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Amethyst Rockstar

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My Interests

poetry, writing, good music, people, history, time travel, spoken word competition (slam poetry), India, Ireland, I used to be really into cross country, French Language(though I admit it seems pretty useless at this point in my life), foreign travel, travelling at all(seeing as the farthest i have been is either omaha or st. louis), debate and forensics, true crime, fantastic lyrics. Running and taking long walks uphill. FISHING! I LOVE FISHING!

I'd like to meet:

Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Hunter S. Thompson (RIP), E.E. Cummings, David Carradine, Audrey Toutou, Steven Segal, Beau Sia, Natalie Goldberg, Chuck Palahniuk, Wes Anderson

Music:

Tom Waits, Saul Williams, Neutral Milk Hotel, Bob Dylan, Meryl, Nico, The Velvet Underground, Celtic Bagpipes ( a strange fastination stemming from my childhood). I dig BUDDY HOLLY, Nick Drake, THIRD EYE BLIND, Sister Hazel, Alanis Morrisette, Jewel, Bright Eyes (though I hate to admit that it's one of my guilty pleasure), the Eagles, Evanescance (another guilty pleasure...), led zeppelin, pink floyd, death cab for cutie, fallout boy.

Movies:

Amelie, Boondock Saints, Life Aquatic, Royal Tenenbaums, V For Vendetta, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Illusionist, I Heart Huckabees, Big Fish, Hard to Kill, Coffee and Cigarettes, Domino (only the Tom Waits jesus scene really...)

Television:

CSI Miami, the Sopranos, MXC (I'm a sucker for people getting hurt on tv), the first 48, scrubs, wheel of fortune (i rule this freaking show), Sopranos, National Geographic Channel

Books:

anything by Kurt Vonnegut (the man without a country being my favorite), the Time Machine, the Perks of Being a Wallflower, anything by Saul Williams (currently rereading the Dead Emcee Scrolls), Writing Down the Bones (Natalie Goldberg), the Lovely Bones (Alice Sebold), and pretty much anything by Taylor Mali, Fight Club, Survivor by Chuck Pahlaniuk, The Contortionist's Handbook, The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, The Spoken Word Revolution, Love Poems of Rumi, A Night Without Armor 2 by Beau Sia, I Want to be Your Shoebox (a collection of nyc writer's), and the complete works of lawrence ferlinghetti, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (by the late great hunter s. thompson), Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, Scott Edelstein, The Great Failure by Natalie Goldberg, Said the Shotgun to the Head (Saul Williams), The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Heroes:

Kurt Vonnegut, Saul Williams, Taylor Mali, the entire Beat generation, Mark Twain, Steven Chbosky, Emily Dickinson, Natalie Goldberg, Alice Sebold, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Buddy Holly, Shelly, H.G. Wells, Doctors Without Borders, Audrey Toutau, V, and the rest of you know who you are.

My Blog

alive

you kissed me and my heart fluttered and i felt like i had ran a thousand miles up the side of a mountain then took a flying leap off the edge and it was beautiful. the taste of cigarettes dancing smo...
Posted by Amethyst Rockstar on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:06:00 PST

new years resolutions (and by that i mean false promises...)

(1) Lose 20-30 pounds by next years christmas party. (2) Get into school (3) Move back to lawrence and be happy again (4) Try to not be so critical. yeah, probably not going to happen. (5) Do more thi...
Posted by Amethyst Rockstar on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 04:56:00 PST

when the cold comes

when the cold comes i know it's time to go back home where the weather's warm inside but not out where you and i smiled and laughed and cried and yelled like it was the end of the world some apocoly...
Posted by Amethyst Rockstar on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 11:07:00 PST

not fully understanding.

not wanting to wake you from your catatonic sleep i internalize the weeping and bury my pain deep and that feeling inside me begins to creep through my veins like a disease left forgotten  ...
Posted by Amethyst Rockstar on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:23:00 PST

I.

I am the manifestation of all my wildest dreams mix together in a blender with strawberry ice cream fingers like torpedos search and destroy painted missles breaking promises i search and destroy......
Posted by Amethyst Rockstar on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 10:56:00 PST

i met a man who met buddy holly.

strangest thing. i met an old man at work who said he used to hang out with buddy holly. i said prove it. and he did. it's true. and i think it is wonderful. now for my 3 days off! who wants to p...
Posted by Amethyst Rockstar on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:50:00 PST

everything about autumn

is inviting this year i want it wrap me up in orange and leave me  on winter's doorstep i want to drink cappucino in coffee shops with tiled floors and norah jones singing her quiet rasp into my ...
Posted by Amethyst Rockstar on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:09:00 PST

autumn

i wore my smile like a dress that year the cappucino and chess games and coltraine playing on my ears before i'd learned to love and long after reality kicked in and i wore my smile like a dress that ...
Posted by Amethyst Rockstar on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 10:48:00 PST

the dying

not sure quite why my hands feel so god damn small like tiny gumballs in side arena sized pockets and that dull ache in my skull making my eyes twitch on either side it feels like the dying when i sho...
Posted by Amethyst Rockstar on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:11:00 PST

today

which was actually yesterday. it reminded me of you somehow.and i let my mind slip into that familiarfeelinglet my feet lift off the ground.and the cold wind was blowingmy lips were afirethe air was s...
Posted by Amethyst Rockstar on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:50:00 PST