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maryam

Candor ends paranoia.

About Me



My Interests

L.A. FREEWAY KIDS MAY YOU REST IN PEACE

sky dancers, trying not to kill bugs (but succumbing my ideals to the black widow at sunrise), pro-cras-tin-ating, early california and the layout of los angeles streets and the amazing life you can find therein and dropped by, being cryptic when i'm confused, libraries

I'd like to meet:

more people who pressure me towards honesty, humor and good.
that sounds so serious.
but i mean it.

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Music:

kids singing their campfire songs.
ladies at the rosary and their evening prayers.
alan watts recordings on late night radio.
(or even sunday mornings with excelente coffee and an old friend from out of town in the living room!)
and the art laboe show.

Movies:

maryam, mildred pierce, picnic, amorres perros, dogville, candy, heavenly creatures, texas chainsaw massacre one two four, welcome to the dollhouse, slaves of new york....also eternal sunshine and the royal tennenbaums...shampoo...eames movies...of human bondage with bette davis, hollywood high, that rumspringa movie about the amish kids who go bad sell meth and then go back to being good amish people. and i forgot.... the shining

Television:

reruns, persian music videos, old episodes of kidquiz with maclovio perez because he has a sexy name and that's important for children's television...and as of today degrassi TNG...and ugly betty if i ever get around to watching it (i mean i've watched it and i love it, but i haven't watched that much...it's just really sweet and smart and aesthetically pleasing...)

Books:


old ones with tattered pages-yellowed photos-archives-primary sources
joan didion
italo calvino
joyce carol oates 'a garden of earthly delights' (1967 ed)
grace paley
diane diprima
reyner banham 'los angeles an architecture of 4 ecologies'
mike davis 'city of quartz', '
roloff beny 'persia bridge of turquoise'
bidoun magazine
luis rodriguez 'the republic of east la'
jeffrey mcdaniel
most urban + architectural theory and history particularly about the city of la and post ww2 development (JUST IN CASE THAT WASN'T ALREADY CLEAR!!! xoxoxoxoox love xxoxoxoxoox)
'zen flesh zen bones'
mcdonough+braungart 'cradle to cradle'
' joseph cornell's vision of spiritual order'
anything illustrated by eloise wilkin (we help mommy, we can play...)
james howard kunstler 'the long emergency'
ryszard kapuscinski 'shah of shahs'
kerouac + ginsberg changed my mind + life when i was 15 hands down
nathaneal west 'day of the locust'
john steinbeck
willa cather
carson mccullers
marjane satrapi 'persepolis'
alicia bay laurel 'living on the earth' (1st edition from mom's bookshelf i'd sneak looks at when i was 11!!)
all little house books of course and the velveteen rabbit and catundra
chogyam trungpa 'cutting through spiritual materialism'

Heroes:

the honest, the open hearted, vivekanananda, toypurina, alfonsina tuttolomondo + sam bonsignore conceptually + in the greater scheme of things, barbara willis (the mid century ceramist who quit making ceramics in the early 1950s and started again half a century later when she was 89----so i guess that means those who stop something and aren't afraid to start again or maybe those who return to their passions or maybe just people who make beautiful things their whole lives through----something like that )

My Blog

you are not scary

You Are Not ScaryEveryone loves you. Isn't that sweet?...
Posted by maryam on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:42:00 PST

slouching towards bethlehem redux

was just rereading this and it struck me as timely: "the center was not holding. it was a country of bankruptcy notices and public auction announcements and commonplace reports of casual killings and ...
Posted by maryam on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:16:00 PST

golden (car poem)

there are these golden hillsand then laterdry golden hills. mustard dropped by missionaries. still pervadinginvadingdesiccatingrendering soil lifeless, and inviting fire.but then.there's also this: g...
Posted by maryam on Sun, 18 May 2008 07:54:00 PST

collapse and then good things----------------------

first went my house, then my car, then the computer crashed (losing research, assignments, class notes), and now my cell phone last night as it cosmically- i dare say- dropped itself into the toilet a...
Posted by maryam on Wed, 21 Nov 2007 05:50:00 PST

keggers with kiddies all next year

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Posted by maryam on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:18:00 PST

hobo slang

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Posted by maryam on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 02:50:00 PST

cookie monster

i got that may day 2am coffee headache again. time to eat some more cookies, i reckon. update 5/15/07- i want more cookies! they were oatmeal raisin- emma made them and they were AMAZING. why did i ea...
Posted by maryam on Tue, 01 May 2007 02:08:00 PST

people! what cha doin?

i think today is the one month anniversary of my having met george clinton in a crosswalk, and been blessed by the spirit. baby love king jesus funk, tis what he called himself when i asked. yeeow! ...
Posted by maryam on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:38:00 PST

going upside down

i kicked into handstand last night all by myself. i felt it coming on the last few yoga sessions, but then it actually happened three times yesterday in a row. so now it feels predictable, like somet...
Posted by maryam on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:17:00 PST

watch these, please

eurovision is beautiful. 1979 2006 ...
Posted by maryam on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:32:00 PST