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carla

write hard and clear about what hurts - Hemingway

About Me

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My Interests

include, garlic pizza, films, beer, beaches, music, comedy, poetry, sex, freedom and gin my chillow.

I'd like to meet:

jessica stevenson. someone with a glass eye. more people who wear cardigans. men with false beards and women in kitten heels and floral print dresses. the queen. a weather man. newborn babies. nigel planner. musicians. artists. painters. and decorators. senior citizens. bill bailey. the panda from Hallo Panda. jessica rabbit.

Music:



belle & sebastian, the shins, sufjan stevens, camera obscura, herman dune, the bees, fanfarlo, jeffery lewis, radiohead, badly drawn boy, elliot smith, death cab for cutie, modest mouse, nora jones, flight of the conchords, cars in walls, sparklehorse, andrew bird, fred astaire, animal collective, iron and wine, kings of convenience, cat power, clap your hands say yeah!, leonard cohen, feist, damien rice, bloc party, wolf parade, chris garneau, architecture in helsinki, my sad captains, guillemots, boy least likely too, emily haines and the soft skeleton, nina simone, ella fitzgerald, billie holliday, the decemberists, ray charles, the whitest boy alive,

Movies:

adam and paul, amelie, the science of sleep, dead mans shoes, the weather man, broken flowers, shaun of the dead, in america, garden state, little miss sunshine, shark v's eagle, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, lord of war, the burbs, life is beautiful, the other side of the bed, angel A, dumb and dumber, napoleon dynamite, a room for romeo brass, i heart huckabees, hackers(!), goodbye lenin, house of fools, lost in translation, withnail & i, late night shopping, i like the genre that is tim burton though sometimes it's a little hard to distinguish between one or the other, i also like films where fred astaire dances

Television:

erm, a bit. futurerama, the young ones, grizzly tales, the pink panther, bottom, black books, league of gentlemen, blackpool, spaced, look around you, womens institute, mighty boosh, the lakes, flight of the conchords. i also love ideal world, especially at christmas and the decoupage hour.

Books:

a clockwork orange (a. burgess), the story of 0 (p.reage), hooligan trees (a. burke) spanish fly (n. rollinson), the butchers hands (c. smith), anything by (r.dahl), the dice man (l. rhinehorn), tyke tyler (forget the author,)the curious incident of the dog in the night time (m. haddon), the bride stripped bare (anon), poems 1956-1968 (l.cohen),2000- 2004 (a. mitchell), the sneetches (d. Suess), angela ashes (f. mccourt), clarice bean thats me (l. child) in doctor no's garden (h. Shukman), Aerial (s.plath), i know why the caged bird sings (m. angelou), barcelona plates (a.sayle), the murphy (s.milligan), holiday on death row (r.mcgough), a series of unfortunate events (1-4, i haven't read the rest yet) (l. snickett), love that dog (s. creech), room on the broom (j. donaldson),last days of the dog men (b. watson),

My Blog

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Let the day leave skinin layers of shadow,the dog bark, his voice carry over, raise the birdsinto sky dry as bonethick as bloodlet the air in;let it congeal to lumps;you're old enough to suit a hackin...
Posted by carla on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:32:00 PST

Monster

so i might not stay up all night making fires out of matchstickspulling out flames to torchthe scores of notes an a to z of a heartbeatand maybe this is the weatherto have me holding my neck, stirring...
Posted by carla on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 07:19:00 PST

Scarf

ScarfMy wrists bound by the scarf he slipped off in the café just two hours earlier. Then, the spit of the espresso machine and the long white stretch of his neck revealing hemispheres of soft blonde ...
Posted by carla on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 09:42:00 PST

My October Top Tip

 seperate the seeds from the pulp once you have hollowed out your pumpkin by placing the bowl in the sink, and filling with water. the seeds will float up so you can scoop them out. simple. ...
Posted by carla on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 04:10:00 PST

Sunday (final edit of this is what hurts)

Sunday       there are mornings when I wake to find you beside me still your body softened with sleep,   I rouse you to baptise the day.   Our heads blessed by the stained gl...
Posted by carla on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:39:00 PST

Scars

  Scars         I finish the bottle as he sleeps; study the lengths of scars.   The delicate line in his broken brow, hairless moon on his forearm, puckered lip stitches ...
Posted by carla on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:52:00 PST

Peeling Onions

  Peeling Onions.         He lifts a knife from the rack with one slice the air turns miasmic   the yellow onion is halved, its pale rings weeping   sulfenic acid-...
Posted by carla on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:48:00 PST