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Lisa

At times like these, it's important to remember that there have always been times like these.

About Me

Feminist/hippie/bleeding heart liberal. Surviving to tell the tale.

My Interests

Home, boundless patience, midnight walks around Silver Lake, the pile of books on my bedside table, Barack Obama's presidential campaign, making food that makes people say "yum yum!", my new just-right brown knee-high riding boots, yoga toes

I'd like to meet:

The new additions to our urban family.

Music:

Lisa Tall and Keiko Small. Coming to a bad karaoke dive near you. I'm the tall one.

Movies:

(In no particular order) In the Mood for Love, Chungking Express, Days of Being Wild, Labyrinth, Rear Window, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Miss Sunshine, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Wonder Boys, City of God, The Apartment, Amores Perros, Yi yi, Dirty Pretty Things, About a Boy, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Remains of the Day, Pan's Labyrinth, Four Weddings and a Funeral, The Philadelphia Story, Pride and Prejudice (BBC version), Sleepless in Seattle, It Happened One Night, Talk to Her, Eat Drink Man Woman, The Barbarian Invasions, The Jerk, Office Space, and too many more to remember.

Television:

Six Feet Under, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Lost, Weeds, Top Chef, Kids in the Hall, Strangers with Candy

Books:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- Love in the Time of Cholera, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice, Emma.

Heroes:

My grandparents, who are quite appropriately named Mary and Joseph.

My Blog

Proud to be from the Northeast

New Jersey's Supreme Court just basically legalized civil unions in New Jersey!! Massachusetts, New Jersey... California?? If I have anything to do with it! Vote Angelides in November... I'm proud t...
Posted by Lisa on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:41:00 PST

Barack Obama 2008

He was on Larry King tonight and gave the most eloquent, well thought out argument for civil unions for gay people that I may have ever heard. While I disagree with him on what to call it (I say call ...
Posted by Lisa on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 06:50:00 PST

The cars sounded like waves

Moody, quiet, simple, rainy, cozy.  Every weekend should be like the last one.
Posted by Lisa on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST