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Holly

You have to say, Life, I am not gonna take it, and if I do take it, I'm gonna take it back. --Eutocr

About Me


www.hollyselph.com

My Interests

Writing, reading, wine, fairy tales, music, art, comparative religion, psychology, sociology, environmentalism, ecology, philosophy, alternative medicine, buddhism, vintage books, thunderstorms, bourbon

I'd like to meet:


People who are down with the cause. And, if you don't know what the cause is, you're not down with it.
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Music:

Sufjan Stevens, The Weepies, Greg Laswell, The Beatles, Tori Amos, Ben Taylor, Elton John, R.E.M., Bela Fleck, James Taylor, Amos Lee, Johnny Irion, Damien Rice, Cat Stevens, CocoRosie, The Decemberists, Devendra Banhart, Joanna Newsom, Frou Frou, Imogen Heap, The Bridges, My Brightest Diamond, Portishead, Elton John, The Police, Genesis, Neutral Milk Hotel, Fleetwood Mac, Head Automatica,Rufus Wainwright, Indigo Girls, Jeff Buckley, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, Mozart, Vivaldi, Chopin, Paul Simon, Ravi Shankar, Martha Wainwright, Regina Spektor, The Shins, Willie Nelson, Iron and Wine, Ani DiFranco, Ben Folds, Blind Melon, The Books

Movies:

Amadeus, Big Fish, The Constant Gardener, Howl's Moving Castle, Melinda and Melinda, Me, You, and Everyone We Know, Ram Dass: Fierce Grace, My Neighbor Totoro, Robot Carnival, Nine Lives, Spirited Away, Fucking Amal, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Pan's Labyrinth, The Chumscrubber, Chocolat, Secretary, Thirteen, Junebug

Television:

Six Feet Under, Lost

Books:

Joan Didion, David Sedaris, Billy Collins, Wally Lamb, Karen Russell, Willa Cather, Alice Munro, Alice Walker, Margaret Atwood, Kurt Vonnegut, Tom Robbins, Elizabeth Bishop, Augusten Burroughs, Gita Mehta, Chaim Potok, Ken Wilber

Heroes:

Mahatma Gandhi; Timothy Leary; Maharishi Mahesh Yogi; my brother, Alex; Baba Ram Dass; Ali and Jenna Stafford; my pug, Lucy; and Clementine Tangerine, the magic cat.

My Blog

Smells Like Green Spirit

I was a child of the eighties, but it was the nineties that defined me, that I will always associate with the first dramatic attempts at creating an identity. Much like the baby boomers might ca...
Posted by Holly on Tue, 01 May 2007 11:28:00 PST

15 Minutes of Fame, Part II

I've been meaning to post this, but I've been busy sneezing. My short story, "The Color of Moths" was published in the new issue of Smokelong Quarterly.You can read the story here: The Color of Mothsa...
Posted by Holly on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 12:09:00 PST

Rats Live On No Evil Star

RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR palĀ·inĀ·drome    (pln-drm) n. A word, phrase, verse, or sentence that reads the same backward or forward I studied with a poet named David Bottoms when I wa...
Posted by Holly on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 07:21:00 PST

World Famous

New blog can be read here.
Posted by Holly on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 10:07:00 PST

Tune In

If you were to tap on the shell of a snail with a tip of a pencil, it would retreat into its shell. Psychologists call this an orienting response. If, however, you were to continue tapping on its shel...
Posted by Holly on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:17:00 PST