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Aprilka Rocket!

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About Me



My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Tout le Monde! & People who, like me, have a fondness for one way streets, and for whom stretching is the first and last activity each day. People who enjoy sun butter and experimental soups.& Leonard Nimoy, of course.

Music:



Movies:

Amelie (like the name of my cat). City of Lost Children. Where the Boys Are. Manchurian Candidate (with Smooth Sinatra and the Lovely Leading Lady Lansbury). Paper Moon. Rebecca (and most other films by Hitchcock). Nightmare on Elm Street. First Love Last Rites. But I'm a Cheerleader. Garden State. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Scream. Things You Can Tell Just By Looking at Her. Breaking the Waves. Dancer in the Dark. On a Sunday Afternoon. Rambo: First Blood. American Werewolf in London. Little Voice. Everything is Illuminated. MAYA DEREN

Books:

Notables:

"The Edible Woman" by Margaret Atwood. "Krazy Kat" and "Great Neck" by Jay Cantor. "The Medium and the Light" by Marshall Mcluhan. "A Farewell to Arms" and "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway. "Dubliners" by James Joyce. "Little Girls Breathe Same Air We Do" by Paul Fournel (translated by Lee Fahnestock). "Coming of Age in Samoa" by Margeret Mead. "The Blind Assassin" by Margaret Atwood. "Rabbit Redux" and "Licks of Love" by John Updike. "Awakening" by Kate Chopin. "Amsterdam" and "Atonement" by Ian McEwan. "Scripts for the Pagaent" by James Merrill. "The Prometheus Man" and "Blake's Progress" by Ray Nelson. "The Constitution of Society" by Anthony Giddens (sociological theory). "The Art of the Motor." "Fluke." "Herland" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan" by Lisa See. "The Sea" (the new Booker prize winner) by John Banville. "Pride and Prejudice" trumps "Sense and Sensibility" by far, but both are worth reading (again).

Heroes:


Maya Deren

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Diane Cluck

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Alice Coltrane

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Julie Atlas Muz

Clarina Bezzola

Cornelia Parker

My Blog

2007: The Year in Music

As this year ebbs and a new year appears at the crest of a not so distant wave, it becomes time again for reflection. While the world of music blogging has made their decisions regarding the albums o...
Posted by Aprilka Rocket! on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 10:29:00 PST

Midnight in Springfield

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Posted by Aprilka Rocket! on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 06:33:00 PST

Because I wanted to participate, too, & I never balk at a chance to correspond in strange ways

write down your name and ...1. i'll respond with something random about you.2. i'll tell you what song/movie reminds me of you.3. i'll pick a flavor of jello to wrestle with you in.4. i'll say somethi...
Posted by Aprilka Rocket! on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:08:00 PST

2006: The Year in Songs

If I made you a mix this year, it's likely that one or two or perhaps all of these songs appeared on it. Maybe it's their intensity, or perhaps that they've pioneered some new emotional plateau, or p...
Posted by Aprilka Rocket! on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:13:00 PST

Two Thousand Six: The Year in Books

Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood Owls and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver Women of the Silk by Gail Tsukiyama Gospel of Mary Magdalene Like Life by Lorrie MooreWith Her in Ourland (A Sequel to Herland) by...
Posted by Aprilka Rocket! on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 05:00:00 PST

Trade My Urine for Your Seed

I can think of no better reason to have a urine sample exerpted, but to pilfer the greatest magazine on the planet: Seed: Science is Culture.It is most certainly the best periodical on the market, and...
Posted by Aprilka Rocket! on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 11:27:00 PST

Six Books in Six Weeks

Challenge yourselves, today, kids. You could fast weekly and not from food, necessarily, but from television, interconnected wavelengths, cell phones, gold earrings. OR you could read your way to en...
Posted by Aprilka Rocket! on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 09:47:00 PST

What to do when you are torn between seeing Biz Markie and Tiffany...

It's a real schism... an incredibly b-rate quagmire in all of its Baltimore glam and glory...so what do you do, hon?Well, what I did was drive forty five minutes to the closest Taco Bell to think it o...
Posted by Aprilka Rocket! on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 05:48:00 PST

Oh Rock Jam 95.... the greatest mix tape of all time...

One word: Janet.Two more: Rhythm Nation.What I wrote in 1995 about art..."My favorite art form is dancing. When I dance I feel carried over thefloor. I also feel like a bird flying in the sky. I'veb...
Posted by Aprilka Rocket! on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:44:00 PST

Film Reels to Cast in the End of Summer

Okay, kids, so I didn't spend the whole summer reading.  Now and then, I spent my nights on the couch watching a few flicks.  But I have my defense prepared, you see it was research and fulf...
Posted by Aprilka Rocket! on Fri, 26 Aug 2005 12:50:00 PST