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apis melliflora

I am here for Friends

About Me

a subject of time

My Interests

words and pictures on how to make twinkles in the eye and colours agree in the dark.Visual Charades.Thoughts on moonlighting and daydreams.Avocadoes and Mangoes.To look is to listen. how to turn knots into bows? sewing machine work. patterns of choas.motors cranks cogs spindles. the sympathy of things. quills and ink. vienna modernism. tesla and edison. DNA and the double helix.diane arbus. egon schiele.andy warhol and his black women.bonnie and cylde.wire& wood.puppets.wine.farming. cooking. baking. virgina wolfe. georgia okeffe.death valley .owls.bats.peacocks.poppies.maryjanes.rumi.moths.broken ballerinas.simplicity.ghost towns.early60's brazil. familiarity.traveling with a sheep trailer.unconditionallove...

I'd like to meet:

those whom are wild at heart

Music:

i love my records i love my records yes. i. do. analog and lo-fi do it best for me. i like sound in waves miles mozart and velvet underground everything in between is between everything.elliot smith. the beatles. OUTKAST broadcast.the kills.cat power.bjork. betty davis.lou barlow.modest mouse.jolie holland.karen dalton.sonic youth.os mutantes.silver apples.can. the roots. hollygolightly. the rachels. thom yorke.blonde redhead.stereolab. portishead. jeff buckley. pj harvey.vincent gallo. john sean and yoko.king tubby. lee scratch. tom waits. beth gibbbons.big mama thorton. the clash. spoon. arcade fire. the sea and cake. fiest.nina simone. the supremes. otis redding. mark lanagan.isobel campbell.bad brains.led zep.pinkfloyd.syd barrett.nick drake.beastie boys.badu.peaches.vampire weekend. le tigreand so on and so forth....

Movies:

harold and maude:8 1/2:Adaptation:Downtown 81:Brown bunny:buffalo66:any ingmar bergman:french art house films:zombie flicks:sounder:soy cuba:almovadar:natural born killers:la dolce vita: they shoot the horses..: scent of a green papaya:the lover:pillow book: fifth element:thug workout:vintage porn:eternal sunshinei don't want to list anymore.but there are many more. i have absolutely no problem walking out of a shitty film. ps. i love netflix!

Television:

i killed it and picked up my camera instead..now, i am exclusively slideshows*all photos are original and taken by me*

Books:

every morning ..every night. and a library trip once a week. i reread classics every 5 years.tom robbins was a better author when he was poor. read rumi daily. octavia butler can see into the future. alice walker for president.if you are this interested in what i read then you should contact me immediately. for coffee perhaps?

My Blog

my life in prose

birth is the start of loneliness& loneliness the startof art:that seems a crude reduction of it all,but truthis often crude. & so i dream of daughtersas a man might dream of giving b...
Posted by apis melliflora on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:21:00 PST

walt whitman

 The smoke of my own breath, Echoes, ripples, buzz'd whispers, love-root, silk-thread, crotch and vine, My respiration and inspiration, the beating of my heart, the passing of blood and air throu...
Posted by apis melliflora on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 09:35:00 PST

childlike awe

Will I not learn that a loving heart once affected never forgets the one who quickened emotions unknown and unattainable til then? That all its impulses belong to its first love. That its first though...
Posted by apis melliflora on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 04:24:00 PST

something i learned today

Expect nothing. Live frugallyOn surprise.become a strangerTo need of pityOr, if compassion be freelyGiven outTake only enoughStop short of urge to pleadThen purge away the need.Wish for nothing larger...
Posted by apis melliflora on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:04:00 PST

out there somewhere over the rainbow

i wonder if you know that it is you that i'm writing to . instead of hiding it .here  is my love exposed for  the world to see. although most of the time i'm paralyzed by the fear that&...
Posted by apis melliflora on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 10:46:00 PST

i mean what i say and you never say what you mean

Because my love for youIs higher than words,I have decided to fall silent.
Posted by apis melliflora on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 08:34:00 PST

your birth made me

How Could This Be?   How could this be -- that at my age I've become a virgin & write love poems for the very first time? How could this be? that now I love like a waterfall: giving everythin...
Posted by apis melliflora on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:29:00 PST

theme song for the day....

Check out this video: Modest Mouse - Float On Add to My Profile | More Videos...
Posted by apis melliflora on Thu, 05 Jul 2007 12:59:00 PST

the return of the gypsy

well i'll be damn  i'm back on the old travel curcuit once again...this is the best way to contact me until i have obtained the tools to be able to communicate in a mobile manner. this is fo...
Posted by apis melliflora on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:50:00 PST

Disney Princesses: Black Girls Need Not Apply

.. A Look at Disney's Animated Royalty By Angela Bronner, AOL Black Voices, Posted: 2007-03-22 17:36:36 * Editor's Note 3/22/07: This story was written in August 2006, in response to a lively m...
Posted by apis melliflora on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:01:00 PST