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katy

katy coyote says cocktails and adventures anyone?...what shall we do now...

About Me

Trickster, shapeshifter, recently dubbed the Duchess- writer, wordsmitH ,illustrator, creator of installations...multi faceted, creative chaotic and organised, cook extraordinaire, ritual feastmaker, finding the beauty and magic in every day..troublemaker, horsewoman, life alchemist, altar maker,vision quester, lived so many diffrent lives i can't remember them all.!!My life is my work of art. Believe in true freedom, and especially the rights of Native peoples especially the Oglala Lakota and the roma. PLEASE WATCH MY VIDEOS AS THEY SPEAK FOR ME Mitakuye Oyasin... THANKYOU.. .. .. .... ESPECIALLY FOR THE CHILDREN TAKEN AWAY FROM THEIR CULTURE FAMILIES AND RESERVATIONS-HE'S GONNA CUT YOU DOWN

My Interests

everything,creative pursuits,especially writing,poetry,trickery,misbehaving,good red wine,taking risks, trying to learn to look after myself...the rights of native people, the right to live in freedom,magic feasts, pyrothechnics, ritual, making altars, collecting cocktail cabinets, having parties, magic, shamanism, living it up,sin in general, flowers,gardens,interesting people,tatting,gypsy caravns,cauldrons you can cook in,astrology,alchemy,spirits (both kinds)Running away to the circus, running away from the circus, pirates, Burton my rottweiler

I'd like to meet:

Other people still interested in everything ,those with a taste for the subl;ime to the ridicolous...Emily Dickenson, Appolinaire, Elizabeth taylor, Sooty, Shakespeare, IF THIS SLIDESHOW ISN'T WORKING-CHECK OUT MY PHOTOS ITS WORTH IT

Music:

jazz especially sarah vaughan,Shiely bassey, eartha kitt, studio one reggae, weird and wonderful montavani records ,pie bacup, carlos Nikai,the Who- Keith Moon esp.,Van Morrison, circus music, anything with accordians in it,gypsy kings,gypsy singers,janis joplin,edith piaf.Carlos Nikai I have now bought an accordian so watch out world....

Movies:

Love Orphee, and Beauty and the Beasty by Cocteau, also Blade Runner, big fan intelligent gangster movies scarface, the departed, Film Noir e.g. Double Idemnity, the Big Sleep, love Blue velevet, independent Cinema. pan's Labyrinth .I am probably the female equivalent of Withnail.See below...but I definately don't recommend the lighter fluid or the anti freeze,darling..


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Television:

love radio, tv is dull. Love round the horne, Kenneth Willams (speaking polari) That's when i learnt ..just do it yourself..Or had i just forgotten that...here is a picture of the sandstorms on redcar beach where i grew up-and was told to go and enjoy mysel;f or have a good slapp...those were the days!

Books:

O my god don't know where to start...love all sorts...from rumi to shakespeare dylan thomas etc etc Nighjts at the Circus Wise children

Heroes:

Dark goddesses, like Hecate, badly behaved women, Liz Taylor, Mae West, but mainly Coyote is my superhero,sacred Trickster... my friends who are legends in their own right. my children...those who have lived their dreams and have humanity and humour- favourite quote "whatever you can do,or dream you can, begin it-boldness has genius ,power and magic in it" (Goethe)Also wild boys, drummers, romany singers, people who aren't afraid to fall in love...O yes, and madam George.

My Blog

well the spiral turns around and here I am

well here I am..a long time since drunken blogging took place. Goodness knows where I’ve been, so many adventures, wheels turning, learning , conflict, love, bewiulderment, joy, innocence. I&rsq...
Posted by katy on Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:13:00 PST

when I’m mobile...landing ..where’s my wheels?

Arrived back from  travelling on the road with a twitchy bump. The falt is too square, and every little thing in it seems to beg attention, not least to say the mice moved in whilst i was away an...
Posted by katy on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:58:00 PST

Solstice approching

Solstice is approaching, friends working at Galstonbury asking me what I'm doing...will be strange not to be there. Last year,(I decided to read my journal for last year) I had a feast, in my house, w...
Posted by katy on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 05:36:00 PST

dreaming and being on the web

I love dreaming up the future and possibilties...toady i have been extending a hand to new ideas, stroking over the shape of possibility, and loving the idea of NEW and unseen territories...thinking o...
Posted by katy on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:44:00 PST

feeling like flying

today feeling like flying, it's summer been travelling, meeting up with old firnds, travellers, gypsies, and now back at home, four walls is killing me!!! But to support my family need to be here til ...
Posted by katy on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:17:00 PST

strangely well and wanting to illustrate aswell

Well well well...I promise i'll learn to spell-check soon....The full moon sems to suit me, as does de-toxing with writing..I suppose writing is a kind of de-tox in itself. yesterday I was dwelli...
Posted by katy on Wed, 02 May 2007 10:20:00 PST

strangely well and wanting to illustrate aswell

Well well well...I promise i'll learn to spell-check soon....The full moon sems to suit me, as does de-toxing with writing..I suppose writing is a kind of de-tox in itself. yesterday I was dwelli...
Posted by katy on Wed, 02 May 2007 10:24:00 PST

Beltane and feeling unwell..again..memories of hell

Well here we are beltane, and not only do I feel like a bud bursting, but I look rather like a woman about seven months pregnant, and I hate it. It's very uncomfortable, and it means my heart is not f...
Posted by katy on Tue, 01 May 2007 12:00:00 PST

journey through cancer- the underworld and back again

Interesting today, after writing about the first signs of my cancer- the beginning of the journey-I read a blog today by a native woman just beginning her joureny. I felt so drained after writing the ...
Posted by katy on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 06:22:00 PST

the lazy hazy days of summer

I'm just feeling like a bud that could burst open at any time, the garden is magnificent, honeysuckle,clematis everywhere, so much so I'm loath to leave it. But off to the north east and wilds of the ...
Posted by katy on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 08:48:00 PST