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Sheila Bitts

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JUST FINISHED WRITING/EDITING Collected Poems 1988-2008http://trafford.com/04-2788ISBN 141204980-6 It is 173 pages total. I've been adding poems to it and revising for four years!!!!*************************************************** *** ******************************************************* ******************************************************* To fund it all, I work in cytogenetics looking at chromosomes.Genetics publication co-authorships:AJMG, Part A, Vol. 132A, number 2, January 15, 2005 pp164-170 Blood, Volume 99, Number 8, April 15, 2002 pp2985-2991 Clinical Genetics, 2001, Nov; 60(5):366-370 AJMG 2000 Jul 31;93(3):241-3 AJMG 2000 Jul 31;93(3):219-22 AJHG vol. 59, number 4 (Oct. 1996): p.A114 (abstract) and poster presentationCool Chromosome site: "Atlas": http://atlasgeneticsoncology.org/index.html***************** ************************************************************ ******************************* rain on me myspace layout

My Interests

I Just... finished Writing a BOOK of Poetry!It's about Chicago, the suburbs, Yes, Social questions, feminism, connectiviy to the divine...(Godzilla)and California Punk Rock.******************************************************* ***http://trafford.com/04-2788****************************** ****************************Publishing Company: Trafford on-demand Publishing on-line bookstore:http://www.trafford.com/4dcgi/browseaisles.html?15 083526-5025aaa

I'd like to meet:

nice people! & Simon Pegg! :) Yes band members

Music:

"Love comes to you and you follow..." (Yes) more Yes, :) psychadellic, progressive, Jump, Journey, Doors, BOC, blues, Rolling Stones, Beatles, mod music, songs about freedom and feeding people like, "Fly Like An Eagle" (Steve Miller Band),Doobie Brothers, Elton John, Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood Mac, & bee gees and more '70s wedding disco music, bangra, eg: Punjabi Rockers, glam, 77 punk from the US and the UK, (eg the Clash), garage, 60s soul, Stooges, X, David Bowie, Bauhaus, Smashing Pumpkins, Ministry/Revco, ("bop/bop-bop")/ Bhopal song/"We Believe",etc., Cabaret Voltaire--"Arm of the Lord," (Wax Trax when it was in Chicago),WZRD in Chicago, Enst. Nueb at the right TIME, the Killers, Beck, Live; Lil' Jon(makes me really want to brush my teeth a lot), more/any "voodoo" music,power pop like the Cars (weeee ne ne weeee... low fi), the Kings--the switch into glide song etc., Stoner Music like Meat Puppets, Plasticland and Sensidub, Lee Perry's Give Me Power; bands like U2 that still play good music, techno/trance to dance to, /Infinity+Infinity: Big Bud (trance)/Freemason's club mix (fatboy slim),chembro, MASSIVE ATTACK; music where everyone shifts/ from drum to drum/ like Korean drumming/ and Japanese taiko, Bob Dylan, Genesis, the Guyto Tantric Choir, the Dalai Lama benefit cd, (the om and call to prayer: Gregorian?), "To Labor and to Love", "Three in One!", Celtic harp, classical--piano: Mozart, Chopin, Handel, Liszt (I think he does this one: da-da-da- da-daa deh-deh-deh- da da), Horowitz's interpretations, Bach, etc, anthem rock, Black Sabbath's anti-war songs... stairway to heaven! ambient.

Movies:

I love movies! Hooray for Hollywood!!!!!!! The Illusionist, Stardust, Last Legion, Casablanca, 3hunerd, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Star Wars, Pirates, Reds, Contact, Amadeus, Ten Commandments, Ben Hur, Clash of the Titans, the Mummy (with the hot bad guy... how could they make Imohotep bad, though, jeh), the Simpsons.foreign films like: Diva, Le Samurai, Akira Kurosawa, Chinese mainland Kung Fu movies. And English movies: such as: Hot Fuzz and Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings

Television:

I don't have TV, but I want a flat screen plasma tv--with bose speakers!!! ********************************************** the office, Jon Stewart, Steven Colbert, Iron Chef, music videos, Star Trek and the next generation, I'm a Cubs fan, the Simpsons, Friends, Sherlock Holmes (the one with darker hair and really eccentric!), the History Channel, Biblical History, CNN, BBC, science shows, Connections. ****************************************************** I used to watch a lot of: Inspector Morse, Mystery!, underdog, Scooby-Doo, Dr. Who with Tom Baker!, Monte Python, Steve Allen, Ernie Kovacs and Image Union.

Books:

:) He changes the way fire does when mixed with spices..." (Heraclites.) , Old English poets, Harp music history: medival harp music stories from King Alfonso the Xth, John Milton:(http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/milton/), Harlem renaissance: Langston Hughs: (http://webinstituteforteachers.org/~jhlyman/migration/migra ting/activity1_poem.html),(http://www.redhotjazz.com/hughes. html), (http://www.amandashome.com/holddream.html), other poets I like include: Jorie Graham (the, "I believe in you" poem from Hybrids of Plants and Ghosts), Tony Harrison, ee cummings, at least one T.S. Elliot poem: the countanance one, Raymond Carver, Robert Frost, etc. I'm published in Black Bear Review, some current reading: British medieval history, British Tribal history, on-going reading: History in general(pt of interest: There's a house in my hometown that was part of the underground railroad), Philosophical History, (like Reese, E. P. Thompson, Christopher Hill; Science--popular and in the field; Art/literature critics eg Terry Eagleton, Taoism book from the Art Institute exhibit (some taoists performed resurrections), Images of Manjurshri (the swordsperson bodhisattva) and smiling ones sitting on large, cute, fuzzy animals, kid's stories like Masquerade by Kit Williams, NANCY DREW, James and the Giant Peach, The Cat That Walked a Week, C.S. Lewis Narnia stories; Kurt Vonnegut, John Steinbeck, Arthur Koesler, political essays; Mystery/detective stories; books about languages, maps, funny coffee table books, story-telling, urban myths--there's a hook in the door!!!

Heroes:

the guy who played "Stairway to Heaven" on his guitar in his bedroom all afternoon... all summer (when I was a kid:) And the guy at the party who can play Steve Howe's "Mood For A Day."

My Blog

Poetry Book

IT'S DONE!!!!!!   http://www.trafford.com/04-2788 ISBN 141204980-6   :)...
Posted by Sheila Bitts on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:03:00 PST

Rick Wakeman

August 26, 2007   I got to see Rick Wakeman play in Canada in Ontario! I flew up there last weekend and got some music and the playlist signed. He is such an awesome person. I think  he ...
Posted by Sheila Bitts on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 05:00:00 PST

Sea Scrolls

 saw the Dead Sea Scrolls at The Pacific Science Museum in Seattle in January! I didn't get to read enough about it, but I bought a book. This lady and her husband in line at it kept telling me a...
Posted by Sheila Bitts on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:56:00 PST

Ode to Fluffy/Fluffys Spring Poem

As I sit, munching on my Chef's Blend*    such a flavor to savor and special treats of green, green grass to 'mind me of the spring on its waytoday, the rain, far off;up in my cave near...
Posted by Sheila Bitts on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 09:20:00 PST

On-line Poetry Groups

Writing and Poetry: up-date: November 5, 2006 I was in an on-line poetry group in 1998-99. Was kind of fun--an informal class. Each person said what his or her favorite poets were and came-up wit...
Posted by Sheila Bitts on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 04:56:00 PST

Michelangelo and Malevitch

Aug. 17, 2006/Dec. 10, 2006 I like both Michelangelo and Malevich's style of art, although I am aware of Malevitch's criticisms of Michelangelo's style. I believe that his disgust is moreso a criticis...
Posted by Sheila Bitts on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 07:48:00 PST