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About Me

writing, music, arthurian romances. coconuts. superimposing pictures.
glass menagerie is my musical science project and it has a profile too. hi ho. poetry, strange pictures, quotes out of context

My Interests

I want to make something, somehow, that will save someone. i also think homestar runner's hella tight.

I'd like to meet:

anybody who can talk music and theoretical people to death

Music:

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE, atrixo, the postal service, KILL HANNAH, garbage, my bloody valentine, interpol, the smiths, dresden dolls, hot hot heat, longwave, metric, new order, jimmy eat world, mae, radiohead, rainer maria, ambulance lmtd., sonic youth, some pumpkins, of montreal, pernice brothers, PLACEBO, dandy warhols, the red hot chili peppers, the sex pistols, the streets, volcano, i'm still excited!!, u2, lost boy, some stevie nicks, denali, the race, le tigre, m83, the cure, notwist, rufus wainwright, ringer, the gufs, cranberries, ELLIOTT SMITH, eisley (sigh), this american life, best of bjork

Movies:

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS...airplane...what else...the commitments, finding forrester, the princess bride...spinal tap...best in show...rainman...good will hunting...dead poet society...the king and i...the breakfast club...monty python's flying cir-cusscariest/ saddest movie ever award: the brave little toaster. young children should NOT be subjected to this, it will cause them to grow up clingy and overemotional. G-d knows i did...still can't watch it all the way through

Television:

columbo...dr. who (tom baker...that scarf)...mon-ty python's flying cir-cus, and now, gungrave. gaaah i love this show, and why, why? the dialogue is ridden with cliches, why do i love it? but i cry every episode...quiet, gramma's watching her stories...

Books:

asleep by banana yoshimoto, Heartsongs by Mattie Stepanek, MARY STEWART'S MERLIN BOOKS, jill by philip larkin, the great gatsby, a portrait of the artist as a young man, miriam mayburd, glass menagerie by tennessee williams

Heroes:

mat devine, the king of antartica

My Blog

quiet, kids, gramma's watching her stories

no ::sob:: no! i absolutely refuse to believe it...! no! ::blows nose:: ye gods. i absolutely refuse to accept that grave just dies and leaves mika all alone. NO!!!!!!!!! i know that is the way of jap...
Posted by perel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the number you have dialed has been changed

true to my word, i have my own blog now, and it is called More Tales of Crime and Treason on the High Seas. thusly: www.crimeandtreasononthehighseas.blogspot.com i'm only going to write that one fro...
Posted by perel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

i am the fifth fantastic.

today i was le idiot and poured half a pot of boiling water on my arm while i was trying to drain the potatoes. a doctor's trip and four hours later, it looks absolutely sickening. there's the slick r...
Posted by perel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

fish are friends!

we went to the mpm today (quick! does it stand for-maury's pasta motel-milwaukee public museum) yup, the museum, but i like to keep people on their toes. anyway, they had this really...blue exhibit ab...
Posted by perel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

uh huh uh huh uh huh.

guess who can make a right turn at 0 mph in an abandoned parking lot. without hitting the truck ONCE. thank you, i'll be taking autographs in the lobby. i mean considering as how i couldn't ev...
Posted by perel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

andy warhol, blueberries, the 80s, the usual

a couple of thoughts i had in the last hour: -blue berries are the best snack food. they are bite-sized, juicy, blue, low-calories, and they come in that cool carton thing. everyone should eat them. -...
Posted by perel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

american jet set: great album AND essay topic!

(this is an essay i wrote for a job application at a music magazine. i posted it because after re-reading it, even I don't know what i'm talking about. triumphant trumpet blast of the elephant? youth ...
Posted by perel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

i have become a fly murderer.

to be fair i act mostly in self defense. my house seems to have been invaded by flies. in the last two days i counted (and killed) i think fourteen, without exaggeration. no one knows where they came ...
Posted by perel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

friends

while i can't presume to understand anything, i think i know what it means when they say the gift of friendship is the gift of life. (do they say that? it's something like that, isn't it?) my friends...
Posted by perel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

you knew this was going to happen

my last day of high school, last day in uniform, last day on the front lines, whatever. all bright eyed and short of breath and saying goodbye to a million people i really won't see that much of anymo...
Posted by perel on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST