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Claire

Live to the point of tears. (camus)

About Me

I like to imagine the world from the perspective of an expat cat. That's what I'm up to most recently, anyway. In other news, The Bowmans are ...doing things often, and I'm involved in that of course. The music I make with my sister, Sarah, has become a product, which you can purchase, and we're marketing it at motherwest.comWe have a website isn't that something. Please be open to me when you meet me, and please tolerate my interest in you.

My Interests

music, The Bowmans, art, philosophy, psychology, old trees, political cynicism, open hearted people, inter-subjectivity, fart jokes, place, paris, the ocean, the midwest, road trips, ancient cultures and languages, love, laughter, the now, personal nostalgia, literature, travel, scents like wilting wet rose gardens, feminist epistemology, visitors, stones, green grass growing on ancient things, whatever interesting thing you introduce me to.

I'd like to meet:

living people

Music:

cat power, especially you are free, gillian welch, innocence mission, palestrina, cacteau twins, grizzly bear, joni mitchell, praetorious at christmas, neutral milk hotel, led zepplin, luna, and personally christopher bernhard, the avett brothers, frank hoier, paleface, brook pridemore, scott's roger peterson, ian thomas, trummer, peter nevins, jaymay, the oxygen ponies, david LK murphy, hope for a golden summer, nicole atkins, secondhand stories, rasputina, the new familiars, chris maher, the wowz, cheese on bread, pollyanna, megan palmer, jessie robertson, casey holford, jeff lewis, the trachtenberg family slideshow players, charles theodore zerner, kamikaze hearts, kris gruen, and also some damien rice, andrew bird, vivaldi, bach, albinoni, chopin, johny cash, will oldham, bright eyes, isabella torrinni, and the be good tanyas.TheBowmansMusic.com The Bowmans on Myspace

Movies:

waking life, royal tannenbaums, the big lebowski, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

Television:

it's all shit.

Books:

beautiful

Heroes:

let music move you

My Blog

vacant hearts

  Love is an empty whisper It's a call without promise It's an illusion A promise without a future An idea without inception A plan without implementation   It requires more th...
Posted by Claire on Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:19:00 PST

Pim’s right. What am I sulking about?

Our Amsterdam host is one of the most unique people I've met. And he has a lot of insight. And he observed today that Sarah and I have a lot of fun together.  He got up from his nap and he heard ...
Posted by Claire on Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:58:00 PST

restless habits from dwelling below the street

I am in Amsterdam, finding my way down a short dark hallway, careful so as not to stray too far to the left, where I would be sure to knock a toe into one of the dozens of loose bottles lining the co...
Posted by Claire on Sat, 31 May 2008 06:29:00 PST

do predators seduce their prey?

My mind is always hungry. And it devours my heart. It leaves just enough to get strong enough to grow and feed it again. Somehow, I feel my emotions engage with my mind like a dance.. like the dance I...
Posted by Claire on Fri, 30 May 2008 05:57:00 PST

let your mind do the drinking

You wouldn't sling your arm across your friend's shoulder and start singing your favorite well-known song at the top of your lungs if you weren't drunk?  You wouldn't jump naked into a motel pool...
Posted by Claire on Mon, 26 May 2008 07:51:00 PST

sunny ghost

If I ever said I loved you, you shouldn't have looked right to me to feel it. I put it in the things around you. Look to the waving branches, summoning you to see it.  Look to the clouds, spellin...
Posted by Claire on Fri, 23 May 2008 01:58:00 PST

free to stay free forever

You are alone in Paris. You have the keys to two apartments, each on the edge of the city. You bought a SIM card at the Virgin Megastore at Champs Elysees on the recommendation of a Parisian friend so...
Posted by Claire on Sat, 17 May 2008 05:13:00 PST

the ephemeral identity

I said, "I don't know what to do," and a friend replied, "You know what you need to do. You just aren't listening to yourself. If you listen to yourself, you will know what you need to do."And a frien...
Posted by Claire on Fri, 09 May 2008 03:06:00 PST

About to start

I'm about to go onstage in Luzern, Switzerland. It's a beautiful city in a beautiful country. A country I came to appreciate too late. Not that I didn't appreciate Switzerland, I did. But the people. ...
Posted by Claire on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:06:00 PST

don’t ever do anything you wouldn’t do if you weren’t drunk

I watched a classic Elizabeth Taylor movie tonight, "Butterfield 8." At first, I thought it was going to be a pathetic love story of the bad girl finding the bad man and falling in love and the two so...
Posted by Claire on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:28:00 PST