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painted fingers

Hell is to the left

About Me

I live in paradise with my dog and cat, and the voices in my head...I seem to attract a lot of synchronicity and magic while repelling mosquitos and republicans. All in all, life is good.....
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My Interests

The life of the mind, dreams, astral projection, art in every form, tree hugging, concerts, festivals, celebration,making music around a fire beneath the stars, people, travel, protests, exploring the terrain of the imagination, and the depths of the soul.

I'd like to meet:

Franz Kafka, Bjork, Peter Sellers, William Burroughs (and that whole party gang,) Elliott Smith, Dali, Goya, Thom York, Ira Glass, Baz Lurhmann, Agatha Christie, Isabelle Allende, Alfred Hitchcock, Rod Serling, John Cage, Stephen Hawking, Billy Bob Thornton, and other insane visionaries who enjoy collaborating.

Music:

..Yes to music. All kinds of music. Oh, you want names... Rain Fur Rent Project, Radiohead, Elliott Smith, Jeff Buckley, Damien Rice, Sondre Lerche, Jolie Holland, Pete Yorn, Tracy Chapman, Portishead, Coldplay, Ugly Casanova, Allison Kraus, Alice In Chains, Pearl Jam, Leo Koettke, Kraftwerk, Cibo Matto, Soul Coughing, Johnny Cash, Ben Harper, Tennessee Tuckness, Lyle Lovett, Doves, Bjork, Poe, India Arie, Natalie Merchant, Liz Phair, Mazzy Star, Sarah MacLachlan, Cowboy Junkies, ..Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Eleni Mandell, PJ Harvey, Live, Jane Siberry, Lori Anderson, Ry Cooder, Talking Heads, Cranberries, Tom Waits, Richard Thompson, Broken Social Scene, Modest Mouse, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen, Sisters of Mercy, Stone Temple Pilots, Pinback, Menomena, Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, Stephen Lynch, Chet Baker, Ella, Sarah, and Billie, jazz standards, missippi blues, 80s industrial, folk, punk, electronica, IDM, bluegrass, anything but sugarpop.

Movies:

Harold and Maude still ranks number 1 thirty years later. I love anything dark, especially humor. Brazil, King of Hearts, Birdy, Eraserhead, Ed Wood, Being There, Stranger Than Paradise, Dead Man, Barton Fink, Donnie Darko, Igby Goes Down, Fargo, Chicago, Delicatessan, Memento, Pi, Psycho, Serial Mom, Usual Suspects, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Waking Life, Spirited Away, Time Bandits, The Life of Brian, Man Facing Southeast, Amores Perros, The Illustrated Man, Streetcar Named Desire, Clockwork Orange, Henry Fool, (the original) Vanishing, Swimming To Cambodia, Mosquito Coast, Eating Raul, American Splendor, Masked and Anonymous, Frida, Spun, Superguy, Triplets of Belville, What the Bleep do we Know? and Secretary.

Television:

You mean that big black thing? I thought it was a paperweight.

Books:

Fortune's Bastard, Running with Scissors, I Am Not Myself These Days, Frida Kahlo's diary, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, You Can't Catch Death, When Angels Rest by Donald Harington... He wrote a classic favorite of mine The Cockroaches of Staymore. You've really gotta be there... Not Fade Away, I Was Howard Hughes, Reqiem for a Dream, Still Life with Woodpecker, Anything by Thomas Berger, Margaret Atwood, Evelyn Waugh, Franz Kafka, Milan Kundera, Richard Brautigan, Charles Bukowski, Robert Heinlein, Philip Roth, Krishnamurti, Bastard out of Carolina, Tales of the City, Paradise Fever... Fup!!! Any Fup fans?Harold and Maude still ranks number 1 thirty years later. I love anything dark, especially humor. Brazil, King of Hearts, Birdy, Eraserhead, Ed Wood, Being There, Stranger Than Paradise, Dead Man, Barton Fink, Donnie Darko, Igby Goes Down, Fargo, Chicago, Delicatessan, Memento, Pi, Psycho, Serial Mom, Usual Suspects, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, Waking Life, Spirited Away, Time Bandits, The Life of Brian, Man Facing Southeast, Amores Perros, The Illustrated Man, Streetcar Named Desire, Clockwork Orange, Henry Fool, (the original) Vanishing, Swimming To Cambodia, Mosquito Coast, Eating Raul, American Splendor, Masked and Anonymous, Frida, Spun, Superguy, Triplets of Belville, What the Bleep do we Know? and Secretary.

Heroes:

Joseph Campbell, Krishnamurti, Richard Brautigan, Spalding Gray, Bill Hicks, Lenny Bruce, Harvey Pekar, the Dalai Lama, Angelica Houston, Judy Davis, Tom Paxton, Otto Dix, Van Gogh, the Cohen Brothers, Jim Jarmusch, Gustav Klimt. My son Nathan, gay radical poet visionary, forgiving all my pecularities. My sis Kdee. You, me, everybody who braves to be unique in this melting pot of conformity.

My Blog

To Dad

             The night Dad died, I could feel it, though I was 1,000 miles away.  I went to see The Long Walk Home, where I could cry for an ...
Posted by painted fingers on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 03:06:00 PST

life and death

This is a story I wrote for our writers' group...   "He's pathetic." "He's human." The writer belched and adjusted himself in his easy chair, moving from one cheek to the other.  His butt wa...
Posted by painted fingers on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:08:00 PST

dream on

It's 4:30 am.  I wake and can't go back to sleep.  This happens regularly now.  I've battled with insomnia sincewell as long as I can remember.  I learned to mimic sleep as a chil...
Posted by painted fingers on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 04:18:00 PST

ho ho homeboy

My son Nathan was down for Christmas this year.  He's a student of History at San Francisco State with a focus on religion.  He's actually considering going into the seminary and becoming a ...
Posted by painted fingers on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 03:44:00 PST

ten minutes

In our writers' group we sometimes choose a topic and write on it for ten minutes.  You have no idea how long ten minutes can seem when you're faced with a subject like "Pink's Big Adventure."&nb...
Posted by painted fingers on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 03:46:00 PST

blog forth

Now that my illusion of anonymity has been felled, I find my blogger clenching up like George W's sphincter at the mention Cindy Sheehan.  Who might be reading this?  Potential employers?&nb...
Posted by painted fingers on Mon, 09 Oct 2006 02:26:00 PST

Owed to Sylvia Plath

This is a poem I wrote for our writers' group.  After watching the movie Sylvia we were to write something about the poet/author of The Bell Jar and The Colossus.  She was both brilliant and...
Posted by painted fingers on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:00:00 PST

rash

Beginning is always the hardest part.  Once the pristine page is soiled with a few words, the writing becomes easier.  Much has happened since I encountered my new shrink:  new-improved...
Posted by painted fingers on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 08:07:00 PST

Another Train Wreck

My shrink, Dr. P, is retiring from private practice.  I've been seeing him for six years or so, and am if not comfortable, at least conditioned to deal with him.  He's a cool guy with a long...
Posted by painted fingers on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 06:03:00 PST

Granny

Consider this a warning Al:  the content of this  may not be suitable for sensitive readers.  This is a story written for a local contest.  500 words beginning with the phrase...
Posted by painted fingers on Fri, 04 Aug 2006 05:08:00 PST