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About Me

"I don't wanna sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't wanna sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed, you know, as a career." -Lloyd Dobler

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends" - Maya Angelou

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather, sliding in sideways, champagne in one hand and strawberries in the other, body totally used up and completely worn out screaming WHOO HOO WHAT A RIDE!!!!" MyGen Profile Generator

My Interests

Writing, cooking, studying different cultures, travel, Vermont drives, reading, museums, long walks & hikes, exploring anything OUTSIDE beaches and parks, learning my way around new cities, skiing & sailing even though i suck at it, poetry slams and attempting to learn Mandarin, dancing, pretending to play guitar, getting lost on purpose, being goofy and having fun.

Music:

The Flaming Lips, Common, Bob Marley, Beach Boys, Iron and Wine, Kings of Convenience, David Bowie, Blondie, Stereo Mcs, The Stooges, The Doors, Deathcab for Cutie, The Misfits, The Who, Michael Jackson, Elton John, Led Zepplin, Roxy Music, Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chile Peppers, U2, Jack Johnson, Bright Eyes, Damien Rice, Ben Harper, Gorillaz, Jurassic 5, The Shins, David Grey, Beck, The Actual Tigers, The Black Keys, Marvin Gaye, Jay-Z, Notorious B.I.G., Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Bjork, The Police, The Rolling Stones, Steely Dan, Radiohead, Van Morrison is my favorite singer of all time, Elliot Smith's pretty good too. we need some women here, K.D., Dusty Springfield, Aretha Franklin, Mary J. Blige, Alicia Keys, Bonnie Rait, Sheryl Crow, Joss Stone and Janis Joplin. Madonna. I can't forget Journey, Dolorean, Tupac and the list could go on forever.

Movies:

Goonies, Can't Buy me Love. The Godfather I, II and even III, The Virgin Suicides, Big Fish, Braveheart, Last of the Mohegans, Dazed and Confused, The Discreet Charm of the Borgouise, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Back to the Future, The Breakfast Club, High Fidelity, About a Boy, Happiness, Traffic, Thomas Crowne Affair, Salvador, Apocalpse Now, Nautral Born Killers, Mickey Blue Eyes, Pulp Fiction, Wallstreet, True Romance, Love Actually, Swingers, Legends of the Fall, Kung Fu Hustle, Field of Dreams, A League of their Own--I love baseball movies for some reason. Yi Tu Mama Tambien. Also, film maker Amorres Peros-alejandro gonzalez inarritu is a genius. His film Amores Perros is my favorite movie.

Television:

The Dave Chapelle show, Iron Chef, The Office, Sopranos, The L-Word, Entourage, Six Feet Under, Nip/Tuck, Sex and the City, Arrested Development, and The Daily Show. The British version of Coupling.

Books:

The Catcher in the Rye, Smoking Drinking and Screwing, White Oleander. Summer Sisters, Smart Women, and Wifey--anything by Judy Blume. East of Eden and The Grapes of Wrath. The Old Man and the Sea, The Sun also Rises...The Great Gatsby.

Heroes:

The Beastie Boys. Bob Dylan. Angelina Jolie. Sylvia Plath. Adrienne Rich. Al Gore. My mom and dad.

My Blog

Fourth of July

The further and further I travel from my childhood home, through distance, through age, and through a slight hardening of the heart, the more I have come to rely on writing as a means of sanity and a ...
Posted by Becs on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 08:24:00 PST

Support Love

A Citizen's Right to Marry By Rebecca McNeil, a UVM Alumna In 2004, the moral issues Republicans used as cornerstones for their campaign largely influenced the election's outcome. The democrat...
Posted by Becs on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:22:00 PST

Women in war

There are women before me They sat on stools waiting with shadows as thin as lantern paper cradling men like bloated babies Boxes to shoulders, baskets to heads They felt the weigh...
Posted by Becs on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:37:00 PST

Purpose

"Purpose" I lived. But to see the sky! Finally, in winters blues, I see her. What viseral pleasure did I search for in tropic pollution? The question, like an arrow filled with black. To sta...
Posted by Becs on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:27:00 PST

Quintessence of Dust

I've been alone so long I can't hear my own footsteps. But the clock still ticks, ticks, ticks beneath my feet. Somehow only trees seem real--the same in any country. The engine strains itself agains...
Posted by Becs on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:27:00 PST

Chinese Food

Chinese Food It's 11:30 a.m. on a Sunday in Hong Kong, and I'm having a western-style brunch at Café on the Corner, in my neighborhood. I woke up craving scrambled eggs. Sometimes l...
Posted by Becs on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:30:00 PST

You cannot leave the subject blank

Ride Along the Highway of Memory Angela smoked a lot of cigarettes and watched the street outside her window. She was waiting for a friend to pick her up. Her friend was late and ignorant...
Posted by Becs on Wed, 24 May 2006 02:26:00 PST

23

A time for youth spirit attitude. The most fire, thirst, energy, spark, lust, hunger, passion...fucking hurts and feels like flames bursting inside. This is what I wanted at thirteen, fifteen, sevente...
Posted by Becs on Thu, 08 Dec 2005 05:01:00 PST

Lover

I feel unrecognizable, turning into nothing of myth or even ramble, just wasted and bare. Him--he who makes you worthy is also He who takes it all away. And fly, fly, fly, it flys from me so...
Posted by Becs on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:19:00 PST

First night in the medical campus, Peking University

Outside my window, scenes render senseless visions. Through jet-lagged eyes, European cars speed by reckless and new. Human figures form lamp posts and wait for safe passage; indiscernable Chinese ch...
Posted by Becs on Tue, 13 Sep 2005 07:45:00 PST