bills and daily chores. The large loft is occupied by a revolving door of University artist types who enjoy the large roof Skylight area to work and study painting and sculpting. I was raised in a rural, largely tribal area of Wisconsin where the emphasis was always on religion and a sense of community.
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Do you have any vices (smoking/drinking/etc)? Describe:
I have none! Well, I can't think of any, except maybe if punching ignorant, loud mouth bullies in the face is categorized as a vice since most people frown upon such activity. ;) But, I have long given up that practice as a practical matter. After all, ...really, how many people can you actually go around punching in the face since there always seems to be so many people left in the world to take their place.
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Do you have a favorite quotation? Enter it here:
My most quotable lines come from the film "The Year Of Living Dangerously." A young Mel Gibson (Guy Hamilton) plays a journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Service on assignment in politically torn Jakarta & Linda Hunt (Billy), a local inhabitant, is his cameraman & mentor.
Throughout the film Billy has been trying to convince a glib & indifferent Guy to write his stories with more compassion. This scene is where Guy & Billy are walking together through Jakarta’s slums, when Billy quotes a line from Luke, Ch 3, Ver 10, “What then must we do?” as they witness the underprivileged swarming all around them in a dark evening light, and tells Guy that Tolstoy asked this same question, and even wrote a book with that title. Tolstoy got so upset about the poverty he saw in Moscow that he went one night to the poorest section of the city and just gave away all his money. Billy tells Guy, “You could do that now; five American dollars would be a fortune to one of these people.” Guy predictably says it wouldn’t do any good, that it would just be a drop in the bucket. “Ah,” says Billy, “that was the same conclusion Tolstoy came to—but I disagree.” “Oh?” asks Guy, “What’s your solution?” And Billy says, “I support the view that you just don’t think about the major issues, you do whatever you can about the misery that’s in front of you. Add your light to the sum of light.”
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What makes you happy? Why?
Periodically making an ASS of myself [the above picture is a reasonable facsimile}.
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Name five (5) items you can't live without:
My favorite books, films, music, chocolate chip cookies and of course SEX ...lot's of it!!! :)
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Do you have favorite type of music? Favorite bands or singers?
My main interests are in jazz & blues, but, I still love most any music from the mid 80's to present.
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What type of films do you enjoy? Please give some examples:
I'm currently going through a vintage film phase. :) I recently saw the restored version of Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925) long considered one of the most important & influential historical films ever made.
I also enjoy old film noir on occasion; but mostly films from the mid 80's to present...
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Do you enjoy television? Which programs?
I grew up with grandparents who for various reasons rarely watched television so likewise I never acquired the taste except for old films on the movie channels. I never knew what other kids were talking about when they discussed all the series shows they were watching. And, for the most part, I still don't know 80% of the shows on today. If it wasn't for DVD players & movie theaters I'd be totally pop culturally deficient. lol
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Do you like to read? If so, what books have you enjoyed recently?
I have so many favorite writers but a few that come to mind are: Vladimir Nabokov, William Styron and Ernest Hemingway, I have recently enjoyed listening to the "Alchemist" read in it's entirety by the most amazing girl I know hosting her own show here (you know who you are Shawna). :)
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Do you have any hobbies or other interests? Describe:
Vintage guitars, classic cars, and legendary stars.
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Where are your favorite places? Where would you like to go most?
No place in particular. Anyplace I haven't been!
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