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Mary

Cultivating serendipity one continent at a time

About Me

I like talking shop in bars. Throwin some dee-arts. Walking in slush, making up words. Also making things like lists, incisive statments, curry tofu, and drawings. Hellhouds and crossroadses. Social structures among insects, anatomical variation, woodworking and clay. Mudlusciousness and viscous things. Geologic strata, musty books, fishin holes, and soapy sponges. Babies and bagpipes.

My Interests

SCOTTISH! SOCCER! HOOLIGAN! WEEKLY! Andy Gray: Okay. So let's start with a topic: where's the worst place you've ever had to spend the night?Ian Daglers: Oh, uh... that would be the, uh, rancid manure and rotten vegetable compost heap in Baden-Baden, Scotland vs. Germany, 1991. And you, hey!Andy Gray: Scotland vs. The Netherlands, 1987, the Hague. I feel asleep inside a policeman's horse.Ian Daglers: How'd you do that, then?Andy Gray: Oh, it was three o'clock in the morning, as cold as a witch's teat. No room in the inn for this Scottish soccer hooligan! Necessity being the mother of invention, I managed to hack my way inside the horse using some crude farming implements. You know, I say it was the worst night I ever had, but actually, I slept like the Baby Jesus inside my equine cocoon.

I'd like to meet:

If you say it out loud it won't come true.Okay BONO!

Music:

Gilles Apap, Django Reinhardt, Stevie Ray Vaughn, U2, Bach's cello concertos, Joshua Bell, Mahler, The Proclaimers, Ashley MacIsaac, Natalie MacMaster, Led Zeppelin, Ruben Blades, Lila Downs

Movies:

Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai. El Crimen del Padre Amaro, Amelie, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Red Violin, The Princess Bride, The Scent of Green Papaya, El Mariachi, Bloody Sunday

Television:

The Daily Show, Fishing with John, The Young Ones, Hey Dude, House

Books:

The God of Small Things, In the Skin of a Lion, the Constant Gardener, Pride and Prejudice, The Alchemist, Hamlet, Finnegan's Wake to be used as the I Ching. I love you Naguib Mafouz, Michael Ondaatje, and T.C. Boyle.... Patrick O'Brien is a guilty pleasure, The Fountainhead, The Rubaiyat, The Princess Bride, Angels & Insects, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Wanderings of Oisin and the poetry of William Butler Yeats.

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Sort of wasting time while slogging through/ rather enjoying Ancient Maya Political Economies.  The darkness drops again, but now I know that twenty centuries of stony sleep werevexed to nightmar...
Posted by Mary on Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:21:00 PST