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el b

i judge wisely, as if nothin ever surprise me

About Me

i grew up next to a glacier in a rain forest and am now residing in a desert bay.

"Alice laughed. 'There's no use trying,' she said. 'One can't believe impossible things.' 'I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. 'When I was your age, I always did it half an hour a day. Why, sometimes, I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'"
In every age in every sucessful country, it has been important that at least a small part of the cityscape is not dominated by bankers, developers, chain stores, generic restaurants, and railway terminals. This little quarter should instead be the preserve of--in no special order--insomniacs and restaurants and bars that never close, bibliophiles and the little stores and stalls that cater to them; alcoholics and addicts and deviants and the proprietors that understand them; aspirant painters and musicians and the modest studios that can accomodate them; ladies of easy virtue and the men who require them; misfits and poets from foreign shores and exiles from remove and cruel dictatorships. Thought it should be no disadvantage to be young in such a quartier, the atmosphere should not by any means discourage the veteran.
glenn arthur
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life:
It Goes On.

Robert Frost
Angelique Houtkamp
Til the day I die.

OTP/VCS/SEAKArtisans
My Ladies:
As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world ~buddha
Bessie, Bessie, I'm a little messy. I've been painting my wagon green. I had no brush so I used my fingers....... ~a song I composed at age 3
wandering gypsy
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

My Interests

i decided to give this a shot, again. be sure and read it now because it may only last a day, or an hour...depending upon how cheesy i feel about this later:sidwalk photos:lucid dreaming:dolls:trading war stories and relishing new found peace:other people's bookshelves:hummingbirds(pixies in bird form):rubies:fast food restaurant toys(fine, happy meal toys! there i said it! i go to mcdonalds for them!):find heads up pennies and putting them in my right shoe, turning over tails up pennies to other people can find a lucky penny:cross stitching:bones(the game and the anatomy):dirty bird spotlights, especially in my backyard:pho bo:fishing for dolly varden off the family beach in excursion:horchato & ceviche from ranch market:the virgin, the mother, the crone:bandanas, but not in a gay hipster way (no tying them around my rest or folded perfectly out of my back pocket):robots (topo, topo, hellllo!):dinosaurs:murdering people at scrabble:gangsters,thugs&rideordiebitches:unlimited text msging plans:ruby woo red lipstick:angkor wat:aliens:L ♥ VE:camping at sunshine with special friends:sunglasses whenever i can:psychic dreams:reading my sister's mind & her reading mind:speaking with an elizabethan accent:tradtional americana tattoos:spades(i will bid a boston on your ass and win):black cake eyeliner:snakes, snails & puppy dog tails:mexican art & culture:tarot:fresh cut flowers with at least 2 stems of stargazer lilies:meditation:banchan:watching freight trains pass by hoping to see a friend's name:muppets:faeries:prayer:fraggles:ghosts:vita & pinche:back country snowboarding thru pow while listening to west coast gangster rap:hoodies:church basements:sugar spice & everthing nice:fishnets:wild alaskan nothern lights that you will never comprehend until you see them for yourself:mermaids:hip hop:8/81/18:conspiracy theories:11:11:playground swings:prison stories:classic styles with an edge:constantly wondering about it all

love art music

quantum physics, other realms & worlds, the force that holds us all together

SHYLA

I'd like to meet:



revolutionary gangsters

Like-minded people with love in their hearts.
A Thai customs agent stamping my passport on the way in.
The 'Wicked' Witch of the West. And the guy who said this: "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." -Albert Einstein

Mae West, to shake her hand.

And last, but cerainly not least, my Grandma Bessie because she's my angel that watches over me.

The ones for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...

Music:

biggie. nas. hank williams senior. gangstarr. wu tang. patsy cline. thievery corporation. the klaxons. mobb deep. madonna. merle haggard. davib bowie. astronomar. tom waits. phonetic. konsept. bjork. poe. bat for lashes. radiohead. the insects. johnny cash. metric. andre nickatina. who cares. elvis presley. curtis mayfield. billie holiday. enviomental. souls. air. hiero. grayskul. tool. most of the "the" bands. 50s & 60s rock & roll. pre-40s jazz. bluegrass. old country western. oldominion. bjork. el-p. anything live & local, ok not quite anything. west coast. hyphy. underground pop music (by the time they hit idol, i'm over it). blah blah blah bla blaaaaaaaaaany artist who pours their heart and soul into their work. respect.

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Movies:

i watch the big lebowski at least once a week; if you can understand why then we'll get along just fine.

Television:

bravo, comedy central
CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM. shows about ghosts, animals, and aliens.

Books:

gregory maguire. f. scott fitzgerald. judy blume. roald dahl. hunter s. thompson. truman capote. chuck palahniuk. george orwell. sylvia plath. david foster wallace. thomas pynchon. shel silverstein. anais nin. ray bradbury. fannie flagg. janet fitch. aldous huxley. bret eaton ellis. jack kerouauc. e.e. cummins. augusten burroughs. beverly cleary. mark danielewski. charles bukowski. dr. seuss. chuck klosterman. W. Vanity Fair. Juxtapoz. Vice. Mass Appeal. Harpers. trashy novels. novels involving funny/crazy southern women. biographies. memoirs. politico. religious & spiritual texts. tao te ching. i-ching. cereal boxes. basically anything, i'm a total worm. the list goes on and on...

Heroes:

I was born in the congo
I walked to the fertile crescent and built
the sphinx
I designed a pyramid so tough that a star
that only glows every one hundred years falls
into the center giving divine perfect light
I am bad
I sat on the throne
drinking nectar with allah
I got hot and sent an ice age to europe
to cool my thirst
My oldest daughter is nefertiti
the tears from my birth pains
created the nile
I am a beautiful woman
I gazed on the forest and burned
out the sahara desert
with a packet of goat's meat
and a change of clothes
I crossed it in two hours
I am a gazelle so swift
so swift you can't catch me
For a birthday present when he was three
I gave my son hannibal an elephant
He gave me rome for mother's day
My strength flows ever on
My son noah built new/ark and
I stood proudly at the helm
as we sailed on a soft summer day
I turned myself into myself and was
jesus
men intone my loving name
All praises All praises
I am the one who would save
I sowed diamonds in my back yard
My bowels deliver uranium
the filings from my fingernails are
semi-precious jewels
On a trip north
I caught a cold and blew
My nose giving oil to the arab world
I am so hip even my errors are correct
I sailed west to reach east and had to round off
the earth as I went
The hair from my head thinned and gold was laid
across three continents
I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal
I cannot be comprehended except by my permission
I mean...I...can fly
like a bird in the sky...

My Blog

heres what i dont have time for:

bad attitudespeople lacking decency people who don't treat others how they'd like to be treatedusersabuserspeople who get off on making fun of others (i used to do this and it's really great reflectio...
Posted by el b on Tue, 13 May 2008 11:37:00 PST

in other news

i’ve started an actual blog. myspace doesn’t feel like the appropriate medium for what i have to say these days. if you’re interested and want the link...let me know..i may post it p...
Posted by el b on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:28:00 PST

if i may

i love it when i hear a song that pulls on my heart strings enough so that i seek out the lyrics and then listen to it over and over again....bringin it back w/ this one.------if i may by blackaliciou...
Posted by el b on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:43:00 PST

cuz kc said i wouldnt...

Once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 random things, facts, habits or goals about yourself. At the end, you choose about 10 people to be tagged, listing their names and why you cho...
Posted by el b on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:38:00 PST

may lightning strike you down

if you are ever wearing this:of course this guy was in the pawn shop (hey now, i was there to buy a bus pass!) trying to sell a used VCR and the pawn "broker" was like, "we don't even take those any m...
Posted by el b on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:54:00 PST

az friends

I wrote this a few days ago before I left. I'm now sitting in SF with the most comforting soundtrack of my life pouring down in the background: rain. ~~~~~~~~~~~~The time has come, once again. My bags...
Posted by el b on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 12:49:00 PST

i’m wondering

why i just heard a commercial on the radio for a children's emergency room. is this something that needs to be advertised? in the back of an ambulance do parents really go,' take my kid to -------- !'...
Posted by el b on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:20:00 PST

who's coming with me?

spotted yesterday morning:
Posted by el b on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:05:00 PST

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Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book     nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is      illumination ...
Posted by el b on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 04:34:00 PST

"i'm totally OCD"

and I totally hate it when people say that! It's like having a mental illness is the new trend these days. Newsflash: just because you're anal rententive about how you name & sort the songs i...
Posted by el b on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 02:03:00 PST