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Frank the Manatee

I bought my heart in a thrift store...

About Me



I have a cool job. I 'm a manatee and a super-hero sidekick.Music is the reason I get up in the morning. Listening, Playing, Singing and Dancing.I have become an experience junky. I want to take part in anything life has to offer. I'll try anything at least once (the second time is usually better).You know, you should check out my blog on occasion. I am a culture guerrilla. I sit. I watch. I rant. There's no telling what a sea-cow will muse about next.I am a proud deviant. I love tattoos and the people that sport them. I enjoy burlesque. You should too.

My Interests

Writing music, playing music, learning music, listening to music, reading about music, tattoos and tattoo culture,erotic literature, erotic photography, fashion, a good laugh, Cooking, Dogs, Dancing, Astrology, anthropology, chillin' on a patio somewhere, Genghis Khan, Star Wars, pop culture, hockey,fighting super-villians, other manatees

I'd like to meet:

Like-minded Myth-makers

Music:

Records I really enjoyed in 2006:

powered by frazy.comOthers I LOVE:The Grateful Dead, The Flying Burrito Brothers, the BAND, the Allman Brothers Band, Moby Grape, Beatles, Led Zeppelin, the Byrds, Love, Otis Redding, anything written by Strong and Whitfield, Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, Jimmy Smith, John Coltrane, SHARON JONES & the DAP KINGS, the Thrills, Ryan Adams, Carla Bruni, Chris Cornell, Dinosaur Jr., Lemonheads, the Heard Mentality,TLD (the Living Daylights), Jamiroquai, Greyboy, Blind Melon,Social Distortion, Jack Johnson, Ray Lamontagne, Morcheeba, Guns N Roses, Kiss, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Ben Harper, Matthew Sweet, the Mats, Uncle Tupelo, Screeming Trees, Sloan, Tragically Hip, Brendan Benson, the Shins, Grant Green, Q and the Coz, Medeski, Martin and Wood, Karl Denson & his Tiny Universe, Greyboy Allstars, Magnolia Electric Company, New Pornographers, Sadies, Beechwood Sparks, Belle and Sebastian, the BEES, Bob Dylan, Stars, BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB, Pearl Jam

Movies:

The Last Waltz, Almost Famous, GD Movie, Ray, Festival Express, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, you get the picture...

Television:

I really only watch it for the numbing effect it has on me....and for the ads.

Books:



powered by frazy.comBeat lit, particularily Kerouac (the Dharma Bums), Go - JC Holmes, Flee the Angry Strangers, Man in the Grey Flannel Suit, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Tibertan Book of Living and Dying, Left Hand of Darkness, East of Eden, Sun Also Rises, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the Time of Cholera, Anne Rice's Vampire and Sleeping Beauty series, The Rise of the Creative Class, the Lonely Crowd, Organization Man, the Culture Industry - Adorno, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World -Jack Weatherford, Searching for the Sound -Phil Lesh, Across the Great Divide...I read a fare bit i guess...

Heroes:

Levon Helm, Gram Parsons, My Dad, Many other cliched Dead Rock Stars, Jacques Skidoo (French Canadian Superhero), My Friends.

My Blog

Holy Crap!

It's been a long long time since I updated this bad boy!  I apologize for that to those that actually read this thing! Anyhow... I'm gigging all over town these days.  My alter-ego Windy is ...
Posted by Frank the Manatee on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:01:00 PST

Holy Crap!

It's been a long long time since I updated this bad boy!  I apologize for that to those that actually read this thing! Anyhow... I'm gigging all over town these days.  My alter-ego Windy is ...
Posted by Frank the Manatee on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 05:01:00 PST

age

I'm getting old.  Can someone find my walker for me.  It's hard for me to get around.
Posted by Frank the Manatee on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 07:48:00 PST

Make Windy Your Friend

this is a public service announcement: Please make Windy your friend.  His new record is coming along and he's just shared a couple of rough mixes (and I do me rough) with everyone on his page.&n...
Posted by Frank the Manatee on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:32:00 PST

Being in Sync

Ever have those moments when you are thinking of someone and then, in some miraculous way, that person contacts you?  You know what I mean?  Could it be that if YOU are thinking about someon...
Posted by Frank the Manatee on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 06:36:00 PST

It's been a long time...

...since I've updated.  So, here's the skinny: For those of you that don't know, perhaps you should check out my music page.  Wonderful things are happeneing over there.... a record is being...
Posted by Frank the Manatee on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 06:24:00 PST

The power of music

Music.  The sheer power of it is astounding.  Songs can convey virtually anything.  They are emotive.  Even more importantly, songs and music seem to be able to bring you back to a...
Posted by Frank the Manatee on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:37:00 PST

Restless Mind

I've been particularly bad at continuing the on-going musings of a sea cow these days.  For this: I am sorry.  Life is busy.  I'm never really around here, and when I am, I'm sleep...
Posted by Frank the Manatee on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 10:12:00 PST

Another Useless piece of information.

Your results:You are Lando Calrissian Lando Calrissian 75% Han Solo 74% Chewbacca 69% Mace Windu 66% Obi-Wan Kenobi 65% Qui-Gon Jinn 64% Luke Skywalker 62% Prin...
Posted by Frank the Manatee on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:05:00 PST

the pain of a good thing

I hurt.  Not in that romantic note of the EMO generarion either.  I'm not referring to wearing eye-liner or threatning to cut myself.  My body hurts.  Physical pain. I bought a gy...
Posted by Frank the Manatee on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:14:00 PST