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mercia

About Me

Well, basically "Music is my radar"...and painting is my therapy...

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My Interests

Cooking, Music, Playing Bass, Painting, Photography, Architecture, Design, Books, Movies, all things U.K.

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Music:



I like all kinds of music, but especially Blur, The Charlatans, Gene, The Shins, Keane, Suede, The Ocean Blue, Air, Manic Streets Preachers, Pulp, The Stone Roses, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Gorillaz, Doves, New Order, Lightening Seeds, Muse, The Zutons, Bic Runga, The Beatles, Franz Ferdinand, Moody Blues, Delirious, Kevin Max, Nick Drake, Depeche Mode, Kaiser Chiefs, Rialto, The Dears, Bloc Party, I am Kloot, Ratatat, The Killers, Guster, Mando Diao, The Byrds, Matisse...

Aaaaaaah, the British Invasion! :)

Movies:

Wait until Dark, About a Boy, Henry V, The Great Escape, A Hard Day's Night, Bend it Like Beckham, Say Anything, To Sir with Love, Charade, Chariots of Fire, Lawrence of Arabia, just to name a few...

Books:

Cookbooks, Mysteries, Histories, Physics, Architecture

Heroes:

Martin Blunt of The Charlatans, Johannes Kepler...

My Blog

Art Exhibition

hi everyone,I am showing my artwork this Friday at Madeleine's Cafe and Patisserie. It is located at Main and Wall downtown. The Shook Twins are also playing that night, so come down and enjoy great m...
Posted by mercia on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 10:53:00 PST

a song for my friend

She's a blue-eyed supernovaa dark-haired confidanteShe's a friend who's heart is brokenin the same places as mineHer tears are truthand her hope is hard-wonyet her laugh is infectiousher smile, pure j...
Posted by mercia on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:44:00 PST

new Robin Blue songs

Last night I went over to my brother's house to record three new songs in a simple demo format... just me and a guitar. :) We did each one in basically one take. Eventually the band will go into the s...
Posted by mercia on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 12:59:00 PST

Caterina Winery art show

Hi everyone,For the entire month of July, I'll be showing selected paintings at the Caterina Winery here in Spokane (905 N. Washington, just north of the river). Stop in and check them out! And thanks...
Posted by mercia on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 03:47:00 PST

what, oh what, will happen???

If you could see the future, would that make things better? I think most of us at first would say "Yes!" but then after some thought would say... no, probably not.Much of the time I would LOVE to know...
Posted by mercia on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 04:38:00 PST

The end, and the beginning...

First, thanks to everyone who came out last night and took in our last show (for a good while, at any rate) as Vespertine! We are so blessed to have such good friends. Thanks for laughing along with u...
Posted by mercia on Sat, 19 May 2007 12:55:00 PST

Art and Music at Empyrean

Hello everyone,I'm showing nine pieces of artwork at Empyrean (mypace.com/empyreancoffee) for the entire month of May. Also our band, Vespertine, will be playing there this Tuesday, May 8th (myspace.c...
Posted by mercia on Sat, 05 May 2007 01:28:00 PST

Near-sighted

I'm caught in a whirlpoolhelp me outI'm getting dizzytossed aboutalways wanting what I can't haveI'm happy and frightenedsad and amusedamazed and alivebut slightly abusedtell me, Lord, is it me?I just...
Posted by mercia on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:50:00 PST

New albums, photos...

Hi everyone, I've created some new albums and uploaded several new photographs... check it out! cheers! :)mercia
Posted by mercia on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 10:37:00 PST

I've joined a band!

I am very happy to say that I've recently joined the excellent members of Vespertine, as the new bass player! I'm excited for my first show, which will be on Thursday, March 15. So come down and see u...
Posted by mercia on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:55:00 PST