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About Me

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My Interests

art, music and music history, world history, politics and political activism, public school systems, medicinal plants, friday salons, ann arbor, antique books, new preperations of fruits and vegetables, the imaginations of my children, poetry, surrender and desire, plays, dinners out and about a million other things...

I'd like to meet:

musicians....lots and lots of musicians...

Music:

bob dylan; daniel kahn & the painted bird; gabriel mann; chicago; woody guthrie; lamb; sly and the family stone; mccartney and the wings; pearl jam; john adams; jim roll; al greene; david gray; elvis costello; the new green; ; nellie mckay; emmylou harris; beck; ccr; talking heads; beatles; death cab for cutie; malo; david bowie; santana; pete escovedo band; EVOC; neil young; u2; marcus shelby; the clash; jonathan richman; madaleine peyroux; bernard fanning...

Movies:

sofia coppola's stuff; martin scorsese's stuff; anything with peter sarsgaard in it; christopher guest's stuff...

Television:

streets of san francisco; mcmillan and wife; columbo; e.r when george clooney was on it... (um, yeah, i haven't watched t.v. in a while)

Books:

bill bryson's stuff, lots of plays, albee, stoppard, where white men fear to tread by russell means, reading what's the matter with kansas now...

Heroes:

harvey milk, leonard peltier,dennis banks, russell means, abel cooper, ed skinner, my uncle, the girls, all the political underdogs, single parents...

My Blog

do we learn from history?

this question has been coming up not just for myself this past week but for many of my friends as well. earlier today, one of my old housemates came to visit and we talked about how life presents us w...
Posted by kristina on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 04:28:00 PST

collapse and transition

as we near the end of this year most of us are contemplating what we've done in our lives over the past 350-something days and nights. most of us have gone through some of the biggest, deepest, hardes...
Posted by kristina on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 03:06:00 PST

. . . and it came in like a storm.

like a low-pressure system crashing onto the shore, a flood of emotion overwhelmed me and i was temporarily lost. the salty tears plopped onto the bathroom floor. it seemed like it was ending, lesseni...
Posted by kristina on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 12:59:00 PST

sudden death

my friend died the other day. she was 26 years old. i'm feeling a little shock right now and writing might help (it can't hurt). allison bruce lange was born august 13th 1980 in grand rapi...
Posted by kristina on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 04:35:00 PST

i don't eat turkey in general...

that's not the only reason i wouldn't mind skipping right over the end of november through to january 3rd or 4th. the smell alone of turkey baking and stuffing grosses me out; is it celery cooking in ...
Posted by kristina on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 10:30:00 PST

VULNERABILITY....

as we go into the weekend, this is the subject most heavy on my mind. this past week has presented me with about 15 opportunities to either be completely open, honest and vulnerable OR to collapse int...
Posted by kristina on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 11:28:00 PST

romance....

is bullshit, a device used to move something true around (uh, that'd be love, folks, remember that thing we all die for over and over again?). romance means an additive, an unnecessary one that doesn'...
Posted by kristina on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 11:49:00 PST

why can't i keep track of this stuff???

it struck me this past week that i don't do very well with what they call "owning" my desires (or most of my feelings and expressions of anything intense). i couldn't recall expressing anything even r...
Posted by kristina on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:23:00 PST

cut to the quick...

one of the more serious experiences i've had this week: the realization that sex and romance don't neccesarily make us closer or better friends. we went to dinner last night (the first time ...
Posted by kristina on Sun, 22 Oct 2006 09:17:00 PST

MSJO

marcus shelby jazz orchestra....you MUST experience this band sooner rather than later....their performance at yoshi's last wednesday left me completely in love with jazz (again)....
Posted by kristina on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 12:42:00 PST