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About Me

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Crazy Mama, creator of useful/useless ugly/beautiful objects, fashionista, Yogini, music nerd, lyrical mind, aspiring alchemist, wicked green thumb, caffeine addict, obsessive/impulsive, visionary with her eyes closed and both hands on the wheel...

My Interests

..Yoga, sewing on my antique Singer factory machine (VRROOOOMM!!!), Music, Art, metalsmithing, accessorizing, quantum physics, landscape architecture, dancing with myself, turning blah into BLAM! ..

I'd like to meet:

Someone who knows how to turn dirt into precious metal. Or David Bowie.

Music:

Glam, 80's New Wave and Goth, Indie. BOWIE. T Rex, Echo and The Bunnymen, Peter Murphy, Flaming Lips, Blondie, Eels, Lou Reed, Regina Spektor, DARKEL, The Knife, Nick Cave, Mercury Rev, The Specials, Leonard Cohen, Dub Pistols, THE WALKMEN, Arcade Fire, Peter Bjorn & John, The Cure, PIXIES, The Kills, Clap your hands say yeah, Interpol, Rogue Wave, Coconut Records, TV ON THE RADIO, Blonde Redhead.

Movies:

.. Le Samurai, School of Rock, Amelie, 2001 A Space Odyssey, Rushmore, Magnolia, Character, Rocky Horror, About Schmidt, Secretary, Nightmare Before Christmas, Spinal Tap (of course), Home for the Holidays, Hedwig and the Angry Inch...

Television:

.. Project Runway The Musical
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Books:

.. Revolt of the Angels, Penguin Island, The Gods Will Have Blood, (anything by Anatole France), How to be Good, We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson), And the Ass Saw the Angel (Nick Cave)...

Heroes:

.. My Mom, Vivienne Westwood, David Bowie, the person who thought to package jelly in squeeze bottles (I'm anxiously awaiting peanut butter in a toothpaste-like tube), Anselm Kiefer, Robert Smith for the hair and red lipstick and many years of great music, David Lynch and and Tim Burton for the hair and the movies, Wes Anderson for pairing Jason Schwartzman and Bill Murray in Rushmore (I'm not sure about his hair.)

My Blog

Of Today, March 22, 2008

About March 22, 2008:It was my son’s 9th birthday, and we celebrated it at a bowling alley. Even with his magnificent (hold the ball with two hands and chuck it from between the knees) form he a...
Posted by Miss Kettleblack on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:03:00 PST

Rule of 10

My busy brain works best when given parameters in which to operate. I like to make rules for myself; they help me stay focused and on a productive path. I particularly like this new rule I invented fo...
Posted by Miss Kettleblack on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:16:00 PST

Tag Ur It

**Once you have been tagged you have to write a blog with ten random things, facts, habits, or goals about yourself. At the end you choose ten people to be tagged list their names and why you chose th...
Posted by Miss Kettleblack on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:02:00 PST

My Grandparents

About a year and a half ago my grandfather broke his left hip when a plastic lawn chair buckled and went out from under him. He never really recovered from the trauma associated with the surgery, and ...
Posted by Miss Kettleblack on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 10:19:00 PST

our waterfall

Our love is like a waterfall. It is ever moving and flowing, but always follows the same path. It is vast, but if we try to hold on to it it will run right through our fingers. It eases along until it...
Posted by Miss Kettleblack on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:14:00 PST