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Possum of the Grotto

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About Me


A great man once told me: "You are what you pretend to be." And he stole that.

Murder By Death!!!!!

"The only Bush I trust is my own..."
-Melissa 'it-was-whaley' Boon.
I like tea.
and daisies...
So pick me some before I'm dead.

I'm "Fruitloopdaydream" on deviantart. So come "art out" with me.

...so if you know anybody...

My Interests

I'll likely die without Keepon.

Gitfiddle hero.
If I were..., I'd be:
Stone – tiger’s eye.
Wood –an olive tree, yes the whole tree.
Movement – curling into a ball.
A Tool –an instrument of sound.
A Color – a deep tone of red.
A Human Activity – A sleeping disorder.
A Work of Art –“Etant Donnes” by Marcel Duchamp.
A weapon - Sarcasm (I stole this answer.)
A natural phenomenon - decay.
A force of nature – a tornado.
An animal - lion.
A mythological being -Delirium.
A bird - pigeon.
A flower/plant - Wormwood, water hemlock.
A kind of weather - lightning storm.
A mythical creature - human.
A musical instrument - a cello or guitar.
An emotion - jack’s cold sweat.
A vegetable - garlic.
A sound - low drawling tones on a cello, like at the end of “the big sleep” by Murder By Death.
An Element - Na.
A song - This is so difficult!
Probably an amalgamated dance remix
of “Until Morale Improves” by Murder by Death,
“Bottle Up and Explode” by Elliot Smith,
“Delilah” by Dresden Dolls,
"Lover, I don't have to love" by Bright Eyes, "Bachelor and the Bride" by The Decemberists, and “Precious Things” by Tori Amos.
A movie - Shortbus or Waking Life.
A food - a bottle of whiskey.
A place - the Tuscany region in Italy.
A taste - the kick-back after a long gulp of whiskey.
A word - existential or amalgamated.(yes, one involves nothing and the other involves cardboard,)
An object - Sarah’s cello or Tori’s piano bench.
A facial expression - an enigmatic smile, mixed with a smug grin.
A subject in school - conceptual art.
A cartoon character - Lain.
A shape - square...
A month - October.
A day of the week - 2 a.m. on a wednesday.
A piece of furniture - a red or green velvet fainting couch.
A sin - sloth, talk about the imagery on that answer...
A historical figure - Janis Joplin. Marcel DuChamp, or Kateri Tekakwitha.
A liquid - whiskey.
A method of death - madness…

"But in 25 years she'll be silver, in fifty, gold. A living doll, everywhere you look. It can sew, it can cook, it can talk, talk, talk. It works, there is nothing wrong with it. You have a hole, it's a poultice. You have an eye, it's an image. My boy, it's your last resort. Will you marry it, marry it, marry it."

I'm really good at:
"Dying, is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well."
The first thing(s) people usually notice about me:
"Oh well, she's just a menial robot."

Picture taken by me, in Siena, Italia. This is where I'd eventually like to send my grandmother.

I'd like to meet:

Generate your own contact table!



I'd like to meet someone whom has the CATRANT from 'Ball and Chain' memorized...

Human beings with a witty outlook on life...
Lazy s.o.b.'s with wads of cash that want to buy me bubble tea.

Someone who will treat me like a human bean.
DwarfstarZero: i want to find luca
and show him i survived,
i want to go to venice and have rediculous romantic affairs,
i want to go to siena and play guitar in the piazza,
i want to talk to birds,
and learn to count from germans on airplanes,
and i want to trip a lot,
and see fish at the fish market
trying to escape from tables...
i want to punch a german guy in the eyeball...

And
(even though I already have met them,)
these guys...

Music:

All Elliot Smith, all the time.

The Decemberists, because I am a chimbleysweep...

Dresden Dolls, Wilco, Cold War Kids,
Bright Eyes... I must be emo...

Hymie's Basement, Tori Amos, Muse, Pete Yorn,
Ani DiFranco, Bjork, Murder By Death, Violent Femmes,
Radiohead, The Pillows, Janis Joplin, Regina Spektor,
The Doors, Concrete Blonde, Bad Religeon, Gogol Bordello,
Cake, 7 Mary 3, APC, Live, Brand New,
Harvey Danger, The Editors, Rogue Wave,
Ayumi Hamasaki, Avalanches, B-52's, The Sounds,
Blondie, BOA, Blue Oyster Cult, Sufjan Stevens,
King Missile, Gary Jules, Tears for Fears,
Cab Calloway, Claire Voyant, Depeche Mode,
Devo, LCD Soundsystem, Linda Perry, Madonna, Pilate,
Malice Mizer, Midnight Oil, Nick Cave,
Sarah MacLachlan, Jimi Hendrix, Cyndi Lauper,
Grace Slick,Jefferson Airplane, Feist,
Bowie, Garbage, Miranda Sex Garden, Nightwish,
Otep, Luxt, Tom Petty, Weezer, Veruca Salt,
Breeders, VNV Nation, Wolfsheim, Colin Meloy,
Switchblade Symphony,Billie Holiday, Nina Gordon,
Assemblage 23, Collide, Jason Mraz, MGMT,
Franz Ferdinand, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Neutral Milk Hotel,
Billy Idol, The Clash, X, Nick Cave, Nouvelle Vague,
Siouxsie and the Banshees, Wolfmother, Neil Young,
P.J. Harvey, Collective Soul, Courtney Love,
Nirvana, Foo Fighters, Cowboy Junkies,
Cranberries, The Cure, Panic at the Disco,
Elliot Smith, Extreme, Flogging Molly, Fiona Apple,
Icon of Coil, Jack Off Jill, Joan Jett, Joy Division,
Ladytron, Linda Ronstadt, Manic Street Preachers,
Marcy Playground, Maynard, Tool, Delirium, Morrisey,
Nickle Creek, NIN,Oingo Boingo, Rodrigo Y Gabriela,
Pink Floyd, Poe, Rasputina, Rolling Stones, Rush,
Siennad O'Connor, Velvet Underground,
Simon and Garfunkel, Sisters of Mercy,
Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots,
Squirrel Nut Zippers, The Strokes, The MArs Volta,
Tapping the Vein, Theatre of Tragedy,
Tom Waits,
Voltaire, Ween, Nina Simone, The Beatles,
Ben Folds Five, Green Day, Moby, The Ramones,
White Stripes, Belle and Sebastian,
Iggy Pop, Modest Mouse, The Pixies,
Portishead, Elvis Costello, Joan Osbourne,
Led Zeppelin, Jeff Buckley, Sigur Ros, Ozzy,
Berlin, Ella Fitzgerald, Black Sabbath, Noe Venable,
Sarah Vaughn, Frank Zappa, Offspring,Mercury Rev,
Talking Heads, Alice in Chains, Haydn, Meatpuppets,
Save Ferris, Pearl Jam, Eurythmics, Eric Clapton,
Blind Melon, Piotr Tomaszewski, Queens of the Stone Age,
Air, Mogwai, Faith No More,
R.E.M., Gin Blossoms, the Lemonheads,
Patti Smyth, and Bonnie Raitt

Movies:

The Wall, Full Metal Jacket, Shortbus, Superbad!
The Science of Sleep,Run, Fatboy, Run!, Hot Fuzz,
Wads of Fear and Loathing, Waking Life,
Yellow Submarine, Memoirs of a Geisha, Willow,
Better Off Dead, Breakfast Club, Boondock Saints,
Sixteen Candles, The Ugly (NZ film,)Reefer Madness,
Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Marihuana,
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Amelie, Lars and the Real Girl,
Dangerous Beauty, French Kiss, The Cocaine Fiends!,
May, Reservoir Dogs, City of Lost Children,
Rocky Horror Picture Show, Kill Bill,
The Shining, Hedwig and the Angry Inch,
Almost Famous, Dead Poet's Society,
Detroit Rock City, Pretty in Pink, Red Violin,
Chicken Run, Funny Face, Mulan, American Beauty,
Roman Holiday, An American in Paris,
Elizabeth, Hitchcock films,
Never-Ending Story, Fight Club, FLCL,
Serial Experiment: Lain, All About My Mother,
Boogiepop Phantom, Shaun of the Dead,
Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride
Wierd Science, Alien movies
Au Revoir L'es Enfants, Les Miserables (french,)
Donnie Darko, Shirley Valentine
and Clockwork Orange

Television:

Flight of the Conchords,
Simpsons, Insomniac, Six Feet Under,
The Colbert Report, Aqua Teens, South Park...
Family Guy, pop-up video, Robot Chicken, Dead Like Me,
Black Books, The Riches, Ugly Betty,
Doctor Who (BBC), Scrubs...

Books:

here's authors and books sprinkled together...
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Anais Nin, Kerouac, High Fidelity,
The Chucks: Klosterman and Palahniuk,
The Bride Stripped Bare, Charles Bukowski, Allan Ginsberg, Henry Miller,
Neil Gaiman, Johnny Got His Gun,
Somebody To Love (Grace Slick's rock and roll memoir,)
Verses that Hurt-Pleasure and Pain from the Poemfone Poets,
Sabrina Ward Harrison, David Sedaris, Terry Pratchett,
Pride and Prejudice, Baudelaire, Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
Fast Food Nation, The Hero Within, J.D. Salinger,
How To Be a Domestic Goddess- Nigella Lawson, Jhonen Vasquez
Richey James, Levinthal, Eliot, any Darkwerks art books,
Hunter S. Thompson- Fear & Loathing, Hell's Angels,
Douglas Adams, The Vagina Monologues-Eve Ensler, Sylvia Plath,

"I hated him the minute I walked through the door. I had imagined a kind, ugly, intuitive man looking up and saying 'Ah' in an encouraging way, as if he could see something I couldn't, and then I would find words to tell him how I was so scared, as if I were being stuffed farthur and farthur into a black, airless sack with no way out.
Then he would lean back in his chair and match the tips of his fingers together in a little steeple and tell me why I couldn't sleep, and why I couldn't read, and why I couldn't eat, and why everything people did seemed so silly, because thy only died in the end.
And then, I thought, he would help me, step by step, to be myself again." -The Bell Jar (p129) Sylvia Plath.

Heroes:

Grace Slick, Charles Bukowski, Janis Joplin, Jhonette Napolitano,
Anais Nin, Marcel DuChamp, Sylvia Plath, my grandfather,
Hunter S. Thompson, Kurt Vonnegut, and Tom Bruce.

Nick Cave... dark and creepy. You're a bi-polar
genius, with equal passion for the most
degrading aspects of humanity, as well as the
beauty & wonder of God and Heaven.

Which fucked-up genius composer are you?
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My Blog

It comes apart, the way it does in bad films. Except in parts, when the moral kicks in.

We'll poke a hole thru the clouds to breathe if we must... Apr. 24th, 2008 at 1:42 AM .. -->...
Posted by Possum of the Grotto on Thu, 01 May 2008 02:28:00 PST

The Ghost of Corporate future...

Upon the realization that the last update was Santa Cruz, glorious tea-containing town she is, I thought: lo! perhaps mayhaps it is time...I've moved.I now live wedged pleasantly in a back alley near ...
Posted by Possum of the Grotto on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 10:04:00 PST

 You have no values. Your whole life, it’s nihilism, it’s cynicism, it’s sarcasm, and orgasm.

So.It has been some time since I updated, but there's generally not a whole lot to say.I've been spiraling in and out of depression. Drinking a lot. All the normalities.But I spent the last two days i...
Posted by Possum of the Grotto on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:43:00 PST

Something vague...

..> 11:14 pm - Sunrise... sunset? ..> We had a meeting at work, and I had to give a presentation on some of the new merch in RL.I think it went ok, though...Also, they gave me two awards, I got ce...
Posted by Possum of the Grotto on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:36:00 PST

Smoking out the window, feeling far away... news on the radio...

..>..>..> 9:17 pm - Peace, love. and a haaard..... concrete...pillar? So.The wedding was suprisingly uneventful.Though that may be due to the fact that I missed it.I got there just as the ceremony...
Posted by Possum of the Grotto on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:07:00 PST

If I could talk, I'd tell you...

11:07 pm - If I could talk I'd tell you... No excuse really for the lack of actual writing that has appeared as of late.Lots of oh, life is blahbedeeblah, etc...Nothing cryptic, or melodic.So her...
Posted by Possum of the Grotto on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:42:00 PST

Binary solo.

..> 5:24 pm - My eyeball is itchy. ..> Apologies to all that may contract the plague due to my beingaroundness.Sporadic cough turned into giant phlegmmy hack. So I came home. However, I WAS able to...
Posted by Possum of the Grotto on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 04:30:00 PST

A fickle little bitch romance.

Toenail is extricating self from foot.I swam in the lake yesterday.Went to club last week, it was fun. Mike actually danced with me. And we even got Beth to dance!!! Hooray for dancey beth. I wore my ...
Posted by Possum of the Grotto on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:36:00 PST

Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

1:37 pm - Fucking. This is my day off, and I'm feeling inspired.But I can't seem to make myself move.I'm sitting here, all sticky and caked,hair matted, face STILL makeuppy from yesteryear.Mike i...
Posted by Possum of the Grotto on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:04:00 PST

He'll save children, but not the british children...

..>Zoom! Once again (as per usual) this is yoinked directimundo from livejournalland...It's an update of what life has been offering me as of late... including new employment, Sir Washington (and his ...
Posted by Possum of the Grotto on Thu, 24 May 2007 06:45:00 PST