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liz

where flowers pick themselves

About Me

"looks ... like she throws up in her mouth a little at the end of each sentence ... like she wants to fall through any opening in the floor she can find, even if it sends her to the circle of Hell in which she'd have to ______ ... like the snow is ... like a cadavre, more dead than alive ... like a donut because she has been around for so long and is coated in sugar as a means of self-preservation ... like someone sprinkled her with magic -- even though she's bloody and bruised, she's not crying ..."

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My Interests



abstractions. bounty. buoyancy. sticky gobs of words. tangled christmas lights. harmolodically-rich music. ellipses. mood stabilizers. puffy eyes. storytellers. mermaids. cheeky poems. natural disasters. roaring surf. angelfire. sweat. swing sets. checklists. photo albums. irregular features. indecision. zero air conditioning.

pontificating. carousing. moping. tasting colors. procrastinating. crunching ice. cuddling with babies and boys. chain-smoking cloves. OCD-ing. loitering at carrow's at midnight. pummeling resistance. doling out benefit-of-the-doubts. staring at strangers. collecting heart-shaped rocks. raising that kundalini. melting all molten inside.

acumen. "elephant shoes." overeaters anonymous. my kitten-child alba azuki. books in bed. meaningful toasts. gin. mimosas. gin. spicy V-8 juice. gin. black coffee. pickled ginger. pregnant bellies. grannymobiles. coitus. zest. nuance. gorgeousness and gorgeosity made flesh.

I'd like to meet:

PLEASED TO MEET:

Grannybaby. Lady Godiva. Gustav Klimt. the men of Devolution. Siouxsie Sioux. Courtney Love. Jughead Jones. Lord Byron. Mata Hari. Cyndi Lauper. Amy Sedaris. Jónsi Birgisson. Mark Ryden. Maynard de la Rocha.

Music:



Earl Zinger, Gomez, Luna, Deep Forest, My Bloody Valentine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sound Tribe Sect. 9, 311, Mazzy Star, SIGUR ROS, Belle and Sebastian, Mum, Bjork, zap mama, Aphex Twin, The Kings of Leon, Taj Mahal, Feist, Ray Charles Ives, Emmylou Harris, the Ramones, Daft Punk, CORNERSHOP, the Cure, Lovage, THE PIXIES, Frank Black, Breeders and amps and all, The Postal Service, Duke Ellington, Mediaeval Baebes, Leftfield, Elvis Presley, the Magnetic Fields, The Grateful Dead, The Flaming Lips, Nirvana, RHCP, The Gadjits, Modest Mouse, Antony and the Johnsons, Mersai, the Clash, Social Distortion, the Verve, Toadies, Wilco, Suicidal Tendencies, Secret Machines, Joy Division, Beasties, Etta James, Ded Prez, Talib Kweli, Elastica, Neko Case, Rasputina, Juana's Addiccion, Joni Mitchell, the Pharcyde, the Smiths, Erykah Badu, DevotchKa, The Killers, Neil Young, BHS, Eels, the man in black, Incubus, Steely Dan, the Mars Volta, older Morcheeba, Sharon Lois and Bram, St. Germain, Thievery Corp., Cyndi Lauper, DJ Shadow

DOLLY PARTON, Leonard Cohen, Nappy Roots, Gorillaz, Led Zep, Black Uhuru, Sublime, Maynard's bandages, QOTSA, Prince, the Cars, Stevie Wonder, BB King, Blur, Janis, Aimee Mann, Tom Waits, the long winters, Radiohead, System of a Down, Patti Smith, the Gypsy Kings, L7, Le Tigre, elbow, Primus, Biggie, Hot Hot Heat, Madeliene Peyroux, Midnite, The Shins, Busta Rhymes, Hole, Deftones, Loretta Lynn, Shonen Knife, Weezer, Blondie, the Talking Heads, T.A.T.U., good ol' Tribe, *Massive Attack*, Goodie M.O.B., the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tori Amos, Interpol, Dire Straits, AiC, Public Enemy, Digable Planets, Guru, Madonna, Mos Def, Beatnuts, Stevie Nicks, Bloodhound Gang, KRS, Rage, Wu Tang, old Outkast, Journey, AC/DC, White Town, ..., ..., ..., .........

Movies:



Junebug, The City of Lost Children, Wag the Dog, Splendor, Wild at Heart, The Corporation, Annie Hall, The Truman Show, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Run Lola Run, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Future of Food, Novocaine, I

Television:



You Can't Do That On Television.

Books:

(i want to hear what you have to say)

e.e. cummings. t.c. boyle. d.h. lawrence. t.s. eliot. w.b. yeats. gregory macguire. anais nin. jean hegland. jeffrey eugenides. mary oliver. leonard cohen. john donne. ted hughes. john updike. aliki. dave barry. flannery o'connor. edgar allen poe. tom wolfe. virginia woolf. ian mcewan. robert lowell. sumathem beatnik fellas an lassies. pema chodron. michael cunningham. colette. annie proulx. joyce carol oates. colette. annie dillard. ann sexton. william gibson. john steinbeck. edith wharton. gabriel garcia marquez. william faulkner. j. krishnamurti. marcel proust. madeline l'engle. ken kesey. george orwell. pablo neruda. alice hoffman. sylvia plath. herman melville. lord byron. richard hugo. william blake. the good doctor. sark. gertrude stein. louise gluck. pamela anderson (quite serious here). j.d. salinger. little black sambo.

Heroes:

(aside from Einstein and Jesus?) the extended Madley clan. Bjork and her Icelandic fellows. Frida Kahlo. Dolly Parton. Betty Cooper. Toni Collette. Colette. the cast of Doonesbury. Louise Nevelson.

According to the "Which Big Lebowski character are you?" quiz:

Why don't you check it out? Or we cut off your Johnson!

My Blog

what is most important ...

what is most important ... by tamarisk rose (age 8) the most important thing about a honeybee is that it can make honey just for me. they are striped yellow and black, the soothing sound of their fu...
Posted by mclizette on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 10:19:00 PST

a pair of odes by hafiz

YOU LITTLE TURK OF SHIRAZ-TOWN   You little Turk of Shiraz-Town,              Freebooter of the hearts of men, As beautiful as, says renown, ...
Posted by mclizette on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:46:00 PST

moving right along

yesterday morning i uncoiled the serpent at the base of my spine.  (after all, "a flexible spine is a flexible mind, and when your mind opens, your life opens")  i did my best to link up my ...
Posted by mclizette on Sun, 28 Jan 2007 12:56:00 PST

one-two punch

"what if there was just snow?  snow everywhere, cold and white, filling every distance?  and i just follow my sense of things through this winter until i reach a grove of white trees.  ...
Posted by mclizette on Thu, 04 Jan 2007 10:36:00 PST

let the sea take me

please let me know how this affects you, and what you would like to see done differently.  love.   Let The Sea Take Me   her skirt molests a smudge of shore serrated breakers hiss and f...
Posted by mclizette on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:43:00 PST

nebulous, blissed-up solstice

{This morning dozens of hoof prints danced across the silver street.}   Plowing through mayhem with grace and clairvoyance!  Chores were tended to, phone calls were placed, research was cond...
Posted by mclizette on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 12:31:00 PST

brezsny blessing

(thanks for spreading The Good Word, mr. divine)   Prayer for Youby Rob Brezsny (freewillastrology.com)I'm happy to announce that this is a perfect moment. It's a perfect moment for many reasons,...
Posted by mclizette on Sat, 04 Nov 2006 05:34:00 PST

you could sleep with the whole world and still feel rejected

not technically my current problem but . . . jyoo no? i tire of retiring (alone) from the rest of the world.  oh.so.tired. no comments necessary.  it's just that i would be deceivi...
Posted by mclizette on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:59:00 PST

i keep my head above the waves

at 7:30 this evening i surfaced from a carl phillips reading with a clear(er) head.  everything about the man radiated purpose. during the question segment c.p. first expanded on h...
Posted by mclizette on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 08:20:00 PST

the premonition of madness

"we generally find it hard to understand that some of us must go mad.  but sliding into chaos, where moments of lucidity are like short flashes of lightning, is an inexorable fatality.  insp...
Posted by mclizette on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:27:00 PST