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rosie

potatoes and vanilla soy milk do not mix

About Me

Been drawing the line between pretension and self deprecation since 1977.I edited my profile with Thomas Myspace Editor V4.4 (www.strikefile.com/myspace)

My Interests

I have a great river view from my bed and various assorted random thoughts to accompany it.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone as awesome as Dave K was, someone who knows bossa, samba, Tom Ze, Afro Peruvian and psychedelic argentine, running pardners, dog sitters and bike buddies.

Music:

folk punk lately: Coco Rosie-the stuff is blowing my mind, Antony and the Johnstons, Joanna Newsome Defiance Ohio, Tiger Army, the nethers, belle and sebastian, nethers, victor jara, le tour, jay D, 70's and 80's soul funk, 80's and early-mid 90's techno and klezmer punk, andamanda standalone.

Movies:

White, Office Space, the Wristcutters,

Television:

Been replaced by the almighty internet.

Books:

Still wading through Moby Dick...Isabelle Allende, W. Someset Maugham "of Human Bondage" Kafka, Black Night White Snow, The Kronsdat Sailors, War and Peace, You Call This Living: A Handbook of Eastern European Humor, The Life of Private Ivan Chonkin, How it All Vegan!, Steppenwolf, Siddartha, The Glass Bead Game, Pablo Neruda's Love Poems, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Borges, Walt Whitman, Kalil Gibran, Omar Kayim, Allen Ginsberg, George Konrad's The City Builder, Edward Lear's Nonsense Poems, David Sedaris, Detroit Perspectives, The Origins of Urban Crisis, Working Detroit and "Made in Detroit (1954), John Barth, The Adventures of Frog and Toad, The Little Prince, The Sneetches, Ayn Rand (my guilty pleasure) Where the Wild Things Are, August, 1914, Brave New World, 1984, Roots, Walden II, The Color Purple, The Snowy Day, The Golden Book Children's Encyclopedias circa 1959. Be Here Now, The Way of Zen, Eduardo Galleano, Kurt Vonnegut Cat's Cradle, Joseph Conrad, Boris Psasterneck, COSMOS IS GOD, JRR Tolkein and Harry Potter, which do you think is better?

Heroes:

Janet Ray, Layla. Jessica L., and Southwesterners by choice.

My Blog

Freakin Dave K, wish I could have known you better

When I heard about you this morning I felt a loss way beyond the degree of our friendship. Doubtless you never knew how much you meant to me as a mainstay of bumpin’ ugly detroit goodness. I was...
Posted by rosie on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:03:00 PST

With friends like these who needs enemas?

This past week has made me ever more determined to stay out of my shell. Its hard to remember there is nothing to lose by being yourself-you’ll always have you no matter what.Where is my wit whe...
Posted by rosie on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 07:06:00 PST

Lazy Sunday

Last sunday Allan and I drove through the "dog leg" of Detroit, which is adjacent to my neighborhood in Mexicantown. It's called the dog leg because it juts out of the city, unnaturally, and sort of l...
Posted by rosie on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 04:57:00 PST

I dream of Rosie

Will I live out all my dreams before I die? In this moment of premonitory bliss, I envision having had it all, done it all, and passing with a smile on my face. My dreams from childhood, staring at a ...
Posted by rosie on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:35:00 PST

RIP Commemorating the Passing of Cindy Leon

My friend and next door neighbor Cindy Leon died of esophogeal cancer last Friday. She left behind six beautiful children, whom I care for very much. I was the only person present when she started to ...
Posted by rosie on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 06:37:00 PST

Doing or Die Tryin' in the D

The D is a funny place. Jus' yesterday I was riding my bike down Rosa Parks and saw like, 25 black kids in the middle of the street wearing bigass white t-shirts. Internalized racism met with well wor...
Posted by rosie on Thu, 22 Jun 2006 08:38:00 PST

Ode to Nutritional Yeast

I encounter you, oh cheezy yellow powder,then mix you with cumin, soymilk, and a little flour.My palatte sings with every glorious biteFake mac and cheeze, oh the taste is just right.On potatoes, popc...
Posted by rosie on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 07:09:00 PST

An homage to the sounds of the motropolis

This weekend comprises a large part of why I moved to Detroit. Detroit is the birthplace of techno music and it is still very much respected as an art form. A lot of things have changed over the years...
Posted by rosie on Sat, 27 May 2006 09:16:00 PST

Run on Sentence, run on...

I've always been mezmerized by people practicing Tai Chi in parks, but encountering a melting pot of adorable 5-8 year olds practicing Karate under Clark Park's cerulean sky, while listening to Derric...
Posted by rosie on Wed, 24 May 2006 05:28:00 PST

chatty cathy....

Still loving the single life, sheer autonomy is automiton-licious. But why the hell did I work until six in the morning on a Sunday last night? I don't know, maybe I need to watch the Matrix to find o...
Posted by rosie on Tue, 23 May 2006 03:09:00 PST