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Miss Mia

Happy New Year of the Pig!

About Me

www.MiaPark.com"The atoms that make up your body were once forged inside stars, and the causes of even the smallest event are virtually infinite and connected with the whole in incomprehensible ways. -Eckhart Tolle, "A New Earth"------------------------------ I'm psyched to instruct yoga:*Check MiaPark.com for classes I'm subbing *Mondays: 7-8AM. MultiLevel. www.LPAConline.com *Wednesdays: 7-8AM. MultiLevel.ww.WestLoopAthleticClub.com *Thursdays: 7:30-9:15AM. Assisting Rich Logan. www.MokshaYoga.com *Contact me about private lessons. Bartering welcome!MY YOGA TEACHER
I *love* Rod Stryker .~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~Our theater company rocks: A-Squared Theater Workshop is a collective promoting artistic growth and risk-taking for Asian American theater artists. Check us out: www.myspace.com/asquaredtheaterworkshop "~"~"~"~"~"~"~"~"~"~"~"~"~"~"~"~"~"~"~"~"~"~"~"~"~"~" PHOTO OF THE WEEK: Sunny days in St Louis!Here's a recent interview with me on Chicagoist.com .WHAT I'M UP TO April: 1-11: Rehearsing "Hana's Suitcase" with Chicago Children's Theatre 18: Staged reading of "Wind Cries Mary" with A-Squared Theater Workshop 11 - 5/11: "Hana's Suitcase" with Chicago Children's TheatreMay: 1-11: "Hana's Suitcase" with Chicago Children's Theatre 17-20: In NYC 31-June 4: Studying with my main man, Rod StykerJune: 1-4: Studying with The Man, Rod Styker 22 & 29: MCing Baby Loves Disco showsI've hosted the kid's dance show, " CHIC A GO GO!" for 10 years! Check out some of my fave clips: I AM "THE MINX". HERE'S THE MOVIE TRAILER: I star in this movie by Michael Smith, available on Netflix .MY ACTING REELMYSPACE PHOTOSHere are various interviews with me over the years. I'm such a talker!***

My Interests

Acting. Music. Yoga! Curating arts events. Tattoos. Meditation. Great conversations.

I'd like to meet:

Buddha. Jesus. Ghandi. Joan of Arc. You.

Music:

Postal Service. Etta James. Quasi. Zero 7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Jeff Buckley. Korean Buddhist meditation music. TV on the Radio. Radiohead. The Thermals. Ted Leo. Nick Drake. At The Drive In. 80's Michael Jackson. Mates of State. Shocking Blue. New Pornographers. English Beat. Gene Vincent. Whatever's on Chic A Go Go. So many to list!

Movies:

History of Violence. Dallas 362. Star Wars (the original). Drunken Master II. It's a Wonderful Life. Aliens. Color of Paradise. 40 Year Old Virgin. The Minx (!!). Dreams. Bad Lands. Being John Malkovich & not spelling well.

Television:

Chic A Go Go!

Books:

A Confederacy of Dunces. Places That Scare You. The Odyssey. On Acting. TV A Go Go. Pocket Atlas. You Can Travel For Free. South: The Endurance Expedition. I'm reading lots of plays these days!

Heroes:

My unni. Patricia Lee. Anne Marie Hoopes. Carol.

My Blog

http://miapark.blogspot.com/

ok, so i'm moving my blog to http://miapark.blogspot.com/... & maybe i'll try live journal like boris suggested?by the way boris, you're so not an asshole!
Posted by Miss Mia on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:12:00 PST

ohmygawd

ohmygawd i'm so excited! i'm leaving in 2 days to get my yoga on in the mountains. i'm dating a fabulous guy who can do a handstand for 5 minutes and i'm gonna see my good friend anne marie from arizo...
Posted by Miss Mia on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 09:46:00 PST

oh my blog!

jeesh, it's so easy to have time slip by and forget about your l'il blog on myspace. wonder if i should have a blog on blogspot. i think lots of people read that, right? should i have a blog on myspac...
Posted by Miss Mia on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 04:39:00 PST

10 Day Meditataion/Yoga Retreat? Yeah!

my total yoga nerdom reaches new heights every day & i love it. i'm going here in a few weeks: http://www.himalayaninstitute.org/index.aspxhooray! can't wait to see rod stryker again & chill t...
Posted by Miss Mia on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 10:23:00 PST

i'm drumming this saturday!

damn, i don't feel like a shitty drummer, but we'll see how it goes this saturday at the note. geesh, haven't played there since i met jason-good-looking-lawyer-guy. wonder where you are, jason. you'r...
Posted by Miss Mia on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:59:00 PST

great friends!

hey now, no matter how shitty i feel, i am *so* lucky to have such great friends & loved ones around me. my good friends the a-sides stayed in my li'l apartment last night & bought me an adora...
Posted by Miss Mia on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 09:21:00 PST

julianna hatfield rocks!

oh my gawd, she writes such great pop songs! i always knew this but couldn't get over her voice. i stand corrected, she's great. i'm getting used to her kinda whiny little girl pining tones...fun pop ...
Posted by Miss Mia on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:09:00 PST

i'm so good at this...

in (1) 48 hour period, i took these self-couple-portraits. i love their look & feel & i'm *really* good at this! see how lucky i am to be around such beautiful people? of course i want my pict...
Posted by Miss Mia on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 09:59:00 PST

astral projection

man, i had great conversations about astral projection at john & sherry's bbq tonight.jenine & doug not only dreamed the same dream one night, but, respectively as children, they astral projec...
Posted by Miss Mia on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:49:00 PST

female incontinence: my new career?

so i had a dream of doing yoga w/awesome yanti arifin in a dark building, the mala that jim gave me were floating in a pool of water turning very yellow. the building was dark, rectangular, gray, lots...
Posted by Miss Mia on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 08:42:00 PST