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maggie

..as neutral as snow covering up violence...

About Me

I am on a lonely road and I am travelling travelling travelling...
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My Interests

Listening to music, learning to play the guitar, listening to other people play instruments and sing, painting things from my head, trying to paint things from real life, Wales, reading people's poetry and prose, interesting classes (art history, 3d art, zoology), good books, good looks, shimmering water, trees with and without leaves, sleeping without socks on, icicles, London England, herbal teas, dreaming in the day and night, sculpting with styrofoam and plasticine, eating candy, playing euchre, frogs, seeing live bands, dancing swing or otherwise, watering my plant.

I'd like to meet:

Joni Mitchell, Hayden Desser, On Kawara, Tom Robbins, my deceased relatives, some man whose back of head I mistook for my Mum's at Sauble Amusements when I was eight or so.

Music:

Lately and always and in no particular order- Wilco, Leonard Cohen, The Tragically Hip, Iron and Wine, Sarah Harmer, Hayden, Radiohead, The Smashing Pumpkins, Joni Mitchell, Beck, Bob Dylan, The Band, Ani Difranco, Neil Young, The Constantines, Tori Amos, Broken Social Scene, Wolf Parade, Fiona Apple, Royal City, Pearl Jam, Pixies, Cuff the Duke, Neutral Milk Hotel, Ben Harper, Van Morrison, Led Zeppelin, Weeping Tile, Jason Collett, The Beatles, CocoRosie, Sarah Slean, Otis Redding, Mojave 3, Oneida, The Weakerthans, Apostle of Hustle, The Allman Brothers, Nick Drake, Frank Zappa, Metric, Clive Holden, John Coltrane, Paul Simon (with Art Garfunkel sometimes) Cat Power, Elliott Smith, Joanna Newsom, Sonic Youth, Calexico, The Black Keys, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Talking Heads, Judy Collins, The Decemberists, Do Make Say Think, The Joel Plaskett Emergency, Pink Floyd, The Smiths, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Barn Owl, Gordon Downie and you.

Movies:

To draw from a fading memory bank- Snatch, Crash, American History X, Fight Club, Rounders, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, You Me and Everyone we know, The Squid and the Whale, SLC Punk!, Witches, The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under, Labyrinth, and I can't even remember any more of them.

Television:

Nope

Books:

Anything by- Tom Robbins, Diane Schoemperlen, Douglas Coupland, Kurt Vonnegut, Jack Kerouac, C.S. Lewis, Margaret Atwood, Naomi Klein, Carolyn Cassady, Lewis Carroll, Gordon Downie, Hunter S. Thompson, Dennis Lee, etc.

Heroes:

Joni Mitchell, Stephen Hawking, Leonard Cohen, Mr. Schnurr, artists worldwide

My Blog

packing poem

I've been packing up my room to go back to Algonquin, and I've been realizing how much stuff I have, and probably don't need. But how much emotion I'll invest in such simple objects, to the point that...
Posted by maggie on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 04:32:00 PST

storm snail summer spring

It's raining, it's pouring, an old man is snoring. He went to bed, and bumped his head, and didn't wake up til the morning! And it's raining, and it's lovely and lightning-ing. Thunderrrr too. Woo, ju...
Posted by maggie on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 06:27:00 PST

weird indoor life

I hate that it's called a blog. I wonder if not leaving the house for more than seventy-two hours is somehow dangerous. If not for the body, then most likely for the mindframe. But maybe it's not so b...
Posted by maggie on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:50:00 PST

good things snow things

There is something about the constantines that really energizes your soul. I feel like I have a battery pack in my heart, and it had been running a little low, but now, I feel really charged like I co...
Posted by maggie on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:39:00 PST

time time time

What? The summer is over? Oh my goodness, was I sleeping through the whole thing? I mean, I remember some things. There was water all around me, I remember that. I think there were some canoes, a...
Posted by maggie on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:25:00 PST

nineteen musical trees

Man, it feels good to be 19. I feel like I've had an eventful week, but in a way that's been really nice and relaxed. I've still had time to sleep a lot, and finish books and cups of ginger tea. To ce...
Posted by maggie on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 08:31:00 PST

pie on the radio apple

So I wish a was a good driver with a legal car and extensive knowledge of New Orleans, because I would definitely be into driving Tv on the Radio around for the day. Maybe I could somehow get myself t...
Posted by maggie on Sun, 16 Apr 2006 09:01:00 PST

study crisp

Study study brain is expanding 6 hours straight of reading and simultaneous day-dreaming and now it's expanded so much that it hurts and I think I can feel brain juice seeping out of my ears eyes and ...
Posted by maggie on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 06:13:00 PST

Taffy Apple Music

What a wonderful day to bring an end to a really lovely weekend. There's nothing like a plethora of visitors who bring wonderful music with them to bring sunshine into your day, unless it's sunshine i...
Posted by maggie on Sun, 26 Mar 2006 01:20:00 PST

clouds and windy years

In today's late evening on a lovely walk, I half discovered a wonderful natural place. I guess it's not a real discovery, it was never covered up, and I've known about the Arboretum all year long. But...
Posted by maggie on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 05:25:00 PST