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Noodle

In the meantime, watch where you're walking. Keep in touch. Be sweet to yourselves. I'm a ghost.

About Me

I like egg tosses and egg races and potato sack races and sunshine and slow jamz and fiber and air conditioning and singing and books and picnics and blankets and dogs and sailboats and caftans and muumuus. wanna party?

My Interests

Song, dance, general habedashery. Confusion. kir royales, mint juleps. Scantion/ iambic pentameter, tomatoes and goat cheese, not eating animals, things made of paper with words in them. High art/low art. Beds, parks, sunshine, places to lie down in the sunshine. Not wearing pants. (no really, I don't own any pants.) Not wearing close toed shoes. London, London, London.

I'd like to meet:

Dead authors to drink with. (yo hemmingway- you down? I'll get the ouiji board and the kirs.)

Music:

i'm a lonely little petunia in an onion patch, the toothbrush song, the inchworm song, baby beluga, 70's yacht rock, slow jamz. Anything playing in a bar in the uk.

Movies:

singin in the rain. i heart huckabees. dancer in the dark. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. being john malkovich. annie hall. manhattan. rocky horror. buffalo 66. strictly ballroom. the shining. talk to her. rushmore. royal tenenbaums. wating for guffman. spinal tap. jc superstar. Half Baked. Last Tango in Paris. old musicals. Rene and Renee. The Wiz really pulls on the old heart-strings. The Science of Sleep. (ah!!)

Television:

CLASSIC ARTS SHOWCASE.

Books:

Virginia Woolf, Beckett, Shakespeare, Murakami, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nabokov, those old greek guys as long as its translated by Fagles or Ted Hughes (see: THE ORESTEIA)Ted Hughes, TS Eliot, Joyce, Tom Robbins, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy(go Pevear!), silly british literature (Jude the Obscure, Tess, Jane Eyre, lots of depressing shit) Pablo Neruda, Jane Hirshfield, Rilke (esp. Dunio Elegies), Louise Gluck, DH Lawrence, Hemmingway, Derrick C. Brown, Baudelaire, Henry James(but only Portrait, jesus), Salinger, Tom Stoppard, Pinter, EM Forster, Flaubert, Rushdie, Milan Kundera, Zadie Smith. and the love of my life, the NY Times. Anything really pervy.

Heroes:

my lovely ladies. Ginny Woolf and Sam Beckett. Septimus Hodge, Mr. Rochester, Ralph Touchett. Jessica Biel's Ass.

My Blog

Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes

OK ok, so everyone loves Sylvia and hates Ted Hughes. But I'll tell you what, Ted Hughes is a bomb ass poet. Read: Birthday Letters, all to or about Plath written by Hughes after her death. A Pink Woo...
Posted by Noodle on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:18:00 PST

Wasteland fragment

I'm feeling uneasy and depressed, so what better to lift my mood than TS Eliot? Just a section from the end of The Wasteland. love, n. In this decayed hol among the mountainsIn the faint moonlight, th...
Posted by Noodle on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 03:02:00 PST

Italia

Italy is marvelous, lots of good world cup matches (italy is KICKING ASS!) and the italians go apeshit and scream and throw flags around, its all good. sailing is wunderbar, getting a good tan, drinki...
Posted by Noodle on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:27:00 PST

For Sam and Omi

and for julia, for me, for our mothers.VESPERS: PAROUSIA   - louise gluckLove of my life, youare lost and I amyoung again.A few years pass.The air fillswith girlish music;in the front yardth...
Posted by Noodle on Wed, 17 May 2006 11:50:00 PST

Again...Lousie Gluck

 MATINSThe sun shines; by the mailbox, leavesof the divided birch tree folded, pleated like fins.Underneath, hollow stems of the white daffodils,        Ice Win...
Posted by Noodle on Sat, 13 May 2006 12:47:00 PST

california.

"The Mystery"  -Louise GluckI became a creature of light.I sat in a driveway in California;the roses were hydrant-color; a babyrolled by in its yellow stroller, makingbubbling fishlike sounds.I s...
Posted by Noodle on Sat, 25 Mar 2006 01:06:00 PST

feeling old...

"The Muse of Happiness"- Louise GluckThe windows shut, the sun rising.Sounds of a few birds;the garden filmed with a light moisture.And the insecurity of great hopesuddenly gone.And the heart still al...
Posted by Noodle on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 05:26:00 PST

As it is

As it isin a murderous time,the heart breaks and breaksand lives by breaking.As it isit is necessary, it is necessary to go into the darkand deeper darkand not to turn-As it is....
Posted by Noodle on Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:26:00 PST

My favorite poem

"Oda Con Un Lamento"- Ode With a Lament O girl among the roses, pressure of doves,O fortress of fishes and rosebushes, your soul is a flask of dried saltsand your skin is a bell full of grapes.I come ...
Posted by Noodle on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 11:44:00 PST

Those Fantasies

Those FantasiesThose fantasies, those pageants constructed by the human mind above the horror of life. All arts, all myths and philosophies: yet they are not limited to staying in their own lofty zone...
Posted by Noodle on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 04:23:00 PST