Phil Rose

Onaway Elementary School
City-As-School
Ps 41 Greenwich Village School

hard knocks, The Ramsey School (Halstead - Essex)

writer / web stuff

philfoxrose.com, Friends of Bill, FOB

life, conversation, figuring stuff out, realizing I can't figure stuff out, avocados, hooping, baths (but w/a 4' tub and a catbox in the room baths pretty much suck now), spirituality, nature, most things really

Currently: fiction - Left Behind series, non-fiction - Jesus of Nazareth - Pope Benedict, BB from the top again; Fiction faves: Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace, Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco, Potter, Dante, Clive Barker, (esp. The Great and Secret Show, Imajica), Delaney, (esp. Triton, Dhalgren), Neal Stephenson; Nonfiction faves: BB and related, Marianne Williamson, (esp. Return To Love, ) The Purpose Driven Life - Rick Warren, Artist's Way, The Tipping Point, Scott Peck, (esp. Road Less Traveled, People of the Lie)

Magnolia, Mermaids, action movies with Harrison Ford, Bruce Willis, Chow Yun-Fat, Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, sometimes Nicolas Cage, but never EVER Ben Affleck or Mel Gibson; classic romantic comedies, esp. those with Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Katharine Hepburn or Marilyn Monroe (esp. Man's Favorite Sport, Pillow Talk, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Holiday, Let's Make Love); quirky stylized films like Moulin Rouge, Amelie, Chocolat, Queen Margot, Raise the Red Lantern, Orlando, Betty Blue, Heroic Trio, Ghost World, Doom Generation; most things produced or directed by Luc Besson (Nikita, The Professional, 5th Element), Jerry Bruckheimer (from Cat People to Pirates of the Caribbean) or Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Thelma and Louise, Gladiator)

Monteverdi, Lamb, Lucinda Williams, Mary Gauthier, Iris Dement, Isis, Bach, Stones, early ZZ Top and Skynyrd, Radiohead, Portishead, Moloko, Handel, Massive Attack, Allman Brothers, Jenny Lewis, Stephan Grapelli, Madonna, Doris Day, Peggy Lee, Esthero, Lisa Gerrard

Saving Grace (Holly Hunter is amazing -- this series is so good it's... just watch it), Big Love, lots of BBC stuff - Torchwood (great new show!), Ballykissangel, Hotel Babylon, Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares, Black Books, Life on Mars, Afterlife, Hex, Mile High; and South Park, always South Park. And I miss Earthworm Jim.

Gemini

I haven't updated my Friendster profile in a year or more! I'm mostly on Facebook and Myspace these days, but I see some of my friends are still active here. So, here's the latest.

I'm pretty busy these days trying to live authentically, usefully, humbly and fully. This is an ongoing and enriching process which excites and infuriates me daily.

I've done a bunch of stuff -- like writing and editing for some magazines, helping run several national political parties, raising sheep in rural Maine, almost becoming a Benedictine monk, designing software, DJing, shooting and editing video.

Today, I live back near where I grew up in the Village and write and manage web development projects.

interesting people who help me see things differently; good people who are honest and true; friends who bring me comfort by sharing their company; people who mean it when they hug. I love being with people it's easy to be with, where I can be silent or blabber, and both are OK. I'm not interested in arguing -- I don't consider that entertaining -- but I'm happy to talk stuff through and find common ground.