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Emily B.

About Me

and in fact i'm now asking an idle question of my own: which is better- cheap happiness, or lofty suffering? well, which is better?

My Interests

seasonal nostalgia, watercolor painting, cilantro, mobiles, weeki wachee: city of mermaids, LIGHT, lily of the valley, heidi braids, uranus, hibernation, anti-depressants, consilience, seahorsies, tricep muscles, weddings

I'd like to meet:

PIZZA. i love pizza.

Music:

low, blonde redhead, leonard cohen, sonic youth, the clientele, beach house, the national, echo & the bunnymen

Movies:

lost in translation, perfume, all the real girls, amelie, blue velvet, contact, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the snowman, tarnation, true romance

Television:

6FU, felicity, ZOOM, miami ink, alex mack

Books:

a natural history of the senses; the varieties of scientific experience; the velveteen rabbit; house of leaves; the unbearable lightness of being; hayy ibn yaqzan; notes from underground; the bell jar; the diamond in the window; alan lightman

Heroes:

kristy yamaguchi

My Blog

rubik's cube

keith woke up an extra half hour early this morning to buy a rubik's cube on the way to work.  i am smitten :)
Posted by Emily B. on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 11:02:00 PST

sea sex & sun

things i am enjoying & eagerly anticipating, in practice & in theory:   gardenias perfumery, for that matter tom petty the porter-phelps-huntington house/sunken garden gazpacho!! princeto...
Posted by Emily B. on Sat, 02 Jun 2007 03:41:00 PST

dayvan cowboy

i have watched this about a dozen times today: excelsior III: joseph kittinger free-fell for 4.5 minutes and (debatably) exceeded the speed of sound.  i want to know if his eyes were open....
Posted by Emily B. on Sun, 05 Nov 2006 08:07:00 PST

just keep counting the stars like someday you'll find out just how many there are.

"So the universe will continue to expand forever," Sandage said, "and galaxies will get farther and farther apart, and things will just die.  That's the way it is.  It doesn't really matter ...
Posted by Emily B. on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:21:00 PST