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Mockingbird Wish Me Luck!

Her Mouth is the red cottage where the wolf ate grandmother

About Me

Things I like: the wind, really good books, thunderstorms, curling up in my bed, laughing, accentsThings I do not like: arrogance, toilet humor, slow drivers, onions, pop culture

My Interests

A Softer World Comics

I'd like to meet:

Well I'd love to meet peter the great, marquis de sade or Anne Sexton, but I've misplaced my shovel. so I guess I'll settle for anyone up for a good argument, or a game of scrabble.

Music:

Magnolia Electric Co.(Jason Molina), The Kooks, Maria Mena, Glen Hansard (The Frames), Gogol Bordello, Eisley, Bright Eyes, The Honorary Title, Magnetic Fields, Feist, Rammstein, flight of the conchords, Imogen heap (frou frou), Bertine Zetlitz, The decemberists, Snowpatrol,The Triad of romantic music (bryan adams, sting and rod stewart) damien rice...basically I'm diverse, well sorta.

Movies:

little princess, a secret garden, the matchmaker, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, he died with a falafel in his hand, Snatch, Fight Club, Formula 51, lock stock and two smoking barrels, Amelie, Much ado about nothing, titus andronicus, The Libertine, Love me if you dare, Stranger than fiction

Television:

Futurama, Family Guy, Nat Geo's Taboo, any of those human interest shows on TLC any and all Brit-coms esp abfab and coupling, mostly I watch LAW and ORDER SVU and CI cause it's always on and always entertaining.

Books:

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Heroes:

I don't have heroes. but I admire comedians for making life funny even when it's not.

My Blog

Leaving Constantinople

Finding myself alone in Constantinopleis the sameas finding myself alone, anywhereThe bright blue of the Middle Eastis strikingthe people aregrey ghosts hereThis place will break your heartbut it will...
Posted by Mockingbird Wish Me Luck! on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:50:00 PST

The air

Inspired by a Donna Stonecipher poem....For daysWhen I'm around you I breathe like I'm dyingthis might be my very last breathforeverbut really I'm greedy for the aironly the airaround youthe air that ...
Posted by Mockingbird Wish Me Luck! on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:24:00 PST

Alice Walker Poem

Did This Happen to Your Mother?Did You Sister Throw Up A Lot?I love a man who is not worth my love.Did this happen to your mother?Did your grandmother wake up for no good reasonin the middle of the ni...
Posted by Mockingbird Wish Me Luck! on Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:42:00 PST

Jack and Jill Perhaps

You know when you get that first little tingle of interest in someone. and it's sort of like your foot has gone to sleep, and you worry it a lot and nurse it a little cause it's nice to have someone t...
Posted by Mockingbird Wish Me Luck! on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:41:00 PST

Long Desert Train

If you haven't heard Jason Molina or his band Magnolia Electric Co. then I highly suggest you check them out. Molina's lyrics are nothing short of heartbreaking and beautiful a true master of the blue...
Posted by Mockingbird Wish Me Luck! on Thu, 31 Jul 2008 02:32:00 PST

When it hurts the most...

Sometimes, mind you sometimes is still unbearable, I will find that my smile is not quite my own.  Sometimes it is your crooked grin (too wide) poking through, demanding that you not be forgotten...
Posted by Mockingbird Wish Me Luck! on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 02:47:00 PST

Hold on Magnolia

What do you do when what you've been praying wouldn't happen, happens?  Who do you blame? Isn't it atleast partly your own fault? The way I dwelt on it, like it was the horizon...I knew it would ...
Posted by Mockingbird Wish Me Luck! on Fri, 09 May 2008 05:29:00 PST

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How are things on the west coast? You keep it moving to your soul's delight. Now I've tried the brakes, I've tried but you know it's a lonely ride. I don't want to take your heart And I don't want a p...
Posted by Mockingbird Wish Me Luck! on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:33:00 PST

because I miss you so much

And I'm sitting here remembering how you met me at the airport and you didn't know quite what to do with your hands or your lips or the bits of fluff in your pockets and I smiled at you and said you s...
Posted by Mockingbird Wish Me Luck! on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:21:00 PST

Cause Im his Shiny Light

You my dear, are so very exactly what I need. You've got ME written all over you. and you're so pretty when you smile I can't help it. I can't help but fall in love with the way you love me. watc...
Posted by Mockingbird Wish Me Luck! on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:28:00 PST