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Alexis...aka shehoopsalot

dance like nobody's watching!

About Me

I think Isadora Duncan said it best"Listen to the music with your soul.... Now, while listening, do you feel an inner self awakening deep within? That it is by this strength that your head is lifted, that your arms are raised, that you are walking, slowly, towards the light?"" In those moments where beauty and emotion fuse and climax---, something of the immortal floats about the dancer..... She wanders in a divine ray, in a mist where all works of art CIRCLE in unison with her.""To seek in nature the fairest forms, and to find the movement which expressses the soul in these forms----- this is the art of the dancer.... My inspiration has been drawn from trees, from waves, from clouds, from the sympathies that exist between passion and the storm.""The dance...... it is the rhythm of all that dies in order to live again, it is the eternal rising of the sun."FIRE HOOPING AT THE BLUEBERRY PATCH.. width="425" height="350" ..HOOPING DURING LES CLAYPOOL'S SOUNDCHECK.. width="425" height="350" ..HOOPING TO MY FAVORITE BEATLES SONG.. width="425" height="350" ..

My Interests

dancing, funky live music, my wonderful friends-I love them so much!, hooping, synchronicity, fire, sunsets, making jewelry, rain, cold clear springs, rivers, kissing, being barefoot as much as possible, drum circles, dancing in the rain, drip sandcastles, trees, cooking, improv jams, lumpy yarn, dining, hooping in a tree, dancing in my hoop, giving and recieving massages, spinning, feeling energy flowing through my fingertips, sunset, people with soul, my kitty Django Rheinhardt, anyone that can play a flute and make it sound funky, yoga, that ultra soft spot along the inner edge of your armpit, scented oils, sacred geometry, mother earth, men who don't wear cologne, hooping the light fantastic, sharing music with people, reading, balloons, camping, art, festivals, sneezing, my bedroom, live music, the sound of theremins, road trips, body surfing, reading out loud, good wine, surfing in hurricanes (the only way to do it in the gulf), kayaking, floating, fire hooping, burying my toes in the sand, llamas, reading, sunglasses, sewing, hoopyoga, dessert, dancing or hooping naked in a heavy rainstorm with goggles or a swim mask on (heavy rain will hurt your eyeballs)watching people hula hoop for the first time since they were kids, grape juice flavored lip balm, teaching hooping, wild mushrooms, kissing someone a couple hours after applying my grapey lip balm and getting that faint taste of sweetness just like it was their lips, raw honey, power tools, really good scissors, music with brass in it

I'd like to meet:

people with funky music in their soul...make it or just love it as much as I do. (also anybody who has mastered time travel, so I can go back and thank Hunter S. Thompson and Stanley Kubrick)

Music:

Grateful Dead, Phish, Benevento/Russo Duo, Middle Rhythm Session, Green Lemon, Chroma, Fishbone, Mike Gordon, Leo Kottke, Howard Wales, Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Particle, The Motet, Keller Williams, New Deal, Soulive,The Soular System, New Monsoon, Steve Kimock, Merle Saunders, MMW, STS9, The Sea and Cake, Tortoise, Rusted Root, Widespread Panic, Oysterhead, Les Claypool's Frog Brigade, Primus, Calexico, John Scofield,, RJD2, Zero, Turin Brakes, Vince Herman, Lotus, Robert Hunter, Hot Buttered Rum String Band, Raq, Big Meat, Buckethead, Mike Clark, Robert Walter's Heavy Organ, Bela Fleck,The Dresden Dolls, Galactic, Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains, Hot Buttered Rum String Band, The Mutaytor, RAQ, Umelt, Addison Groove Project, Los Amigos Inivisibles, Matisyahu, The Soular System, Stirng Cheese, Leftover Salmon, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Blueground Undergrass, Moonshine Still, Rebirth Brass Band, Mickey Hart, Michael Franti, Allman Bros., Alan Hertz Project, Funky Meters, Bob Marley, Lionrock, Dandy Livingstone, Desmond Decker, anything produced in by Kong in 1960's Jamaica, Morcheeba, The Burnin Smyrnans, Thievery Corporation, Kruder and Dorfmeister, Mark Farina, Massive Attack, Tricky, Portishead, Radiohead, Moloko, Green Velvet, De La Soul, Del the Funky Homosapien, Jurassic Five, Chali2na, Prince Paul, Automator, NuMark, Handsome Boy Modeling School, , DJ Q-bert, Invisibl Skratch Picklz, Tribe Called Quest, Beck, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Lou Reed, Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Edie Brickell, Rickie Lee Jones, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young, ZZ Top, The Who, The Guess Who, Jethro Tull, The Stones, Jefferson Airplane

Movies:

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Clockwork Orange, Donnie Darko, Q-bert's Wave Twisterz, Waking Life, Triplets of Belleville, The Boondock Saints, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Edward Scissorhands, The Producers, Where the Buffalo Roam, Fellini Flix, Full Metal Jacket, Pink Floyd Live in Pompeii, Reservoir Dogs, The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, Primus-Videoplasty, The Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction, Suicide Kings, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Killing Zoe, The Shining, Very Bad Things, Snatch, The Boondock Saints, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Slingblade, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, One Giant Leap, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Baraka, O Brother Where Art Thou, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, Waiting for Guffman, Dazed and Confused, Fantasia, Trainspotting, Requiem for a Dream, The Dreamers, Scratch, Q-bert's Wave Twisterz

Television:

I went almost four years without having a TV...well I did, but no channels, just DVDs, but after renting a few Family Guy videos and the first season of Desperate Housewives, I found myself breathing a sigh of relief when my roommate went out and got a pair of bunny ears for our TV, so now I can indulge myself in this newfound guilty pleasure again. I only watch on Sunday night though...don't want to get caught up in all these crazy shows.

Books:

Anything by Tom Robbins or Hunter S. Thompson! "A Box of Rain," by Robert Hunter; "One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest," by Ken Kesey. David Sedaris, Kurt Vonnegut, and Chuck Palahniuk are my favs, but I will read ANYTHING! Seriously, I read like 2 or 3 book a week, so PLEASE feel free to make suggestions.

Heroes:

Sheila Maguire! She made my first hoop and changed my life!