Adriene Crimson

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 [...]

I know, I know – I haven’t posted much about my training lately.The fact is, I’ve been having some trouble. My left leg was really bothering me for a few weeks and I couldn’t go very far. And the weather decided to be worst on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday – repeatedly.And I don’t like [...]

hear Obvious World and me read some poems that are backed up by Joel Garnier’s musical stylings here. The song should start right away.
I wrote these poems when I was in college and recorded myself reading them a couple of months ago. Obvious always seems to be writing poems and he recorded his readings around [...]

15 years ago compared to now
.:my mom keeps telling her friends that they can’t trust me anymore and then she giggles. fun little jokester former hippy mom. i don’t think she trusted me much when I was 15..:i still like birthday cake AND cookies on my birthday..:shiny red flats and a black and white dress [...]

1a. grumplesaurus all day (gawd I can’t wait to be done with this job – only 20 more working days…) decided to take a very small check to the bank just to get out of this office.couldn’t resist the mega media store “sale” on “80s” stuff
I walked out with a flatter wallet and three new [...]

I just got back from Madonna’s Confessions concert and I’m very pleased.She didn’t open with a reading of her confessions like on her website, as I was hoping, maybe just because of how she opened Reinvenion, but she appeared from within a giant disco ball that descended from the ceiling – most likely, she was [...]

it’s as if last november were still hereon the way to the cove of memoryto process a finished loveand feed the intertidal life
air: merely coldlight: x-rays into my longingness
then the tears came with no controlthe tears now are less tho sourced similarly
then: survival modeinnards exposed without interpretation or understanding
now:the girl with her memories etched into [...]

oh to have been that photographer.