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elixir sue

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About Me

I share my birthday with Henry VIII.

My Interests

Films, one-man-bands, painting, making people beautiful, live music, family, driving with no destination, sleeping, fighting sleep, trash pickin', smoking cigarettes on my front porch, waiting for Auntie Cuba to leave me a dime.

Music:

Tom Waits, Nick Cave, White Stripes,The Band, PJ Harvey, Flaming Lips, Rolling Stones, Robert Johnson, RL Burnside, Fat Possum Records, Thee Shams, Joe Callicott, Sparklehorse, Eliott Smith, The Kinks, The Animals, Pavement, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Lonnie Pitchford, Skip James, The Cramps, Frank Black, Amee Mann, Beat Happening, Iron and Wine, 16 Horse Power, Slim Whitman, Velvet Underground, Dresden Dolls, CocoRosie, Nina Nastasia, Nick Cave, Morphine, Jollie Holland, Lead Belly, Lightnin' Hopkins, 16Horsepower, Buddy Guy, Bob Log III, Ben Prestage

Movies:

Hedwig and the Angy Inch, Moonlght Mile, Wings of Desire, Gummo, Jesus' Son, Smoke, Blue in the Face, Fishing with John, Cynthia Plaster Caster Documentary, The Odd Couple, Big Bad Love, Dead Man,Bottle Rocket, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissors Hands, The Last Waltz, Trees Lounge, Barfly, Fargo, Raising Arizona, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Down by Law, Spankin' the Monkey, Girl on the Bridge, Night on Earth, Coffee and Cigarettes, The Corpse Bride, Old Boy, The Door in the Floor, Crystal, Divine Trash, Broken Flowers, The Fearless Vampire Killers

Books:

Henry Miller, Charles Bukowski, Harry Crews, Hunter S. Thompson

Heroes:

Jim Jarmusch, Cynthia Plaster Caster, PJ Harvey, Vidal Sassoon, all of Picasso's women, henry miller, my Nana .

My Blog

Quigleys Tavern

Quigley's Tavern was built in 1918 and was recently aquired by myself, after much hard work and stress. It becomes less and less like camping every day thanks to the fathers of my children and my love...
Posted by elixir sue on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 06:32:00 PST

Thank You

my life has been, to say the least, quite a roller coaster. it's been fast, furious, and very dangerous at times. some of you have really been true friends to me through all of this. you have not judg...
Posted by elixir sue on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:29:00 PST

friends advice

once, quite a long time ago, i had a friend that is a friend no more. never the less, she gave me this seemingly brilliant advice. " never, ever 'hush' a baby." this worked beautiful miracles with my ...
Posted by elixir sue on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:08:00 PST

hey, that’s my eyeball!

the past few months have been trying to say the least. i actually had to reclaim my eyeball from one of my cats today; he thought it was a toy after it popped out of my head and rolled across the floo...
Posted by elixir sue on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:23:00 PST

hot roux!

biscuits and gravy truly must be a gift from the heavens. i just whipped up a big batch for lunch. even, after splattering cajun napalm (hot roux) on my hand, i am as happy as one could be. my granny ...
Posted by elixir sue on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:15:00 PST

Levon on the Inside

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Posted by elixir sue on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:09:00 PST

shack by the track

I recently found out about this restaurant in St. George, GA, called Shack by the Track. It is just that, a shack on the railroad tracks. They serve up tasty barbecue and ice cream. You can eat inside...
Posted by elixir sue on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:06:00 PST

June 28th, 32 times

Yesterday was the 32nd time that I have survived June 28th; it is a small miracle to say the least. This was the second time that I have done it pregnant. The first time two of my best girlfriends and...
Posted by elixir sue on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:52:00 PST

toturous sofa shopping

I have, what I do believe is, the most beautiful sofa in all the land. It's dark red velvet with covered buttons and long curvy legs. I actually spent approximately 3 years searching for this perfect,...
Posted by elixir sue on Wed, 02 May 2007 06:17:00 PST

bare feet

i have been a bare foot girl most of my life. i hate shoes! there have been so many problems with this, as you can imagine. when i was a little girl, i would regularly step in dog shit and stub my toe...
Posted by elixir sue on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:56:00 PST