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mamaabsinthe

You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way...

About Me

? uh, depends on the day, the hour, my mood, the light, my mind... I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

My Interests

Art, music, spirituality, poetry, literature, adventure, learning, mysticism, travel, yoga, philosophy, psychology, running/hiking, fitness, creating...life

I'd like to meet:

Bob Dylan, Jesus, Pope John Paul II, Steve Earle, White Eagle, the Dalai Lama, a druid, Kate Bush, Loreena McKennitt, Jack Kerouac, Ram Dass, more Finnish folk, Tom Waits, my friends' parents, O'Carolan, Hemingway, Toulouse Lautrec...

Music:

ALL (almost) All the kinds with frequencies that don't disrupt the crystal formation of a molecule of water to make it look like an Edvard Munch painting (although I do love his work). Anything unique, with soul.

Movies:

Down by Law, Babette's Feast, the Moderns, Drop Dead Fred, the Last Waltz, Stranger than Paradise, Dead Man, Total Eclipse, Pele the Conquerer, Cannibal the Musical, Love Song for Bobby Long, The Butcher Boy, Intermission, Henry Fool, Wonder Boys, Breakfast on Pluto, Camille Claudel, the Big Lebowski, any of Pedro Almodovar's, anything about New Orleans...

Television:

Don't watch.

Books:

whew...gotta go to a library.

Heroes:

Almost everyone I know

My Blog

time to leave

Don't remember the last time I wrote, and don't know if anyone even reads this, but I'm writing more for myself than for anyone else right now.I'm forgetting words in English..need to practice writing...
Posted by mamaabsinthe on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 03:36:00 PST

a picture

Last night, a friend told me that he had been riding around with a bottle in his van for several weeks, and had just thrown in out.I knew something was not quite right not long after I met him. Sever...
Posted by mamaabsinthe on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 12:40:00 PST

Addiction

In a hotel room in Riga, Latvia tonight. Through my open hotel window I can hear the seagulls crying from the Daugava river, which spills out into the sea around the bend. Too exhausted from the day...
Posted by mamaabsinthe on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 02:02:00 PST

nature

Went for a run this evening;  it clears my mind and helps me to appreciate all the beauty in this world.  For starters, the weather was perfect.  I was on the road completely alone exce...
Posted by mamaabsinthe on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 12:10:00 PST

oh, just thinkin'...

Saturday may 26 2007.  Writing ouside on my front stoop.  I love that word:  stoop.  Unless it refers to posture.  Sitting on my front stoop, watching the sunset...watching th...
Posted by mamaabsinthe on Mon, 28 May 2007 07:29:00 PST

to the woods

Had my first commission and got paid for it! Yeay.  Already have my next one lined up.  Still need an easel...maybe I'll just knock together a few branches with nails and call it done. ...
Posted by mamaabsinthe on Sat, 05 May 2007 08:46:00 PST

from Gietrzwald, Poland

Writing this from the office of a priest (who also happens to be my uncle) in a place called Gietrzwald.  To Roman Catholics, and even to those of other or no denominations, this is a very holy p...
Posted by mamaabsinthe on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 09:40:00 PST

spring (?) in Chicago

So the Easter holiday is over...haven't spent that much time with family in a while. Got in to Chicago Thursday night, and Friday morning I took a road trip to Minnesota with my mom to pick up my unc...
Posted by mamaabsinthe on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 06:35:00 PST

Getting closer

I leave for Chicago in 4 days...how ready am I? ? Well, I just purchased a converter for my laptop. Waiting at the Starbuck's to get my haircut at Rudy's on Melrose. Haircuts are very cheap in Pol...
Posted by mamaabsinthe on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 01:06:00 PST

an artist in the world

About to embark on a journey. This artist/musician/writer is soon leaving for Poland (family's native land) to paint, write, teach, play, love, learn and experience. I'm not one for making too many ...
Posted by mamaabsinthe on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 04:29:00 PST