Finally living on acres instead of city or suburban streets!
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MUSIC, writing, reading, crosswords, firearms, hunting for good used junk, cooking,
photography
and, yes, i'm an organic gardening dork. keep your comments to yourself.
unless they're about organic gardening. or you know a good thrift store that i don't.
... people i already know. no offense, but i don't want to hear your sad, internet come-on. no, wait, i mean TOTAL OFFENSE. i have a husband. i'm married. go look somewhere else for your pitiful dsl date.
As a side-note, if you are a band requesting an add because of my work affiliations, please go to the Neurot Recordings page or the Neurosis page and request an add there instead.
This is a personal page (see above). If you are a band or a person that I really know, please feel welcome to request an add. And you might send an email heads-up too.MySpace Tracker
I got this MySpace Layout
on LayoutCodez.net
Right now it's OM, Tone, gamelan, Red Sparowes, Made Out of Babies (THE NEW ALBUM WILL BLOW YOUR FUCKING MIND), Immense,
Gillian Welch, Low, Grails, Grails, Grails, Oxbow, Lavendar Diamond (thank you Dave),Witch, Caves, Alasdair Roberts, Current 93, Current 93/OM
Elliott Smith, Battle of Mice, Pelican, Enablers, MGR, Final,
Old Crow Medicine Show, Dave and Deke, Black Tar Prophecies (more Grails!) and NPR (if you can call that music).
i'm not getting into one of those 'my taste is superior to yours' lists.
the last 10 REALLY GOOD things i recall watching, not including things watched in my presence by my children:
1: riding giants
2. Howl's Moving Castle
3. lost, season 2
4. beowulf & grendel
5. a love song for bobby long
6. Waco, Rules of Engagement
7. Everything Is Illuminated
8. the house of d
9. pride & prejudice
10. empire of the sun
i used to watch PBS and lost, but now i watch none, except for DEADWOOD, THE SOPRANOS and SIX FEET UNDER, courtesy of HBO video. i have to admit, i'm still too busy to watch television. but i am interested in this new jericho show... just a little.
the eye.
resist.
Since I practice writing prose and verse, I tend to read a lot of fiction.
Currently reading:
Resistance, Anita Shreve
The Fourth Hand by John Irving
Out of Egypt, Anne Rice
Wolfskin
waiting my turn for the new Cormac McCarthy book
now I'm planting my edible landscaping!
Recently Read:
(some book about scary mega-viruses)
A Widow For One Year, Joh Irving
Septimus Heap: Magyk
Trackers
My Girlhood At The Roof of the World
Dies The Fire
American Girl
a new Jane Smiley novel
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest, Poems by BH Fairchild (still)
the new issue of Tin House
Storey's Guide to Raising Chickens
No One I Know by Jane Smiley
... lots of things i forgot to put on this list
Some Of My Recent Favorites:
The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd
Windfalls, Anne Hegland
The Honey Thief
The Plot Against America
Snow Flower and The Secret Fan by Lisa See
The Country of Marriage, Poems by Wendell Berry (and other things by W. Berry)
My Hutterite Life by Lisa Marie Stahl
No Reck'ning Made by Joanne Greenberg
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
my mother, my husband, my daughers... i'll come up with some more later on, but those
are the people who influence me every day. oh, and PEARL (it's true) and:
Sarah Jane Russell, RVSS, Lawrence, Kansas. and someone she introduced me to...
a man said to me something that saved my life, which was 'Someday we all get about the
business of living, or we get about the business of dying.'
I can't thank you enough Sarah Jane.