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Bloody Head of Medusa

bloodyheadofmedusa

About Me

I'm a visual artist and also a poet. I've sold some pieces and, had some poetry published in the Bitter Oleander, Ninth Letter, Apalachee Review, Gulf Stream Review, Organica and a few others. I also have a website Visit My Website that's still under construction - but it's out there and live as i go! 5-7 curly hair/ green eyes/ i'm a girl!/ two dogs/ one cat/ writer/ artist/ worker/ consumer/ part-time meat eater/ boot wearer/ i like black/ i like red i like sleeping in my bed
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My Interests

writing, reading, poetry, wildly obscure music, rust, old jars, boxes, mixed media, various fixatives, my abode, decomp,

I'd like to meet:


james dean/ anne sexton/ sylvia plath/ noah's wife/ rasputin/ myself when i was small/ a tiger (not when angry or hungry!)/ neko case/ janet frame/

Music:


actual alternative 80's, industrial, chopin's nocturnes,late 80's stuff like sisters of mercy, dead can dance, etc. charlie parker, john coltrane, nina simone, patsy cline, music influenced by the middle east, northern africa, india. sufi singers. some alt country. classic country. real punk (70's), B tribe (moroccan spirit), nusrat fateh ali khan, duran duran!, tito puente, cessaria evora, tom waits, nick cave, neko case, kmfdm, interpol, pj harvey, tori amos, car perkins, don williams, white stripes, led zep, pink floyd, rolling stones, beatles, the police, blondie, blanc mange, oingo boingo, eleni mandrell, amy winehouse, depeche mode, id 20, de/vision, the tear garden, recoil, patti smith, patty griffin, sex pistols, public image, public enemy, dj cheb i sabbah, natacha atlas, peter gabriel, yeah yeah yeah's, decemberists, paris street, this mortal coil, karina round, pixies, tom waits, bikini kill, xray specs, the slits, bauhaus, gary numan, the tendersticks, kate bush, joy division, muddy waters, john lee hooker, r l burnside, son house,

Movies:

american beauty, east of eden, cat on a hot tin roof, babydoll, fight club, natural born killers, the apartment, secretary, classic horror, the professional, westward the women, brahm stoker's dracula, sid and nancy, ju do, raise the red lantern, to live, cool hand luke, black snake moan, the birds, night of the hunter, the bad boy (korean film), eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the science of sleep, wristcutters, down by law, nightmare before christmas, schindler's list,corndog man(how ya like dem pants, daddy)

Television:

little britain, the office, dexter, brotherhood, nip/tuck, true evil, american justice, city confidential, wwII stuff, tlc, discovery, bbca, old twilight zone, a haunting, ghost hunters, the riches, notorious, and some unnameable guilty pleasures!,

Books:

? who remembers the names of books? a natural history of the senses, lizzie borden in love, blind huber, faces in the water, to live and die, ariel, some ether, 12 little cakes, suite francaise, stiff, joel peter-witkin(though it's an art book, but still a BOOK),i am currently reading a book about the biggest pioneer in modern surgery - 19 century) please don't tell me about the egyptians. yes, i know they were wildly advanced. and used honey to cover wounds and incisions because bacteria can't grow in honey.

Heroes:

they're all disappointing on some level. maybe my dogs - who teach me to go after what you want, be persistent, be patient, ignore time, take time to pee outside and sleep a lot. (but i don't pee outside. i don't even camp)

My Blog

i’ve been cheating on you, myspace blog

i have a new blog, totally separate from this one.  maybe by friday afternoon or saturday, you can find it at www.melissafairblog.com .  right now, it's in transition and i can't find it the...
Posted by Bloody Head of Medusa on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:07:00 PST

tiny rant

okay - i am so sick of people taking cheesy pics of themselves in bathing suits on their bed or in their bedroom or in lingerie like this is some amateur porn audition site and using it as their defau...
Posted by Bloody Head of Medusa on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:46:00 PST

Morpheus - thou art cruel and weird

Oh Morpheus  what have you done to me?   So, another weird dream.    I was in a city that i'm frequently in in my dreams  though i don't know if this city actually exists anywhere ...
Posted by Bloody Head of Medusa on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:11:00 PST

The Continuing Saga of Insomnia and Its Effects on Wordds

maybe it's just me.  and maybe it's still the effects of little sleep, and highly interrupted sleep, or the fact that i just woke from a mid morning nap...   but has it ever occurred to any...
Posted by Bloody Head of Medusa on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:29:00 PST

Random Thoughts

a HA! i’m writing in a large text edition. heh heh..: random thoughts so, time for another list. do two things constitute a list? answer:  YES when is AMERICA’S NEXT TOP POET gon...
Posted by Bloody Head of Medusa on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:30:00 PST

SECRET TALENTS OF THE STARS AND THE DEMAND FOR EATING MUSCLES IN A FEVER

Okay - so, i’ve seen this ad for Secret Talents of the Stars ad nauseum. "stars" is very subjective here.  it’s a playmate, marla maples, ric flair? i’m all for getting rid of m...
Posted by Bloody Head of Medusa on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:33:00 PST

EATING MUSCLES IN A FEVER AND COUNTDOWN TO DOGTIME

examining the retina and the harsh light of scrutiny   okay.  so. i had my eyes examined this morning.  my personal fear, though no hypochondriac, is that i am going blind in my left ey...
Posted by Bloody Head of Medusa on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 07:12:00 PST

lists lists lists

well, maybe only one and a short one at that. new favorite band...the duke spirit.  lassoo is a great song. GREAT SONG i was going to do a top 10 of something - but i can’t think of an...
Posted by Bloody Head of Medusa on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 01:13:00 PST

the coarsening of american culture

the coarsening of american culture   so, ready for a rant?  it will be gentle. there are words i am tired of hearing on regular tv, in the store, out of adult mouths and out of adolescent (...
Posted by Bloody Head of Medusa on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:03:00 PST

innate knowledge and the wonderful of the world

have you ever known things you have no idea how you know?   i have come across this before.  and innate may be the wrong word... because that feels like instinct or something akin to it...
Posted by Bloody Head of Medusa on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:14:00 PST