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About Me

Passionate. Old fashion. Hopeless romantic in all areas in life. Know when to swear like a sailor and when not to say a word. I have a strong spirtual faith but believe that no one needs to share it if that's not where their heart is drawn. Love music whether listening to it making it or just talking about it. Love reading, writing. Not exactly sure where I'm going but I know it's going to be somewhere good and getting there will be the true adventure.
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My Interests

Walks in the rain. Music Music Music. Bat Boy. spending time with friends and family. Being DD a lot. Tattoos even tough I don't have any, Yet! Talking. Playing Bass and trying to ply guitar. writing angery anti-establishment songs. watching movies.Just being me.

I'd like to meet:

Intelligent , strong, freewilled. people who have gone beyond their boundries to distill the true person inside. People who love music. People who love reading, talking about intellectual and stupid stuff. People who don't settle for the minimum but who are looking for the next great adventure. And anyone who ever wanted to be a pirate.

Music:

I love music. Not a big fan of popular music and find most of the stuff I listen to, no one has heard of. All time favorite artist though has to be Otis Redding. No question. Love Punk, the real stuff that means nothing found at Hot Topic. Love Johnny Cash, John Lee Hooker, The Clash, The Who. New groups I think the best music in the world is being made by Bobby Bare Jr. as long as he remembers that his heart is filled with the wildness of rock. The Portland Band I Can Lick Any Sonofabitch In The House will save Rock'n'Roll mark My words. There is just so much out there that I know I will spend all of my life trying to listen to it all, and will fail miserabley.

Books:

Cash by Johnny Cash, Poetry by Bukowski and Pablo Neruda. John Fante books. Chuck Palanhniuk books. Poe, Hunter s. Thompson. Poetry as long as it dosn't rhym. Love old pulp novels like the Flash Gordon serials. Philosopy by Epictetus.The Bible. I use to read Scifi, Fantasy books but not so much anymore. Mags: Varla, No Depression, Blues Review,Guitar and Bass Player, CMJ. I don't read Rollingstone because it's a fashion mag. On line I read In Music We Trust.

Heroes:

Johnny Cash, Charlse Bukowski, Leo Tolstoy, and My Grand Mother, Alice Lawrence (she's 94 years old, and one of the coolest people I will ever know.)

My Blog

Tuesday Poetry 05/22/07

The waning magic of Three AM ..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> Growing older, Three AM has lost its magic, With nothing But an empty bed and early morni...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 22 May 2007 10:11:00 PST

Tuesday Poetry for 3/27/2007

Buried and Cold There are ghosts in this machine Making it too easy to dig up things buried and cold, To peel back scare tissue, To open old wounds. But like a witness to the execution Gaze fixed ...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 09:54:00 PST

Tuesday Poetry, (a little early)

Letting go of Flammables Hollowed down by whiskey, I've been burnt Like moth wings on light bulbs By all the women I never should have loved But knew no better How they left their shadows in m...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:48:00 PST

I miss him

My Grandfather died on Wednesday and this hurts so bad I can't feel anything below my neck. I havn't cried yet and I hope that when the tears come I have the courage to shed them because I hate crying...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:17:00 PST

Tuesday Poetry (Yes I know it's Monday) 09/03/2006

The Inability of Broken Frames I despise these parts of me that still love you, The palm of my hand, The back of my knee, The point where earlobes meet my Jaw line That all these years of weig...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:28:00 PST

Play the music and play it loud.

Have you ever been kicked in the nuts so many times you just stop breathing? I think that's the hardest part of living in this broken world. We'd be able to be happy, and I mean truely happy for more ...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:57:00 PST

Venting

I hate those mornings you wake up and you just feel like a freak. If the second day of being 30 is any indicator of the rest of this year, It might have been better to have drank myself dead before no...
Posted by Mark on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 09:30:00 PST

Tuesday Poetry (The Muse can be a real bitch)

I do this thing where I send out Poetry every Tuesday give or take a week to a bunch of people. I call it Tuesday Poetry. I'm posting this weeks installment. Enjoy. P.S. If you want to be a...
Posted by Mark on Thu, 12 Jan 2006 12:24:00 PST

This road ahead.

I can't sleep tonight. Nothing new. But tonight I can't help but think that I'm at a cross roads and I'm not sure if I'm ready for the road ahead. I look at my father and I don't know how to get from ...
Posted by Mark on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:52:00 PST

Motivation

My Kingdom for motivation. Man some times I feel like my legs are cement and I just find the energy to move in the life direction that I want. I do have to remeber that I'm at a good place, but some t...
Posted by Mark on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST