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Rebekah

pocketknife

About Me

vessel: brigantine / citroën DS

sound: theremin / rain on the rooftop

esoteric: true love / you / me

scent: musky / dusky

taste: umami / bittersweet

place: out there / in here

costa rica, 2003


auckland zoo, 2007

My Interests

I'd like to meet:



Music:



Music, pears, perserverance, capybaras , watercress , roses, living in the here and now as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow, my truly magnificent niece fallon and nephew elijah, my extraordinary sister naomi, my beloved far flung and disparate family, my forever friends, gratitude, recovery of the spirit and senses, authenticity, exploring, leaving, returning, flickr , fotolog , weeping willows, peonies, magnolia, pohutukawa, dahlias, camelias, azaleas, hibiscus, kowhai, frangipani, clover, gardenias, toi-toi , crape myrtles, fig trees, pomegranates, tamarillos, mint, quince, great sailing ships, castaways, shipwrecks, shipwreck survivors and their stories, courage, blue bird , faith, the moon, getting lost in starry night skies, bathing in the dark, mountains, exaltations, owls, honesty, starfish, seahorses, oceans, consciousness, undulating bass lines, amplitude modulation, reverberation, distortion, melody, meandering walks strapped to the headphones, humility, self is steam, birds , books , magic, the real thing, trawling graveyards in upstate new york in search of my ancestor Englebert Huff , stretching, gothic script, leather 'n' lace, road trips, my gold tambourine, hieroglyphics, the arcane, photography, mental health, mountains, black humour, surfing, polaroid, escapism, flax seed oil, volcanos, thermal springs, the public humanities and social sciences library , being able to breathe deeply, botanic gardens. sure, i'm somewhat antiquated and aesthetic by nature. however, that isn't the entire picture. isn't everyone comprised of many different colours and brushstrokes? i'm still a work in progress and i hope to be forever more

Movies:

on high rotation: cluster & harmonia, gun club, pere ubu, polly harvey, beach house, vashti bunyan, dead meadow, 13th floor elevators, roky erickson, dEUS, the clean, CAN, swell maps, x-ray spex, the rain parade, autolux, bowie, young marble giants, the homosexuals, bruce 'nebraska' springsteen, the moles, john cale, suicide, tim buckley, yma sumac, edith frost, smog, patti smith, arthur lee, rachels, joan armatrading, big bill broonzy, look blue go purple, dusty springfield, marissa nadler, buzzcocks, sun city girls, low, woodbine, the saints, opal, silver apples, roxy music, robert wyatt, yo la tengo, stevie wonder, cardinal, the stooges, elliott smith, lee hazlewood, mercury rev, erik satie, whiting tennis, bert jansch, love, vetiver, karen dalton, grizzly bear, blue orchids, jackson c frank, the duke spirit, the wipers, black heart procession, galaxie 500, arvo pärt, mission of burma, the outsiders, the dream syndicate, bonnie prince billy, white magic, zbigniew preisner soundtracks

Television:

when words fail me, i pick up the camera, and then i can hear again...

My Blog

kings and queens

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Posted by Rebekah on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:15:00 PST

brain drain

me: i'm watching a programme about an overweight mini horse. what are you doing? xyou: watching a programme about an overweight mini horse xlast night i watched t.v. this is worth writing about becaus...
Posted by Rebekah on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 06:40:00 PST

give me wings

'cause i'm on the outside looking in...Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbirdby Wallace StevensI Among twenty snowy mountains, The only moving thing Was the eye of the blackbird.II I was of three min...
Posted by Rebekah on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:49:00 PST

hand job

it's raining cats and dogs today, in between intense bouts of sunshine and hail. auckland has the most capricious climate i've ever encountered. i'm housebound and frustrated after investing in a comp...
Posted by Rebekah on Wed, 03 Oct 2007 07:02:00 PST

my notorious gypsy soul

...is activated at the moment, according to an illuminating star reader. i might have guessed as much without having read that. my nomadic self is primed for adventure after a long gestation. bring it...
Posted by Rebekah on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 05:03:00 PST

ยก que vida !

everything's changing; it always is, only we don't always notice it. well, i don't anyway.letting go is not giving up or giving in: it's something else altogether.the desire for more is not necessaril...
Posted by Rebekah on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:51:00 PST

heavy metal was my undoing

i've appeared in a few music videos over the years; they pop up on the music channels every now and then and i cringe, literally fold into myself.i've been a russian wench washing my hair in a basin w...
Posted by Rebekah on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:04:00 PST

a trepidatious inquiry

good day sunshine. music sounds sweet again, the colours are bright, gratitude is running high. this positive pendulum swing comes as swiftly as the dark clouds that roll in under the cover of night. ...
Posted by Rebekah on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 06:22:00 PST

from the roots to the tips

reminders of our ephemeral state of being are everywhere. from advertisements touting magic potions that arrest the aging process to the births and deaths that continuously, endlessly, drive home home...
Posted by Rebekah on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:22:00 PST

still waters


Posted by Rebekah on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 01:00:00 PST