Merton Parrish
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My blogs
| Gender | Male |
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| Introduction | I'm a 48 year old, educated, work-at-home artist, writer, musician and teacher. I consider myself an "art hermit," leave my home just a few times a week, and usually see no one until 6pm each day (when hubby comes home and music students arrive). Personally, I am a gay, partnered man in a relationship with my husbear of 11 years. We had a civil union a decade ago and live a nice life in the suburbs. We're very different, but round each other out well (in a funny, strange, and never dull way). We have a sweet little doggie, who completes our little family. This blog represents various parts of me as a person, soul and artist. Notably, there is a very extroverted, very verbal, share everything/heart on my sleeve extoverted side of me, and a rather hermitted/monk-like, likes to be at home all day, work on his art, lit and music side of me as well. You might call me an extrointrovert. I strive to have a kind heart, am sincere in my artist/human journey, and earnestly wish to help/uplift others. |
| Interests | writing essays letters editorials, writing poems, illustrating books, making audio recordings, making slide-shows and films, creating various works of art, making literature art and media in series, taking photographs, making photo-manipulations, making pencil drawings, making pastel drawings, making colored pencil drawings, doing pen and ink pieces, craypas, creating mixed media artworks, digitally altering original drawings and paintings, painting in oil and watercolor, creating various artworks of traditional & recycled materials, making and framing works with traditional and recycled materials, making sculptures of various mediums, hand painting plastercraft statues making Curios dioramas and charm boxes, Knitting textiles scarves shawls and blankets, doing needlepoint cross stitch and crewel, applique, making collages and groupings of framed art, making/framing recycled materials, making mobiles, creating branch/hatpin cups, making faux stained glass ornaments |
| Favorite Movies | Harold and Maude, AI, Planet of the Apes, The Omega Man, Waiting for the Moon, Something Wicked This Way Comes, the Grass Harp |
| Favorite Music | Broadway, madrigals, medieval music, pop, 20's jazz, 20s-40s music, folk, folk rock music, Stephen Sondheim, Ned Rorem, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Cohen, Jerry Herman, Rodgers and Hart, Rodgers and Hammerstein, William Finn, Ricky Ian Gordon, Judy Garland, Liza Minelli, Alberta Hunter, Kate Bush, Barbara Cook, Peter Alan, Bernadette Peters, Mandy Patinkin, Neil Young, Linda Eder, Barbara Streisand, KD Lang, The Indigo Girls, Shawn Colvin, Peter Paul and Mary, Cat Stevens, Judy Collins, Bobby Short, Carly Simon, Dolly Parton, Tori Amos, Jewel, Jane Olivor, Simon and Garfunkle, Joni Mitchell, Edith Piaf, Rufus Wainwright, Carole King, Frederica Von Stade, Blossom Dearie, The Chieftains, Loreena McKennit, Lisa Loeb, Karl Anthony, Jesse Norman, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, The Sondheim canon, Candide, Jesus Christ Superstar, Godspell, March of the Falsettos, Falsettoland, Mame, Dolly, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Nine, I Won't Send Roses, Anyone Can Whistle, Make our Garden Grow, If He Walked Into my Life, A Quiet Thing, No One is Alone, Four Unlikely Lovers, As if We Never Said Goodbye, Michael from Mountains, Since You've Asked, Into White, The Origin of Love, That's the Way I've Always Heard it Should be |
| Favorite Books | Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Alan Ginsberg, CP Cavafy, Edgar Lee Masters, Mark Doty, T. S. Eliot, Federico Garcia Lorca, EE Cummings, Walt Whitman's Song of Myself, EE Cummings' somewhere i have never traveled gladly, T.S. Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alred Prufrock, Ben Okri, Paul Bowles, Christopher Isherwood, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Ray Bradbury, David Leavitt, Armistead Maupin, EM Forster, Kurt Vonnegut, Voltaire, Mark Twain, Hermann Hesse, John Irving, Salman Rushdie, Augustin Gomez-Arcos, Nikos Kazantzakis, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, Plato (Symposium, Dandelion Wine, Fahrenheit 451, Spoon River Anthology, The Berlin Stories, Siddhartha, Cats Cradle, Candide, The Mysterious Stranger, The Carnivorous Lamb, The Famished Road, Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses, The Last Temptation of Christ, Giovanni's Room, The Bell Jar, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Paul Bowles, David Leavitt, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne, EM Forster, Truman Capote, Ursula K. Leguin, Ray Bradbury, Brain Aldiss Super Toys Last all Summer Long, The Letters of Christopher Isherwood, May Sarton, The Seven Story Mountain, Thomas Merton, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, May Sarton, Quentin Crisp, Gertrude Stein, Khalil Gibran, Thomas Merton, Helen Schucman, Carlo Caretto, Julia Cameron, Euripides The Bacchae, Tennessee Williams, Sondheim musicals The Road to Mecca, The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man in the Moon Marigolds, Our Town, The Skin of our Teeth, The Glass Menagerie, The Bacchae, The Tempest, The Tennessee Williams |