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~** Dayna **~

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About Me

I am a WOMAN of all trades, multi-tasker extraordinaire!! *Ethnomusicologist*, Musician, Cultural Anthropologist, Manager of a Kayak Shop, Quote-a-holic, Righteous Babe, Free Spirit, Hooper, Dancer and a Full-Time Student @ Hunter College working on 2 degrees in Music & Cultural Anthropology - graduating this June 2008!
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*Her words pour out as if her throat were a broken artery and her mind were cut-glass, carelessly handled. You imagine her in a huge velvet hat with great dangling black feathers, but she shaves her head instead and goes for three-day midnight walks. Sometimes she goes down to the dock and dances off the end of it, simply to prove her belief that people who cannot walk on water are phonies, or dead. When she is cruel, she is very, very cool and when she is kind she is lavish. Fisherman think perhaps she's a fish, but they're all fools. She figured out that the only way to keep from being frozen was to stay in motion, and long ago converted most of her flesh into liquid. Now when she smells danger, she spills herself all over, like gasoline, and lights it. She leaves the taste of salt and iron under your tongue, but you dont mind The common woman is as common as the reddest wine* - Detroit Annie, Judy Grahn

My Interests

*knowledge is power*

world music, traveling, ethnomusicological research (music and trance, xylophone music, southeast asian island music, west african percussion), jam bands, drum circles, dancing my booty off, mermaids, music as the universal language, adventures, bass clarinet, gyil, Dagara music, transcendental and nude art, nude photography, broadway, coffee & tea, sewing patchwork & other cool hippie threads, crafting, nude beaches, boating, jetskiing, kayaking, watersports, nature, hiking, biking, beaches, spirituality, yoga, paganism, music festivals, hula hoopin, body-painting, learning how to ski :), volunteering on youth retreats, playing with the pups, drinking wine, dreaming, living life, meeting people, taking photos of practically everything.

I'd like to meet:

I fight with love
and I laugh with rage
you've gotta live light enough
to see the humour
and long enough to see some change


Music:

Keller Williams, Jack Johnson, Xavier Rudd, Grateful Dead, Ani DiFranco, Baaba Maal, Ryan Montbleau, Corey Harris, String Cheese Incident, Bernard Woma (Trio), Taj Mahal, U.Melt, Karmasutra, Ben Harper, Radiohead, Rusted Root, Bob Marley, Joules Graves, Michael Franti, Babatunde Olatunji, Oliver Mtukudzi, Medeski Martin & Wood, Coldplay, R.E.M., Burning Spear, Reckoning, John Brown's Body, Bela Fleck, Sarah McLachlan, Indigo Girls, Blind Melon, Janis Joplin, Erin Mckeown, Beatles, The Doors, Mamas & Papas, Ganga Giri, Lucy Chapin, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, Inanna, Bruce Hornsby, Luciano, Bright Eyes, Bitch and Animal, Dar Williams, Fiona Apple, King Sunny Ade, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Modest Mouse, Peggy Lee, Prince Diabate, The Point, Sonya Kitchell, Jehro, Alhaji Bai Konte, Salif Keita, Ali Farka Toure, Andrew Bird, Brahms, Baka Beyond, Beck, Furley, Jefferson Airplane, Issa Bagayogo, Joseph Arthur, John Butler Trio, John Mayer ...

South East Asian Music, Island Music, West African Music, World Percussion, Jam Bands, Classic Rock, Folk,Psychadellic, Blues, Funk, Soul, Jazz

Movies:

better than chocolate, playing for change, 1 giant leap, secret garden, lost & delirious, i know i'm not alone, tye died, pay it forward, around the fire, mary poppins, center stage, gia, mr. hollands opus, go ask alice, willy wonka and the chocolate factory, high art, little mermaid, sweet november, akeelah and the bee, modify, the ringer, across the universe

Television:

L Word

Books:

*maiden voyage*, appetites: why women want, vagina monologues, oh the places you'll go, be here now, spirit into sound, legacy of luna, when the women were drummers, planet drum, drumming at the edge of magic, das energi, the healing drum, so long a letter, samba

Heroes:

Mi Mamacita & Papa Bear, Ani DiFranco, Jerry Garcia, Mary Poppins, Ghandi, Bernard Woma (*Xylophone Man*...my African Father), Nelson Mandela, Anthony Seeger, and my Grammy Kay - she is an amazing and strong woman! almost 80 years old and still boogies down multiple times a week and travels the world...

My Blog

where I am going and who i am...

I will finally be graduating the first week of June!!! My next big move...back to San Diego! I am planning to move to OB, PB, or MB. I lived in Ocean Beach in 2003, and part of 2004...life was good th...
Posted by ~** Dayna **~ on Wed, 07 May 2008 11:57:00 PST

what if...

What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, 'This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy a...
Posted by ~** Dayna **~ on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 06:36:00 PST

January Full Moon in CoSM

JANUARY FULL MOON IN CoSM: When: Tuesday, January 25th (2005!) Time: Doors open at 7pm Prayer: 7:30-9:30pm Drumming and Dancing from 9:30pm until midnight Where: CHAPEL OF SACRED MIRRORS - CoSM
Posted by ~** Dayna **~ on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

imperfectly...

we get a little further from perfection each year on the road i guess that's what they call character i guess that's just the way it goes better to be dusty than polished like some store window m...
Posted by ~** Dayna **~ on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST