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wigglin' it. just a little bit. scheming up my next nomadic jump to places with strangers, painstakingly seeking thrill & adventure, getting squishy with fruit, nectar dripping down my chin, recycling everything, going stark raving mad & calling it life, toys from the 80's, cartoons from the 80's, travel to the umpteenth power, living out the wildly bohemian life, champagne at breakfast, peanut butter on a spoon with a side of almond milk, all the world's stunning cultures, outdoorsy endeavors: camping, hiking, biking, kayaking, drum circles, running nekked through the woods, ethnic foods, sizzling up delectable grub, music, music, and more music, indie films, writing, drawing, sculpting, devouring books, experimental theater, the arts in general, volunteering, xpn artists, hangliding, skydiving, scubadiving, motorcycles, costumes, roadtrips, getting lost on purpose, giving more than i get, being a right-brained girl in a hare-brained world, soaking up knowledge, design, laughing my arse off, quoting movies/books/poetry, flowers in my hair, wine, my friends, wine with my friends, the est training, holistic healing and natural remedies, meditation, progressive activism, games (the board type, the mind type, the bed type...), silly girls' night (out or in), unabashed self-expression, ogling animals (any kind), food fights, gardening, photography, inventing kooky & sometimes asinine means of fun, bringing ideas to fruition, living with Peter Pan syndrome/resisting the curse of "grown-up-itis", throwing all the paint i can at life, sucking the marrow out of it, and licking my fingers, relishing in savory delight.
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..REMEMBER WHO YOU WANTED TO BE.
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I'd like to meet:
people who know their own hearts, who make living an art, who can belly laugh at life's oft overlooked intricacies, who can open their minds, their mouths, their souls to cut through the grayness of pedestrian life and create a color all their own.
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TELL ME ABOUT YOURSELF - The Survey
Name: Lyss
Birthday: july 28th (ya'll betta rememba; i'm taking names)
Birthplace: new york city, represent
Eye Color: hazelish-greenish-brownish
Hair Color: anywhere from dark brown, red brown, ash brown depending on the month
Height: a wee 5'3"
Right Handed or Left Handed: neither i use my toes
Your Heritage: Austrian. Ukranian. Freakian.
The Shoes You Wore Today: fuzzy slippers
Your Weakness: candy. boys. bargains.
Your Fears: losing people i love, and not doing it all before i die
Your Perfect Pizza: white w/veggies
Goal You Would Like To Achieve This Year: start applying to grad schools. live & work in a foreign country.
Your Most Overused Phrase On an instant messenger: i despise im-ing
Thoughts First Waking Up: shit, what the hell am i late for now?
Your Best Physical Feature: er, the bedunka-dunk, is the word on the skreets
Your Bedtime: whenever my pimp says it's time to go home
Your Most Missed Memory: summers spent camping in the Poconos and trekking Bushkill...and a gadjillion others
Pepsi or Coke: neither - seltzer
MacDonalds or Burger King: neither - i enjoy my arteries
Single or Group Dates: ya mean i could have more than one at a time?
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: arizona green tea
Chocolate or Vanilla: ben & jerry's one sweet whirled
Cappuccino or Coffee: iced blueberry coffee
Do you Smoke: a coupla things
Do you Swear: oh fuck no
Do you Sing: only terribly
Do you Shower Daily: how the hell else should i wash the whipped cream off?
Have you Been in Love: every other day
Do you want to go to College: did, done it, gone
Do you want to get Married: perhaps...at least the wedding part should be fun
Do you belive in yourself: of course; i'm a friggin amazon
Do you get Motion Sickness: only when i drive with my eyes closed
Do you think you are Attractive: sure...sometimes i even hump the mirror
Are you a Health Freak: i don't think valuing nutrition as a source of energy and health makes me a freak...but then again, i am one regardless
Do you get along with your Parents: my bestest friends
Do you like Thunderstorms: i crave them! they're comforting, exciting, and kinda sexy if that makes any sense
Do you play an Instrument: i pretend i play my Yamaha acoustic
In the past month have you Drank Alcohol: i'm ripped now
In the past month have you Smoked: what is this, D.A.R.E.??
In the past month have you been on Drugs: i only divulge that info to the little men w/probes
In the past month have you gone on a Date: a few for the books actually
In the past month have you gone to a Mall: thank gawd, no
In the past month have you eaten a box of Oreos: a whole box...hmm, perhaps in my sleep
In the past month have you eaten Sushi: in the past day, i have
In the past month have you been on Stage: i'm always on stage in my mind
In the past month have you been Dumped: do insurance agents count?
In the past month have you gone Skinny Dipping: i would've if only it were about 30 degrees warmer
In the past month have you Stolen Anything: only hearts
Ever been Drunk: i'm still ripped
Ever been called a Tease: si senor...it's what we chicas do best
Ever been Beaten up: hell naw, but i've thrown a few 'bows in my day
Ever Shoplifted: way back in my devil-may-care days (tail down, head hanging low)
How do you want to Die: with the masses bowing to me
What do you want to be when you Grow Up: by the time i grow up, i'll be dead
What country would you most like to Visit: every single one on the planet, esp. costa rica, thailand, & back to switzerland
In a Boy/Girl..
Favourite Eye Color: whatev, so long as they have li'l hearts floating out of em when he looks at me
Favourite Hair Color: mousey brown (i'm specific i know)
Short or Long Hair: depends how he does his 'do
Height: taller than me, not so tall i break my neck
Weight: lean & cut but not too muscley, no necks thicker than my thighs, ick
Best Clothing Style: no pretty-boys; rugged but with a sense of style
Number of Drugs I have taken: a splendid consortium
Number of CDs I own: 12,392 or maybe 400, i lost count
Number of Piercings: nose and treagis, 6 more in ears
Number of Tattoos: 3 and working on the next few
Number of things in my Past I Regret: a few -- but mostly just the amount of time wasted on regretting things
CREATE YOUR OWN! ..
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Music:
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BOB DYLAN (my 1st love), m. ward (my 2nd), be good tanyas, ani difranco, damien rice, joni mitchell, g. love, wu tang, chris kasper, old crow medicine show, pearl jam, chris isaak, jeff buckley, kings of leon, josh ritter, ryan adams, etta james, weezer, public enemy, mark kozelek, beck, brett dennen, marvin gaye, the kinks, john lennon, cowboy junkies, stevie wonder, david bowie, paul simon, lauryn hill, krishna das, indigo girls, REM, amos lee, dar williams, johnny cash, neil halstead, mos def, adam monaco band, otis rhedding, alexi murdoch, tenacious d, csn&young, the weepies, clap your hands say yeah, ray lamontagne, gov't mule, bebel gilberto, counting crows, big head todd & the monsters, outkast, madeleine peyroux, biggie smalls, louis armstrong, wyclef jean, depeche mode, dmx, white stripes, marilyn manson, warren zevon, rodriguez, carole king, cat stevens, ella fitzgerald, elvis, beth orton, belle & sebastian, erykah badu, the dead, beastie boys, diana krall, the traveling wilburys, cat power, leonard cohen, iron & wine, joe cocker, citizen cope, jamie cullum, keb mo, joss stone, tim mcgraw, norah jones, beatles, DMB, prince, massive attack, nina simone, james taylor, sade, red house painters, jill scott, portishead, mazzy star, sun kil moon, the cure, mary j. blige, everything but the girl, nick drake, donovan, diggable planets, springsteen, sarah mclachlan, krs-one, tricky, gorillaz, patty griffin, ben lee, bob marley, damien marley, joshua radin, ll cool j, pink floyd, neil young, U2, feist, lewis taylor, tom petty, van morrison, and oodles more artists you won't find on the radio or on any bubblegum popcharts.
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Movies:
mostly indie & documentary, why we fight, what the bleep do we know, born into brothels, in sickness & in health, fear & loathing, trainspotting, leaving normal, full metal jacket, march of the penguins, waking life, love actually, fight club, napoleon dynamite, the producers (original), emma, platoon, pulp fiction, uncommon valor, the fisher king, pi, mindwalk, dinner w/andre, foxfire, natural born killers, before sunrise, grass, wedding crashers, the women, american beauty, anchorman, chocolat, 40 yr.old virgin, merlin, what dreams may come, empire records, wizard of oz, great expectations, kama sutra, princess bride, friday, up in smoke, breakfast at tiffany's, baz luhrman films, the Secret, etc.....focus on the etc.
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"You can turn your back on a person, but never turn your back on a drug. Especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye." ~Raoul Duke
Television:
typically mindnumbing (why do you think they call it "programming"), but i'll admit to the guilty habit every now and again ('cuz i be a hypocrite like anyone else)... achilles' heals: sex & the city, colbert report, aqua teen hunger force, The Office, will and grace. and i can get down with the channels w/some brains -- PBS, discovery, travel channel, BBC, sundance. Globetrekker is addictive. So is Def Poetry Jamz. Real Time w/Bill Maher walks the line between hilarious and brilliant. Thirty Days is genius. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia is the way sitcoms were meant to be made.
Books:
.."Listen to the MUSTN'TS, child,
Listen to the DONT'S,
Listen to the SHOULDNT'S,
The IMPOSSIBLES, the WONT'S,
Listen to the NEVER HAVES,
Then listen close to me --
Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be" ~s.silverstein...in our hearts, and childhood memories. thank you, shel.
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i'm a bibliophile by nature; the book store is my happy place. blue jelly. rilke's letters to a young poet. eat pray love (the book i should've written). the traveling death & resurrection show. blink. freakonomics. a tree grows in brooklyn. me talk pretty one day. letters to my son. atlas of the human heart. marjorie morningstar, a 10,000 mile long list of others...all tomes by dan millman, ram dass, rainer maria rilke, dorothy parker, walt whitman, anais nin, melody beattie, ariel gore, richard bach, dave sedaris, satyam nadeen, paulo coehlo, wayne dyer, kahlil gibran, yada yada...
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Heroes:
my mother my mother my mother (my rock, my guru, my goddess). my grandfather, my roots (and the most creative and brilliant maverick of a man ever to have lived). walt whitman. ani difranco. bob dylan. dorothy parker. einstein. ghandi. most of my teachers throughout my schooling. thank you, beautiful people. i am who i am because of who you are.
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