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JUST YOUR AVERAGE MUSE CALLED ALICE

But I must be insane To go skating on your name . . .

About Me

Truly, I am ALICE "But I must be insane To go skating on your name" see Tom Waites about this (or Moses Atwood rumored to be his Bastard Son.) ******************** ********************

My Interests

Well, I would say that I have a lot of interests. This past Summer I painted quite a few pictures -- and took a class in water color painting. I read a lot, too, more than in most years I would say. Many days in the Summer are spent just lying in the sun at our beach at Wadsworth Cove in Castine. My sea glass collection is coming along and i have collected some strange shape rocks, too (Ask Carol Lovely about two I found one day). I love to eat in nice restaurants with friends. I love dreaming and plotting to make wonderful things happen for myself and nice people. I love ethnic celebrations of all sorts. I enjoy listeming to all kinds of performance music. And I like playing guitar, myself, and singing, too. A big pleasure of mine is film. Did I say I like to talk? I adore good conversation. I love philosophy and deep discussions that go late into the night with my friends. I am a life long enthusiast of languages, culture and would love more travel even more than I do. Almost daily I study The Tarot and Astrology. I have studied both for many years. The "double deck Tarot" is an idea I have developed. Point of Substancia is what I currently examin most in Astrology and joint destinies. I draw with pencils and I write some fiction -- and an ocassional Astrology article for Publications. I garden, mostly perennials. I love to cook (primarily Greek or Mediterranian) and feed the ones I care about. How about coming to my place for dinner, a movie, some wine and some conversation? Every Sunday I read THE NEW YORK TIMES from front to back. I am a Life Long Democrat and am completely Pro-choice. I was Baptized Greek Orthodox, but I practice no organized religion these days. Now tell me about you and what you like to do?.. "groups.com/girlwhoismystery"
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I'd like to meet:

I WOULD LIKE TO MEET YOU, SWEET AUTHENIC YOU!!!****************************************************** ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ***Wonderlands are lovely places to visit, but you can’t live in them; however good and necessary it was for you to be at the tea party, and you will never doubt or deny that it was the best and most necessary experience of your life to be there, you still need somewhere to go when the party ends. The story of Wonderland, as far as Alice is concerned, may have begun and ended with her trip down the rabbit hole, but the story of Alice herself didn’t; Alice had a childhood, a life that shaped her into the girl that could go to Wonderland and survive it, soak in its beautiful, frightening, glorious, dangerous, intoxicating, sublime strangeness, and come back a much stronger and wiser person for the experience — and her life went .. Wonderland, too, for the only reason it could: because it had to. “To be or not to be” is indeed the question — when all else is said and done, the only question that really matters — and Alice, I like to believe, chose to be. To grow up, to become a woman — to quietly, simply, unremarkably, and happily keep living her life, finding a truer and deeper wonder in what she had all along.****************************************************** ******* "groups.com/girlwhoismystery"

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Music:

Smokie-Living Next Door To Alice
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Add to My Profile | More Videos I GOT TO HAVE SAMUEL JAMES AND MOSES ATWOOD COME STAY IN CASTINE WITH ME! A BIG TREAT! AND THEY PLAYED FOR A PARTY TO HONOR THEM AT MY PLACE AND THEN THEY PLAYED A DYNAMITE GIG AT THE REEEF ON THE LAST SUNDAY IN AUGUST!!! I listen to: Lately? I am into old LEONARD COHEN stuff, New BOB DYLAN stuff and the old and the return of Cat Stevens and the Best of Cat Power and lots of TOM WAITS and my My Space Musician friends, of course like MOSES ATWOOD AND SAMUEL JAMES!!!!!! I adore JOHN FORD OF THE OLD STRAWBS and I'LL ALWAYS WORSHIP GRACE SLICK and I enjoy The Allman Brothers, maybe some Bach, The Beatles, Beastie Boys, Jeff Beck, a little Beethoven, some funereal stuff from Frederic Chopin, John Coltrane, Chick Corea, LEONARD COHEN, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan. Gypsy stuff and D'jango Rinehardt, dark Dvorak, lots of Duke Ellington, EmersonLake & Palmer, BELLA FLECK, Dizzy Gillespie, GONG, The Grateful Dead, David Grisman, Herbie Hancock, John Lee Hooker, Mississippi John Hurt, Led Zeppelin, Taj Mahal, Mahavishnu Orchestra, , BoB Marley, Thelonious Monk, Mos Def, Charlie Parker, Phish and THE MISTER MAGICIAN HIMSELF, TREY ANASTASIO (of course because I never know what he'll do next and he is MAGIC!), Pink Floyd, a lot of Rachmaninoff, Bonnie Rait Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, Santana, Steely Dan, Sublime, Sun Ra, The Talking Heads, Velvet Underground, Weather Report, Stevie Wonder, YES, Zappa, Latin America music and the Music of Africa and Fiji Island stuff drives me wild, Oh, and I like the old stuff from Rolling Stones and Jefferson Airplane and Buddy Holly and even Gene Autry. And I LIKE TO SING AND PLAY SOME GUITAR TOO and enjoy listening to me, MYSELF, by Golly, too!See my TOP FRIENDS--I have LISTED several who create some great NEW sounds! ************************************************************ ********************************SOME FAVORITE WAITS WORDS ARE **** **** (Tom Waits/Kathleen Brennan 1992)Over here the ladies all want sweet perfume But there's never a rose And over the roses are frightened to bloom So they never can growAnd over here they need wool For weaving their baby's new clothes But nobody has any wool And the sheep are all lost in the harbour Lost in the harbourAnd over here they want diamonds to wear But there aren't any here And over there everyone's hiding their tears But they're crying insideAnd the wall won't come down Till they're no longer afraid of themselves And if you don't believe me ask yourselves And then I can come down to the harbour Down to the harbourAnd then I will fill the ocean back up with my tears I still have a couple more years And then I can come back to the harbour Down to the harbour

Movies:

EVENING with Claire Danes, Vanessa Redgraves, Meryl Stree and other classic actresses is on DVD, and I just saw it and really liked it! I want to see THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB this week-end! One WEEK-END I SAW VOLVER AND LOVED IT! I saw LITTLE CHILDREN AND IT WAS INCREDIBLE--MULTI LAYERED, BOTH AMUSING AND TRAGIC!*******************Truly,I adore movies. I just saw BIG BAD LOVE--wow! I recently caught the adorable and sweet CARS and March of the Penguins. I hit a local movie house at least once every week. And there are Netflix always awaiting me --what a bargain, right? My favorite actor is Philip Semour Hoffman and I adore Meryl Streep! I have too many favorites to even try to list. But at the top of my list would be ALMOST FAMOUS, THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, FANNY AND ALEXANDER (SWEDISH) AND ANYTHING WITH STREEP OR HOFFMAN! Ilove THE WONDER BOYS and AMAZING AND LOVELY. Oh, shoot, I just love movies. And I especially like movies from the last ten or so years with Philip Seymour Hoffman in them like LAST STOP WONDERLAND, LOVE LIZA, CAPOTE, ALMOST FAMOUS AND OTHERS, TOO WITH PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN!!! Movie Night at my place in Castine was a lot of fun with my girlfriends last Spring. We had a pot luck first each Tuesday, and then we watched CHICK FLICKS like LOVE ACTUALLY and LYRICS AND MUSIC and SOMETHINGS GOTTA GIVE!

Television:

My favorite TV show is THE OFFICE! I am also a devote of GREY"S ANATOMY, but then who isn't, right? I enjoy MEN IN TREES, EARL, DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES and THE VIEW if I am home in the late morning. "MOSES ATWOOD FAN CLUB groups.com/girlwhoismystery" "groups.com/girlwhoismystery"

Books:

Moses Atwood
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Add to My Profile | More Videos I am reading ORMIVOUR'S DELEMMA. I just finished a book about 9 living Muses and their shared destinies with their nine artists, It is called: The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired and the author is Francine Prose -- incredible reading! I do like to read. This past Summer my Castine Book Group read EAT, PRAY. LOVE and ON CRIBLE BEACH and THE GROUP and I CAN'T WAIT TO GET YO HEAVEN and a mystery that was set in Maine which I cannot recall at the moment. I read CHARMED and THE HISTORY OF RUM. Alice
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Add to My Profile | More Videos I read a huge anthology on Reincarnation. I am reading a funny memoir called THE GLASS CASTLE by Jeanette Walls, and I just read a funny book on cadavers called STIFF. I loved reading Bob Dylan's CHRONICALS. Psychology fascinates me and I am busily reading a lot about Narcissim. So I read both fiction and non-fiction I guess.

Heroes:

Chess
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Add to My Profile | More Videos ************************************************************ ************************************************************ *****************************************I do have a hero. And he probably knows that he is my personal hero. He is a wonderful and brave human being. He gave me a new way to see the world and revived my flagging spirit. He presented me with a situation where I could love again, and, better yet, be truly loved again. The best part is I learned to love unconditionally in a romantic relationship. This had been something I thought reserved only for Mother and Fathers and their children. He helped me forward with my life, so I could bloom again in this lifetime. I learned the meaning of true love. Although it had its Romeo and Juliet aspects, ultimately he caught my heart before it hit the ground once. I remain in gratitude and awe of his deed for all my lifetimes. He is Heroic in the truest sense! ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ****************She started a blaze from one tiny spark, I didn't even detect. She loved the light, was dismayed by the dark - the stars though she seemed to respect. The faint light that flutters at night to the earth, would land in her eyes and collect. Luminous creatures she'd find in the surf, I never thought to inspect. Pebbles and marbles like things on my mind, seem to get lost and harder to find. When I am alone I am inclined (if I find a pebble in sand), to think that it fell from my hand. She gave me ideas and planted the seed - but she never stopped to reflect. The course that she's on, wherever it leads I never would redirect. Pebbles and marbles like words from a friend, make us hold tight but are lost in the end. When we're alone we all seem to tend (if we find a marble in dust), to wish someone left it for us. ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ************************************************************ *"We are like a moving picture show With an ending we will never see" quoted from Moses Atwood's song called MARROW****************************************************** *********************************************************** pre-xmas in the tetons
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My Blog

busy renting a house -- it is what I do

Castine Vacation Rental Lovely Big 1906 Carriage House for up to 16 & pets  Property 112957 Summary of the house, 5 bedrooms, sleeps 16 Rental rate: $2,600 - $3,650 per property per week Pro...
Posted by JUST YOUR AVERAGE MUSE CALLED ALICE on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:06:00 PST

My Faith and using Tarot Cards

Here is something I consider very important that I need to share. Maybe it is the basis of my Tarot Philosophy. Maybe it is the most important stuff about my belief systems. I suppose it is the basis ...
Posted by JUST YOUR AVERAGE MUSE CALLED ALICE on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:34:00 PST

An Op Ed Piece by David Brooks in THE TIMES today -- excellent!

Op-Ed Columnist The Rank-Link Imbalance the great and the powerful know they have an almost limitless capacity for self-pity.’);} { );}..> .. language=JavaScript type=text/javascript>writ...
Posted by JUST YOUR AVERAGE MUSE CALLED ALICE on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 11:46:00 PST

MOSES ATWOOD AND HIS SEVENTH SIN -- A MEMORY

When I first heard SEVENTH SIN  (and, yes,  it was the first Moses Atwood song that I had ever heard -- here on MySpace in January, 2006) I called the coffee shop where he was perf...
Posted by JUST YOUR AVERAGE MUSE CALLED ALICE on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:54:00 PST

ONCE, set in Dublin, a fantastic musical for modern times -- rent it today!

A modern day musical set on the streets of Dublin. Featuring Glen Hansard from the Irish band "The Frames," the film tells the story of a street musician and a Czech immigrant during an eventful week ...
Posted by JUST YOUR AVERAGE MUSE CALLED ALICE on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:22:00 PST

Life

Life? I love it!
Posted by JUST YOUR AVERAGE MUSE CALLED ALICE on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:28:00 PST

Midnight Clear

Just watched 2007 movie MIDNIGHT CLEAR, perfect for me for this difficult week. We never know what effect some little  deed we do for another is going to have on their life. One tiny thing can ch...
Posted by JUST YOUR AVERAGE MUSE CALLED ALICE on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 07:34:00 PST

Nonesense

So, I just read a friend's blog. She is a Sweet Pea Deluxe and only deserves good in life, but something crummy just happened in her new Year in her wonderful new home (nothing life threatening, but j...
Posted by JUST YOUR AVERAGE MUSE CALLED ALICE on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 05:12:00 PST

cute on Maine

The Maine Turnpike began a new program this summer where they handed out flyers titled "Welcome To Vacationland. " These flyers will be handed out to all cars with license plates from Massachusetts, C...
Posted by JUST YOUR AVERAGE MUSE CALLED ALICE on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:00:00 PST

John Yale writes on Intimate Astrological Points!

On the Vital Components of Intimate Synastry Saturday, March 17, 2007.. Begin .post --> John Yale This article will cover a whole set of what I consider to be relationship vitals, in terms of astr...
Posted by JUST YOUR AVERAGE MUSE CALLED ALICE on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 04:49:00 PST