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Genevieve McG

Blessy Li'l Burning Bones

About Me

just east of eden

a tiny slice of some story...

My Interests

uummmmm...

stuff i might be doing
playing piano, making other noises (not singing), writing songs, prose, bits, a book; drawing, scribbling, designing websites, animations, making things like cat heads, playing with freunds, wanting to know more, je ne sais ...qui qee, ... (+ no moke me, no mo'... Ossifer,

stuff I like
spark, heart, irreverence, my erstwhile, well-travelled cat, Noonie, who's 21 and does everything better than me.. (with such grace) ..she quite disarms me-makes my heart melt hourly, the humourful, the curious, pianos, rocketships, books, sacred hearts, squealing, cats, crowns, the good, the great, and the lost, mummified cats, the rain, the sea + all of its weirdy depths, searching for tunnel cat and big button, scribbling, that indescribable twilight darkbluesky, stones.. ie.little rocks, laughing, tears.. any old stuff that really moves me, fraternizing with ex'es, the rejuvenation of Rowland S., Rowlands qees + books, surviving shipwrecks, and other natural+unnatural disasters, the Standish wedding waltz, toes in the sand at night, mir cats, slaying giants, hat racks, things Japanese, finding completely new things to love, even stuff to enjoy hating for a while, Korean films, my far-flung remarkable friends - getting to have breakfast with them, rumpus, goldie on ot off a tiny horse, michelle-san, vicky's air-conditioned pent-palace, my first dog Wooty, my 2nd dog Hans running 'round the house on Cracker Night with a coconut on his head, my huge tribe of siblings, and their (and other people's) children, old New Orleans, the light inside churches,12 yr old boys (some of my best friends are...) ...+ brevity?

I'd like to meet:

tunnel cat ...(don't be like that...) + the good, the great, the lost, the ridiculous, the ridiculously talented
the unrepentantly sassy...
and anyone who can explain quantum physics to me?

Music:

the barest bones Suicide, Stooges, Shangri-las, the Whyte Boots, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Nina Simone, Isaac Hayes, Hubert Sumlin, Tim Rose, Lee Hazlewood, Serge Gainsbourg, Townes van Zandt, Francoise Hardy, Astrid Gilberto, The Saints, The Loved Ones, the New York Dolls, early Stones, Bob Dylan, Karen Dalton, Iggy, Rowland S Howard, Leonard Cohen, Angelo Badalamenti, Morriconi, Aretha Franklin, Roxy Music, the Birthday Party, Beasts of Bourbon, the Fall, the Devastations, Pink Stainless Tail, Lauging Clowns, Dirty Three, the Drones, that version of Crying In Mulholland Drive (ooof!), Ensturzende Neubauten, Cat Power, Odetta the woman in Scorcese's Bob Dylan doco, who bangs her guitar and makes a yowling noise (oh i love her!!), Dusty Springfield, Alex Chilton, Syd Barrett, Barry Adamson, Elmer Berntein, Spiritualized, PJ Harvey, and yes the Bad Seeds, the Righteous Brothers, Pet Shop Boys, HTRK, Eno, Prince, T Rex, 2 songs by Destiny's Child, Velvet Underground, P Smith, Crime & the City Solution, Queen of Siam, J P.Shilo. St noonie on my piano...

Movies:

Night of the Hunter, Apocalypse Now, Taxi Driver, Repulsion, Fallen angels, 2046, Old Boy (Korean), Innocence, Blue Murder, Chopper, Crash, La Mouette, Black Narcissus, Orphee, Black Cat White Cat, Revolution, The Devil's Backbone, Wiseblood, Kids,... anything by Marcus Bergner

Television:

"Oz"... US prison drama

Books:

greedy li'l readerer... eg:
The Happy Prince, La Grande Meaulnes, Jim Thompson,Somerset Maugham's "Of Human Bondage", Jack Abbott, Jack Womack, Murakami, Celine, James Ellroy, Pete Dexter's "Deadwood" & "Brotherly Love", Raymond Queneau, Raymond Radiguet, Elmore Leonard, Byron, Cavalier and Clay" by Michel Chabon, "Quicksilver" by Neal Stephenson, Flannery O'Connor, "the Master & Marguerita" by M.Bulgakov, Martin Amis especially "London Fields", "In the Hand of Dante" by Nick Tosches, the 12 Ceasars by Suetonius, histories, True Crime by Jack Abbott, The Rorsharch Texts; Japanese & other comics...from Krazy Kat to Kabuki, Powers, Edward Gorey, even The Adventures of Scott Pilgrim, etc etc endlessly...currently The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thompson... art caravaggio, louis wayne, goya, anna faith nicholls, jean tingley, kurt schwitters, mark ryden, larry clarke, tony clarke, david mack, hiraki sawa, marcus bergner, geordie wellington...

Heroes:

desmond d and saint noonie

My Blog

messing with my stupid ’profile’

okyes i know.... first i disappear for a yearand everyone thinks i’m rude or dead because i haven’t answered messagesordone the approving thingbuthere i am again +yesi should’ve jus...
Posted by Genevieve McG on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:02:00 PST

how i feel today

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Posted by Genevieve McG on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:28:00 PST

saint

Posted by Genevieve McG on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:46:00 PST

Help Me Now

well the moon might be newthe night's hot as helland these hours suck like quicksand belowI want to kill all these doubtsbut now you're all gonemy mouth's stuffed with words I can never spit out(CHORU...
Posted by Genevieve McG on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:53:00 PST

ok. Im spitting it out, a tince at a time....Lullaby 1 ... Mary St

This is excruciating for me but I've made promises... and so...I'm going to leak out some writings, willy nil,(inky river down scribble-mountain)some songs some stories some scratchings some heartbrok...
Posted by Genevieve McG on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:27:00 PST

the axeman cometh /hacking coughs/ chop chop.........

why oh whyare (damn near) all my friendsso rudely hacked to iity lbits...to bloody unintelligible li’l bits...I can’t hear a word any of you are saying.....you have cute friends... who say...
Posted by Genevieve McG on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:08:00 PST

My and the RSHa Monstrous Garage Sale

....hellllllp........please someone come and remove our unworldly goods-for-nought......
Posted by Genevieve McG on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:20:00 PST

menage å Troy (+ sad about the boy)

I met Troy in 1979. I was having a ciggie in the courtyard of some fantastic old deco flats in Mozart St, Elwood. and there he was, sitting in the sun... within minutes we were inside his place drinki...
Posted by Genevieve McG on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:08:00 PST

a sign >> tc

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Posted by Genevieve McG on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 10:56:00 PST

knut

...my friend conrad' has just given birth.......
Posted by Genevieve McG on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 11:01:00 PST