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soylette

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About Me

bigger than a breadbox

My Interests

design,furniture, dance, martial arts, shoes and boots, planning the menus and making the food, good coffee, reading in bed with my pretties, bright shiny objects, orchids, succulents, bromeliads, toys, traveling near and far, tattoos, baths and bathtubs, great danes, greyhounds, yoga, being crafty, making things and seeing what other people make, big hairy retards

I'd like to meet:

dancers and people who make things

Music:

nina simone, nick cave, tom waits, the black keys, the toids, blackalicious, jedi mind tricks, johnny cash, antony and the johnsons, dead prez, ella fitzgerald, billie holliday, angry samoans, omar faruk tekbilek, etta james, jolie holland, tiger army, issa bagayogo, the shirelles, john zorn, killing joke, syd barrett, patti smith, cannibal ox, aesop rock, thelonious monk, portishead, citizen fish, otis redding, massive attack, joy division, elliott smith, captain beefheart, david bowie, mahmoud fadl, the dirtbombs, miles davis, stevie wonder, bad brains, biggie, marvin gaye, old school hiphop and industrial, middle eastern and gypsy music, the sound of my dogs snoring....

Movies:

nacho libre, sharkskin man and peach hip girl, the reflecting skin, seven samurai, in the mood for love, lost in translation, you me and everyone we know, kung fu hustle, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, when we were kings, sanjuro, royal tenenbaums, brazil, baraka, ghengis blues, anchorman, big trouble in little china, santa sangre, anything kurosawa, dario argento, tsui hark, wong kar wai, troma and hammer...

Books:

ghengis khan and the making of the modern world - jack weatherford. norwegian wood and wind up bird chronicle - haruki murakami, how to breathe underwater - julie orringer

My Blog

+ it is freaking ear ly

i drove back from la yesterday and made it back at noon. last night i had way too much ice cream (we had 3 diff kinds of caramel ice cream), booze, and laughed too hard at ridiculous stories of ass sh...
Posted by soylette on Thu, 10 May 2007 05:06:00 PST

+ grandmother stories

i never knew my grandmother. my father was an orphan and my mom's mom died when i was two. i have only seen a small handful of photos of her. her forehead had a lot of wrinkles from raising her eyebro...
Posted by soylette on Sat, 05 May 2007 02:14:00 PST

+ tears and junk food

go hand in hand. red vines and coffee for breakfast. fried mochi for lunch. oh we snacked on nachos. and i had more coffee. and ummm some more coffee. k made cookies. and oh a slab of weird tasting ja...
Posted by soylette on Fri, 04 May 2007 03:35:00 PST

+ closing

escrow in less than 3 weeks.nerves.i drove to the presidio today and hiked around with suki. she ran errands with me and we took another long walk to the castro. jolly gay dudes stopped to pat her hea...
Posted by soylette on Thu, 03 May 2007 09:01:00 PST

+ los angeles

so i decided that i'm moving to los angeles. and despite all the crappy things people say about it, i figure i've lived in san francisco, new york, and los angeles next makes sense. i turned 33 this m...
Posted by soylette on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:51:00 PST

+ more food

tonight i made my first baked manicotti and it turned out pretty tasty. we also made a batch of granola. our dinner guest picked up salted caramel ice cream from bi rite creamery. the dogs roamed arou...
Posted by soylette on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:22:00 PST

+ mis place

i missed my bathtub, my cute roommate, the bright clean light here, the park, the smell of all my soaps and lotions in the bathroom, all the homeless crackho's who know me and suki, swearing and losin...
Posted by soylette on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:38:00 PST

+ my house on the mls

check it
Posted by soylette on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 11:49:00 PST

+ have i mentioned i love spring?

we had to vacate the house for open house today. k went to a fatchance gig and while i feel a little sad that i've left the troupe i also feel relieved that i have time to do things that i need to do ...
Posted by soylette on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:19:00 PST

+ quarries

sometimes i feel like i've watched something slowly crumble crumb by crumb and landslide into a pile that made something else more interesting in it's wake. like skipping through the dips and ravines ...
Posted by soylette on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:01:00 PST