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kelly

douchebags to the left, bitches to the right. but can you salsa?

About Me

well schooled in the ways of sarcasm, indecision, and unmotivation.
sometimes random thoughts fall from my head and land here

My Interests

taking naps, fake meat, Twin Peaks, Steve Perry, mallomars, not talking, Chu- Hi, Vivienne Westwood, Arsenal FC, whiskey, being the blackjack champion, lap steel, Peter Saville, tones and beeps, scrubbing my bathtub, BBC radiophonic workshop, being an idealist and not a realist, Carson Ellis, heated car seats, Robert Motherwell, MTA subway smell, William Eggleston, yelling at my television during basketball season, Nino's white miracle pizza, NPR, falling down, summer beards, and working on being a kinder, gentler me. with little success.

I'd like to meet:

sorry. the cheese stands alone.

Music:

low. great lake swimmers. califone. dylan. anything that utilizes dry ice, worms and heavy basslines.

Movies:

films of Charles and Ray Eames, any Tarkovsky, The 39 Steps, Wings of Desire, Jeux Interdits, Assault on Precinct 13, Manhattan, CB4, Harold and Maude, 8 1/2, Sleeper, The 400 Blows, Shopgirl, Blue Velvet, Heathers, Anaconda.

Television:

cities of the underworld. anything with Anthony Bourdain.

Books:

the death of the grown-up: how america's arrested development is bringing down western civilization; d. west. how to see yourself as you really are; dalai lama. t.s. eliot.

My Blog

my halloween costume in the making.

the bears were actually better for the live shows...but whatever. who couldn't love a huge neon bear who seems to enjoy bonking themselves in the head?exactly. ...
Posted by kelly on Fri, 11 May 2007 04:47:00 PST

yoko ono.

is going to be at Pitchfork this year.vomit. i expected to be entertained. not pissed off.while she's yodeling her way into oblivion, i can only hope to see something else. or be extremely drunk. or m...
Posted by kelly on Wed, 02 May 2007 08:55:00 PST

how many ways do i love Wikipedia?

let me get an abacus...straight from the vault of Wikipedia...bum wine."A bum wine is a colloquial reference to any of a class of inexpensive fortified wines that are popular among the poor and homele...
Posted by kelly on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 07:02:00 PST

unreal city; you have killed me.

just in case you haven't figured it out yet; it's fuckin' cold outside.it's not a good thing when the high temperature for the day is -1. thankfully, anything i had to do this weekend is done. and sin...
Posted by kelly on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 12:36:00 PST

i'm just sayin'.

last night, i had a very interesting conversation with an old friend.actually, i should back up a sec before i launch into this tirade; i've been ping-ponging the idea of spending my summer in Milwauk...
Posted by kelly on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:52:00 PST

2006 music

so i finally got around to it. my top 25 picks for this year. picking out only 25 (yes, i know-an odd number) has proven to be a harder task than listing them all. unfortunately, i just don't have tha...
Posted by kelly on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 10:24:00 PST

warm and fuzzy. sort of.

a very weird and random thing happened to me today. as i was walking home from having yet another haircut, a random person (whom i've seen in the neighborhood, but don't know) came up to me, gave me a...
Posted by kelly on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:41:00 PST

ready for an early retirement...

yup. that's right. i learned how to play sheepshead today. when inspiration and wit ran low via the written word, i headed to my neighborhood friendly bar. the old folks loved it. i even had a whiskey...
Posted by kelly on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 05:19:00 PST

arrgh. shiver my timbers.

finally. my day has come. International Talk Like a Pirate Day is a parodic holiday invented in 1995 by two Americans, John Baur ("Ol' Chum Bucket") and Mark Summers ("Cap'n Slappy"), who proclaimed S...
Posted by kelly on Tue, 19 Sep 2006 01:00:00 PST

housesittin' 3-why don't you just shoot me already?

good morning. i think. where to start?   last night i decided to actually sleep in the bedroom. i've held off and opted for sofa sleeping because the bedroom resembles a scene from Who Framed Rog...
Posted by kelly on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:28:00 PST