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Maddy Walsh

Little darlin', I feel that ice is slowly meltin'

About Me

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very own MySpace LayoutsMaddy likes......singing 'til 6 a.m., acoustic guitars, mandolins, banjos, fiddles, a picasso stand-up bass, hand drums, standing around the piano at Pleasant St with family, concerts, festivals, a'capella harmonies, her dog OBLEO, being barefoot, WesternAustralia, CahuitaCostaRica, CoosBayOregon (beers in brown bags by the docks throwing in crab pots, Hall Lake, double bloody maries on Saturday mornings at the Blue Moon), Creative Writing, Guiness, avocados, Jeeps, the Ithaca gorges, transcendentalism, sunshine, small towns, dog tails, macrophotography, literary theory, 5 o'clock shadows, popcorn with yeast, handwritten letters, open mics, farmers' markets, postmodernism, prisms in windows, extreme left wing politics, pilates & yoga, playing OUTSIDE, hiking, camping, swimming, mountain biking, dancing around drum circles, microbrews, Pinot Noir, sewing, existentialism, long hugs, long skirts, wild fruit trees, hoodies, deconstruction, weaving hemp, patchwork, the last day of a semester, being called "Mama", dangly earrings, homemade lamps, cooking, the North Country, misbehaving, laughingLaUgHiNgLAUGHING... Favorite MOVIES: Into the Wild, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, The Point, The Big Lebowski, Juno, sometimes a sucker for Anchor Man/Zoolander-ish movies, Goonies, Shawshank Redemption, The War, Benny and Joon, Dylan: No Direction Home, The Last Waltz, Festival Express, Garden State, Great Expectations... TV?-4 simples words: FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS!!! Favorite BOOKS / WRITERS: Jack Kerouac's ON THE ROAD and THE DHARMA BUMS, anything by Toni Morrison, Walt Whitman's LEAVES OF GRASS ("Children of Adam" - sexiest poems ever written), IDENTITY LESSONS (poetry anthology edited by Maria Mazzioti Gillan), anything written by contemporary poet Joe E. Weil, Don DeLillo's WHITE NOISE, Zora Neale Hurston's THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, Percival Everett's ERASURE, Kathy Acker's BLOOD AND GUTS IN HIGH SCHOOL, the Romantic poets / essayists (Emerson, Keats, Thoreau...), and selected works by Deleuze, Judith Butler, Heidegger, Derrida, Foucault, Cixous...Reasons to sing: MomDadandGav, AmyB & Ri, Peter Yoo, Timmy Cannonball Baker and Kim Fuller, LaraDevonMarie&ALLWalshes, LindsW, Stephen, ChrisSav, Curtis, Khris&Jen, Joey-Beer, Smith, Dustin, Kev-o, James, JilliBean, Reygers&Racquel, Stacy-Ann, MaryShyla, Suzie-Q & the Aussie mates [Jarle!, wherever you are], MattyT, TamMe, Trav-eye, Ingo, Jess, KellyS, EmilyD, Indah & her beautiful family, Rain, Gramps, the Poland Pond Party folks, the wacky Dudley women, Kiltsy..... and all faces drifting in and out of that ever-waving line of view....LOVE.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/16/2007
Band Members: MAD DADDY: - Maddy Walsh (vocals, some guitar) & her pops, Ted Walsh (also vocals, guitar)........MADDY'S FARM (the recordings here): - Bob Walker (guitar) & Barry Prior (bass and other good noises).........and the NEW BAND! with Mike Suave (guitar, vocals, harmonica)
Influences: Bob Dylan and the whole Walsh clan always, my dad in particular... LATELY: The Avett Brothers, Neko Case, Mason Jennings, M. Ward (and She & Him with Zoey Deschanel), & Regina Spektor... And here are some other folks I also find downright spectacular: Etta James, Gillian Welch, Taj Mahal, Patty Griffin, Ray LaMontagne, John Lennon, The Be Good Tanyas, Led Zeppelin, Pearl Jam (& solo Eddie), Eric Clapton, Blind Melon, Bob Marley, The Band (& the new Levon Helm stuff), Van Morrison, Bright Eyes, Ani Difranco, Bonnie Raitt, The Indigo Girls, Rusted Root, Blues Traveler, Sublime, Hendrix, Zydeco for dancin'!, old DMB, Tim Reynolds, John Prine, The Grateful Dead, Simon and Garfunkle, Counting Crows, John Butler Trio, Otis Redding, Jack Johnson, Billie Holiday, Tom Petty, Allison Krauss, Emilou Harris, Ben Harper, Fiona Apple, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Susan Tedeschi, Nick Drake, Tom Waitts, Brandi Carlile, Stevie Wonder... "Heyyyy...you been goofin' wit da bees?"
Sounds Like: you tell me
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

"Cookin' the turkey on Bald Hill roo-OOOOOad!"

This is how I pictured it. Twenty-five and surrounded by instruments, dogs, and laughter.  Hardwood floors and big dinners, girls dancing in the kitchen, brown bottles in hand, peeling potatoes, ...
Posted by Maddy Walsh on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 05:09:00 PST

January 14th, 2008

I can't stop crying today -- I drank too much again, the dusting of snow in the yard is too beautiful, is too much home, my fingers on the piano are foreign after all the time in between, and I find I...
Posted by Maddy Walsh on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 04:12:00 PST

poems, old and new

Big Wishes   The winds back east gain speed, bells gambol in the trees, that first freeze up and steals the breath of our hardy mums. They sit shocked upright, mouths open, shoulders tight a...
Posted by Maddy Walsh on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:08:00 PST

Shoelace, the Blind Moray Eel

Shoelace, the Blind Moray Eel   I'd like to buy a house with too many walls.  I'd borrow a sledgehammer and wear steel-toed boots.  I'd start tearing down partitions piece by piece, t...
Posted by Maddy Walsh on Thu, 04 Oct 2007 03:58:00 PST

Open

Open The American River Parkway is a twenty three mile paved trail perfect for bike riding, somehow separate from the capitol of California, but still steeped its elements of speed and progress: the ...
Posted by Maddy Walsh on Sun, 20 May 2007 11:30:00 PST

Ithaca White Hippie JumpRope Alphabet (Letters A-P) by Devon Lang

Ithaca White Hippie JumpRope Aphabet (Letters A-P) by Devon Lang   Allie's at the apple farm, pickin the organics Bernie's at the bike shop, learnin her mechanics Carrie's at the co-op, shoppin f...
Posted by Maddy Walsh on Sun, 20 May 2007 11:20:00 PST