My Kitties ..... Spirituality ..... Sexwork ...... Guitar ......
More to be added ......
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This web-based comic has been around since late 2001, but I only recently discovered how good it is. It follows the exploits of transsexual teen Zoe, her conflicted family, her FTM friend/nemesis Larson, her school chums, dating, etc. Artist Erin Lindsey has a fine sense of drama and comedy that makes this series well worth perusing for both trans and non-trans folks. I laughed, I cried and I fell in love with it. Note: pulp comic now available! |
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I love movies for many reasons, and as a screenwriter I watch them on many levels. This was a hard list to make. I have over 550 DVDs and VHS tapes in my collection, and it was tough to pick. I could easily list another twenty. (The newest addition to this list: Shane Black's insanely funny Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang.) Here is my entire movie collection. Top Ten: 1. The Matrix 2. L.A. Confidential 3. The Titanic (James Cameron's) 4. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 5. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang 6. The Princess Bride 7. Bound 8. Groundhog Day 9. Almost Famous 10. Postcards from the Edge Honorable Mention: Secretary Mulholland Dr. Thelma & Louise Fight Club Magnolia The Crying Game Devil's Advocate The Breakfast Club Memento The Incredibles Miss Congeniality |
Though I'm already published, with a novel on the way and working on a new draft of my autobiography, I should be a lot more well-read than I am. Given all of the great things I've read and can't remember, I've confined this list to what I own. This was even a harder list to pick, especially since I have both fiction and non-fiction to consider. These are not presented in any particular order. Top Ten: 1. Illusions, Richard Bach 2. The Key, Cheri Huber/Zen Buddhist Center 3. Myth of the Goddess, Baring & Cashford 4. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,Hunter S. Thompson 5. Hitchhiker's Guide books, Douglas Adams 6. Colors Insulting to Nature, Cintra Wilson 7. The Stand, Stephen King 8. L.A. Confidential, James Ellroy 9. Gender Outlaw, Kate Bornstein 10. Homeboy, Seth Morgan Honorable Mention: All of Hunter S. Thompson All of Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club) All of Douglas Adams, Most of Stephen King Joseph Wambaugh (The New Centurions) and Richard Bach (Jonathon Livingston Seagull) Transgender Warriors, Leslie Feinberg Gender: An Ethnomethodological Approach, Kessler & McKenna Postcards from the Edge, Carrier Fisher Codependent No More, Melody Beattie Siddhartha, Herman Hesse |
My Cats
"Dogs have owners, cats have staff"
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I thank the Goddess for these furry little angels that She sent to me. They were
homeless when I adopted them, and they bring such joy to my life. Mindle, the
black cat, is the gregarious one who will pester you for attention the moment
you sit on the sofa. He gets under the covers with me when I sleep, loves to
play with the water dripping from the tub faucet and plays "fetch" with a ball
of paper. He's also very adept at opening sliding closet and shower doors.
Charlie was homeless a lot longer, and was obviously maltreated. Love and caring have tamed him into a lap cat. He is still wary of visitors though, unless he knows them. When he's relaxed you can almost hear his purr across the room, and he has a dozen different meows. He even has a "quiet" meow for when I'm still in bed and waking up. He's very soft and fluffy. |
Instrumental Rock Guitar
Long before I learned to play guitar, I loved to listen. As a teen, the sound of rock guitar connected with me in a way that nothing has since. A killer guitar solo is more exciting that Six Flags' hairiest rollercoaster, and a soulful guitar melody can make me weep at its beauty. These are my most favorite players who continue to excite and move me even today. I never recovered my skill when I went lefty, but I get to live it vicariously.
Life, the Universe and Everything (i.e. "Spirituality")
For years the only time I said "God" was immediately followed by the words "damn it!" I was known the pray from time to time, but only after I'd made a drug buy and (A) it was from a total stranger and I worried I might have been sold roofing tar, or (B) the cops slowed down to cruise me as I walked back home to do the drugs I just bought. Sixteen years later I began to believe that some Power must have worked overtime watching my butt; there's no other way I could have survive my past. To be honest I know very little about this Power, except that I trust Her (I like to personalize it). Here are a few words I've wrote and will continue to add to.
Christine Beatty on Sexwork
As a former sexworker I have strong opinions on the topic, as well as what it meant to me at the time and how I look back on it now. It had its upsides and downsides, and I don't like some of the ways it changed me. It's what I was stuck with at the time, and I can't use the word regret and mean it. And I believe it is a professional choice that society should not limit for the women and men who are emotionally and medically capable of the work. There are far more important issues on which to spend law enforcement money on than policing morals.
The Real Christine Beatty in Twenty-seven Questions
NAME(S): Christine Beatty, Trixie Crystal, Mistress Crystal, {birthname - wait for my bio!}
BIRTHPLACE: San Mateo, California.
FAVORITE COLOR: Purple.
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Geminii.
POLITICS: Bleeding Heart Centrist.
HOBBIES/AVOCATIONS: Writing, Music, Sailing, Movies, Hiking, Pool.
FAVORITE PLACES IN THE WORLD: Marine Mammal Center near San Francisco.
FAVORITE ANIMAL: Sea Otter.
FAVORITE PLANT: Epipremnum (Pothos, "Devil's Ivy").
FAVORITE FOOD: Tex-Mex / Sushi
FAVORITE DRINK: Icy Pellegrino sparkling water
FAVORITE DRUG: God
FAVORITE MOVIE: The Matrix.
FAVORITE ACTORS: Kate Winslet, Meryl Streep, Johnny Depp, Al Pacino.
FAVORITE TV SHOWS: Past: Hill Street Blues, Monty Python, Kung-Fu, Star Trek and Tales of the City (all three miniseries)
Present: I despise TV, except for ER re-runs and occasionally Law & Order
FAVORITE WRITER: Stephen King.
DO YOU BELIEVE IN AN AFTERLIFE? and Reincarnation, and Deja Vu and, most of all, in God(dess).
WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING IN 10 YEARS: Breathing, writing best sellers and Oscar-winning screenplays, singing karaoke.
WHO WOULD PLAY YOU IN A BIOGRAPHY: Stevie Nicks
FAVORITE BUMPER STICKER: Live and Let Live
FAVORITE SAYING: "We have yet to hear of a mass murder being committed with a vibrator." - Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues
LEAST FAVORITE SOUND: Crackfiends yelling outside my window at 3:00 AM.
MOST FAVORITE SOUND: My kitties purring.
LEAST FAVORITE WORD: Fear
MOST FAVORITE WORD: Love
TURN-OFFS: Bigots who mask their ignorant fear with hate. Closeminded people. Bullies.
TURN-ONS: Sensitive, thoughtful people who have a sense of humor and love life.