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Claude

'I've wiped the internet?! I don't even own a modem!' - Eddie Izzard

About Me

Time is too precious to divide or squander. I attempt to inhabit it fully. It's not about minutes or seconds, but moments. Some nights, my abstraction inhibits presence. I am highly distractible. I'm not much for small talk, but small details frequently catch me. The burden of ego & self is best left along the way, because it gets in the way. I just want to share a smile, or touch, and the joy of the world rolling over us.

Nocturnal sugar, spirit
of the crowns,
ransomed
human blood, your kisses
send into exile
and a stroke of water, with remnants of the sea...

(Neruda)

My Interests

christian orthodox, coinherence, compassion, dancing, dreaming, forgiveness, poetry, maximalist faith, organic lifestyle, personal evolution, redemption, repentance, sacramental living, theosis, tree-hugging, vegetarian, divine immanence, marsupials, lindy hop, blues, sewing, writing, literature, loving, acceptance, kakapos, archetypes, transcendence

I'd like to meet:

Orthodox Christians. Unorthodox Christians. Someone who is patient with my awkward attempts at communication.

Idealists who push their limits, and break preconceptions. Artists in every medium. Dancers, inkstained writers, Portlanders.View All Friends | View Blog | View Pics | Add Comment

Music:

David Bowie, U2, Sophie B. Hawkins, Tori Amos, Sinead O'Connor, Pulp, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, The Smiths, The Church, Rufus Wainwright, Portishead, Melissa Etheridge, Joan Baez, George Michael, Billy Idol, Bruce Springsteen, Concrete Blonde, Me'shell NdegeOcello, Sarah McLachlan, Better Than Ezra, Cowboy Junkies, Crowded House, Duran Duran, Kate Bush, k.d. lang, Cassandra Wilson, Erasure, Delerium, Poe, Imogen Heap, Lauren Christy, Paula Cole, Natalie Merchant, Placebo, PJ Harvey, Peggy Lee, Sisters of Mercy, Tea Party, The Cure, Gin Blossoms, Billy Joel, Peter Gabriel, Vivaldi, Simple Minds, Sting, Jane Siberry, Matt Nathanson, India.Arie, F.F. Chopin, Conjure One, Texas, -New Age, New Wave, Swing, Jazz, Gospel, Classical, Broadway, Alternative, Britpop, whatnot

Movies:

I 3 Huckabees, Labyrinth, The Crow, Onegin, The End of the Affair, An Ideal Husband, Much Ado About Nothing, Heathers, Moll Flanders, Being John Malkovich, Kiss Me Kate, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Zoolander, The Pillowbook, LOTR, Stigmata, Moulin Rouge, Wuthering Heights, Trois Couleurs, The Hours, The Happiest Millionaire, musicals, movies that were books first, anything with magic, joy, and truth (or Cillian Murphy)

Television:

Highlander, Faerie Tale Theatre, Batman: The Animated Series, The Tudors, Jim Henson's Storyteller, Gormenghast, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Whitest Kids U'Know

Books:

Christ The Eternal Tao, The Sacrament of Love, Women & Salvation, The Dance of The Dissident Daughter, At The Back of the North Wind, Till We Have Faces, Lilith, Phantastes, The Abolition of Man, Courage to Pray

C.S. Lewis, G.K. Chesterton, Paul Evdokimov, George MacDonald, J.R.R. Tolkien, Timothy Ware, Clement of Alexandria, John Chrysostom

Oscar Wilde, Louisa May Alcott, Herman Hesse, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Jorge Luis Borges, Nietzsche, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Isak Dinesen, Terri Windling, Angela Carter, Neil Gaiman

Heroes:

Atticus Finch, men who dance, those who dare

My Blog

Marc did it for me...

And I'm still laughing.  So I owe the Myspace blogging world.Leave your name in my blog comments. Once you do that, this is what I'll do for you...1. I'll respond with something random about you....
Posted by Claude on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:16:00 PST

Via Anoakie

South Carolina RespondsOur education in the USI saw the second one first, and hoped it was a parody.  They stopped government sterilization programs in the south, but I think we should re-evaluat...
Posted by Claude on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 02:55:00 PST

Spray paint shennanigans

I told my boy I was putting up a garden fence to keep the landlord from stashing the trash cans on the tomato plants, and he approved.  What he doesn't know...And the glowy butterfly:I want to ap...
Posted by Claude on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 05:01:00 PST

I just had to eat a cookie because Cheney is such a Dick

This may make you enraged.
Posted by Claude on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 06:17:00 PST

Leave you there by yourself chained to fate...

I've been reconnecting with my teen angst.  Screeching along with NIN or Live, scaring squirrels & opening up rage I've choked back.  In one moment, a wave of calm will hit, and acceptan...
Posted by Claude on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:16:00 PST

Caprice

The evening sky was clouded over, and for the first time since I moved to Portland, I cursed the weather.  No meteor shower this year.  Whilst waiting for it to clear, on an impulse, I strea...
Posted by Claude on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:32:00 PST

Stages of Trauma

I was supposed to go dancing tonight, but I've been paralysed by crankiness at not having my boy.  I made paper chains to count down the days, but that didn't make it any better.  I feel vul...
Posted by Claude on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:26:00 PST

Stories for sleepers

Luke's new page is pretty full of awesome, but I miss youdonthavetokiss.com.New! Comix!
Posted by Claude on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 03:48:00 PST

Your presence still lingers here

When I'm dancing alone in this city still strange to me, I think of a dozen partners, some more often than others, who have held & shared ignited souls with me.  Their passion yet burns me, e...
Posted by Claude on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 06:28:00 PST

I'm pretty sure

David Bowie is the most magical & amazing demigod, the central figure of my development, and an immortal genius.
Posted by Claude on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:32:00 PST