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Mahliss.

How true is it that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

About Me


I'm a writer ,
a photographer ,
a journalist ,
a poetess ...
I love to laugh . I love to make people laugh. I wear my heart on my sleeve. If I’m pissed off, you’ll know it. I used to hate math, but now I really enjoy it. I love to read out loud. If I walk passed a pet store, I have to go in, even if it makes me sad. I’m afraid to pick poppies because they are the California state flower and it is illegal. I hate elevators. I’m afraid of fireworks ; not the professional ones, the ones people set off in the street. My sister is the most hilarious person I know. She also does the best Fat Bastard impression you’ll ever see, if you are lucky enough to. My sister means more to me than she’ll ever know. I love watching the hummingbirds outside my bedroom window as they feed from the flowers. I’m an excellent judge of character. My best friend Cortney understands me better than any friend I’ve ever had. I'm slightly narcoleptic. Moving to Newport Beach was the best decision I have ever made. But moving back home was the second best. I’m very intuitive, I get that from my mother; we always know what the other is thinking. I have a fish named snowy joey . It is the second one I’ve had, with the same name. I like to make collages. I blush furiously when I’m nervous or embarrassed. I’m incredibly ticklish. I love giving journals as gifts and writing little messages in them to make them more personal. writing keeps me sane. I would love to write for Vanity Fair one day. Anna Quindlen is one of my favorite writers/columnists. Willow is my favorite movie. I think Ed Harris is a sexy older man. I love to visit art galleries and museums by myself. Sex and the City was a revolutionary show for women. I love to wear beanies. I can’t stand the taste of red meat. Music is necessary to life. I have a high school letterman jacket. I love driving over bridges and hate driving under overpasses. I hate getting in the shower, but love to take really long ones. I think MTV should no longer call themselves Music Television, since they hardly ever play music. If I ever move back to SoCal, it’ll be to Long Beach or Santa Monica. I tend to talk a lot , and really fast. I’m stubborn and very proud, I get that from my father. My ethnicity is Irish and Brasilian , with a little bit of other European mixed in. I admit when I am wrong, but I am wrong very rarely :)
I don't know this guy , but I love his art...

My Interests

Smile, it makes people wonder what you're thinking...

I will always be learning. Because when you lose curiosity,

you die.

I'd like to meet:



Ireland, I love you...

When I die Dublin will be written in my heart. - James Joyce

a few favorite quotes

A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war.
- Albert Einstein

It is dangerous to be right
when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire

The quickest way to a man's heart..
is through the chest with a sharp object.
- unknown

Colorless green ideas sleep furiously.
- Noam Chomsky

The sad truth about dreams is that they rarely
let you travel to the same place twice.
- unknown

I dream in colours, astonishing, shimmering, clashing
colours...There are not enough names for the colours in my dreams.
- Clare Morrall

The pioneers of a warless world are the youth that
refuse military service.
- Albert Einstein

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin

Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.
- Vietnam war protest sign

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well
that Death will tremble to take us.
- Charles Bukowski

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
-E.M. Forster

History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare
us to be surprised yet again.
- Kurt Vonnegut

The first draft of anything is shit.
- Hemingway

Annual drug deaths: tobacco: 395,000, alcohol: 125,000,
'legal' drugs: 38,000, illegal drug overdoses: 5,200,
marijuana: 0. Considering government subsidies of tobacco,
just what is our government protecting us from in the drug war?
- William A. Turnbow

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone.... but they've always worked for me.
- Hunter S. Thompson

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.
- Henri Matisse

A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just begins
to live that day.
-Emily Dickinson

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
-Oscar Wilde

Music:

now playing My Moon My Man by Feist

If you paddle away, you know we'll find and put you back in this vesicle colony of mute vernacular. no dramatic means of fencing against this solitary sickness. as it precipitates flare gun shots. coughing into the armpit of a mecharest home---because when it rains, you know it pours...

Movies:

I love Thomas Arvid and Frank Moore

I discovered Victor Richardson, an Irish painter, while I was in Cork. He is amazing and you really can't tell by looking at these, you'd have to see his paintings in person, but they are beautiful.

Television:

The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.

Ray Bradbury

Books:


Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.
Ray Bradbury
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Ray Bradbury
I'm addicted to books. I own a few hundred and have read about half. I buy in bulk. Especially at the Newport Beach Library. For a dollar you can buy a book there that would typically cost around $25 at Barnes and Noble. So I would buy like ten at a time. $10 dollars for ten books is an amazing deal. And I would go at least once a week.
I hate to share my secret. But it would be a crime not to :)
Poetry
And it was at that age ... Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where
it came from, from winter or a river.
I don't know how or when,
no they were not voices, they were not
words, nor silence,
but from a street I was summoned,
from the branches of night,
abruptly from the others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.
I did not know what to say, my mouth
had no way
with names,
my eyes were blind,
and something started in my soul,
fever or forgotten wings,
and I made my own way,
deciphering
that fire,
and I wrote the first faint line,
faint, without substance, pure
nonsense,
pure wisdom
of someone who knows nothing,
and suddenly I saw
the heavens
unfastened
and open,
planets,
palpitating plantations,
shadow perforated,
riddled
with arrows, fire and flowers,
the winding night, the universe.
And I, infinitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
felt myself a pure part
of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.
Pablo Neruda

Heroes:


Mahliss. Blog Index
Resolution
Drug Free For Christ
Pocket Change
Top 10 Reasons Norcal is Better Than Socal
Fuckers Anonymous
I'm An Addict
Awesome Quote
Stale Cigarettes
The Ignorance Of Our Generation
Top Ten Reasons To Have Sex
Sunday Funday
A Red Condom
Six
My Favorite Color
Remember Me When
AmEx Survey
Sex Messaging
Speak(er)easy
Betwixt&Between
Legalese
Us vs. Them
Fuck Veneers
got so lost ...
The Origin Of Hella.
For Aja's and Jason's Wedding
From Another Melissa
Priorities
Seamus
Tea Bag Philosophy
ScaryMarriedSpace
Gen-Y Article
Going Home
Proust Questionnaire
Proust's Answers
In The Past
So Long, SoCal
Remote I-so-do-not-have Control
traces
sneaking sideways glances
Frank and Thomas
Nothing ever works out perfect
friend haikus
more friend haikus
road rage confessions
I'm a weirdo
daddy long legs
For Katie P.
Ladies Who Lunch
In Loving Memory of Herbert J. Bell
Modesty in the MySpace Blogosphere
The Scarlet Number
Why I Write
Silly Boyfriend Application
Kansas Avenue
A Lasting Impression
Invoking Creativity
I'm Sorry and Thank You
Deus Ex Machina
Fernet-Branca
Youth Is Wasted On The Young.
Appearances
A Postcard Revolution
Eire Go Bragh
The Eire Diaries
The Eire Diaries Day 2
The Eire Diaries Day 3
The Eire Diaries Day 4 & 5
The Eire Diaries Day 6-8
The Eire Diaries Day 9-11
The Eire Diaries Day 12 & 13
The Eire Diaries Day Finale
How I Live
A One Inch Picture Frame

My Blog

Ruled by the Moon

My horoscope for today: Cancer - Tuesday, September 25, 2007 Don't give up on your adventurous dreams just because they seem so distant and challenging to manifest. There is an essential theme to you...
Posted by Mahliss. on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 07:20:00 PST

Fall. and memories.

As the red fall sunSinks behind lazy clouds,The crisp night airStings my cheeks.As soft winds whisperTo golden leaves,That shiver on branchesOf sleeping trees.Mel 2003"Doesn't every human being feel l...
Posted by Mahliss. on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 12:09:00 PST

Because Mike made me.

I used to think that I had plenty of time to figure out who I wanted to be.Now I feel like I'm having a panic attack about my life at times. I was walking across a parking lot in Petaluma yesterday af...
Posted by Mahliss. on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:26:00 PST

agony is familiar territory

I watched this couple the other day, in a bar. This couple making out. I don't think they knew one another, or rather, had just met, that night. But they kissed and looked at each other like they were...
Posted by Mahliss. on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:38:00 PST

Im in the business of daydreaming

Inside the purples and blues of your dreams you see me and I'm dreaming too. It's snowy and sunny and I'm skipping and smiling. But I'm hiding the truth because I'm good at it. I walk down the sidewal...
Posted by Mahliss. on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 12:37:00 PST

Super Dad

Super Dad   As a little girl, I always knew I had the coolest dad. He drove a big truck and often times would drive it home to our little house on Kansas Avenue. Michelle and I would run outsid...
Posted by Mahliss. on Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:33:00 PST

All Those That Die Of Romantic Notions

The title of this post is from a piece of art by Simon Evans, one of my favorites and a former pro-skateboarder-turned-writer-turned artist. A London transplant to San Francisco, he came here in...
Posted by Mahliss. on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:00:00 PST

A One Inch Picture Frame

Taken literally it seems a very difficult thing, to view the world through a one inch picture frame. It was an exercise one of my writing mentors/professors would have us do in class fairly often. It ...
Posted by Mahliss. on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 01:39:00 PST

The Eire Diaries Finale

04 June 2007Kilkenny is the Irish version of Newport Beach. Or the nightlife is at least.After our dinner of pesto pasta and garlic, we stopped at Dunnes and bought a couple tall boys of Carlsberg an...
Posted by Mahliss. on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:04:00 PST

The Eire Diaries Days 12 & 13

02 June 2007I'm sitting in the living room at Kinlay. Kenz is here, curling her hair, standing on one of the couches to look into a mirror. We spent most of the day walking around Cork in the misty dr...
Posted by Mahliss. on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:36:00 PST