the exhilarating yet excruciating pursuit of the true self... yep.
Music
if you really care...lately grooving to Radio Citizen, Noonday Underground, the decemberists, Ray Lamontagne, radiohead, Postal Service, Nina Simone, Roy Ayers, Billie Holiday, Fiona Apple, Turin Brakes, Verve, Stevie Wonder, Amy Correia, Erikah Badu, Doves, Belle and Sebastian...
Movies
Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, The Royal Tenenbaums, The English Patient, The unbearable lightness of being, Artemesia , Me you and everyone we know, Almost Famous, Waking life, and so much more
Television
melts your brain... except for 6 feet under.
Books
good reads as of late: Eat Pray Love- Elizabeth Gilbert, Fiece Invalids Home from Hot Climates- Tom Robbins, The Time Traveler's Wife-Audrey Niffenegger, anything by Milan Kundera, anything by Michael Ondaatje, Anais Ninn, and Ayn Rand, One Hundred Years of Solitude-Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 50 secrets of magic craftmanship- salvador dali, Robert Graves poetry...
I finally finished the album!! woo hooo. The short-lived life of magen melancholy is now available @ magenmelancholy.com!!! your support is needed and very much appreciated!!
"By all intents and purposes I shouldn't be here. I should be a forlorn figment of nobody's imagination; the impossible secret dream of my mother's troubled heart. By all outward appearances I should have been swimmin' in the load she swallowed; swirling about in that milky glob that flew in her eye. I should have been the one who always got away. If the devil did care, he would have assigned me to a permanent post in the realm of sweet possibility. But did any of this honkey tonk bullshit happen? Noooooooooooooo. That would have been way too easy for everybody. Instead, by the apparent (miraculous) intervention of unseen forces, what began as an innocuous nipping of the nuggets would become the baddest little bitch that could."
-excerpt from my blog, 'her tumor had a heart of glass.' come check it out!