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Candy

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About Me

Real. Vaguely eccentric. Difficult. Loving. Happy.

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My Interests

Music, instruments, ceramics, word magnet poetry, weird sandwiches, crop circles. Mexico. India. Learning to play my guitar. Truck improvement.

I'd like to meet:

Kongar-ool Ondar
old New Mexicans
musicians
potters

Music:

Led Zeppelin, Jose Gonzalez, Gillian Welch, Ralph Stanley, Sean Hayes, Mark Farina, M. Ward, Debashish Battacharya, Eddie Hazel, Tom Waits, Cat Power, Iron and Wine, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Toots and the Maytals, Sigur Rs, Mojave 3, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Peggy Lee, Bob Dylan, the Pixies, Latin Playboys, Yo la Tengo!, Devotchka, Verve, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Viking Moses, The Anomoanon, Townes Van Zandt, Bloc Party, Sigur Rs, The Magnetic Fields, Cheer Accident, My Morning Jacket, Tinariwen, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum...

Movies:

Cabeza de Vaca, Ikiru, O No! Coronado, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, The Fisher King, House of Fools, Arizona Dream, Walkabout, Airplane, The Milagro Beanfield War, Six Degrees of Separation, The Zero Effect, Klute, The African Queen, North By Northwest, Some Like It Hot, Last Holiday, Being There, Flawless, Devi, Ghengis Blues, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Start the Revolution Without Me, Next Stop Wonderland, God of Cookery, Kung fu Hustle, Big Trouble In Little China...

Television:

Dr. Who, The Daly Show/Colbert Report

Books:

Animal Dreams, The Sea of Fertility Series, Woman on the Dunes, Jitterbug Perfume, The Bone Man of Benares, The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency, Eat Love Pray

Heroes:

Beatrice Wood, Paul Pena, Han-shan and Shih-te

My Blog

Why am I in Peru?

I find myself in the mountains of Peru by way of a plane that is never very far from the ground.  My real-life office manager (whom I always call "Mama Yolanda") is there, car...
Posted by Candy on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:38:00 PST

Journal entry from Mexico City hotel

Aug. 07Playing my okarina in this dark room, i hear another flute respond.  Back and forth we go, and i think about birds... calling into the air.  They find eachother.  They know other...
Posted by Candy on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:34:00 PST

Unviersity of Flowers

Dream 6.27.07Driving across the country, I come to a university in the desert.  It is like an old stone cathedral with wide porches all around and a tall spire.  At the top, i...
Posted by Candy on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:42:00 PST

Swimming through the house

My house is flooded.  With the help of a distant sister i swim through the house and under a baseboard window into a yard that has trees and feels like the South.  Here i am able to sta...
Posted by Candy on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 12:37:00 PST

White Dog

Dream 5/1/07: There is a wild white dog who has adopted me as an owner.  When i see him i know it's not the first time.  Now he appears out of nowhere on the streets of San Jose as i search ...
Posted by Candy on Fri, 04 May 2007 08:53:00 PST

the empty container

I am walking down a blue country road in the afternoon with my sister.  There is only tall grass around us, and mountains a ways off.  Feeling that i have forgotten something, i go back to s...
Posted by Candy on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:23:00 PST

426 Broadway

If you ever went to a party at our old apartment in North Beach, you know what a cool fucking place it was.  You may not know, however, that yesterday a chunk of Telegraph Hill caved in on o...
Posted by Candy on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 09:57:00 PST

Cyclone

I've decided to blog my dreams.  Feel free to comment, psychoanylize, or share your own. Rene from Miami just reminded me of this one from several years ago: I am in a beach town that gives ...
Posted by Candy on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:22:00 PST

Snakes

Dream: 1-8-07 I am drumming on the floor and wall along with this guy who is crouched down across the room.  At first the drumming feels like labor - like something i have to think about - but th...
Posted by Candy on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:46:00 PST

If you think you're on the right track...

you probably are.  If you think you're on the wrong track, slow down and feel the right one.
Posted by Candy on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 11:32:00 PST