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About Me

Visit my website at WWW.BOXOFDETROIT.COM
I'm tuned to the Earth in D Minor I like to eat. I like to make art. I crack me up. I like to see bands. I like to meet new people. I don't like it when folks lie or take advantage of others. That's why I like dogs better than people, they're all about the love.

My Interests

Art

Friends

My dog, Paloma

Special places on Belle Isle

Cooking for others

Having others cook for me

Live music

Shoving whole pieces of cake in my mouth*

Scavenging

Metal

piles of things

Wood

Hard rain

Power Tools

Girl bands

Heavy machinery as big as buildings*

Men with confidence

Making stuff

Adventure

People who make stuff

Relaxing***

I'd like to meet:

Artists, Rock stars, dog lovers, people who love, eat, drink, treat others and themselves well and live life the best they can. I am on the lookout always for those who embody the qualities of absolute trust, confidence, loyalty, and integrity in everything they do.
Michele Doner
This Drunk Rooster
The Girl who took this photograph
Andy Goldsworthy...

and Anselm Kiefer...

...and Shel Silverstein

Music:

DETROIT BANDS!!! Lake Trout Frank Zappa Project Object Yes Bela FLeck THe Hughes Affair Phonograph WolfbaitThe DeadHellenRyan AdamsRadioheadJethro TullStereoLabDavid ByrneMetallicaJon SpencerLed ZeppelinLuscious JacksonPhishWhite StripesColdplayTom WaitsPink FLoydBluegrassChupacabraSquirrel Nut ZippersBig DixieSlayerNickle Creekand some more bands with double consanants in their name. David BowieBryan FerryStevie Ray VaughnChris CornellDave Grohl... Chrissie Hynde

Movies:

Clash of the Titans

Casino

Freeway

Brazil

Clockwork Orange

Grease

Mr. Holland's Opus

Amelie

Pink Panther

Neighbors

The Transporter

Beetlejuice

some other good stuff...

Legacy in Bronze

Gummo

Rivers and Tides

Oceans 11

La Femme Nakita

The Big Blue

Harold and Maude

Niagara Niagara

2001

Down By Law

Rounders

The Secret

Celestine Prophecy

ONE

gorey stuff

sappy stuff

pretty stuff

ugly stuff

the stuff of life and fantasy

reality and fiction

stuff I've never seen before is my most favorite.

Dennis Hopper

Bill Murray

Nicholas Cage

Patricia Arquette

Kevin Spacey

Christopher Walken

Helena Bonham Carter

Rutger Hauer

Madeline Kahn

Gary Oldman

Steve Martin

Ed Norton

Chevy Chase makes me pee my pants. "Thank you very little..."

I like videos of extreme sports. Snowboarding, Surfing, Skating. Defying gravity is cool and I can't do it so I like to watch others risk their lives. Of course with really good music soundracks.

Television:

If at all, The Colbert Report, SNL, after school specials. Commercials, hence the no watching of the t.v. SCRUBS is one of best shows ever written.

Books:

"The Cheese Monkeys" "Like Water For Chocolate" "Watership Down" "Pure Drivel" any art and architecture book, books on castles, Nicholas Sparks, David Sedaris, Padgett Gerler, Anne Rice, J.K. Rowling, Shel Silverstein, books about Detroit, "How To Be a Villian" "The Velveteen Rabbit"

Heroes:

Women Sculptors...Louise Nevelson, Louise Bourgeois, Barbara Hepworth...My college professors, Hanna Jubran and Carl Billingsley...and anyone who follows their heart and lives their own personal dream without fear!! The newly acquainted Thomas Heatherwick. THE man.

My Blog

Take it

Relationships are like bank accounts. If you don't make deposits, pretty soon, there won't be anything left to withdraw.
Posted by a.box on Sat, 10 May 2008 12:07:00 PST

Definition

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Posted by a.box on Fri, 09 May 2008 09:02:00 PST

What’s the matter, Honey Bee, your stinger broke?

http://www.comcast.net/news/articles/science/2008/05/07/Disa ppearing.Bees/I don't know why this struck such a chord in me, but after reading the article I was outraged at the constant buffoonery of hu...
Posted by a.box on Wed, 07 May 2008 09:58:00 PST

To float

My best friend uses metaphors. This is my comment.My raft is one of those 70's style blue canvas with yellow rubber ends. I've patched it so many times...I don't know if it can even float ...
Posted by a.box on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:24:00 PST

To cheat or not to cheat...

I have a friend who reconnected with an ex love via MySpace. They became a couple and everything seemed fine. Recently it became known the other was "getting to know" someone else. H...
Posted by a.box on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:25:00 PST

The Beginning of Time

Thanks, Karen, for reminding me..."And You and I" YES I. Cord Of Life A man conceived a moment's answers to the dream, Staying the flowers daily, sensing all the themes. As a foundation left to creat...
Posted by a.box on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 02:34:00 PST

The New Birds 2008

This is a story about an art show. A 5 week saga of love, compassion, patience, learning, compromise, and a little heartbreak.When my friend, Cathy, stood in the kitchen of the Abreact Performan...
Posted by a.box on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:26:00 PST

Spring Cleaning

Under the cover for so long. The winter blanket stifled all feelings. There was a seed under there. A lifetime was lived in solace. So much information came to light in our sea...
Posted by a.box on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:40:00 PST

Increasing it

Sometimes you meet a person. That person becomes your friend.You see in them something that intrigues you. They have similar goals. Similar ideals. Similar values. Someti...
Posted by a.box on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:31:00 PST

This time and that time.

I wait for it. I will it to happen. I push it away. Did I ask for that?Sometimes I've got the answers. Other times I'm clueless.Sometimes I say the right things. Other ti...
Posted by a.box on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:22:00 PST