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Ashley

On the way to god don't know my brain's the burger and my heart's the coal

About Me


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I'm the singer/lyrics writer for a budding band called Art Monk and a Creative Writing student at George Mason University. I have dreams of moving to New York and being a writer/editor for BUST magazine, or starting an even sexier magazine with some of my best friends.What I like:Singing/performing Writing poetry Many forms of dance, especially bellydancing. Feminism Shows Slumber Good lookin tats. peanut butter chocolate milkshakes/ice cream Urban Outfitters sexy music, moving music, ecstaticly happy music, raw music, RAWK. Post-punk, Post rock, Art-rock, meh lots of genres, but pretty much anything that gets me going. anything and everything that makes me laugh. Working at small coffee shops Texts The 1993-2003 SNL cast Strangers with Candy Finding inspiration for my poetry Reading poetry that makes me touch my mouth, poetry that makes me frown and stare in puzzlement. 55 words Magazines like woah.

My Interests

Laughing/sleeping, Singing, writing poetry, Cultural Studies, wanting to be the frontwoman of a band, dancing, bellydancing, learning, feminism, coffee shops, shopping, fashion, urban centers, going to shows, pancakes (the food and the word), shisha, being a WASH, 55 words, being incredibly sexy, TGS, being a spelling nazi, Shopping at health food stores, the seasons, dreaming, myspace/LJ, legwarmers and converse, the sidezip, video games, ipod, driving stick, Urban Outfitters/H&M, Bitch magazine, BUST magazine, Broken Pencil magazine, good movies, youtube.

I'd like to meet:

David Cross, Steven Colbert, Amy Sedaris.Bjork Kathleen Hanna Karen O Tim Harrington

Music:

http://www.last.fm/user/ascurto/ Including but not limited to: Air, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Aretha Franklin, Ben Folds Five, Billy Holiday, Bjork, Black Eyes, Blondie, Bonnie Raitt, The Brindley Brothers, Broken Social Scene, Charles Mingus, Cansei De Ser Sexy, Cibo Matto, Crass, Daft Punk, Death From Above 1979, The Decemberists, Deerhoof, Digable Planets, Eastern Youth, The Echoes, Elliot Smith, Elton John, Enon, the Epoxies, the Faint, Feist, Fiona Apple, Fischerspooner, Fleetwood Mac, the Foo Fighters, Gil Scott-Heron, Goldenboy and Miss Kitten, The Good Life, Holst, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, Ladytron, Laura Veirs, Les Savy Fav, Le Tigre, Modest Mouse, Outkast, Peaches, PJ Harvey, the Police, Portishead, Q and not U, The Raconteurs, Radiohead, Sarah Vaughan, the Shins, the Smiths, the Sneaker Pimps, Slint, Sade, Tenacious D, Velocity Girl, Veruca Salt, Weezer, Yann Tiersen, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The White Stripes, Celtic!, "bellydancing" music, bluegrass, beat poetry. These are some, but not all, and that could be considered influences as well.

Movies:

Requiem for a Dream, A Clockwork Orange, Kill Bill vol. 1 & 2., Waking Life, Dr. Strangelove, Home Alone, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Great Expectations, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo & Juliet and Moulin Rouge, Billy Madison, Blazing Saddles, Office Space, Scream, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Drop Dead Fred, Half-Baked, Lord of the Rings, Fight Club, The Big Lebowski, Pulp Fiction, Cruel Intentions, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Garden State, Dirty Dancing, A Charlie Brown Christmas!, the Bourne Identity, Dazed and Confused, Trainspotting, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Tommy Boy, SFW, Spirited Away, Amelie, The Seven Samaurai, Hero.

Television:

Arrested Development, Sex and the City, Ren and Stimpy, Mr. Show, Reno 911, Strangers with Candy, Hey Arnold!, and Spongebob Squarepants.

Books:

Catcher in the Rye, Cat's Cradle, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, Great Expectations, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, the Hipster Handbook, Dumbing us Down, Norwegian Wood!

Heroes:

My mom, my dad, Will, anyone who is truly happy. Steven Colbert, Amy Sedaris. Chris Farley, Will Farell.

My Blog

Nervous Laughter

Against the sheath of her clothing, Her skin rose into its goose bumps.My timing was sharp, her teeth primly guarding her tongue until her mouth parted, rouge lips kissing the air.Ruddy skin blushing ...
Posted by Ashley on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:26:00 PST

poetry with my mouth

poetry with my mouthim writing poetry with my mouth.making tracks, drawing lines, smoothing pages.He is sacred, i think,Sacred, He is Sacred. Sacred, Sacred, Sacred, i whisper, my dreams filling my he...
Posted by Ashley on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 12:44:00 PST

sweet peels

When we kiss its like Being in space, above the clouds and kissing them.My heart is white and pureYour blood stains mine. Only feelingsIm kissing your sweet peels, orange, the color of the cones on th...
Posted by Ashley on Sun, 28 May 2006 10:07:00 PST

smoking gun

oh, watch as he slumbers, I loved how he slumberedupon my knees every nightwe flew kites in my dreams I loved him, he loved me. We were children humbling ourselves under trees. In the bright open air,...
Posted by Ashley on Sat, 27 May 2006 03:30:00 PST

New Poem! Written at 2am May 15th!

Prostitutesbearszombiesohmy!my life is ending before my eyes, and I'm too weak to stop it. I'm too sick from the roller coasterride. What was once a pair of puffy fountain eyes mocks me with its solid...
Posted by Ashley on Mon, 15 May 2006 11:32:00 PST

revision

A recent revision I made of Sick Sunshine...Sick SunshineMy lips-graze the moist tender intersection of memories tripping over feelings tied to bitter, cracking, crumbling regrets. My fearful yelps br...
Posted by Ashley on Sat, 13 May 2006 12:50:00 PST

Now for the revisions...Here are the five revisions I did for my creative writing final

A Clean Break I thought that I loved him, for two yearsHe knew my strengths, my hates, my fearsMy room was his brain I swam in the poolI loved him, I longed for him, but I came out the toolHe made a c...
Posted by Ashley on Thu, 11 May 2006 02:03:00 PST

The results of a crazy night of writing poetry for a creative writing final

Sick SunshineMy lips-graze the moist tender intersection of memories tripping over feelings tied to bitter, cracking, crumbling regrets. My fearful yelps break the static silence as my tired, fumbling...
Posted by Ashley on Thu, 11 May 2006 01:56:00 PST

newest poem

This is a collage poem, taken from some random non poetry texts. Two of them which were about Vietnam, coincidentally.We ComiseratedI had deep-seated doubts about this trip to AlaskaIn this region dog...
Posted by Ashley on Thu, 09 Mar 2006 03:01:00 PST

AIDS paper

So I'm doing a paper for my English 302 class, which is a class to develop papers within your major. So since I'm majoring in Sociology, I am writing a Sociological-type paper about women's issues sur...
Posted by Ashley on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST