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dancemargaret

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About Me

**I'm the one on the floor**Though golden carp still flash and swim and wheat is sickled and brought down, though plums are still to prune and trim, the central man is gone.-John Wood"Personally, I like to sleep. And I intend to appropriately confine myself more and more to my living quarters and pass my life away sleeping."-Yamamoto Tsunetomo

My Interests

Samurai culture. Spelunking-I could live in a cave. Writer's Conferences. Making great films. Water and underneath it. Indigenous cultures-Mayans. Fossil Finding. Quartz Digging.Riding the TGV through Europe. Turkish coffee and lemon. Rock climbing. Did I say, writing?

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

The Raconteurs. Sufjan Stevens. Coconut Records. Band of Horses. Arcade Fire. David Byrne. Husky Rescue. Viva Voce. Mars Volta. Lou Reed.

Movies:

The Darjeeling Limited. Little Miss Sunshine. Dancer in the Dark. Little Chenier. The Royal Tenenbaums. Rushmore. Donny Darko. Maria Full of Grace. What's Eating Gilbert Grape? And...Apart From That through Foreign American Pictures!!! foreignamericanpictures.com (Wes Anderson and Tim Burton films)

Television:

No. Sometimes, Spongebob.

Books:

Anthropology: Bury Me Standing-Fonseca; The Mole People. POETRY: Anything by John Wood. Imagine the Angels of Bread-Martin Espada; Infanta-Erin Belieu ; Imaginations-William Carlos Williams ; Pablo Nerudo; E.E. Cummings. FICTION: W. Burroughs, T. Pynchon. Henry Miller. "Autobiography of A Yogi." Magical Passes-Carlos Consteneda. The Wind Up Bird Chronicle-Haruki Murakami. Soul Mountain- Gao Xingjian. Edward Gorey. Hagakure-Yamamoto Tsunetomo. "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius." And of course, Faulkner...

Heroes:

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My Blog

Neckties in Bardo (Novel Excerpt, Ch.1)

Neckties in BardoBy Margaret Landry "He wants me to be with your mother." Hue says. "Your father came in the night, in my dream and nodded his head."Hue waits for her, my mother. Hue is not there to d...
Posted by dancemargaret on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:52:00 PST

A Latte and a Samurai

A Latte and a SamuraiBy Margaret R. Landry(So, this rant deserves a brief explanation. I'm not a hostile person. I don't even confront people most of the time. I just blog about them later. No, seriou...
Posted by dancemargaret on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:10:00 PST

"Hormonal and Creaking-Adventures in Pregnancy" or "Standing"

Hormonal and Creaking:Journal EntryBy Margaret R.Landry(Author Notes: For those of you who didn't know, I just gave birth to a baby girl in November. This is a journal entry depicting a pregnant women...
Posted by dancemargaret on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 09:08:00 PST

It is you

It is youBy Margaret Landry A womanLike peachesLike laceOpens her handShe is holding something that sparklesA particular dark blue.It reminds me of Prussian blue,On the varied Mediterranean, Sipping a...
Posted by dancemargaret on Thu, 22 May 2008 01:52:00 PST

Parenting is a wooden, wall clock

Parenting is a wall clock from the Netherlands; Brad and I- the clog wearing, faded wooden round people hastily racing against the clock, who pop out on the hour, in circles, against the same, loud r...
Posted by dancemargaret on Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:15:00 PST

Shooting Bread for Science

There is no evidence to support the claim that bread lands butter-side up more often than butter-side down. On the contrary, after the invention of the "Wonderbread Shooter," my team and I set out to ...
Posted by dancemargaret on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:35:00 PST