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The Phoenix

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I've wandered around the world and somehow ended up in NEW YORK CITY! I'm not done wandering. I'm a poet, philosopher and fashionista. Recently, I felt my eyes re-open. Everything looks much different than before. The world is the same as it has been, it is me who has changed. I look forward to each day of discovery and welcome the magnificent experience of existing in this universe.

My Interests

music, writing, reading, dancing, sewing, crafts, roller skating, politics, foriegn languages, traveling, eastern philosophy, fashion and jewelry design, art, poetry, family

I'd like to meet:

some buddhist monks in Bhutan and other people who exist in reality.

Music:

Goldfrapp, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Radiohead, Avail, Smashing Pumpkins, Four Walls Falling, The Cure, Beastie Boys, Depeche Mode, Violent Femmes, REM, Air, The Stone Roses, Charlatans UK, Matthew Sweet, Coldplay, The Smiths, Nina Simone, U2, Thievery Corperation, Social D, Portishead, Massive Attack, Miles Davis, Bjork, Hooverphonic, Madonna, Daft Punk, Ella Fitzgerald, Pharrell, Chet Baker, Sade, Annie Lennox, Everything But The Girl, The Beatles, Gwen Stefani, Alicia Keys, rock, punk, deep house, downtempo, jazz

Movies:

Il Postino, Marie Antoinette, Much Ado About Nothing, Party Girl, Stigmata, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Auntie Mame, Dead Poets Society, Fight Club, Belly, Amelie, Girls Just Want To Have Fun, American Beauty, The Last Samurai, Lost in Translation, Donnie Darko, Mommy Dearest, Anna and the King, Closer

Television:

not a big fan of the tube but I'm in love with Anderson Cooper

Books:

The Sun Also Rises, Tao Te Ching, The Dhammapada, The Bhagavad Gita, Tao of Physics, Little Women, The Bell Jar, A Room of One's Own, 1984, anything by The Beats (Ginsberg, Kerouac, Burroughs...), Pablo Neruda, Virginia Wolf, Sandra Gilbert, T.S. Eliot, Ruskin, Salinger, Marquez, Marx, Whitman, Dickinson, Hemingway

Heroes:

I'm still looking for one

My Blog

Who was I when I knew you then?

Who was I when I knew you then? Now, my hands are black and My heart is a lump of coal Making pretty has made me counterfeit And love walks away too soon....
Posted by The Phoenix on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:24:00 PST

Somebody's Angel

Can you see through me to my tattered heart crumpled and busted and left behind   my exterior shines from the humbled wisdom that is a result of us   nothing left to carry no cross to b...
Posted by The Phoenix on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:04:00 PST

subway inspiration

Your eyes went through me like a peace of mind   My heart keeps burning for you all the time   I traveled west looking for the golden eye all that's left is a shallow sigh   Winter's r...
Posted by The Phoenix on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:01:00 PST

'How Do You Sleep' by The Stone Roses

Ive seen your severed head at a banquet for the deadAll dressed up dinner, looked so fineYour shining silver salver so tastefully powderedWith the finest military quick limeNow try and picture this, a...
Posted by The Phoenix on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:46:00 PST

train station, New Haven, CT 10:48 PM 9/16/06

Together we entered the calm of our lives. Your hand was placed on the small of my back, gently guiding me into the world.   Since you left the chaos has resumed and my life tumbles around me no...
Posted by The Phoenix on Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:12:00 PST

Saturday's poem

my lost muse where are you? early September rain drenches the city and my heart grows cold again the dampness that seals summer's fate reminds me of our time left behind a droplette slithers across my...
Posted by The Phoenix on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 01:36:00 PST

poem....

I want my eyes to glisten when you love me Will you use the words sinewy and languid to describe me when I wait for you   lonely shadows fall into winter afternoons and I miss you more   Th...
Posted by The Phoenix on Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:12:00 PST