siftingthroughthemadness

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Gender Female
Industry Education
Occupation Teaching Assistant
Location Madison, WI, United States
Introduction "sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way" is a verse of one of Charles Bukowski's poems, published after his death. I love Bukowski and I love poetry and you can expect some sifting through the madness of the world and my life, my stash, through favorite reads and occasionally some ranting...
Interests Wildlife, Anthropology, Art/Design, Movies, Mind/Body/Spirit, Mythology / Folklore, Ethnobotany, Shamanism, Photography, Recycling, Environment, Ethnic Studies, Fair/Alternative Trade, Social Science, Tarot, Consciousness, Healthy Living
Favorite Movies The Sheltering Sky, Godfather, SLC Punk, all Almodovar movies, Monty Python movies, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Waking Life, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Singapore Sling, Coffee and Cigarettes, Night on Earth, Down by Law, Johnny Stechino, Clerks, Requiem for a Dream, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Dr. Strangelove, Brazil, Παραγγελιά, Apocalypse Now, A Clockwork Orange
Favorite Music The way I see it, there is good music and bad music. All music worth listening to has some elements of punk, ALWAYS. Listen carefully and you will hear it. So my favorite music is anything that could be characterized as proto-punk (The Stooges), punk or post-punk (The Fall). Of course you will find punk elements in the most unlikely places, even in electronic music like Infected Mushroom. That's all you need to know...
Favorite Books The ILLUMINATUS! trilogy - Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson, Women Who Run with the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola-Estes, A Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Plague - Albert Camus, Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides, The Dispossessed - Ursula LeGuin, Life is Elsewhere - Milan Kundera, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues - Tom Robbins, Naked Lunch - William Burroughs, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams, We - Yevgeni Zamyatin, The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera