"Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." -- Sarah Bernhardt
CURRENT MOON about the moon
Me and Shawn kickin' it in 1982. That's right...we *lived* it.
Writing, yoga, walking meditation, Kate Bush, red wine and chocolate, forests, gnomes, tinsel, Napoleon Dynamite, dancing, chemistry, other people's stories, Roald Dahl, Woody Allen,
scrambled eggs with cream cheese, puppet shows, magicians, haunted mansions,
cats, rain and fog, antique costume jewelry, home-made patchwork quilts, Alice in Wonderland, high tea, plants (especially multi-purpose ones; wink-wink),
recycling, beautifully formed sentences, comfortable silences, hidden meanings, banana pancakes, Harold and Maude, Twin Peaks,
rollerskates, Kurt Vonnegut, arts 'n crafts, Unicorns, candy corn, twilight and sunrise, thrift shops, magick, Steve McQueen, eggnog with rum, cycles of the moon, little colored twinkly lights, Edward Gorey, Elliott Smith, Patti Smith, The Smiths, singing my own songs, glitter, candles,
Secretary, orchids, incense, The Royal Tenenbaums, Tori Amos, striped knee socks,
Charles Bukowski, Bewitched, clogs, Phillip Roth, strawberry milkshakes, wide blue open skies, Sarah Kane, Sunday afternoons with nothing to do, the creative impulse.
I'd like to meet:
Open-minded, creative, fun-loving hooligans. Extra-special, radiating (but not radio-active), covered-in-glitter mesmerising beings. Someone to eat ice-cream with.
Music:
The Eagles of Death Metal. Old 80's pop like Blondie, Ramones, Buzzcocks, The Cure, Violent Femmes, Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Stranglers, The Cars, Talking Heads, Motels, Boomtown Rats, The Pretenders, Joe Jackson, Gary Numan, Romeo Void, REM, Adam and the Ants. And: The White Stripes, Elvis Costello, Kate Bush,
Tori Amos, Led Zeppelin, early David Bowie, Billie Holiday, Patsy Cline, Zero 7, Suzanne Vega, Pink Floyd, Massive Attack, Spoon, Earth, Wind, and Fire, Beck, Roxy Music, Supertramp, Leonard Cohen,
Jane's Addiction, The Doors, Portishead, Nirvana, Neko Case, Imogen Heap, Liz Phair, Rolling Stones, Love and Rockets, Cheap Trick, Queen, Turin Brakes, Garbage, Lush, Curve, Mazzy Star, ABBA, Bright Eyes, Lisa Germano, Dusty Springfield, Bjork, Elliott Smith, Patti Smith,
The Smiths, The Beatles, ELO, X, Marianne Faithful, Doves, Morcheeba, Velvet Underground, The Carpenters, Radiohead, Foo Fighters, Dead Can Dance, Rufus Wainwright, T. Rex, Fiona Apple, Gomez, Cold Play, Doug Martsch, Aimee Mann, Fleetwood Mac, Folk Implosion, Stevie Wonder, Simon and Garfunkel, Goldfrapp, Air...
Movies:
Office Space, Harold and Maude, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Young Frankenstein, Angel at my Table, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Being There,
Ed Wood, Dr. Strangelove, Breaking the Waves, Lolita, Carnal Knowledge, Napoleon Dynamite, Stranger than Paradise, The Graduate, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Sunset Blvd., The Jerk, This is Spinal Tap, A Star is Born, Little Darlings, Heathers, Gothic, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, The Princess Bride, The Virgin Suicides, Secretary,
May, Edward Scissorhands, Blue Velvet,
Rock 'n Roll High School, Cool Hand Luke, Night of the Iguana, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Barbarella, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Valley Girl, Valley of the Dolls, Dazed and Confused, Boogie Nights, Happiness, Bagdad Cafe, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, My Own Private Idaho, Heavenly Creatures, Barefoot in the Park, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Bell, Book, and Candle, and all Woody Allen movies. And all Hitchcock. I also love classic horror films like The Exorcist, Rosemary's Baby,
Carrie, The Shining, The Amityville Horror, and Evil Dead II.
Television:
Bewitched.
Twilight Zone.
Books:
Writers that I like: Raymond Carver, Flannery O'Connor, Charles Bukowski,
Anton Chekhov, Jerzy Kosinski, Anais Nin,
Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Roth, Ray Bradbury, Dorothy Parker, Doris Lessing, Sarah Kane, Margaret Atwood, Roald Dahl, J.D. Salinger, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath,
Edward Gorey.
I like stark, blunt, and true.
Heroes:
Blythe.
Blythe is just a doll, you say. Yes, she is a doll, but to me she represents stoicism. She has seen it all (you can see that in her eyes), but she is strong, and is always hopeful. She has experienced great pain, but she emanates beauty. She ponders things. She mulls them over. She never acts rashly, though she is spontaneous and lives life to the fullest. She is independent, and 'different' from the rest. She has exceptional fashion sense and style, even when she is melancholy. Though she is 'just' a doll, I can say I respect her, admire her, and love her. Who's going to stop me?
'Meathead' from 'All in the Family'.
My friends...I greatly appreciate you.
People who have their cake, and eat it, too (as one of my good friends likes to say: "What's the point of having cake, if you don't eat it?"). Eaten, of course, with love, respect, and *honesty*. *Intention is everything, and can be smelled as acutely as chemistry is felt*.
Loose Woman:They say I'm a beast.
And feast on it. When all along
I thought that's what a woman was.They say I'm a bitch.
Or witch. I've claimed
the same and never winced.They say I'm a macha, hell on wheels,
viva-la-vulva, fire and brimstone,
man-hating, devastating,
boogey-woman lesbian.
Not necessarily,
but I like the compliment.The mob arrives with stones and sticks
to maim and lame and do me in.
All the same, when I open my mouth,
they wobble like gin.Diamonds and pearls
tumble from my tongue.
Or toads and serpents.
Depending on the mood I'm in.I like the itch I provoke.
The rustle of rumor
like crinoline.I am the woman of myth and bullshit.
(True. I authored some of it.)
I built my house of ill repute.
Brick by brick. Labored,
loved and masoned it.I live like so.
Heart as sail, ballast, rudder, bow.
Rowdy. Indulgent to excess.
My sin and success--
I think of me to gluttony.By all accounts I am
a danger to society.
I'm Pancha Villa.I break laws,
upset the natural order,
anguish the Pope and make fathers cry.
I am beyond the jaw of law.
I'm la desperada, most-wanted public enemy.
My happy picture grinning from the wall.I strike terror among the men.
I can't be bothered what they think.
?Que se vayan a la ching chang chong!
For this, the cross, the Calvary.
In other words, I'm anarchy.I'm an aim-well,
shoot-sharp,
sharp-tongued,
sharp-thinking,
fast-speaking,
foot-loose,
loose-tongued,
let-loose,
woman-on-the-loose
loose woman.
Beware, honey.I'm Bitch. Beast. Macha.
?Wale!
Ping! Ping! Ping!
I break things.~sandra cisneros
"Man is a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."
-- Ayn Rand
Sisyphus. He gets knocked down, but he gets up again. And again. And again...the human experience.
