clockwork and velveteen

life is but a dream



I have the eyes of an artist, the hands of a poet,
and the hair of a scientist.

I have Einstein' politics, Kennedy's libido, and Beethoven's hearing.

I am a teacher and college student,
a writer, a nerd with fashion sense,
a verbal pugilist,
a procrastinator of great, earth-shaking events,

a dream walker.

I am moody, ruled by conscience, guided by voices, led
by tendrils of sweet aroma that look like little hands
that lead me to traps set by mice, that involve anvils
and hot pokers,
I am romantic and playful, snuggly and prone to bouts of wrestle-tourettes, moody, surly, bi-polemic,
faster than a speeding witticism,
able to leap tall rationales in a single leap of faith.

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Some favorite bands:
AfroCelt Soundsystem, Amee Mann, Ani DiFranco, Apoptygma Bezerk, Bauhaus, Beborn Beton, Beethoven, Belle and Sebastian, Billie Holiday, Beatles, Bjork, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Blue October, Blue Oyster Cult, Bob Dylan, The Boys Next Door, The Bolshoi, Carter USM, The Church, Chameleons, Clan of Xymox, Cocteau Twins, Coldplay, Concrete Blonde, Conjure One, Covenant, Cowboy Junkies, Cranberries, The Cult, The Cure, Cruxshadows, The Damned, David Bowie, Dead Can Dance, Delirium, Depeche Mode, De/Vision, Dido, Echo and the Bunnymen, Edie Brickell, Enigma, Enya, Evanescence, Everything But the Girl, Faith and the Muse, Faithless, Fiona Apple, Fields of the Nephilim, Fleetwood Mac, Flock of Seagulls, Flogging Molly, Foo Fighters, Frank Sinatra, Fugazi, Garbage, Gene Loves Jezebel, Hooverphonic, Iggy Pop (and the Stooges), Indigo Girls, Inxs, Iron Maiden, James, Janes Addiction, Jeff Buckley, Jesus and Mary Chain, John Lennon, Joy Division, Kate Bush, Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Leonard Cohen, The Lightning Seeds, Lisa Gerard, Liz Phair, Love Spirals Downward, Loveliescrushing, Love and Rockets, Low, Lush, Loreena McKennit, Lycia, Massive Attack, Mazzy Starr, MC900ft Jesus, Megadeth, Midnight Oil, Milla Jovovich, Minor Threat, Misfits, Melissa Etheridge, Ministry, The Mission, Moby, Mozart, My Bloody Valentine, Neil Young, Nettwerk Records, New Order, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, nirvana, October Project, Oingo Boingo, Pearl Jam, Peter Gabriel, Peter Murphy, Pet Shop Boys, Pink Floyd, Poe, The Pogues, The Police, Portishead, The Posies, Projekt Records, Psychedelic Furs, The Ramones, Radiohead, REM, Sarah McClachlan, Sarah Brightman, Sigur Ros, Sinead O Connor, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Social Distortion, Smashing Pumpkins, Skinny Puppy, The Shroud, The Smiths, Sisters of Mercy, The Sundays, Suzanne Vega, Switchblade Symphony, Tears for Fears, Tom Petty, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Tones on Tail, Tori Amos, This Mortal Coil, U2, VNV Nation, Warrior Soul, Wolfsheim, Yaz

Some favorite authors:
Richard Bach, Albert Camus, Truman Capote, Orson Scott Card, E.E. Cummings, Maureen Dowd, William Faulkner, Neil Gaiman, Herman Hesse, Stephen King, George Lakoff, C.S. Lewis, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Richard Matheson, George Orwell, Sylvia Plath, Frederick Pohl, J.K. Rowling, William Shakespeare, Mary Shelley, John Steinbeck, Neal Stephenson, Kurt Vonnegut, Edith Wharton, William Carlos Williams

Some Favorite movies
12 Monkeys, Amelie, American History X, Better Off Dead, Big Fish, The Big Lebowski, Big Trouble in Little China, The Boondock Saints, Braveheart, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Breakfast Club, City of Lost Children, Dark Crystal, Dogs in Space, Donnie Darko Electric Dreams, Fifth Element, Fight Club, Fisher King, Gladiator, Ghostbusters, Groundhogs Day, High fidelity, Hudson Hawk, I [heart] Huckabees, Interview with the Vampre, Iron Giant, Labyrinth, Legend, Lord of the Rings, Lost Boys, Moulin Rouge, Matrix, Mothman Prophecies, One Crazy Summer, The Professional, Raising Arizona, Secret of Nimh, SLC Punk, Spiderman 2, Spitfire Grill, Superman (not so much the movie, just the frickin theme song) Tank Girl, Time Bandits, Vanilla Sky, Velvet Goldmine, What Dreams May Come, When Harry Met Sally, The World According to Garp

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