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Octavia Winslow

Encircling the dirge of life...

About Me

Octavia Winslow is not a muse, a demon nor an angel. She is an observer. One of life, people, and of all things good and evil. The battle rages on within. Think you know who will win? Guess again!

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My Interests

Music, GOOD music, any kind of music as long as it can be felt/heard/given from the soul, intelligent men, guitars, (I need a pink Rickenbacker!) a beautiful sunrise from my balcony, being surrounded by nature, gardening at night, old movies, a bottle (or two) of cheap wine, fuzzy memories of the night before, and heart felt words on paper.

I'd like to meet:

Non-apathetic, non-judgemental, non-full of themselves, non-souless egotistical bastards; ONLY open minded, do'ers and thinkers, romantic idealists, artistic, poetic, long winded people who like GOOD music. Musicians of ANY aptitude who want to form a band that creates music to sink your teeth into!

Music:

There is so much mind blowing music out there these days, it is almost impossible for me to list a generalization of the music I listen too! I am constantly inspired by and discovering new genres and artists that hit me. Lately I've been heavy into Martha Wainwright, Cat Power, The Moaners, Lucinda Williams, Patty Griffin, The Last Town Chorus, Gotan Project, Karsh Kale, Aphex Twin, Hammock, Robin Hitchcock, Muse, David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust), John Lee Hooker ("Live from Newport" from the '60's, not his later stuff) and Patti Smith. Some of my all time favs. include: Hindu Love Gods, Arcadia, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, U2, REM, BB King, Gillian Welch, Sade, Daniel Lanois, The Replacements, Leonard Cohen, Nina Simone, Willie Dixon, The Doors, The Velvet Underground, Morrisey, The Pretenders, Kelly Willis, Joan Baez, Imogen Heap, Kate Bush, Aretha Franklin, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Emmylou Harris, Billie Holiday, Dean Martin, Jeff Buckley, Richard Buckner, Nick Drake, The Violent Femmes, Ultravox/Midge Ure, Love and Rockets, Mojo Nixon, Hank Penny, Pee Wee King, Webb Pierce, Bob Wills, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Buddy and Julie Miller, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Dims, Uncle Tupelo, Black Uru, Bob Marley, Lorretta Lynn, The Pixies, Neko Case, Talk Talk, The Church, my cousins band that I can't remember the name of from the 70's (whom of which I was they're #1 fan!) The Smitherines, Mary Hopkins, Clannad, The Waterboys, The Pogues, Lunasa, Lou Reed, Warren Zevon, Roxy Music, Sweet ("Fox on the Run" baby!), Matthew Sweet, Indigo Girls, T Rex, The Clash, Duran Duran, The Alarm, Elvis Costello, Tift Merritt, Steve Earle, Allison Moorer, Phil Lee, Mozart, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, the Carter Family, Bill Monroe, The Bosom Buddies, The Houston Kid, Rosanne Cash, Coldplay, Keane....I could go on and on!

Movies:

Harold and Maude, Mystic River, Clean, Lost in Translation, Little Miss Sunshine, Billy Elliott, The Commitments, The Gift, A Simple Plan, almost anything on TCM

Television:

WEEDS!, Sex in the City, What Not to Wear, Carnival, Deadwood, (I miss my HBO, (sniff!)) The Daily Show, Independant Lens

Books:

Life of Change, The Bell Jar, Pretty Birds, Lipstick Jungle, Hamlet

Heroes:

Bono, Sylvia Plath, Johnny Cash, my dad, MLK, Coco Channel, Bob Geldof

My Blog

Looking for a way to get rid of the root of all evil (Mr. Cheney)?...

Then copy this address and sign this petition!Do something!!Don't just sit there and complain!!!http://www.democrats.com/topelosiandjudiciary...
Posted by Octavia Winslow on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 02:16:00 PST

Oct. 27 Chicago Rally-I was there!

So, here it is.Two days after the march in Chicago and I am still trying to process all that I saw and felt. I almost didn't go. I hadn't been feeling well for a couple days before hand and I really ...
Posted by Octavia Winslow on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 07:04:00 PST

Two documentaries that have changed the way I think...

   Current events in my life are leading me down avenues I never thought possible before. I've never been a person who is easily swayed towards other's opinions. I have my own, and those usu...
Posted by Octavia Winslow on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 05:07:00 PST

Mother.......! It's a sad day in america...

(Yeah, cuz that's all we're good for.)   Think your vote (view, voice, vengance) does not count? Look at what Cindy Sheehan tried to do and was forced out by oppression from every side: ..> &...
Posted by Octavia Winslow on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:54:00 PST

From a mother to her son...

  I've spent many nights awakened by the sound of my son crying, talking, singing in his sleep. One night he kept muttering over and over again "What do I do? What do I do?"&n...
Posted by Octavia Winslow on Sun, 13 May 2007 04:00:00 PST

Mac Arthur Park...

  To: [email protected] From: The World To those who have vowed to protect and serve:       The world is watching.   We are watching as we see women and children clu...
Posted by Octavia Winslow on Fri, 04 May 2007 10:15:00 PST

F?#@K Y%U!!!!!!!!

Like you really give a rat's ass as to what I have to say!!    If you so much as think of leaving me another freaking SPAM  in my blog, I will hunt you down and beat...
Posted by Octavia Winslow on Tue, 01 May 2007 05:06:00 PST

The Plight of the Twelve Year Old Vegetarian

True to my redheaded roots, I've always been extremely headstrong. So, when at the age of twelve I decided to become a vegetarian, my parents did nothing to sway me. They knew by then that it was usel...
Posted by Octavia Winslow on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:36:00 PST

Imbibing while housecleaning: Occupational hazard or rite of every Irish born American?

Top o' the mornin' to ya!! (Or afternoon, or evening as it were.) Is it just me, or is it true that all house cleaning (the most repetitive and mind depleting job in the world) should be accompanied b...
Posted by Octavia Winslow on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:58:00 PST