Shannon - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I'm martyr to a motion not my own...Read my blog here or there...

My Interests

art, film, photography, sports, food (cooking and eating), travel, history, weird people, poetry, music, blogs, frogs, and swimming pools

I'd like to meet:

my lizard, my lively writher

Movies:

fresh, once, the legend of 1900, amelie, run lola run, the princess and the warrior, whale rider, bend it like beckham, the royal tenenbaums, dead again, time after time, cinema paradiso, fargo, sling blade, seven, before sunrise, spike lee, hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart, John Hughes, docs, docs, docs

Television:

deadliest catch, cities of the underworld, anything on BBCA, TLC, FoodTV and Bravo...junk food for the soul

Books:

ayn rand, nick hornby, tom robbins, tru, larry mcmurtry, shel silverstein, amy tan, john irving, to kill a mockingbird, brave new world, the autobiography of malcolm x, vonnegut, anne rice, harry potter, henry taylor, shakespeare, roethke, millay, poets in general

Heroes:

anyone not on MySpace

My Blog

TAW Week 4

Still writing...and writing...and writing. These 28 days have felt a bit like re-hab. I am slowly but surely discovering things about myself that I never knew or had completely forgo...
Posted by Shannon on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:49:00 PST

TAW week 3

I have continued to do my morning pages faithfully every day for 21 days now. My artist date this week was riding my bike home from Stardust at 11 pm last night, a lovely ride, and painting Bets...
Posted by Shannon on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:30:00 PST

TAW Week 2

I like the idea of doing my weekly check-in in this format...I can let you know if I have a breakthrough without telling you exactly the details of what it may be. Don't get excited. No ma...
Posted by Shannon on Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:05:00 PST

The Ocean’s Rumpus Room

Read this in the New Yorker. Man, I love words... One Can Miss Moutainsby Todd Boss and pine. One can dismissa whisper's revelations and go on as before as if everything were perfectly fine. O...
Posted by Shannon on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 06:45:00 PST

TAW week 1

So this is going to count as my "check-in" for the first week of The Artist's Way workbook. I did my morning pages all seven days. Some harder than others. It was hard to write in Pi...
Posted by Shannon on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 06:13:00 PST

The Artist’s Way

So yesterday I began my journey along the Artist's Way. So far so good. I really enjoy that I am writing and thinking more, but at my desk this morning I am trying to get ready for a...
Posted by Shannon on Tue, 27 May 2008 05:43:00 PST

still

Still the tears, Shannon,wisdom, with all its pages and scarsis overrated. Wisdom is the wallput up between our smiles and the sunrise.Give in to the gravityof other stars, extinguishing themselvesa d...
Posted by Shannon on Mon, 26 May 2008 06:06:00 PST

intelligence quotient

Chris was right. I feel more intelligent after reading the New Yorker. I was telling someone the other day about an article on nursing and care procedures for long-term patients and anothe...
Posted by Shannon on Thu, 22 May 2008 08:11:00 PST

heart possession and fringe

I don't want anyone to possess my heart. Just to say those words to me as we fly around the world... I am fighting the tension, depression, fatigue with yoga, Fringe and cocktails and dinners wi...
Posted by Shannon on Fri, 16 May 2008 01:58:00 PST

Splinter

I woke up with a splinter in my finger My life, my heart Extraction is painful but necessary It has happened before You don't realize until it is there Diggning, aching, driving you mad Then it become...
Posted by Shannon on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 06:21:00 PST