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Chris

My heart is not weary, it's light and it's free...

About Me

I'm an artist - I've been writing for many many years - I also make collages. There's a mighty entity standing right behind you and chanting a beautiful poem - listen. I'm juggling a lot of stoves. There is no one-to-one correlation - fear nothing, hope for nothing - the Awakening is close at hand. I still like to read comic books - the child is parent to the person. Believe in magic - and magic will believe in you. The Law of Karma is the low road, the Law of Grace is the high road, I'll meet you on the high road. The time is here, the place is now, we are the people we've been waiting for. One day last week - was it a Thursday? - I stepped off a curb and - just for a second - I floated. The days of the impossible will be here soon. Love everyone. Be Light.

My Interests

Poetry. Collages (completely analog - x-acto knife and magnifying glass and glue). Reading. Cats. Books. Yoda (I have 18 Yodas on top of an old TV set I hollowed out and turned into a toy cabinet). Vintage paperbacks. Big artist's notebooks with broken spines where I start in longhand and do some of my revisioning. Soulful conversation. 2012. Vintage clothes. Putting off till the day after tomorrow what I could do tomorrow. Cardigan sweaters. Listening to the wind sing.

I'd like to meet:

Interesting people. Poets and painters and filmmakers and sculptors and musicians and novelists and dancers. Old Souls. Freethinkers and lightworkers and the spiritually bereft. Friends from previous lifetimes. Kindred spirits. Friends from future lifetimes. Members of my soul tribe - and members of the soul tribe just over yonder hill - and members of the soul tribe... You - yes, you! I can sense we'll be wonderful friends. Let's have some fun!

Music:

Bob Dylan, Kimya Dawson, Fursaxa, Iron and Wine, Everything But The Girl, Eric Andersen, Feist, Velvet Underground, Joan Baez, Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, Barb Jungr, The Cure, Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, Elvis Costello, Watercolor Paintings, The Smiths, Magic Gurney Ride, Your Heart Breaks, Phil Ochs, Beach House, Donovan, Emmylou Harris, The Teenage Prayers, Spiritual Family Reunion, Cat Power, Secret Crush Society, Ingrid Michaelson, Blonde Redhead, Regina Spektor

Movies:

Mulholland Dr., Pan's Labyrinth, Transamerica, Blood of Dracula, Dogma, Choose Me, Masked and Anonymous, Trouble in Mind, Palindromes, Fight Club, Jesus Is Magic, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Lost in Translation, The Children's Hour, The Night of the Iguana (O Courage, could you not as well / Select a second place to dwell...?), Blade Runner, 21 Grams, Pulp Fiction, 2001: a Space Odyssey, Wings of Desire, Juno, Brewster McCloud, The Big Lebowski, Safe, Happiness, Superstar: the Karen Carpenter Story, Don't Look Now, Pink Flamingos, Hellboy, Hellboy II: the Golden Army, Household Saints, The Valley of Gwangi, The Dark Knight, Dont Look Back, Harold and Maude, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Hard Boiled, Life of Brian, Hairspray, Lars and the Real Girl, The Rapture, The Pawnbroker, Dogfight, I'm Not There (an exact visual representation of a Bob Dylan song - unwieldly and troubled and disquieting, shot through with amazing beauty and humor), Capote, The Last Wave, Atonement, Bad Timing, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, The Other Side of the Mirror, From the Life of the Marionettes, Brand Upon the Brain!

Television:

Angel, Alias, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twilight Zone, Lost, The Office, WKRP in Cincinnati, Outer Limits, Twin Peaks, Pee-wee's Playhouse, X-Files, Wonderfalls, Thriller, Ally McBeal, Zorro, Saturday Night Live, Yancey Derringer, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Crusader Rabbit, Rocky and Bullwinkle

Books:

Nothing in This Book Is True but It's Exactly How Things Are, Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson, Fray, Letters to a Young Poet, Rumi (he is my Friend), At the Mountains of Madness, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, Edwin Mullhouse: the Life and Death of an American Writer (1943 - 1954), Howl, Leaves of Grass, Hunger, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Jesus Christs, Magic for Beginners, Fushigi Circus, Residence on Earth, Wise Blood, License to Carry a Gun, Feeling Very Strange: the Slipstream Anthology, Labyrinths, The Catcher in the Rye, Specimen Days, Crooked Little Vein, Messages From Michael, The Fiend in You, The Trial of Colonel Sweeto and Other Stories, Buffy (Season Eight), Shanna the She-Devil, Angel (Season Six), A Saucer of Loneliness (the most beautiful short story ever)

Heroes:

The Sword of Compassion sings in your scabbard, the Book of Forgiveness lies open on your table, the Chalice of Wisdom dances in your cupboard - be your own hero.

My Blog

I’ll Be the Invisible Girl Till the Day I Die!

Publishing Genius has just put my new eChap online. My eChap is called I'll Be the Invisible Girl Till the Day I Die! It contains a collage and 12 poems. Here's the link:http://www.publishinggenius.co...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:04:00 PST

The Practice of the Presence of God

When I pick up a canfallen to the supermarket floorand put the can back on its shelf,my heart is full of love.
Posted by Chris on Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:14:00 PST

I’m Not Here

I'm a conduit,I like distortion,and I'm an army of ghosts.The Word is my leopard,my font shall not faint,and I lie down in sewn pastures.A stone angel comforts three bear cubs.She has broken wings.My ...
Posted by Chris on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 12:29:00 PST

Who Likes Meat?

An administrative assistantmicrowaves a small demonin the Coffee/Copy Room.
Posted by Chris on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:23:00 PST

Heartache in the Spring

I walk through the crystal rain.The petals from cherry blossomsfill the gutter.I promise the new world will come.I don't know how, I don't know when.I do know why -the old world is so sad and tired....
Posted by Chris on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:59:00 PST

The Best Loved Poem of the American People

What light from yonder window aches? There were times I was so handsome I took my rum court there. I've got seventeen senses and my name is lesion. Jeannie she's all done with cryin'. She's idling in ...
Posted by Chris on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:53:00 PST

Poetry 101

for Travelin' Tommy TuckerWhy is pain in painting?Why isn't collage a college?When is obsolescent incandescent?I've got a thousand dreams goneas I step to the stage.Your home is in the spotlight.You'r...
Posted by Chris on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 04:12:00 PST

Armageddon 4: The Final Battle

I'll give you sleepif you give me health.The black ops agent is scarred and scared,he doesn't want to be the one-man armywho assaults Wolf Mountain home of the castle where the SS werewolf troopers l...
Posted by Chris on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 04:56:00 PST

Stop Me Before I Kill Again

The Museum of Inconsolable Hangovers cries the rain. Cynthia cajoles Carol into maldistributing fonts as she topologizes fate. The ant preaches constraint to a lion. Catherine retrofits bliss with a p...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:15:00 PST

Humid Intrigue

A tailor earmarks the literate apology,the marionette pirouettes on an iceberg,and a wastrel deducts a viola from a proverb.A troll controls the tollhouse.The comedian acculturates an otiose brakeman,...
Posted by Chris on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:42:00 PST