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The Porcupine King

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About Me

"You Know as well as I do we all go around in disguise. The halo stuffed in the pocket, the cloven hoof awkward in the shoe, the X-ray eye blinking behind thick lenses, the two midgets dressed as one tall man, the giant stooping in a pinstripe, the pirate in a housewife's smock, the wings shoved into sleeveholes, the wild racing, wandering, r_____, burning, loving pulses of reality decorously disguised as a roomful of Human beings. I know goddam well what's out there under all those masks. Beauty and Power and Terror and Love." - James Tiptree Jr.I am a 326 year old man (Rip Van Winkle style) Trapped in the body of a 25 year old woman. When I'm not dreaming of playing nine pins in heaven with the elves I'm a composer/guitarist/singer play various instruments for the art rock group The Carnies (www.myspace.com/TheCarnies). We have completed our second album entitled Hardcore Nursery Rhyme Renditions. It is on sale******************************************************** ***www.cdbaby.com/cd/carnies******************************** *************************** The album is set up like a storybook with every song a different chapter. There's a lot of bird imagery. I really enjoy painting and all these birds kept crawling out of my pens, pencils, brushes. Music is my main passion, love, necessity, sustenance in life. I'm also working on a third Carnies' album entitled Weather the Spell. I've scored music for Beyond the Wall theatre company, ballet, modern dance, and visual art as well. For me, only two things matter, my life's work and the beings that I love. Any other queries please drop me a line (hook, bait, fish)..This profile was edited with MySpace Profile Editor MySpace Profile Editor

My Interests

Books (lots of fiction, classics), Painting, Writing, Music, Collecting interesting instruments (zithers, toy pianos, all manners of flutes, coconut windchimes), aquatic animals, dilapidated barns and buildings, travelling, seeing live music, good movies, swimming, stories of a sordid nature, mischief

I'd like to meet:

Der TraumVater
who would you have narrate your life? Richard Burton
favorite band The Replacements
current favorite song Can't Hardly Wait
what artist (dead/alive) would you have to tea Kate Bush
what artist (dead/alive) would you want to get drunk with Paul Westerberg
what was your favorite toy as a kid me keyboard
who was your first crush Stevie Wonder
what's your favorite animal whales are tied with monkeys
if you were a household appliance you would be... corkscrew (yummy wine)
favorite fictional character Conrad Jarrett (Ordinary People)
cats or dogs dogs definitely dogs
if you could have a superpower it would be... to fly of course (Gelfling Girl)
favorite holiday Easter
the one thing you would save if your house caught on fire my Guitar
the best gift you ever got my Sister
where were you when Biggie Smalls died C.P. South Central
favorite place to write the bathtub
favorite color green (living growing things)
the sea or the mountains mountains by the sea
if you could be a mythological creature Siren
favorite film King of Hearts
burned or buried? burned like the witches
what painting would you want to be stuck in anything by Van Gogh or Jackson Pollock
what's the perfect age 8 or 107
person you miss (dead/alive) my brother
where do you want to be right now right here
first book you learned to read Green Eggs and Ham
first song you loved I Just Called to Say I Love You
God or the devil "Jesus rides beside me but never buys any smokes"
what's your favorite word portentous (or 'lunch' it sounds so complete)

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Music:

Kate Bush, Paul Westerberg, The Pixies, Captain BeefHeart, Jeremy Enigk, Cocteau Twins, P.J. Harvey, Joni Mitchell, The Smiths, The Clash, Sunny Day Real Estate, Can, Tom Waits, The Replacements, Ryan Adams, The National, Van Morrison, The Fire Theft, Joanna Newsom Johnny Cash, Shannon Wright, Laura Nyro, Cat Power, Edith Piaf, Nina Simone, Diamanda Galas, Patti Smith, Jeff Buckley, Modest Mouse, John Lee Hooker, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Billy Holiday, Neutral Milk Hotel, John Coltrane, Howlin Wolf etc.

Movies:

400 Blows, King of Hearts, Edward Scissorhands, The Wicker Man, The Dark Crystal, Singles, Belle de Jour, Amores Perros, Tootsie, Singles, Brahm Stoker's Dracula (It's so bad it's good), B-Horror films, Silent films with Claire Bow, Greta Garbo, Hungarian Fairytale, Anything with Parker Posey

Television:

Kids in the Hall, Macgyver, Golden Girls, Strangers with Candy, Iron Chef, Quantum Leap, anything on Discovery, Fawlty Towers, Sarcasm is the HIGHEST form of wit

Books:

A New Earth, Catcher in the Rye, A Book of Dreams, Ordinary People, Sound and the Fury, The House of the Spirits, Satanic Verses, War and Peace, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, Wuthering Heights, Blue Beard, Witches, Emerson, Dickinson, Sexton, W.C. Williams, Plath, Whitman

Heroes:

My sister, Eckhart Tolle, Emerson, Kate Bush, Paul Westerberg, Jeremy Enigk, Nancy Wilson, Elizabeth Fraser, Parker Posey, J.D. Salinger, and me mum

My Blog

"Trust thyself:every heart vibrates to that iron string"

Hope everyone is having a marvelous summer full of joy, peace, and good will unto all beings vegetable/mineral/animal/other. The best card I ever got was from my favorite person ever. The front has ...
Posted by The Porcupine King on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:33:00 PST

Igloo at Fur Rendezvous

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Posted by The Porcupine King on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 04:28:00 PST

A Little Mascara

"The Ones who love us best are the ones we'll lay to rest, visit their graves on holidays at best.    The Ones who love us least are the ones we'll die to please."...
Posted by The Porcupine King on Sat, 03 Dec 2005 11:54:00 PST

Cloudbusting(you're like myyoyo that glowed in the dark what made it special made it dangerous)

     I'm currently working on an independent research project for my masters about how art from different mediums, times, and of a disparate nature inspires other art.  My pro...
Posted by The Porcupine King on Wed, 30 Nov 2005 10:11:00 PST

A Book of Dreams

Concoctions...slime snails puppy dog tails. The little smirks of light and shadow dancing on the guardrails.. stopped in traffic. Who is when is where? Come have the spine to try and be kind. You'...
Posted by The Porcupine King on Sat, 19 Nov 2005 08:19:00 PST

Oh The World is Round and I'll Go Round, You Must Risk Something That Matters

"At the bottom of every frozen heart there is a drop or two of love-just enough to feed the birds." H. Miller
Posted by The Porcupine King on Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:51:00 PST

To never ever wonder why at all

There's something wildly, insanely alive about Van Morrison's Astral Weeks.  Doing dishes in Spa Ha has found me rummaging thru and rediscovering so many albums I haven't visited in a long time.&...
Posted by The Porcupine King on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST