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Cleveland Rachel

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My Interests

Art, Cooking, Dancing, Exploring, Film, Gardening, Peace, Photography, Reading, Running, Writing, Yoga, Social Activism

I'd like to meet:



The Raven by Poe presented by 18 Youtubers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKVp4vcAAHE

Music:

Akon, Amos Lee, Band of Horses, Built to Spill, Cocteau Twins, Elis Regina, Flaming Lips, Immogen Heap, John Coltrane, Joni Mitchell, Madeleine Peyroux, Magnetic Fields, Maria Calas, Marisa Monte, Marvin Gaye, MIA, Neil Young, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Ramones, Roberta Fleck, The Smiths, Tom Waits

Movies:

A Woman Under the Influence, Adaptation, Asphalt, Carrie, City of God, Dark Crystal, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Far Away So Close, Gone with the Wind, In the Mood for Love, Keiner liebt mich, La Notte, La Rgle du jeu, Les Amants, Magnolia, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Masculine and Feminine, Mystery Train, No Country for Old Men, Nosferatu, Seven Samurai, Stranger Than Paradise, Tabu, The Straight Story, Their Will Be Blood

Television:

Deadwood

Books:

100 Years of Solitude, Dharma Bums, Mountain and Rivers and Streams without End, My Atonia, Pilgrim at Tinkers Creek, Possession, Steppenwolf, The Rainbow, Ulysses

Heroes:

My Family, Friends, Gary Snyder, Certainly the Saints.

My Blog

Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog....I need to see this......
Posted by Cleveland Rachel on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:33:00 PST

waiting

hold me in the morningtake it with you til nightI'm here Yes I'm herewaiting just outsideI'm being called away but I'm here I've stayed behind...
Posted by Cleveland Rachel on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 09:03:00 PST

my meatless life

Who doesn't love a big juicy steak, especially if it's organic, free-range cattle bred from heirloom livestock? I do, I can assure you. But, alas, I don't eat meat. I haven't now for 11 years. I've b...
Posted by Cleveland Rachel on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:20:00 PST

dog fight

The dogs got in a horrible fight tonight. It started over something in the yard and then they just went at each other for about 15 straight minutes. It was by far one of the ugliest things I’ve ...
Posted by Cleveland Rachel on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:32:00 PST

Ending the day with my favorite poem by my favorite poet and hero, Gary Snyder

RiprapLay down these wordsBefore your mind like rocks. placed solid, by handsIn choice of place, setBefore the body of the mind in space and time:Solidity of bark, leaf, or w...
Posted by Cleveland Rachel on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:17:00 PST

end of march

This last day of march wasn’t what I thought it would be. There are no new beginnings. No warm offerings of love. Instead there’s nothing. It just ends quietly here. And no, it’s no...
Posted by Cleveland Rachel on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 09:39:00 PST

Wilkins Ice Shelf Melting

${socialTitleEscape}http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/ 03/huge-ch...Powered by ShareThisMy namesake melting....
Posted by Cleveland Rachel on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 05:13:00 PST

Song by Frank O’Hara

words of poet Frank O’Hara I am stuck in traffic in a taxicab which is typical and not just of modern life mud clambers up the trellis of my nerves m...
Posted by Cleveland Rachel on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:14:00 PST

letting myself dream

...of a midnight walk in a high altitude pine forest. and a cleaning ceremony at a sweat lodge.Maybe by this time next year....
Posted by Cleveland Rachel on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:51:00 PST

The kids

Midnight. Overcast and Windy. ClevelandHarvey kissed Molly in the parking lot. No one else was around. She followed him home. He stopped at the lake and they walked together in the dark to the break w...
Posted by Cleveland Rachel on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:29:00 PST