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About Me

An empty highway. Standing with my toes in the Pacific. Sun on my face. A horse between my thighs. The smell of spruce and pine. Working up a sweat on my bike. Leaning into a hill on my snowboard. Getting out of the way so the muse can write. Feeling hungry again. Sharpening my mind against someone else's mind. Expanding my heart. Loving someone new. Loving someone old. Singing/dancing/laughing till it hurts. This layout was handmade with love by the folks at My space or yours? Go get one!

My Interests

Learning new stuff, going new places, movies, listening to music, making music, and late-night, wine-soaked discussions of anything from sex to religion to dog breeds to comedians and back to sex.

I'd like to meet:

The dude.

Music:

Blues, indie, ambient, techno, occasional bluegrass, classical, did I say blues? Specifically Bob Dylan, Hot Tuna, Eric Clapton and Gillian Welch. I also love world music: Habib Koite, Baba Maal, Salif Keita, Gipsy Kings, Peter Gabriel etc. And anything else except Top 40 and death metal...

Movies:

The Big Lebowski. Anything else by the Coen Brothers. Braveheart. Rob Roy. LOTR. Anything with Jim Carrey. Secretary. American Astronaut (best indie film this planet has yet produced). Anything else that either has sick, stupid, inane humor, or piques my interest and makes me question myself.

Television:

I relate to stupid humor. I've come to think of myself as Peter Griffin trapped in a female body. I like Penelope on SNL for the same reason: she opens her mouth and puts her foot in it, and nobody really gets her, and she doesn't know why she's funny. I can relate to that. I should mention, however, that I don't have cable, or a TV...

Books:

The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, of course! Tom Robbins tickles me. Also Songmaster by Orson Scott Card; anything Jack London ever wrote; Stephen King's Gunslinger series; CS Lewis' Narnia Chronicles; Nobokov's Lolita; and any book that gives me new info on animals, quantum physics or weird facts about the human brain. Also, cereal box labels. I really like those.

My Blog

More To Tell

The silence that settled itself around me was the most complete, most healing sense of stillness I had experienced since arriving in India three weeks before. I was sitting on a granite boulder ...
Posted by No Angel on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 05:42:00 PST

Regal in Rajasthan

My stomach lurched in time with the camel’s gait as it rocked across the sand like a foundering ship. Camels have always fascinated me: with their prehistoric appearance, they look like di...
Posted by No Angel on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:52:00 PST

Agra-vation

Things could be better. That’s not what I was supposed to be thinking about on my way to the Taj Mahal, most majestic of landmarks, monument to everlasting love and devotion. But--th...
Posted by No Angel on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:14:00 PST

Learning in the burning

There are places in the world where you begin to feel the weight of existence and how very long things have been going on. We forget these places in our everyday lives. We rush and push an...
Posted by No Angel on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 07:40:00 PST

City of Light

A beautiful Inuit poem goes: And yet, there is onlyone great thingthe only thing:to live to see in hutsand on journeysthe great day that dawns and the light that fillsthe world.The Inuits must have kn...
Posted by No Angel on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:28:00 PST

Pilgrim

Times like this you wish you could rein it in, the uncollected soul out there running free, with the metaphorical highway to itself, discovering god knows what on its many journeys. You don't have muc...
Posted by No Angel on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:32:00 PST

Seeing Eye Dog

This is how I know it's going to be a good year:I kicked off last night's celebrations at a nice restaurant with a couple of girlfriends, one of whom was preparing to board a flight back to her home i...
Posted by No Angel on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 01:56:00 PST

Got it on in A-town

I'm just home at 3 AM after a long night of opening up the proverbial can of whoopass: not always an easy task up here in the Northland. Anchorage doesn't offer much in the way of clubs. It's not li...
Posted by No Angel on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:36:00 PST

Tucker does it again

I can already feel myself starting to relax, the nervy humdrum city-life tension starting to run out of me as I amble down to the barn, carrot in hand, where Tucker hangs his head over the fence ...
Posted by No Angel on Sat, 03 Nov 2007 11:37:00 PST

Estrangement

Naked flame, she stands a naked flameI stand with the sons of CainBurned by the fire of love--U2I took a long ride today, pedaling silently through fall woods filled with stillness and gold. Th...
Posted by No Angel on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:07:00 PST