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alexandra

Self Empowerment

About Me

"Pray, read, re-read and toil, and thou shall find" Follow the Hare
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My Interests

Poetry, Art, Film, Music

I'd like to meet:

A spirit from the 'other world', a cloud from Saturn, a chicken that speaks, a rabbit that sings, a bird that lives under water, my father again, my mother before she gave birth to me, the smallest pebble on Mars and it's oceans, Jesus in the desert, Hitler in the craddle.

Music:

Regina Spektor, Jeff Lewis band, Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Kinks, Pink Floyd, Doves, Kate Bush, Belle and Sebastian, Eels, Edie Brickell, Elis Regina, Gal Costa, Cesaria Evora... many more. Bossa Nova, unusual instruments, ecclectic sounds, so many things.

Movies:

"Rear window", "Birds", "Vertigo" by Hitchcock..."Smoke and Shadows" by Woody Allen; David Lynch, La Jetee, "Harvey", Jiri Barta, Svankmajer, etc etc etc etc etc

Books:

Oliver Sacks by "The man who mistook his wife for a hat", "The Alchemist" by Paulo Coelho, Carl G. Jung "Memories, Dreams, Reflections". Michel Houelbec, Jose Mauro Vasconcelos, John Steinbeck, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Eca de Queiroz, Miguel Torga. Poets: Sylvia Plat, Fernando Pessoa (Alberto Caeiro - The Nature Poet), Sophia de Mello Breyner, Florbela Espanca.

Heroes:

Cats and Dogs

My Blog

Nature in the 00s

Hello friends, I would like to invite you all to the second part of "Nature in the 00s" held at: Contemporary Art Projects20 Rivington StreetLondon EC2A 3DU020 7739 174307799 776 016 Private view this...
Posted by alexandra on Mon, 12 May 2008 05:08:00 PST

sol mar voo

Eu vou onde o sol brilhaNo alento do som das ondasNa barca da feNo auto do fogo Puro movimento Eu vou onde as gaivotas pousamNa trepidacao do ventoCom o gesto das suas asasGraciosidade colectivaSingr...
Posted by alexandra on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 04:32:00 PST

lunacy at the withechapel gallery

The schizophrenic combination of opposites, that of linear thought and cathartic poetry, rhythm and chaos, oscillatory arithmetical frenzy!Here is a Bit (a binary, 0 and 1, yin/yang) of some written s...
Posted by alexandra on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:43:00 PST

Time space /Type Write performance with two type writers

Whitechapel cafe/gallery, 29th February 2008 at 7pm. An automatic poetry/performance by Alexandra Santos and Bernardo sena....
Posted by alexandra on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:28:00 PST

a bad dream

Last night I had the strongest and freakiest dream(?). I woke up in a fright seating up very suddenly on my bed wondering who and where I was. ( The answer to "who and where" came to me ...
Posted by alexandra on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:32:00 PST

what d’you call it

Happy Winter things! The joy of Darkness be with you all so that we may enjoy Light more intensely when it comes back round.
Posted by alexandra on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 06:03:00 PST

"please please please, let me get what i want"

I need to find me another island, more deserted, more isolated, where i could walk into the sea and never come out again...
Posted by alexandra on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:31:00 PST

poem

" Hearing things more than beings,listening to the voice of fire,the voice of water.Hearing in wind the weeping bushes,sighs of our forefathers.The dead are never gone:they are in the shadows.The dead...
Posted by alexandra on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 06:40:00 PST

Orpheus and Lakhesis 2nite by Red Velvet Club @Melange, 281 Kingsland road-Shoreditch

Title for performance/installation: The Falling - a greek tragedy of love and despair...   Orpheus The Broken - portrayed by The Great Antagonist one of the arch-angels of Paradise who fell f...
Posted by alexandra on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 04:29:00 PST

a06

I walked up the shaded pathalong the river I passedThe fairies as they whispered your presencein the shape of a shadow, my essenceThe river trickledstumbling upon it's pebbled bedI wished it to pull m...
Posted by alexandra on Sat, 30 Jun 2007 01:40:00 PST