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About Me

All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles the old thinking. The idea, for example, that each particular erases the luminous clarity of a general idea. That the clown-faced woodpecker probing the dead sculpted trunk of that black birch is, by his presence, some tragic falling off from a first world of undivided light. Or the notion that, because there is in this world no one thing to which the bramble of blackberry corresponds, a word is elegy to what it signifies. We talked about it late last night and in the voice of my friend, there was a thin wire of grief, a tone almost querulous. After a while I understood that, talking this way, everything dissolves: justice, pine, hair, woman, you and I. There was a woman I made love to and I remembered how, holding her small shoulders in my hands sometimes, I felt a violent wonder at her presence like a thirst for salt, for my childhood river with its island willows, silly music from the pleasure boat, muddy places where we caught the little orange-silver fish called pumpkinseed. It hardly had to do with her. Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances. I must have been the same to her. But I remember so much, the way her hands dismantled bread, the thing her father said that hurt her, what she dreamed. There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

My Interests

conceptual, installation, site specific, and all art in general. good books and bad movies, clean houses, arroyos, clay, water soluble oil paints, bicycles, no hands and riding fast!, sketching, remembering fun times and looking at the future, Cranium and other board games, winning prizes, giving gifts, sleeping on the couch when I have company, making mix cds, long intelligent conversations, reading quietly, road tripping, Sunday dinner, Ohio, Santa Fe, green chile, missing the desert, loving the humidity, playing songs on repeat, friends, sisters and other assorted family units, spooning, kissing, pseudo art therapy, self-inflicted problems and addictions, Captain Hawkeye Pierce from MASH, and making more art like this

I'd like to meet:

People who live every week like its shark week because nothing is impossible... except dinosaurs.

Music:

songs that make you feel so good. Murder in the City by the Avett Brothers gets me all choked up right now and I don't know why really.

Movies:

Me You and Everyone We know, Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth, Who Killed the Electric Car, Gattica, Disney's Robin Hood, Sleeping Beauty and Sword in the Stone, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, The Never Ending Story, Waking Life, Run Lola Run, Eternal Sunshine, Mean Girls, The Incredibles, Broken Wings, Hero, High Fidelity, The Dark Crystal, Peewee, The Sandlot, Triplets of Belleville, Easy Rider, Spirited Away, Elephant, It's a Wonderful Life, Wizard of Oz, Casablanca, Dancer in the Dark, Memento, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Fantasia, An American Tale, Big, Idiocracy, movies are fun.

Television:

I feel dumb for saying this, but Hell's kitchen is my guilty pleasure. And dating shows that are on at 2 a.m. okay, I like stupid tv.

Books:

my favorite book of all time is East Of Eden. That doesn't make it the best, it just means it got me through a lot of stuff. The Little Prince is a close second and the rest I have listed and some not listed are all third. The Book of Illusions, oryx and Crake Leviathan, Timbuktu, Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Illuminatus!, One hundred Years of Solitude, You Shall Know Our Velocity!, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Between Angels, Loosestrife, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Conversations with God, Tom Brown, Utopia Parkway, White Oleander, In Absence of the Sacred, The Moral Animal, Man's Search for Meaning, Midnight's Children, Wise Blood, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Matilda, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Mama Day Wicked, Damien, About looking, G, Cannery Row, The Book of Flying, Walking Light, any Kerouac, I like books......

Heroes:

My family, polite people, listeners, dreamers, peacemakers, etc.

My Blog

politics

from the ny times:’"If the votes of the superdelegates overturn what’s happened in the elections, it would be harmful to the Democratic Party," Ms. Pelosi, Democrat of California, said in ...
Posted by wee bli on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:04:00 PST

art imitating life?

She was Walt Disney's favorite conceptual artist, a woman whose sense of color and design influenced the look and feel of numerous Disney projects from 1942 to 1970.Inarguably her crowning achievement...
Posted by wee bli on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 10:07:00 PST

some kind of year

I had been worrying once againabout sad livesand almost perfect art, Van Gogh, Kafka, so when that voice on the radiosang about drinkinga toast to those who most survive the lives they've led, I drank...
Posted by wee bli on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:44:00 PST

tropical trash island

Continent-size toxic stew of plastic trash fouling swath of Pacific Ocean At the start of the Academy Award-winning movie "American Beauty," a character videotapes a plastic grocery bag as it drifts i...
Posted by wee bli on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:24:00 PST

Douglas Adams is my hero

Is There an Artificial God? a small excerpt: Tools have enabled us to think intentionally, to make things and to do things to create a world that fits us better. Now imagine an early man surveying his...
Posted by wee bli on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:21:00 PST

I think Iran as well... but...oh the choices!

from wired magazines blog: The danger room Up for a little guessing game? Then take a swing at this... The Army is working on a $200 billion modernization program called Future Combat Sy...
Posted by wee bli on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 05:18:00 PST

Offensively in love

There are two people that come in to the coffee shop almost every single day. I am pretty sure they met there. They are currently dating and spend the majority of 11:30 to 12:30 making out in the big ...
Posted by wee bli on Fri, 06 Jul 2007 01:47:00 PST

Sal

When my Grandma died a few years ago, right between Thanksgiving and Christmas, I flew to Maine for the funeral. I had a stop in Denver, and while I was there waiting, I met a man name Sal. He was the...
Posted by wee bli on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:10:00 PST

The Yes Men

Activist trickster collective the Yes Men used the Gas and Oil Exposition 2007 in Calgary, Alberta to stage their latest theatre of corporate absurdity, with Exxon/Mobil and the Natural Petroleum Coun...
Posted by wee bli on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 08:13:00 PST

what do you eat

what the world eats These people live in the same state as me! ...
Posted by wee bli on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 12:27:00 PST