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Miss Manders

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About Me

1. I really want a violin tatooed on my back. Will you help me design it?2. Billie Holliday sounds better on vinyl or while taking a bath. Don't even try to argue, cause you'll be wrong, wrong, wrong.3.) My violin and guitar mean the world to me, and the quickest way into my pants is to play an instrument, if you so desire.4.) My spooning name is "Spoons With Wolves." But that can also be modified to "Dances with Spoons." It's your call.5.)Sometimes, when I feel sad, I watch this video, and feel better:

My Interests

MUSIC...circus antics, SPOONING, my bike, gender transgression, radical educational tactics, being a dirty bastard, saunas, vampires and werewolves, murder ballads, Diane Arbus' photography, gamelan music, reading all night long, men in kilts, power outages, handwritten letters, digging in the dirt, chocolate, Romani violin, depth psychology and the collective unconscious, hiking by myself, erotica, art that inspires feeling, and all that other hippie shit.

I'd like to meet:

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Music:

Afro-cuban, folk, old-timey, bluegrass, country, swing, gypsy/Romani, Hungarian, hot-club, swing, jazz, soul, funk, west african, emo, experimental, jam band, indy, down-tempo, trip-hop, good conscious hip hop, zydeco, 80's pop, 90's pop, Indian raga/sitar music, classical/romantic/baroque/chamber, alternative, grunge, some celtic/scottish, I could go on and on and on...

Movies:

My favorite director is Hal Ashby, who directed "Being There" and "Harold and Maude." But I am also into Jane Campion, Richard Linklater, Akira Kurosawa, Steven Shainberg, Tim Burton, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

Television:

Star Trek: The Next Generation. I would totally have sex with Jean Luc Picard or Commander Data. Separately, or both at the same time.

Books:

Tom Robbins, Neil Gaiman, Pablo Neruda, Stephen Elliott, Rumi, Farley Mowat, Gertrude Stein, D.H. Lawrence, e.e. cummings, Richard Brautigan, Jane Austen, Kahlil Gibran, Howard Zinn, Joseph Campbell, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Christy Brown, Rainer Maria Rilke, Derek Jensen, Alexandre Dumas, Milan Kundera, Henry David Thoreau, George Sand, Jack London, Maya Angelou, Isabel Allende, Anne Rice, J.R.R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, James Hillman, the Bronte sisters, etc.

Heroes:

My Mom, and these folks: And Maude, of course...When in doubt, ask yourself, "What would Maude do?"

My Blog

Love Dogs

Love dogs by Rumi   One night a man was crying,   Allah! Allah!   His lips grew sweet with the praising,   until a cynic said,   "So! I have heard you...
Posted by Miss Manders on Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:15:00 PST

La Musica Duende

Just a little update for those of you who haven't heard from me in a while: The music degree is going really well, even if I feel manic about it sometimes. On the one hand, I feel so great about learn...
Posted by Miss Manders on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 06:10:00 PST

WHAT?

1. I've come to realize that my last kiss.... should have stayed put.2. I am listening to....Django Reinhart, the man who tore gypsy jazz a new one with only three working fingers.3. I talk....when Im...
Posted by Miss Manders on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:48:00 PST

tsirkis picaresque

Hey all...I know this is late notice, but I have a show tonight that I'd thought I would advertise.It is another version of the circus I did in April, and it is going to be a lot of fun. Whew. I am SO...
Posted by Miss Manders on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:40:00 PST

A 3 Hour Conversation gave me a present, and this poem is it.

You are tired,(I think)Of the always puzzle of living and doing;And so am I.Come with me, then,And we'll leave it far and far away-(Only you and I, understand!)You have played,(I think)And broke the t...
Posted by Miss Manders on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:02:00 PST

Drama

Late one night, when the moon shone and rain poured down on the otherwise idyllic township of Arcata, things spiralled out of control for the ladies of the double wide. Breakups, bad vibes, and large ...
Posted by Miss Manders on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:23:00 PST

Just an update. Nothing to see here.

There is so much to post, I don't know if I have the stamina for it right now.Every Monday night there is an open mike at Muddy Waters called "Menstrual Mondays," or "The Lady-like Open Mike." I have ...
Posted by Miss Manders on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:34:00 PST

You don't have to be beautiful to turn me on

My sex drive is freakin insane. INSANE.   That's all I have to say about that.
Posted by Miss Manders on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 04:29:00 PST

Ravings

The time has come for me to decide what the fuck I am doing about the living situation. Another winter in the trailer might just kill me. But should I move into the nasty yurt on my boss' property for...
Posted by Miss Manders on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:05:00 PST

Violent Tendencies

You will never guess what movie I saw that I thought I would hate but that I was actually really into....   ....... Sin City. I really liked it. Who knew? Elijah Wood scared the shit out of me. ...
Posted by Miss Manders on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 10:24:00 PST