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I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC

All things please the soul, but these please the soul well...

About Me

"the armies of those i love engirth me and i engirth them, they will not let me off till i go with them, respond to them, and discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul."

My Interests

the sound of everything, warm beverages on cold mornings afternoons and nights, courvoisier, fuzzy blankets, acting as a craft for self realization, singing awakens the angels, salty tears, underlining and writing in the margins of books i read and then randomly looking through them to see what it was that i found fascinating, uncalculated and unmanipulated conversations, i feel color, humming as i move....

Music:

joni mitchell, billie holiday, bjork, the beatles, bach, beethoven, bob dylan, bob marley, tom waits, cesaria evora, duke ellington, miles davis, elliot smith, john coltrane,jimi hendrix, john lennon, louis armstrong, patsy cline, antony and the johnsons, thelonious monk, sigur ros, radiohead...

Movies:

high fidelity, life is beautiful, the hours, little miss sunshine, fight club, eternal sunshine of a spotless mind, american beauty, somersault, pollock, me you and everyone we know, amelie,(paris, texas),donnie darko,elephant man, the edukators,persona

Books:

the poison wood bible, memoirs of a geisha, anna karenina, fathers and sons, the diaries of anais nin, i know why the caged bird sings, the temple of my familiar, life is elsewhere, the unbearable lightness of being, lolita, franny and zoey, catcher in the rye, the time machine, farenheit 451, crime and punishment, the eight, the tropic of cancer, nightbird, written on the body, the function of hte orgasm, the search for the beloved, midnight's children, fountainhead, the enigma of arrival, the waves, a shining affliction, the poetry of: e.e.cummings, rumi, hafiz, laleshwari, pushkin, lermontov, pasternak, plays by tennessee williams