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My mantra: "I am home. I have arrived in the here in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell." I think what I want most in life is just to be able to love, be loved, to play music, and see the world.Music mainly; singing, playing instruments, writing songs, listening to my favorite artists and going to shows and concerts, but I also love photography, art, movies and books. And traveling. Visiting big cities as well as vast countrysides. I hope to travel all over the world over the course of my lifetime and get to experience as many different types of cultures and cities and landscapes as possible. I'm also pretty obsessed with dogs. I have a 1 year old Italian Greyhound mix named Pepper who I love as deeply as I would my firstborn child.
I love my dead husband. Most of the people I'd like to meet are already dead. I'd really love to meet Jim Morrison, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith, Theresa Duncan and Jeremy Blake. I guess I'm kind of a morbid romantic. On the other hand, I love being here on this planet at this moment and meeting those who are sharing this air with me while I'm alive, as well. I'd love to meet everyone on my music list below. New friends, old friends, family and strangers. Freaks & geeks. People who stimulate and inspire, and help to make positive changes in the world
Hey Look! It's me! Singing a song I wrote and arranged! This video is from my Senior Jury at M.I. approximately one year ago.
Indie Circuit: I Make This Sound, The Breakups, Castledoor, the Monolators, Nick Jaina, LeSwitch, The Parson Redheads, Charlie Wadhams, Eric Von Kneip, Sideshow Rubies, HoneyHoney, and many more. As far as the mainstream of consciousness goes, my all-time favorite singer is JEFF BUCKLEY, but I also love: Bjork, Tori Amos, Regina Spektor, Fiona Apple, Bright Eyes, Elliott Smith, St. Vincent, Jenny Lewis, Cat Power, PJ Harvey, Portishead, Interpol, Ani DiFranco, Radiohead, the Mars Volta, Modest Mouse, Andrew Bird, Sufjan Stevens, Morrissey, Band of Horses, Belle & Sebastian, A.F.I., NineINCHnails, the Violent Femmes, the Smashing Pumpkins, Stone Temple Pilots, Nirvana, the Cure, the Smiths, Depeche Mode, Joy Division, Blondie, David Bowie, Queen, Aerosmith, the Doors, the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, the Velvet Underground, the Clash, Tom Waits, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Eva Cassidy, STEVIE WONDER, James Brown, Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, etc, etc, etc. Some of my favorite jazz singers include Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Louis Armstrong, Diane Reeves, etc. Some of my favorite Brazilian singers are Elis Regina, Gal Costa, Astrud Gilberto, Luciana Souza, Rosa Passos, and of course, Tom Jobim. Definitely some classical and Broadway influences as well... I have such eclectic tastes that it's really hard to mention everything.
Across the Universe, The Science of Sleep, Punch-Drunk Love, Little Miss Sunshine, Lost in Translation, the Royal Tenenbaums, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, High Fidelity, The Constant Gardener, Dancer in the Dark, Amelie, Garden State, Amadeus, Great Expectations, Bad Education, All About My Mother, Reality Bites, the Virgin Suicides, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, Requiem for a Dream, Reservoir Dogs, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Natural Born Killers, Edward Scissorhands, the Nightmare Before Christmas, Big Fish, Sweeney Todd, (pretty much any Tim Burton film), THE LAST UNICORN, Sleeping Beauty, the Neverending Story, the Princess Bride, Meet Joe Black, Interview with the Vampire, SUPERBAD, Napoleon Dynamite (GOSH!), Wayne's World, Groundhog Day, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Happy Gilmore, Superstar, Moulin Rouge, Chicago, Fiddler on the Roof, and many more
Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Freaks & Geeks! Sex & the City, Weeds, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Planet Earth, Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, So You Think You Can Dance?, American Idol, Will & Grace, Friends, SNL, Family Guy, INVADER ZIM, Spongebob, the Simpsons
Dream Brother, The Only Bush I Trust is My Own, "Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting," Running with Scissors, Love is a Mix Tape, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Effortless Mastery, Tori Amos:Piece by Piece, The da Vinci Code, the Celestine Prophecy, the Five People You Meet in Heaven, Fight Club, Interview with the Vampire, the Vampire Lestat, the Catcher in the Rye, and poetry by Charles Bukowski, Jim Morrison, e.e. cummings, Emily Dickinson, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, William Blake, and many others.
The Universal Source from which we all came, Dad, Mom, Sisters, Brother...all for different reasons. I'm very thankful for my strong and supportive family. Jeff Buckley has been an enormous inspiration to my life and my music. Al Gore is starting to become one of my favorite people. And myself, because sometimes you gotta be your own hero and save yourself when there's no one else to rely on.
Aaaah, Amazing Grace!