Adriene Crimson

Things I remember about being in court:
wood
being a small child
having a chaperone
peanut butter cup
anxiety
small voice
confusion
sunlight
Mrs. Naylor
mustard yellow jacket
brown pants
a $20 bill
brown leather wingtips
feeling the pain (on my behalf) in everyone’s heart
(even the judge)
witnessing myself from outside of myself

Listening to Dead Can Dance’s album Into the Labyrinth makes me, an atheist, feel as if inside a temple where I am filled with a potent, un-nameable, un-categorical mystical energy.
Their song “The Carnival is Over” is particularly mesmerizing for my spirit.

Here are the lyrics:
Outside
The storm clouds gathering
Move silently along the dusty boulevard
Where flowers [...]

When I was a kid my bedroom was just off of the living room at the front of an old stone Victorian apartment house in the suburbs of Philadelphia. I had two walls of windows and at the foot of my bed was a glass door with a sheer curtain, as if my room had [...]

Shannon has a little medley he likes to sing every once in a while.It goes like this:“Solid. Solid as a rock, steady, steady rockin’ all night long.”
I can’t remember why it came up tonight but we realized it’s a medley of two songs from the 80s that use “rock” in the chorus so off to [...]

AIDS/Lifecycle 8 was a mixed bag for me starting with fundraising finishing with the ride itself.
- I wanted to raise $5k and made it as far as $3600, which is awesome, just not what I was aiming for.
- I had physical challenges that kept me off of the bike for about 160 of [...]

These are my teammates.
My coach, riding buddy, partner and best friend, Shanny Bannanny Sis Boom Bammy aka Shannon Shalako. If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t feel as prepared as I do for this crazy seven day ride from SF to LA!
realistic energy chew, no?
Justine Bateman Veber, Jetson, Juicy, or Justin Case, whatever you call [...]

On Monday, May 4th, Shannon and I had biking fittings with the awesome Lorri Lee Lown, of Velogirls – Northern California’s largest women’s cycling club. Shannon discovered her on the ALC8 discussion forum when she responded to his post regarding his saddle. He told me about her because he knew that I needed a [...]

1. I just found a set of glow-in-the-dark rosary beads on the ground in the parking lot and they are still rubber banded and in a little zip lock bag. I’ve always thought the glow-in-the-dark Christian artifacts seemed a little strange and now I have some of my own little-strange-Christian-artifact to make art with!The bag [...]

Seven things I like to do while riding my bicycle:
1. give out tickets, in my head, to douchebags not doing things according to standard, ticketable, traffic laws.
2. fart – it’s the funnest place to fart – except for maybe around the campfire.
3. sing a song that goes “la la la la”
4. pedal as fast as [...]

Ten of my favorite experiences with my breath
1. when I’ve had some wine and I exhale deeply I really enjoy the quality of my breath.
2. when I’ve been dancing for hours and feeling the music and my body and my breath takes over and it’s deep and full and loud – then I push harder. [...]