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About Me

I am a fast, messy garbage truck.
"We are those who've walked these streets day and night to the rhythm of life. The manacles of this city brought down upon us. The gloss of our eyes clouded like tea and milk. Emotions tossed like pools of swirling bubbles. The feeling of high, the feeling of love, the feeling of neglect, from something undiscovered. Reaching and falling, moving but stilled. With each breath new melodies created. Dreams once deferred beg to be started. We cannot wallow in images of past-present, for the city is still beating, and aren't we still pulsing? From desperation to aspiration, up the ram-shackled ladder we have climbed. Every contusion reminds us that where we've come from is not an illusion. And where we're headed is a resolution. So let that which once eluded you be that which uplifts you. Peace."
- written by Ronnie Neal
"If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs. And maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance. Of how much you really want to do it. And you'll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods. And the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is."-Bukowski
"I do only want to advise you to keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer." -Rainer Maria Rilke

My Interests

CHECK IT OUT (any performer types? GREAT volunteer opportunity):
Latrisha's Vision is involved- the work of this company is displayed on my userpic. For more info on Latrisha, look her up on my friend's list and go to her page- Latrisha's Vision.

This year, the Rising Phoenix show will be on August 2nd at the Machine shop.

This year we are raising money for a rising epidemic. AUTISM. Researchers are still on the battle to find the cause and the cure. This happens to 1 out of every 150 children a day. We want to donate all proceeds to the local research group in Flint, Michigan. It's your responsibility as well as ours to help our own community and this will be one of the most entertaing ways of doing so. Having a good time in the name of a great cause for your local community is what we are all about and would like to make you a part of it. Pre-sale tickets will be out shortly.

What we know as of now is that we will be having:
Horse Cave Trio
Swinging Demons (PENDING)
- Need to fill
- Need to fill
Bios for the Musicians and performers will be up soon on our page

Performers:
Rising Phoenix Dancers
Madam Koren and her Firey Hoop
Miss PussyKatt Sideshow Burlesque (PENDING)
_Need to fill
_Need to fill
_Need to fill

We will be having a Pin Up Girl contest again and this time the girls will be the Judge. $100 cash prize and a Photo shoot with Minneapolis Pin Up Photographer Latrishas Vision.

Fashion show (PENDING)
Raffle for Gift Cards,game tickets, and much more.

We would love to have everyone bring out there old cars and show them off.

*****We still need Volunteers to do some Pin sale, dress up and make appearances at other social events, dressed in Pin Up and we need folks to make phone calls to Businesses to help collect donations.

We also need help getting a website started..
And last but not least, we need help to establish our Organization with 501c3.

So...if you have the time, have knowledge, have the heart to help, we would greatly apperciate it
Thanks
Holly George, Latrisha Burth and the Rising Phoenix Team
[email protected]

.....Also in general: making art, red wine, using filthy language, and simplification.

I'd like to meet:

Trotsky, and

Ayn Rand, preferably in the same room together, and when I have like a week to kill.

Music:

this:

Movies:

I only watch movies every once in a while, and I'm always that guy at parties who's like "um...Val Kilmer...who's that?" or whomever is popular...Morgan Freeman now?

Television:

I like x-files and friends.

Books:

I'm pretty proud of the books I've read, so please allow me to gloat:
a course in miracles by the foundation for inner peace (currently reading it), illusions by richard bach, good omens by neil gaiman, american gods by the same, anything by allen ginsberg, wicked by gregory maguire, a brief history of space and time by stephen hawking, any cheesy teen bullshit by christopher pike, confessions of max tivoli (not sure about the author), american skin (not sure),a wrinkle in time, swiftly turning axis, and the wind in the door (cant remember author), the bell jar by sylvia plath, diary of a pimp by iceberg slim, the invisible man by ralph ellison, invisible monsters, diary, and other books by chuck palahnuik, we can build you and flow my tears the policeman said by phillip k dick, slaughterhouse five by kurt vonnegut, the flock by joan francis casey, the dark is rising series by susan cooper, junkie by william burroughs, desperation and the dark tower series by stephen king, atlas shrugged by ayn rand, etc....do plays count? if so, favorite playwrights include Tennessee Williams and Theresa Rebeck. comic books i enjoy include the teen titans series (not the one based on the cartoon), x-men, and wonder woman.

Heroes:

Those who have gone before me and succeeded.

My Blog

Dignity

India Arie The highest expression of love is to give without expecting The highest expression of love is to accept without exceptions I have so much to learn I have so much to learn I have so m...
Posted by A Wonderful Explosion on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 01:51:00 PST

305 bluebonnet

when youre no longer a stranger to your own life the warm bits get less hot and the cold crackles and sits in your mouth to clean your palate and a drawstring bridge will get you there to listen ...
Posted by A Wonderful Explosion on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:35:00 PST

the thing i hope most that i remember is

just because youve never seen it or heard of it happening, that doesnt mean it hasnt happened or will again or is right now
Posted by A Wonderful Explosion on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:05:00 PST

tremble like a kitten

"the morn served us sunrays in bed. i held her in my arms and warmed her back to sleep." tackle field and moor tall sleek black raw quiet and a far off scream that sounds something betwee...
Posted by A Wonderful Explosion on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:45:00 PST

For Joey and the stuff we employed together

No Man’s Land Sufjan StevensUp in the highest of heightsO’Hara blinks and fightsThis land is yours; this land is mine.I see the Captain in red,And Cairo at his head.This land is yours; thi...
Posted by A Wonderful Explosion on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:35:00 PST

to split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do

so take your diggin fists baby handle hairy legs and candid celebacyits a dark night, even in the cityits leafy overhead and the moon takes no pityi think of you while im running, my shoes making slip...
Posted by A Wonderful Explosion on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:55:00 PST

i got a way out, but i aint tryin to use it

its hard for many people to let other people in. i am one of those people. thats life, thats the way it is. i really want to say- not thank you- i think that implies that you did something unexp...
Posted by A Wonderful Explosion on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:20:00 PST

so many nights spent soaking beans and listening to my ears- you are what you hear

song of the cybelean enchanted eye of the storm is still just wind kicked up and mess.the bounds of my love allow me to covet richly the love in others, buds of protest from the myre of indecision, of...
Posted by A Wonderful Explosion on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 06:19:00 PST

we’re gonna be fucking millionares this year, remember?

A link with my original post, Which Animal are You? This expands the Chinese system out into the upcoming year.According to the Chinese System of Astrology - the Year of 2008 is a Year of the Rat (Ear...
Posted by A Wonderful Explosion on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:54:00 PST

MASS TEXTS

dont do it. if we dont talk on a regular enough basis for you to call me and say happy whatever, dont bother. its eating up my minutes.
Posted by A Wonderful Explosion on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:10:00 PST