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Interested In:
Friends
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Member Since:
Jun 2003
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Hometown:
Chagrin Falls, OH
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Will's URL:
http://profiles.friendster.com/bakerwill
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Other education:
AUC, RBS
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College/University:
New York University, Attended 2001 - 2004, Class of 2004, Master's Degree, Museum Studies
Carleton College, Attended 1994 - 1998, Class of 1998, Bachelor's Degree, Religion
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Occupation:
rare books
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What I enjoy doing:
museums, fairs, circuses, sideshows, flea markets, natural history, incunabula, major and minor terata, taxidermy, religion, rural places, gardening
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Favorite Books:
Blake, Borges, Robertson Davies, T.S. Eliot, Ricky Jay, St. John of the Cross, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Unamuno, Cesar Vallejo, Walt Whitman
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Favorite Movies:
Annie Hall, l'Atalante, Babette's Feast, Cinema Paradiso, Harvey, Jacob's Ladder, Metropolitan, My Fair Lady, Naked, Wings of Desire
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Favorite Music:
16 Horsepower, Antony and the Johnsons, Birthday Party, Johnny Cash, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, Cliff Edwards, Flaming Fire, Flatlanders, Gun Club, Billie Holiday, John Lee Hooker, Skip James, Joy Division, Damien Jurado, Umm Kalthoum, Pogues, Cole Porter, Django Reinhardt, Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, Fats Waller, Woven Hand, Dwight Yoakam
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Favorite TV Shows:
The Muppet Show
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Zodiac Sign:
Scorpio
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(1) he is incredibly thoughtful and sincere to EVERYONE
(2) he's the smartest person I know
(3) he's the weirdest person I know
(4) his entire wardrobe has been the same since he was in 7th grade (including his shoes)
(5) he owns strange animal's eggs
(6) he owns pictures of humans born with six arms and thinks it's cool
(7) he would befriend a human with six arms and not treat them any different
(8) animals trust and love him
(9) he thinks before he speaks
(10) if you bring him home to meet your family they will want to adopt him as their son
i hope you are having a good one.
I was thinking maybe at 75 we could take figure drawing classes together at the art museum and swap stories about spiritual riots left in our hearts. we'll trace nude bodies, play footsie and brag about moments of ecstasy we've experienced with lovers. we'll walk arm and arm in the gardens, tipsy from afternoon martinis and enjoy each others hopes still. preparing for that wonderful time, keep your heart full, your desires lit, and love well. I'll be waiting for you down on circle drive...
been incredibly smart, cool & funny
since the day he was born. You should
have seen how he decorated his crib. I
though my nanny might have a heart
attack.
gentilmen an a skoalr.
(See, he coached an illiterate through
grad school.) Though one of the great
regrets is that i had the audacity to
ditch out on him in New York, after a
year of wonder in exploring the ideas
that bend the world to the shape in
which we choose.
Honestly, the most sincere and genuine
friend. And would have been, and may
yet one day be, the best-man in my
wedding. And "Fergus" jokes aside, I
will as well name my first son "Will."
(or maybe "William". Hey, it helps that
it's a family name anyway, heh.)
What can I say?
Butterflies, bones, carnivals, freaks, Rimbaud, old
books, new books, Scrabble, New
York, Cairo, Paris, Cleveland, halloween, Ira
Glass, This American Life, Bob Dylan, Mason
Jennings, more bones, wax sculptures, monkeys,
diptychs, triptychs, Joseph Cornell, Ezra Cornell,
middle name "Cornell", Fiji Mermaids, trepanning,
Charing Cross books, Giant Eagle sushi,
Occham's Razor, Schrodinger's Cat, asceticism,
orrories (sp?), Freakatorium, Mutter Museum,
Obscura, wunderkammer, wunderbar!
It *is* only a paper moon, isn't it?
have a compilation tape he made me
oooo....about 8 or 9 years ago. the
best thing is - it's still brilliant!