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Caity-Did

Baby don't you dry those tears, why don't you just let 'em flow - and then take all those years, and

About Me

The primary cause of disorder in ourselves is the seeking of reality promised by another ----Don't let anyone teach you how to be broken ----Give me a call when you're willing to fight...Er, about me? I'm a strange mix of bubbly and anti-social...

My Interests

hide and seek

I'd like to meet:

roughly 40% of y'all
You Are 60% Misanthropic
You're somewhat misanthropic, but you're not willing to write off the human race (yet!). There's a few people you like, and even them you like at a distance. How Misanthropic Are You?

Music:

amanda west, ariel thiermann, elliot smith, ani difranco, kris delmhorst, mary chapin carpenter, patti smith, damien rice, mason jennings, chris lee, tegan and sarah, billie holiday, rodney brillante, samsara, ozomatli, rapid transit, rebecca riots, rolling stones, joni mitchell, joan baez, bob dylan, public enemy, david brubeck quartet, taj mahal, aretha franklin, joan armatrading, creedence clearwater, rage against the machine, moby, zap mama, jurassic 5, U2, talking heads, etta james, beck, cake, sublime, james brown, john coltrane, gypsy kings, radiohead, portishead, tracy chapman, pearljam, and the list goes on

Books:

one hundred years of solitude, my traitor's heart, a heartbreaking work of staggering genius, petals of blood, queer nations, mark twain's handbook for the damned human race, rebel girl, marguerite duras, engels, marx, rumi, whoever wrote the old testament, kurt vonnegut, howard zinn, pablo neruda, allen ginsberg, ethel johnston phelps, michelle tea, augusten burroughs, j.d. salinger, the perks of being a wallflower, and villa incognito by tom robbins WELL-WRITTEN HISTORY BOOKS (I'M SERIOUS, SUCH A GOOD TIME)

Heroes:

my mom, my dad, my brother, my students, emma goldman, anyone who sees the world for what it is and still finds the time to smile, optimistic cynics, people who sleep enough, people who fight back, people who love deeply, people who live quiet lives, people who live epic lives

My Blog

Silence

I have nothing to say. More and more I come to that. Either it has all been said, or it seems obvious, or I have thought about it so much that it has become hopelessly obscured, or the second I say it...
Posted by Caity-Did on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 02:11:00 PST

we are living in a historian's wet dream

Meet me, darlingwhere I amswimmingin a historian'swet dreamwondering if freedomis what you do with what's been donethen why does it only take a momentfor centuries of stories to be spun?and why do the...
Posted by Caity-Did on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:21:00 PST

nonsensical haikus please don't read if you're looking for coherence

It's all about the full moon feast. The legacy that I want to leave. Danger! A symbolEmoticons take flight nowLet me sleep againFrutti Flex like thedull pink of my sick innardsnow gulped down twice...
Posted by Caity-Did on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:19:00 PST

why

Help me to understand that alongisde the eternal why there is an eternal YES, and YES and YES
Posted by Caity-Did on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:41:00 PST

Upon returning home

A jet blue nihilistfrom the ghettothe jet blue ghetto the heart of ittrading napkins for batteries in a desperate attempt to maintain the faithscrawled on this flimsy parchmentwhich has already begun ...
Posted by Caity-Did on Thu, 02 Feb 2006 02:48:00 PST

Drunken revelry

Tonight in drunken revelry I cut my hair. Actually two friends cut it for me. Incredibly short. I feel fabulous. Can't believe I haven't discovered this before. Takes a true load off. On another note,...
Posted by Caity-Did on Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:45:00 PST