The Keeper of Shadow and Light

About Me

I'm a 29 year old college graduate, currently living in Arizona. I'm an artist, a writer, a post-modern philosopher, and a thrift-store mystic. I can see the future. I can mix any color with paint and do it again. I can write haiku.What I can't do is make sense out of any of it.I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Interests

Art, music, film, literature. Role-playing games. Tarot, astrology, psychology, religion, mythology. Celebrity gossip and scandals. Fashion. History. Irony, existentialism, nihilism, philosophy. Apathy versus empathy. I also love tai chi and chai tea.

I'd like to meet:

People who can hold up their end of the conversation, and don't mind if I make strange noises at random. People who know something about art and music and like to discuss their opinions of such things without getting rabid and defensive. Other artists, of any specialization. People with alternative belief systems. People who are educated. People who can appreciate complexity, subtlety, nuance, whimsy, and depraved vulgarity all at the same time. People who are sure of themselves, and without more than one diagnosed personality disorder.

Music:

Tori Amos. Bjork. Radiohead. Messiah. BT. PJ Harvey. Marilyn Manson. Massive Attack. Enigma. Fiona Apple. Lamb. Garbage. Nine Inch Nails. Mazzy Star. The B-52's. Poe. Sacha Sacket. Movie Soundtracks. Film composers (especially Thomas Newman and Craig Armstrong).
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Movies:

The Last Unicorn. The Million Dollar Hotel. American Beauty. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Moulin Rouge. K-PAX. Kill Bill. Imaginary Heroes. Urbania. Brokeback Mountain. The Mothman Prophecies. X-Men Trilogy. Pan's Labyrinth. The Fountain. The Dark Knight. Wall-E. The Nines.

Television:

Sex and the City. Six Feet Under. The O.C. Desperate Housewives. Law & Order. The Simpsons. OZ. Dead Like Me.

Books:

"The Last Unicorn" by Peter S. Beagle. "Practical Magic" and "The Probable Future" by Alice Hoffman. "Running With Scissors" and "Dry" by Augusten Burroughs. Anything by David Sedaris. "White Oleander" and "Paint it Black" by Janet Fitch. "The Hours" and "A Home at the End of the World" by Michael Cunningham. The Sleeping Beauty trilogy by Anne Rice.

Heroes:

Salome, Princess of Judea. My father. Isaac Mizrahi. Hatsumomo. Jean Grey, aka Phoenix. Galadriel. Samantha Jones.

My Blog

Walking forward, looking back

I'm not a nostalgic person by nature. When I was younger, I had a tendency to cling to the past with all my might, digging my heels into the earth, desperate to stall the passage of time and ren...
Posted by The Keeper of Shadow and Light on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:02:00 PST

Deliverance (part 2)

So, the storm finally broke. I've been offered a new position with a better salary than my last one. I've got a few weeks before I start, but I've got money in the bank, great friends, a s...
Posted by The Keeper of Shadow and Light on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:09:00 PST

Unemployment and Deliverance (no, not the movie!)

Hexagram 40 of the I Ching is Hsieh, or Deliverance. For the past month and a half, I've been out of work, having been laid off from my job. Having turned 29 in July, I considered it to be a cha...
Posted by The Keeper of Shadow and Light on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 01:13:00 PST

White shadows cast over the fairest one of all

The cicadas have made their way up from ground and started singing. I found the exoskeleton of one on a tree yesterday, a clinging shell, an outfit discarded because it no longer fit. The days a...
Posted by The Keeper of Shadow and Light on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:45:00 PST

Duration

Hexagram 32 of the I Ching is Heng -- Duration. The Tao Oracle describes this hexagram as a mountain, a mass of stone that can weather the elements and stand the test of time. Its surface may ch...
Posted by The Keeper of Shadow and Light on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:03:00 PST

Day of Sanity

Six years ago today I was discharged from a behavioral health center. I'd been hospitalized for suicidal ideation. In retrospect, I really feel that day was the day I finally became an adult.&nb...
Posted by The Keeper of Shadow and Light on Tue, 13 May 2008 11:09:00 PST

Journey to the middle of the land

This past weekend, I helped deliver a friend to Midland, Texas. It's been a while since I took a road trip. My tolerance for sitting still in a vehicle is pretty high. After enduring ...
Posted by The Keeper of Shadow and Light on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 08:02:00 PST

The Taming Power of the Small

The ninth hexagram in the I Ching is Hsiao Ch’u -- The Taming Power of the Small. As I understand it, this hexagram describes the virtue of focusing on small, manageable tasks, accepting your li...
Posted by The Keeper of Shadow and Light on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:24:00 PST

I’ll do this last one and I’ll grow me some wine, leave them troubled boys all behind

My counselor and I terminated our sessions last week. In his assessment, he said I was the picture of health, and I presently need to focus on using the tools I’ve been given to construct ...
Posted by The Keeper of Shadow and Light on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:34:00 PST

The Star

The seventeenth card in the Major Arcana of the tarot is the Star. This card symbolizes the source of inspiration and beauty for which we all search, the force that beckons us onward, that invit...
Posted by The Keeper of Shadow and Light on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:10:00 PST