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.:Wu LaLa:.

i want to live until i die.

About Me

♥ ♥ ♥ i am an individual swimming among lots of other individuals. i like my hair. i used to skate. i like to laugh and occasionally sing. i have been known to camp. i have an incredible group of friends whom i adore very much. i may be in a relationship...i am not looking for any on here. i have fallen in love with myself again and belive i am capable of achieving anything i put my mind to. i like people as long as they respect my boundaries. i don't have many friends and i don't want a lot. just the few i have who are loyal and nice are enough. i consider myself intelligent...i like to read (books were my first means of escapism-music, my second), and stay on top of current events...but i am also really flighty at times...i feel i was born in the wrong era, but there's not a whole lot i can do about that so i try to make the best of this one. i'm secretly a hopeless romantic. my favorite instrument is the piano...sometimes it's the violin. i believe the most important thing one can give to another is their time. i believe in volunteering. i try to remember to ask myself if what i'm doing is going to help another person today. i'm very sensitive and sometimes selfish; i like to shop. i eat granola but i am not a hippy. i tried giving meat up...but that didn't work: i like medium rare hamburgers with cheddar cheese and bacon. i don't drink (i often end up in jail when i do, and i am a friend of bill w.); i smoke winstons, and sometimes roll my own. i'd like to quit. just not now. i don't sleep enough some days and other days i sleep too much. i would really like to be more disciplined. but with lots of wiggle room of course. i have a wicked sense of humour and can be cynical. but i am also hopefully naive at times. i am adopted; my pajama bottoms are way too big and often slide off during the night. oh yeah, one more thing--for some reason this is really important to people: genetically, i am african, arabic and irish. my nationality is american. i am a mystery wrapped in an enigma trapped in a conundrum, and i cannot be classified. ♥ ♥ ♥

My Interests

♥ ♥ ♥i like to ride my bicycle--a lot, like, all year round...

i like the white sox, and the red sox: i'm bi-sox-ual. i like the bears--i drink butt-loads of coffee; i love music; i like art; i draw some, write some, and sing some...my greatest creation is my daughter; i plan on getting more tattoos, but i'd like to pay off my student loans first; i have a weakness for boys with tattoos; my cats are my best friends and closest companions; i want to go to cuba, spain, italy, ireland, egypt...anywhere outside my bubble...and i like gore--the bloodier the better; i'm interested in taking both boxing and burlesque dancing--both necessary skills for a woman to have in today's world...knowing how to beat someone up and stay sexy doing it--what could be better? ♥ ♥ ♥

I'd like to meet:



Music:



the gits, the roots, adam ant, billie holiday, ella fitzgerald, pj harvey, weezer, the melodians, L7, the skatalites, bauhaus, raconteurs, husker du, new york dolls, sting, the police, babes in toyland, wu-tang clan, tori amos, the who, sinead o'conner, buena vista social club, celia cruz, curtis mayfield, buzzcocks, can, dead can dance, jim carroll, john legend, kyuss, sleater-kinney, the go-gos, charles mingus, wilco, queen, KRS-1, deals gone bad, stiff little fingers, flogging molly, xeo3, old U2, old REM, queens of the stone age, screeching weasel, joan jett, the runaways, system of a down, bad religion, talking heads, moloko, sisters of mercy, digable planets (that first album was bad---and by bad i mean "fantastic"), the cars, television, led zepplin, johnny thunders, velvet underground, lou reed, psychic tv, throbbing gristle, throwing muses, thelonius monk, the b-52s, the clash, the melvins, pavement, willie nelson, johnny cash, kanye west, the donnas, mos def, pixies, bad brains, the specials, ministry, the cramps, jill scott, revolting cocks, black flag, the kinks, erykah badu, common, groovie ghoulies, descendants, love and rockets, buck-o-nine, sheila chandra, elvis costello, mozart, da brat, massive attack, loop guru, orb, mc 900ft jesus, d'angelo, coleman hawkins, astrud gilberto, rashaan roland kirk, breeders, fishbone, supertramp, antonio carlos jobim, lenny kravitz, robert johnson, lee "scratch" perry, the jesus lizard, brand nubians, yeah yeah yeahs, john coltrane, the misfits, danzig, fiona apple, mother love bone, fugazi, david bowie, morphine, peter gabriel, the cramps, hole, SOLTERO, tribe called quest, sonic youth, violent femmes, minor threat, weezer, beck, soul coughing, dropkick murphys, jane's addiction, esquival, iggy pop, the stooges, leonard cohen, g-love, patti smith, white stripes, strokes, bjork, hole, towa tei, wu-tang, bob marley, beastie boys, outkast, floetry, miles davis, the upsetters, nina simone, stevie wonder, tool, the cure, cocteau twins, memphis minnie, etta james, tina turner, funkadelic, parliament, the cars, black eyed peas, public enemy, portishead, james brown, duke ellington, helmet, the beatles, tom waits, psapp, cat power, arcade fire, lily allen

Movies:

the professional, taxi driver, ghost dog, fight club, night of the living dead, dawn of the dead (2004), the lost boys, scarface, shaun of the dead, blade--all of 'em: wesley snipes wuz born for that role, rocky, boondock saints, quadrophenia, equilibrium, crash, halloween, amelie, batman begins (christian bale's hot),28 days later, spawn, saw, the fly, american beauty, napolean dynamite, metropolis, close encounters, blade runner, ghost in the shell, cat people, glory, frankie and johnny, most john cusack films, but especially say anything, and say anything 2000 (aka high fidelity), pee-wee's big adventure. those are a few of my all time favorites; along came polly; the break-up (i'm a big fan of jennifer aniston); i also happen to be a sucker for musicals of the thirties and forties: singin' in the rain, an american in paris, gigi, west side story...to name a few...and i liked saturday night fever.

Television:

grey's anatomy, 24, the history channel, intervention, cold case files, a haunting, nip/tuck, the black adder, most haunted, forensic files, msnbc, man vs. wild ( i would love to meet bear grylls--what a fox!)

Books:

screams from the balcony-bukowski, the unconsoled-kazuo ishiguro,the castle-kafka, the dark tower series-stephen king, the street-ann petry, nietszche, shakespeare, kurt vonnegut,w.e.b. dubois, jack kerouac, walt whitman, anything by dorothy parker, the color purple, anything by zora neale hurston, the turtle warrior-mary relindes ellis, the things they carried-o'brien, memiors of a geisha-arthur golden, vanity fair-william makepeace thackeray, the island of the day before-umberto eco

Heroes:

i am my own damn hero!!! HA!

hypocrite! barack obama for president...!

My Blog

tagged for a third time...

kay',this is in response to being tagged by lala and becki...my ten interesting, odd, fun habits for today.... 1. my new favorite band (for now) is psapp.  they are fun and love cats. 2. i taught...
Posted by prettyyum on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 08:04:00 PST

wtf...i was tagged...

the RULES are simple: once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 weird random things, facts or habits about yourself.  at the end, choose 10 people to be tagged and list their name...
Posted by prettyyum on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:22:00 PST

valentine's day

the day made for suckers and money spenders and high maintenance whores who only feel worthwhile when money is being speent on them. fuck it. i like hearts. i also like the go-go's. happy valentine's ...
Posted by prettyyum on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:15:00 PST

redemption II

...anyway, my life is really damn good...i have good friends, i am not waking up with a brutal hangover wondering what i did the night before, i am not waking up in jail, i have a great job which i lo...
Posted by prettyyum on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 07:21:00 PST

echos of allen

what is there to say? i am lost again, wandering cyclical in my thoughts living life through images flickering cobalt blue, embedding in my retinas. i've gone to tibet and climbed everest. and l...
Posted by prettyyum on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:15:00 PST

a new strategy? where?

i watched the state of the union address last night. i did make a point to take some time before "dubya" spoke to clear my head and ask the ethers for the patience to listen to him with an open mind.....
Posted by prettyyum on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 06:02:00 PST

must see tv

...the "great decider" george dubya will be giving a state of the union tonight......he is going to tell us that he sending 20,000 more young, americans over to iraq.people who are going to be patriot...
Posted by prettyyum on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 07:15:00 PST

untitled

i woke up unable to breathe.  the dream i had been dreaming sat on my chest like some incubus sucking the air out of my lungs in one long kiss.  a weight on my chest that made me wonder...
Posted by prettyyum on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:52:00 PST

new years

so it's new years.  every year i sit and think about not only the year we are putting to rest, but all the years before.  this year i turn 32. and i am different not just because i am aging ...
Posted by prettyyum on Mon, 01 Jan 2007 05:45:00 PST

wicked withdrawals...

so my daughter is visiting...which is great beyond all belief...we've been making angel ornaments, teaching my cats to talk...tomorrow we will bake cookies and maybe go downtown to see the windows...
Posted by prettyyum on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 07:52:00 PST