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savanna

I have tried, in my way, to be free.

About Me

I no longer work the night shift.I am currently lost somewhere in the delicious, pretentious no-man's land between vegan and freegan.

My Interests

CURRENT MOON moon phases
culture jamming, embroidery, middle eastern dance, la regla lucumi, medieval music, non-binary gender, vegan cooking, trespassing, singing, bog people, fucking around on the piano, buskers, banjos, diy fashion, sewing, steampunk, sociology, cellos, people watching, music, climbing trees, le parkour, traveling by greyhound, graphic novels, watching for meteor showers, pets, dancing, improvisational spelling.

I'd like to meet:

existential robots & ray bradbury!

the mullah nasrudin and his donkey

people who can count in 9/8 time.

Music:

LHASA DE SELA, talking heads, BELOW THE SALT, aesop rock, aterciopelados, billie holiday, BOB DYLAN, alela diane, jesca hoop, THE DITTY BOPS, the erdemsel bros, fairuz, gogol bordello, gomez, imogen heap, jackie greene, jason webley, john fleagle, JOHN GORKA, manu chao, ozomatli, a perfect circle, pink floyd, rasputina, THE RED ELVISES, saul williams, tom waits, tracy chapman, yoshida brothers, gods of shamisen

Movies:

SIX STRING SAMURAI, the wicker man, heathers, titus, muppet treasure island, JEFFREY, a fish called wanda, harold and maude, city of lost children, beyond the valley of the dolls, mirrormask, silence of the lambs, blue velvet, the omega man, shallow graves, devils playground, black orpheus, the hunger.

Television:

sucks.

Books:

herman hesse's siddhartha, allen ginsberg's plutonian ode, kabuki, the screwtape letters, leaves of grass, i am phoenix: poems for two voices, honor among punks, transmetropolitan, stranger in a strange land, sandman, do androids dream of electric sheep? american gods, the dream hunters, by neil gaiman. the day i traded my dad for two goldfish, ok, anything by gaiman. neverwhere, coraline, swamp thing. global frequency and the losers. war for the oaks and the sheep look up, by john brunner, the outsiders. fables and y:the last man. love & rockets. Anything by Ray Bradbury.

Heroes:

ze frank, leonard cohen, philip k dick, emma goldman, albus dumbledore, charles bukowski, ray bradbury, tori amos, walt whitman, utah phillips

My Blog

geoff berner on current events

"I suppo se that the the over- archi ng theme of all 3 album s is the very simpl e quest ion of "How can you be aware and carin g about what' s happe ning in the world , and also be happy ? " Tha...
Posted by savanna on Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:31:00 PST

caramel bars

cooking music: corvus corax, futuristic sex robotz, the clashVegan Caramel Bars (not a original recipe at all)For the Crust:1 cup of Earth Balance1 cup light unbleached or white beet sugar1 1/4 cups c...
Posted by savanna on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 09:19:00 PST

weekend

(champagne, car rides, corsets, rollies, vegan food, smoky air, shop-vac, muni, 2am cookie runs, cell phones, mohawks, cuddling, rum and coffee, marijuana, accordions, morris dancing, hoop skirts, hol...
Posted by savanna on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 08:07:00 PST

lark camp 2007 or how i learned to salsa in 30 seconds

it was fucking awesome. go read summers blog for more coherent descriptions: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&frien dID=103950830&blogID=296286569
Posted by savanna on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:22:00 PST

this city is sick

i went to dennys tonight, saw a coked up forty year old prostitute get ditched by her 'date,' and promptly move on to the guy sitting alone at the next table- they left together. a stereotypical drug ...
Posted by savanna on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:54:00 PST

i want/don't want

i went down to the coffee shop today, to, predictably, drink coffee and read my histroy book. it didn't go so well. not in the bad not so well, but more in the, i kept on thinking about so many other ...
Posted by savanna on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 06:09:00 PST

stupid internet meme

Tag-TimeRules: Someone writes a blog with seven weird/random facts about him/herself. Then, at the end of the blog, he/she tags seven people by listing their names. These people then need to write the...
Posted by savanna on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 12:17:00 PST

just thought you all should know.

i really want to go to the snow. and it's so not going to happen this year. this makes savanna a sad puppy :(
Posted by savanna on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:34:00 PST

Street Team Event List!!!

This is the list kids, as you can see, theres plenty to do!June/23 Radiohead @ greek theatre ....?June/24/25 Kate Wolf @ Hog Farm, Mendo: Erin, Aaron, SavannaJune/24 Pride @ SF: SpankyJuly/2 Violent ...
Posted by savanna on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 08:48:00 PST

halloween party at eliots

well crap, now that ive commited to  a party, ive got to think up a better costume than what i was going with- besides, smearing my body with mud just doesnt sound very appealing. suggestions wou...
Posted by savanna on Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:07:00 PST