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Pepper

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

smart, curious, sometimes mischievous folks who are unafraid to be themselves and explore this world, within and without

Music:

a glimpse into the permanent collection: Band of Horses; The National; Heavens; Alkaline Trio; Cat Power; Low; Black Heart Procession; Heartless Bastards; Johnny Cash; Tom Waits; PJ Harvey; Nick Cave; Fiery Furnaces; Modest Mouse; Death Cab for Cutie; The Shins; Morphine; Jill Scott; Julee Cruise; Kronos Quartet; Arvo Part; Glenn Gould; Guided by Voices; Ted Leo and the Pharmacists; Jeff Buckley; Leonard Cohen; Jets to Brazil; The Mars Volta; The Dismemberment Plan; Cardia; Dead Can Dance; Longwave; Interpol; Bjork; Arcade Fire; Tokyo Police Club; We Are Scientists; Cold War Kids; Beirut; Margot & the Nuclear so and so's; Okkervil River

Movies:

Heathers; The Nightmare Before Christmas and all other things Tim Burton; Donnie Darko; Dogs in Space; Waking Life; Amelie; Shallow Grave; Little Miss Sunshine; The Science of Sleep

Television:

i'm still dedicating this space to arrested development. and i'm still weeping at our collective loss.

Books:

McSweeney's; Milan Kundera; Gabriel Garcia Marquez; W. Somerset Maugham; Virginia Woolf; Dave Eggers; Edward Gorey; Haruki Murakami; Paul Theroux; Jeanette Winterson; Zadie Smith; Marilynne Robinson; Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things; Marcus Aurelius' Meditations

Heroes:

my friends.

My Blog

I-know-what-I-should-do-and-I-also-know-that-I-won’t Haiku

gonna crash and burnon this, yet i'm powerless,i know, to stop it
Posted by Pepper on Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:22:00 PST

Haiku about self-preservation

you've made it clear soi'm trying not to love youbut i feel the pull
Posted by Pepper on Wed, 08 Oct 2008 01:15:00 PST

Haiku about the fear of looking within

some resist with forcebut are strengthened in the endby the knowledge gained
Posted by Pepper on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:32:00 PST

Haiku about rejecting determinism

Ev'rything you'll do - it's all already happened.I can't accept this.
Posted by Pepper on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:40:00 PST

My-current-quandary Haiku

am i on the vergeof figuring it all outor just losing it
Posted by Pepper on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:41:00 PST

Haiku about how only in a dream will he talk to the actors during the performance

a near hit a near miss, always so close but not,no, never just there
Posted by Pepper on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:33:00 PST

He-reminded-me-that--he-ran-over-the-mailbox-in-front-of-my- rented-house-eight-years-ago Haiku

I ran it overI tried to straighten it outI just felt so bad
Posted by Pepper on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:37:00 PST

You-can-keep-asking-but-you-won’t-get-an-answer Haiku

this pain has no wordsjust blackness, enveloping,tearing at our hearts
Posted by Pepper on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 12:23:00 PST

Haiku about phantom touch

this is like a drugyou me electricitydon't let it stop, now
Posted by Pepper on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:09:00 PST

Spinning-a-tale-with-no-regrets Haiku

This story is mine.The fuck-ups, heartaches, and joys,my own creation.
Posted by Pepper on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 07:55:00 PST