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Lucinda Michele

now in blue raspberry

About Me


"Looking for the / right kind of / live free or die..." -Son Volt
Reluctant sword stripper, latenite desert driver, intrepid roadtripper, sunny day lakeside green-grassy-eyed sleeper, goggles-wearing roman-candleshooter, dog-wrassler, cat pillow, haunted poet, fire-spinner, portrait-painter, rain-runner, rabid reader, drunken writer, culture jammer, car-singer, wide-eyed adventurer, loud mime. 'I worry because you like to put yourself in intense situations,' says Vanessa(Spork). 'You're a fucking earth goddess or something' says Cheney. 'I worry someone's gonna kidnap you and sell you to Arabs and harvest your kidneys,' says Ben. "Because you get it. You always have," says Tana. 'What are you, some sort of muse?' says Barry. 'You have the least reassuring smile I've ever seen,' says Jon. 'I never know what's gonna come out of your mouth,' says Mike. 'You look like a bourbon girl,' says Jim. 'You should have listened to me,' says my mom ... The tang of alcohol, history and an uncertain god compete in my veins. I eat Easter Peeps with lusty abandon not because of taste but because of color. I am in star-crossed lust with life. ..

My Interests

Speeding along mulholland in a vintage MG with the driver's seat on the right while wearing a dance-hall-girl costume and feathers in my hair, hung over and screaming with glee. Fire. Friends. Late nights. Reading'n'writing. My tai chi sword. Getting worked up, then shrugging it off. Being the Goth Martha. Staring at blank canvases. Finally getting around to painting them. Explosions. Absurd sounds and musics. Roman candle wars. Golf-cart fatalities. Wide-swing tremolos. Some things for which I have an affinity:

What I salvaged from the fire:
Not pictured: one slightly smoky heart.

I'd like to meet:

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing but burn, burn, burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'" -kerouac...
'All of us contain music & truth, but most of us can't get it out.' --Mark Twain.

Music:

anything that reduces me to appreciative silence. and also athalia, bowie, pixies, velvet underground, wrens, the muse, radiohead, shellac, jawbreaker, iron and wine, catherine wheel, dismemberment plan (r.i.p.), soltero, cat power, bad dudes, the rapture, calexico, califone, dulli, son volt, g.b.v., notwist, wilco

Movies:

I don't really watch many films. I am disenchanted with them.Here is a puppy.

adopt your own virtual pet!

Books:

I dig anais, bukowski, kerouac (whose writings taught me, in turn, how to write), dave eggers, tom robbins, ray bradbury, and the sainted hunter s. thompson, may he rest in holy gorgeous madness.

Heroes:

A significant number of my friends.

My Blog

http://www.storyofstuff.com/

Watch and repost. It's an amazing little amination-live action.http://www.storyofstuff.com/
Posted by Lucinda Michele on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:12:00 PST

Im in love...

...with this band:http://www.myspace.com/orpheumbellThink Basque gypsy, bluegrass, Tom Waits, (Lene Lovitch+Cocteau Twins+Sally Bowles), and goldrush boomtown all melted together in a slurry of steamp...
Posted by Lucinda Michele on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:11:00 PST

too much is not enough

Undivide your love Lyrics:There's a shark shaped finIn the water of my dreamsAn alligator screams from the depths thereI'd swim with you thereI'd swim with you thereIn the house that I useThe...
Posted by Lucinda Michele on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:25:00 PST

New bLA post: cheese & cheesiness

http://blogging.la/archives/2007/08/spinnin_yer_wheels_getti n_chee.phtmlWherein I journey to Meltdown, the grilled cheese restaurant, and have a close encounter with TRUE cheesiness in the form of spi...
Posted by Lucinda Michele on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:03:00 PST

Screw Burning Man: Do It Yourself at Home

Can't go to the REAL Burn? Heres how you can stay at home and still havethe 'experience' :Pay an escort of your preference to not bathe for five days, coverthemselves in glitter, dust, and sunscreen, ...
Posted by Lucinda Michele on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:38:00 PST

National Velociraptor Awareness Month

http://www.velociraptors.info/September is National Velociraptor Awareness Month!
Posted by Lucinda Michele on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:19:00 PST

oh my god

I am shocked and uncomfortable.An acquaintance of mine announced--in the shattered horror of shock and bereavement--on facebook, that his son had just been killed in an auto accident.It is horrific, a...
Posted by Lucinda Michele on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:55:00 PST

New cover story

Got the cover of the Pasadena Weekly this week.http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/article.php?id=4926&Issue Num=83
Posted by Lucinda Michele on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:18:00 PST

My First Instructable!

I am SO geeking out. I love this website.http://www.instructables.com/id/ERW1V9MF4ULN84V/It's coming in handy too because now I don't have to sew costumes for over a dozen people in my fire performanc...
Posted by Lucinda Michele on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 11:46:00 PST

Bukowskical, Bukdays, & Debbie Does Dallas...

Oh, I am SO going to this. I missed it last year...http://bukowsical.com/There's also this...http://www.bukday.com/aboutand this!!!http://www.myspace.com/debbiedoesvegastoo much to do & too little tim...
Posted by Lucinda Michele on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:32:00 PST