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Michelle

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About Me

I am a Mom, Wife, Painter, blackberry picker, Chihuahua guardian, clothes washer, part-time poet, and reader of Laura Ingles Wilder. Breast cancer survivor, what else constitutes me? a whole lotta music and art and wishful aikido and ....fluffernutter. a There are:
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My Interests

My husband Chris Michael Berns, the Love of my life. My Family Willie, Mariah, Sarah and Zac ~ Art~ Music~ Film~ My dog "THE PRECIOUS!" ~ and in particular ~ Agnes Martin ~ Willem DeKooning ~ Satie ~ Shakespeare ~ Prarie Home Companion ~ Pablo Picasso ~ Starnes Twins ~ Louise Bougesois ~ Egon Schiele ~ Francis Bacon ~ Andy Warhol ~ Yayoi Kusama ~ Jean Cocteau ~ Marcel Duchamp ~ Randy Watson~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I'd like to meet:

All my angels. Especially again, William Parker Kennedy, Billy the real kid. In the real world, Rufus Wainwright, Ellen Degeneres, Martin Scorsese, Zach Braff, Wes Anderson, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert DeNiro, Oliver Stone, Tori Amos, Jodie Foster, Rosie O Donnell, Johnny Depp and Ann Hamilton (for more than the few minutes in 1995 when I did meet her at the CAM.) In heaven I'd like to have a conversation with.................. My Dad. Rainer Maria Rilke. William S Burroughs. William Shakespeare. Miles Davis.
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Music:

Newly discovered on MYSPACE music is such a Enigmatic Safari!([en-ig-mat-ik, ee-nig-]-adjective resembling an enigma; perplexing; mysterious.)Here are a few I suggest you check out; Emzy Collins ~ Ray Lamontagne ~ ~ Noah Stone~Keane ~ Lorito Opens His Beak's ~ ~The RAVENS ~ Too Dark for a Picture ~ Sweet Potato Pie ~ Second Sunday ~ Yellow Sharks ~ Athlete ~ Ryan Sallis ~ 0. Miles West ~ Maxwell Lewis ~ Scott Huckaby ~ Richard Radford ~ Switchfoot ~ His name shall breathe ~ Amanda ~ Mosher ~ Rilo Kiley ~ September6 ~ The Wasted Youth Orchestra ~ Keller Williams ~ The Deadbeat Decade ~ Strix Vega ~ SYMPTOMS OF A WET GUITAR ~ Kite Flying Society ~ The Movie Colony ~ Night Driving in Small Towns ~ John Haydon ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ OTHER than THAT, in alphabetical order, kind of... 311 ~ Aimee Mann ~ Art in America ~ Art Lessing ~ Alice in Chains ~ Alan Mann ~ Al Green ~ A Perfect Circle ~ All Night Radio ~ Ben Kweller ~ Beck ~ Brian Eno ~ Bob Marley ~ Blind Lemon Jefferson ~ Beastie Boys ~ Bob Dylan ~ Ben Folds Five ~ Beatles ~ Bjork ~ Bob Mould ~ Beth Orton ~ Blondie ~ Bauhaus ~ Beastie Boys ~ Built To Spill ~ Belle and Sebastian ~ Black Eyed Peas ~ Cursive ~ Coldplay ~ Counting Crows ~ Clash ~ Citizen Cope ~ Charlie Sexton ~ Camper Van Beethoven ~ Cracker ~ Cecera Evera ~ Camera Obscura ~ Cake ~ Cat Power ~ Cranes ~ Catherine Wheel ~ Calabres ~ Ciba Matto THE CHICKEN SONG ~ Congratulations on Your Decision to become a Pilot ~ David Bowie ~ David Gray ~ Dr Tikov ~ Death Cab for Cutie ~ David Bazan ~ Dave Matthews Band ~ Deftones ~ Doves ~ Elvis Costello ~ Eels ~ Eric Matthews ~ Echo and the Bunnymen ~ Fiona Apple ~ Flaming Lips ~ Frank Black ~ Gary Jules ~ Gorillaz ~ Good Charlotte ~ Goo Goo Dolls ~ Gun Club ~ Hello Radio ~ Husky Rescue ~ Iggy Pop ~ Iron and Wine ~ Jimmy Hendrix ~ John Lennon ~ John Cale ~ The Jesus And Mary Chain ~ Jen Trynin ~ Janis Joplin ~ Joni Mitchell ~ Johnathan Richmond& the Modern Lovers ~ Jesus Lizard ~ Kate Bush ~ Kiss and Ride ~ Lou Reed ~ Leonard Cohen ~ Led Zeppelin ~ Luna ~ Lacuna Coil ~ Liz Phair ~ Love and Rockets ~ Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul ~ Miles Davis ~ My Bloody Valentine ~ MEANIES ~ Manitoba ~ Mars Volta ~ Niel Young ~ Nils Lofgren ~ Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds ~ New York Dolls ~ Nirvana ~ No Doubt ~ Nada Surf ~ Owen ~ Outkast ~ Ohio Players ~ PattiSmith ~ PostalService ~ Pretenders ~ Prince ~ Psychedelic Furs ~ Pixies ~ Pepper ~ PJHarvey ~ Portishead ~ Paris Texas ~ Pavement ~ Porno For Pyros ~ Queen ~ Queens of the Stone Age ~ Roxy Music ~ Regina Spektor ~ Robert Johnson ~ Radiohead ~ Rolling Stones ~ Rufus Wainwright ~ Red Hot Chili Peppers ~ R.E.M. ~ Rainer Maria ~ Rasputina ~ Rammstein ~ Spoon ~ Sonic Youth ~ Switchfoot ~ StreamLineMachine ~ Sigur Rós ~ Sean Lennon ~ Sufjan Stevens ~ Soundgarden ~ Sneaker Pimps ~ Smashing Pumpkins ~ Sam Prekop ~ Seal ~ Son Volt ~ Superchunk ~ Senses Fail ~ Tom Waits ~ Tom Petty ~ Tiger Lou ~ Treeball ~ T-Rex ~ Tori Amos ~ The Shins ~ The Deadbeat Decade ~ The Replacements ~ The Elected ~ Taking Back Sunday ~ The Rocket Summer ~ The Arcade Fire ~ The Cult ~ They Might Be Giants ~ Tool ~ U2 ~ Ultaspank ~ Version88 ~ Velvet Underground ~ Van Morrison ~ Vincent Gallo ~ Verve ~ Wilco ~ Weezer ~ Wallflowers ~ X ~ XTC ~ Yeah yeah yeahs ~ Yo La Tengo ~ Yellowcard ~ Pepper

Movies:

Antonioni's L'Eclisse. BRILLIANT!Loved the film and soundtrack to Buffalo 66 Vincent Gallo is a genius. Lost in Translation, Little Miss Sunshine, all Cohen Brothers Films, Jim Jarmush,Francis Ford Coppola. The Land before time still makes me cry like a little baby. Pulp Fiction. Reservoir Dogs. From Dusk Till Dawn. Desperado. Jackie Brown. True Romance. Four Rooms. Destiny Turns On the Radio. Somebody to love. A Study in Terror (1965) A Room with a View (1985) A Handful of Dust (1987) Henry V (1989) Jack and Sarah (1995) Goldeneye (1995) Hamlet (1996) Mrs. Brown (1997; also known as Her Majesty, Mrs. Brown) Shakespeare in Love (1998) Tea With Mussolini (1999) Chocolat (2000) Iris (2001) The Shipping News (2001) The Importance of Being Earnest (2002) The Chronicles of Riddick (2004) Home on the Range (2004) (voice) Ladies in Lavender (2004) Pride & Prejudice (2005) Mrs. Henderson Presents (2005) Notes On a Scandal (2006)

Television:

Scrubs, Video For Scrubs Theme Song

Add to My Profile | More Videos The Daily Show, Arrested Development, Grays Anantomy, top model, project runway - ALL PBS, POV, Sopranos, God help me for being an American Idol addict. If only there were a program for that. The World Series of Baseball, sorry Astros I still love ya...

Books:

"Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas" by Tom Robbins~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~And here is a favorite quote....."I've learned that people willforget what you said,people will forget what you did,but people will NEVER forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou

Heroes:

Mariah and Willie and somewhere out there Bailey, Chris and Mom and in Heaven, My Dad.Peggy Guggenheim. Lucille Ball. The inventor of the toilet and the bra and all organic farmers. Greenpeace warriors and Worldwatch peacekeepers. Firemen and Women, and paramedics who fight bloody battles on the streets every day. Teachers who go home at the end of the day feeling good about what they are doing and Law Enforcement officers who live another day to do the best job that they can do. CASA volunteers and Doctors without borders.Artists and Musicians and Sound Engineers and Film Editors and Directors who inspire me to get up every morning and do the work that I am inspired to do.Euzhan Palcy.(born in Martinique) She was the first black woman to direct a Hollywood full-length feature film, "White Season," 1989.

My Blog

The Worms LIVE!

  fas·ci·nate (fs-nt) v. fas·ci·nat·ed, fas·ci·nat·ing, fas·ci·nates v.tr. 1. To hold an intense interest or attraction for. See Synonyms at charm. 2. To hold motionless; spellbind. 3. Obsole...
Posted by Michelle on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:18:00 PST

Frozen Ground Worm Death Quandry

Dear Reader. The ground is frozen, and I am not following my dream at this moment of painting, I am gazing at the frozen ground and wondering if the earthworms I painstakingly gathered for steelhead ...
Posted by Michelle on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 11:05:00 PST

The Mice. Are testing. My Compassion

The Mice. Although I was raised in Aurora Missouri, a town of 5,000 or so folks, one stoplight etc...I can say I never had much experience with mice. Nope they didn't tell us what to do with mice...
Posted by Michelle on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:37:00 PST

Strange and wonderful Exist-ance

So I was, up until yesterday, a true Earthquake Virgin. When I was young, I had lived thru a tornado, just like Dorothy. We were riding to Joplin in our old wood paneled stationwagon. I reme...
Posted by Michelle on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 04:38:00 PST

Everything you need you already have

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.  Your completeness must be understood by y...
Posted by Michelle on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 03:24:00 PST

Opening up a whole new world of communication

So, here is a moment in time. Here is the place where I come to say how amazed I am. This is a room, painted a light shade of lime green, with boxes still unpacked and various and sundry cables strewn...
Posted by Michelle on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:04:00 PST