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Leigh

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About Me

i recently had the misfortune of turning 25.

My Interests

cooking, baking cupcakes and decorating them in a themed manner, making cards, dancing ballet, studying math, studying physics, studying astrophysics, cosmology (the study of the origin of the universe), studying history, learning from history, anthropology of women, the international socialist organization, my friends, the campaign to end the death penalty, painting (pictures and walls),people and stuff, writing, reading, figure modelling for art classes (not for Sears), rearranging furniture.

Music:

Things I listen to/enjoy currently: Brazillian drumming ensembles, Piano Compositions, Otis Redding, Bill Withers, Aretha Franklin, M.I.A., !!! , Neutral Milk Hotel, Stevie Wonder, Tu Pac, Neil Young. Q and not U, El Guapo, Ted Leo, HUGGY BEAR, Animal Collective, The Nation of Ulysses, Lifter Puller, A Tribe Called Quest, Violin composition, Fugazi, Rites of Spring, Green Day, Belle and Sebastian; Things I listened to when I was a teen and pre-teen that shaped my musical tastes and led me to hair-brained schemes that I am grateful for: FIFTEEN, Crimpshrine, Gloria Esteban, Michael Bolton doing remakes of the classic Motown Hits, Crass.

Books:

Nightfall ( the short story ) by Issac Asimov; State and Revolution (Lenin); Origin of the Universe (John Barrow); The Theory of Everything (Stephen Hawking); The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State by Engles; My Anthropology 590 Reader ( The Anthropology of Gender: compiled by Sheila Tully); The Little Prince (Saint-Exupery); The Myth of Sisyphus, Summer in Algiers, and other essays/short stories by Albert Camus; Mrs. Dalloway (Virginia Woolf); Love in the Time of Cholera (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Heroes:

The Woman. The Boy. Banana. Elizabeth Terzakis. Madame Berthier.

My Blog

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In the end, every eyelid shutting was me. I was every crease. Every finish. And it is hard to let go of myself in you. I am every hand, every parting cloud of fingers, every palm that is waxing in the...
Posted by Leigh on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:23:00 PST

Talking with M.

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Posted by Leigh on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 12:18:00 PST

Poem for the New York Times Magazine ( To Press Final Version)

    To think of you less than I do of life-- is this still time over the glassy brink our olive fence swings soughing hinges creak its due, the&n...
Posted by Leigh on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:02:00 PST

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Letters of Advice from Jamie Durana   by Leigh Smith dearmove your cells out of harm's waykeep these things in an open space"drop [them] like a bad habit"because even her shadow wouldgo...
Posted by Leigh on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 11:36:00 PST

Becoming

I know that fundamentally I am the only one   But I also do believe in an intuitive emotional connection that develops between my self.   and everyone else, in between myself...
Posted by Leigh on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 03:25:00 PST

New Home

  My new home is in the TenderNob. The most important thing to note right now is that I detrain at the Civic Center MUNI stop, and featured at the UN Plaza Exit every day is a thin and...
Posted by Leigh on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 02:13:00 PST