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irene joy

don't ask others to do something you wouldn't do. MAKE them do it.

About Me

half bat. half kitten. totally incredible.

welcome to my village, indeed.

My Interests

self.
boyfriend.
dog.
cat.

I'd like to meet:


nibbles, ruby, eloise and drake.

and a little rainbow dancing bob ross, please!

also, just so you know, i don't want to meet you unless you have read this blog by desi in its entirety. and i mean that.

and this here's who YOU'D like to meet. if you know what's good for you:

siouxsie, bitches!

the girl is so sweet
always writing haiku, too
you’ll really like her!

promise!

Music:

i like music other people make fun of, and am somehow at the same time a giant music snob. i especially like songs that make me want to shake my ass, and when andre 3000 demands that i lend him some sugar! he is my neighbor! i get really giddy. still! even now, every time i hear it. also, sixties girl groups, especially anything phil spector touched with his crazy golden finger. or anything that sounds like it. yet for that, and all my other little music snobberies, i'd take courtney love and billie joe over anything else, any day. and... that's the song, bitch!

Movies:

quentin tarantino is obnoxious, but i love him, the star wars trilogy, polyanna, anything tim burton or john waters ever made, the people v. larry flynt, fast times at ridgemont high, bedknobs and broomsticks, the big lebowski, bottle rocket, (apparently movies that start with 'b'), my extensive collection of pee wee's playhouse videos. i also like movies of live stand up comedy performances by the following five people: david cross, dave chapelle, eddie murphy, martin, and eddie izzard. oh, and sarah silverman, even though she's a girl.

Television:

i will watch anything. it's almost sometimes scary how much i love and am obsessed with tv. my job and life really cut into my tv watching time. see, i could be watching tv right now but i'm not. you know what's best? when maury povich is helping you find out who your baby's daddy is. also cheaters, even though apparently it's a big farce. i like shows about animals, and shows where skaters & their bodyguards get a new animal each season, especially if the second animal they get is a mini horse. also, paris & nicole.

Books:

'how to train your hamster' (complete with pictures of leashes, harnesses, and little litterboxes) is number one! i'm also kind of obsessed with 'graphic novels' and um, books about musicians, especially if they tend toward the cheesy and/or salacious (i'm thinking 'the dirt' by motley crue here). i also really like women's/teen girls' advice books, especially if they are from the 1950s and 1960s, but later's okay, too, still life with woodpecker, everything aaron cometbus ever wrote, is still writing, and is thinking about writing, anything francesca lia block ever wrote, nine stories, hotel lachapelle, valley of the dolls, books by edward gorey, stories j.d. salinger wrote for magazines that never got published in book form, phoebe gloeckner over and over again. but i will read anything, let's be clear about that.

Heroes:

my momma.

shel silverstein.

dolly parton.

My Blog

little conversations: a real life one act play.

setting: in the kitchen of the house on stuart street, sitting around the kitchen table, in the middle of a fierce blackjack competition, about seven o'clock in the evening.   characters: irenie...
Posted by irenie on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:55:00 PST

one hundred thousand fireflies.

(first things first this morning, i had to find this song for someone as it was reminding me of them. & it was just stuck in my head. on repeat. & has been all day.) this is my best, favorite,...
Posted by irenie on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:23:00 PST

i get into a lot of arguments with people about this.

for some reason, recently, the subject of: how many biblical plagues were there? comes up a lot when i am drinking with people. & getting into arguments with them. i always say ten. they always sa...
Posted by irenie on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:27:00 PST

really important greek mythology stuff.

last fall, my brother ian read the odyssey for his ninth grade english class. one of the assignments involved picking a character to dress up as, and then re-enacting a piece from the story. &nbs...
Posted by irenie on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 01:28:00 PST

from a book called adverbs.

the book is by daniel handler. someone can break your heart, leave you dead on the lawn, and still you never learn what to say to stop it all over again. (from a chapter called 'naturally') love is ho...
Posted by irenie on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:58:00 PST

inspirational!

this morning coley wrote a blog called fuzzy memories which inspired me to do the same. only, mine is not called that, and it is not about becky. (for your record keeping, samantha is my oldest bestes...
Posted by irenie on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 11:11:00 PST

i am not baby animals and sunshine all the time.

i've got a dark side, too, you know.   it comes out a lot when i am sad, when someone else is making me sad. & i'll tell you what i think, too: no one but me is going to hurt me, i am so much...
Posted by irenie on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:10:00 PST

dead and dying.

i must have been about five when miss kitty died. & certainly we'd had pets before, a dog i can barely remember, my dad's magical doves, an albino rabbit named what - who was also a magical a...
Posted by irenie on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:14:00 PST

way to go, sebadoh!

last night, santa cruz, these guys. (you gotta picture them older and chubbier now, cos they are.) amazing, almost exactly like being fourteen again, 'cept i could drink my wine all out in the op...
Posted by irenie on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 10:35:00 PST

john rosenberg needs some attention today.

(you can tell he needs some attention because of things like this.) there was this one summer day almost six years ago now that i was walking down haste street to my new apartment and this really...
Posted by irenie on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:24:00 PST