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MJ

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About Me

If one's soul has a destination, then my soul is to inspire childen through music and theatre. I love set design and procuring artifacts for shows. I'm a perfectionist. The theatre is an amazing adventure. Through it you can evolve into many forms of yourself. Explore, create, disassemble, rearrange and emerge renewed, reborn many times over. What other job lets you do that? e.e. cummings poetry keeps me thinking. He writes like a frustrated musician. Sensually molding the two mediums quaintly, yet strongly together....can you hear it? I miss my Jazzy Girl, she was a black lab...humans can learn a lot from animals, unconditional love. Music has always been in my life. Concert choir, Traveling Madrigals, All South Jersey Coral, Highlighted Sr year singing with a Symphony Orchestra. That is when I fell in love with the woodwinds and stringed instruments. How can one not love the beautiful feeling inside you when you hear how exactly they unite.

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My Interests

Poetry, theatre, reading, attending concerts. Shopping, cooking and watching the sunset turn that color that has no name right before it set. Listening to music..... watching Ryan learn to play guitar. His tenacity humbles me. I like coloring in books. Going to Las Vegas with my BFF"s and my two favorite PA's.

Music:

Norah Jones, Laura Nyro, Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Annie Lennox, Jimi Hendrix, Bonnie Raitt, Chaka Khan, Alicia Keys, David Sanborn, EW&F, Stanley Clark, Quincy Jones, TOP, Beatles, Pink Floyd, Coletrane, Dave Matthews, Steve Cole, Patrick Lamb, George Shelby, Bruce Springsteen, Michael Lington, Brian Culbertson, Barry Manilow, Michael Buble, Stevie Wonder, Brandon Fields, Keith Jarrett, Wes Montgomery, Led Zeppelin, The list is long but distinguished.........

Movies:

The Patriot, Close Encounters, Like Water Like Chocolate, Oh Brother Where Art Thou ( Clooney's finest role ) Mullholland Drive, A Clockwork Orange, Soylent Green, The Wizard Of Oz, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The Notebook, Monsters Inc., Something About Mary.

Television:

Sienfield, The Office, Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Da Dum....Law and Order. I don't watch too much TV.. Love Movies

Books:

Atlas Shrugged, The Foutainhead, anything Ayn Rand. Intuition, Profiles In Courage, Books on chemical free living in our foods. Stephen King-Low Men In Yellow Coats and the sequels. A Room of One's Own, Where Do We Go From Here: Community or Chaos? Making Medical Mistakes, Children At Risk.

Heroes:

Haven't come across one yet. But if I would have to choose one, it would be an artist/ be it musical/theatrical/literature/painter/(you get my drift) Because (he/she) gives continually on a daily basis, exposing themselves through their craft, to be scrutinized, theorized, preconceived by most critics to be just another one of those etc.....when all one needs to do is simply............listen/look/and feel...I've become awed by the many who silently filter behind. Barry, Annie Lennox, Sting, Alicia Keys, Michael Lington, Patrick Lamb, oh there are many, many more...that continually give BACK to their communities and children to build and rebuild not just musically, but on a Humanistic, sincere, heartfelt giving. and no fanfare needed, please...........Ive found my HEROS

My Blog

addendum

..TR> addendum I'm going to borrow a beautiful statement  a new friend just wrote me, (I'm sure he won't mind) "the artist is transparent and without ego...well that's the goal, anyway" Are we...
Posted by MJ on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:09:00 PST

Pablo Neruda poetry

Come With Me, I Said, And No One Knew (VII) by Pablo Neruda Come with me, I said, and no one knewwhere, or how my pain throbbed,no carnations or barcaroles for me, only a wound that love had opened.I...
Posted by MJ on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:27:00 PST

e e cummings poetry

  you said Is you said Isthere anything whichis dead or alive more beautifulthan my body,to have in your fingers(trembling ever so little)? Looking intoyour eyes Nothing,i said,except theair of ...
Posted by MJ on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:09:00 PST