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Alexis

I am here for Friends

About Me

I'd rather be dancing.

My Interests

the sky. red. walking the williamsburg bridge. reading great works of fiction written before 1900. the stars. peppermint patties. hatha vinyasa yoga. karaoke.

I'd like to meet:


............................... bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.....Isabel Archer. Alexei Vronsky. Ormus Cama. Ged. Legs Sadovsky. Geroge Emerson. Helen Schlegel. Alexei Fyodorovich. Pallas Athene. Electra. Tristan of France, Iseult of Ireland, and Iseult of Brittany (but not at the same time, of course). or, if they MUST be real: someone who reads and *also* 1) can run a pool table, 2) can run the dance floor, 3) can build things to walk or climb on, 3) knows who Krista Tippet is, 5) is always up for a game of tag.

Music:

radiohead, aesop rock, bella, the stills, suzanne vega, dawn landes, corey dargel, bjork, kelly joe phelps, regina spektor, the benzos, muse, pharcyde, bright eyes, jeff buckley, the visitors, sufjan stevens, joanna newsom

Movies:

i never have time to see movies... but back when i did: Brokeback Mountain, Garden State, City of Lost Children, All that Jazz, Romeo + Juliet (Luhrman), Moulin Rouge, the Neverending Story, the Lord of the Rings, Magnolia

Television:

fuck TV... go see whatever i'm currently performing in....favorite theatre makers: Phillipe Genty, Mary Zimmerman, Pina Bauch, Charles Mee, Martha Clarke, Redmoon Theatre [when they're not talking], Robert Wilson, Ann Bogart, Robert LePage, David Rousseve, Laurie Anderson...

Books:

Anna Karenina (Tolstoy), A God of Small Things (Arundatni Roy), How The Universe Got Its Spots (Janna Levin), FOXFIRE (joyce carol oats), One Hundred Years of Solitude (Garcia Marquez), all the Earthsea books and stories (Ursula K. LeGuin), Gut Symmetries (Jeanette Winterson), Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Anne Dillard), The Portrait of A Lady (Henry James), Haroon and the Sea of Stories (Salman Rushdie) - poets: Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mary Oliver

My Blog

from the Rome diary

14 September 2006 11:00am   It's a grey morning.  Maybe we'll get the rain I kept seeing on weather.com.  I was lucky to have those past two days of sun.  That was truly lovely.&nb...
Posted by Alexis on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 08:59:00 PST

L'Heur Vide & Mathilde: L'Heur sees Mathilde at the market

What were you expecting?  You asked me for coffee.  You asked about my coat, my strange eyes you said.  You told me stories about your childhood.  Wild stories.  Beautiful sto...
Posted by Alexis on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:43:00 PST

L'Heur Vide & Mathlide: Dream in which Mathilde loves L'Heur

The lake was brown and grey this morning.  Its been drizzling a winter rain, soft, freezing.  A gentle sting like stray sparks.  I tried to squint into the horizon, so I could drink in ...
Posted by Alexis on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:34:00 PST

Vic's last diary entry

I was walking by the peirs and I saw all these boats  some were huge ocean liners, coming in weighed down with mysterious cargo  and I realized, this is a river.  And it goes to the ocean.&nbs...
Posted by Alexis on Sat, 24 Sep 2005 05:51:00 PST

The Ice Princess

             Once upon a time there was a princess  white haired and cool tempered.  Her eyes were a silverblue so pale they cracked under ...
Posted by Alexis on Sat, 24 Sep 2005 05:46:00 PST