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maggie

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About Me

I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace) I have ballet feet but, on a good day, dance like Uma Thurman in 'Pulp Fiction.'I tend to fall in love a lot; with things and people, in a very immediate and momentary way. I fell in love with a poem once. Then I forgot what it said.There is no way to explain oneself, because we cannot see ourselves but through another. So there.

My Interests

the art of: Kai Althoff, Tokihiro Sato(!), Wassily Kandinsky, Salvador Dalí, Remedios Varo, Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse, Edward Gorey, Marc Chagall, Francis Bacon. The point is, I like art. I like when it is tactile and forceful and strange. It's a mildly perverse relationship; I always want to touch it.Peter Sellers loved being an actor because it meant he never had to be himself; he got to spend his days being everybody else.music.

Music:

Happy Apple, Ella Fitzgerald, David Bowie, Nine Simone, Andrew Bird, Ani DiFranco, GoTan Project, Kurt Elling, DeVotchKa, Persephone's Bees, Halloween,Alaska, Bill-Mike Band, Björk, Kaki King, Rufus Wainwright, Architecture In Helsinki, Dosh, Peter Gabriel, Feist, Stars, Tegan and Sara, Ezra Furman and the Harpoons, The Plastic Constellations, Elton John, The Beatles, Brother Ali.... Eric Whitacre, Astor Piazzolla, Yann Tiersen.... Keith Jarrett, Cannonball Adderley, Seat Belts, Thelonious Monk-- and i'm just going to stop there.

Movies:

Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Luis Buñuel.Michel Gondry, Buster Keaton, Pedro Almodóvar, Fernando Meirelles, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Tim Burton. (i really could go on) Also, anything in which Alan Cumming plays is automatically fantastic. Even if it is 'Reefer Madness'. Bringing Up Baby. Bringing Up Baby: 4-6
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Television:

i love Red Dwarf more than anything, even though no one knows what it is.

Books:

Shakespeare. Paz. cummings.

Heroes:

My sister Anna. A lot of other people, in quieter ways. [As actors? Katherine Hepburn, Peter Sellers, and Al Pacino when he does Shakespeare]

My Blog

beltane

Half the books that are piled around me are not necessary to get through the rest of the semester. However, this article is more interesting than anything I've caught in months:The sorcerer (tyarkaw) ...
Posted by maggie on Fri, 02 May 2008 09:08:00 PST

hamartia.

Fuck you. I love you.
Posted by maggie on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:36:00 PST

piano improving: Always Coming Back Home To You (Atmosphere)

Of course we all know the downside. Scarcely getting out of bed in the morning, missing more school than should ever be allowed, and always feeling lost because the Shit has been scared out of you for...
Posted by maggie on Wed, 14 Nov 2007 06:57:00 PST

blogs are meant for people who actually do things.

Unfortunately, I am not one of these people. I have, however, started to sing more (and better) than I ever have, and I mean ever. We know whom to blame for that, in a lovely cosmic way. It might-- mi...
Posted by maggie on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:15:00 PST

Gunther Anders

From a stupid-long essay. Main point: The omnipresence of television, radio, etc, have made us passive ("receivers") instead of active. For them words are no longer something one speaks, but something...
Posted by maggie on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 02:47:00 PST

'Discor', English version

y en inglés:--- And the English version:Whispers and rapid stepsdim passage, long sighUncertain spiral:step by step, worn-out crimsons,a snail with withered entrails,step by step,stairway that leads ...
Posted by maggie on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 04:44:00 PST

Discor-- Octavio Paz.

Odd things have been going through my head lately, and I don't know what to make of them. This poem is far better in Spanish, so that's the language that goes first. It's pretty long in either languag...
Posted by maggie on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 04:42:00 PST

listening to Prokofiev's 'Romeo & Juliet,' but it doesn't show

when your dad, stepmom, and distant friend all tell you to update MySpace, you know you've really missed out on some Internet Coolness (haha. way to make my day, pap.) by pretending you don't need tec...
Posted by maggie on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 09:50:00 PST

When David Heard

i got two hours of sleep and somehow am not very tired. this morning i'm listening to eric whitacre's choral works. this piece was really striking. "When David heard that Absalom was slain he w...
Posted by maggie on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST