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Elise

hip-hop-apotamous.

About Me

i love guacamole. and purl stitches.

My Interests

music, photography, knitting, reading & writing, movies, talking on the phone with my momma, yoga, cupcake royale, snail-mail, hiking & biking & camping, french pop, theater history (dadaism, surrealism, etc.), good whiskey/wine/beer, bookshelves & bookstores, records & record stores, tea & teapots, a fucking good cup of coffee, thrifting, baking, vegetarianism, oversized sweaters, stealing my boyfriend's socks, aimless wandering, beluga whales and kitty-cats (animals in general, really).

Music:

in no particular order: joy division, stereolab, tom waits, built to spill, the clash, apples in stereo, of montreal, the violent femmes, the stone roses, arcade fire, the olivia tremor control, devendra banhart, fleetwood mac, electric light orchestra, leonard cohen, radiohead/thom yorke, the durutti column, the magnetic fields, silver jews, neutral milk hotel, joni mitchell, broadcast, francoise hardy, devotchka, echo & the bunnymen, sonic youth, bat for lashes, beach house, grizzly bear, pwrfl power, wire, pixies, the cure, love & rockets, neil young, bauhaus, the cure, david bowie, the velvet underground, bob dylan, siouxsie & the banshees, my bloody valentine, the decemberists, beirut, elvis costello, blonde redhead, the knife, lydia lunch, bjork, joanna newsom, air, tegan and sara, pj harvey, animal collective, talking heads, deerhoof, cat power, mum, belle & sebastian, elliott smith, pavement, and more!

Movies:

top ten: brazil, the royal tenenbaums (and every other wes anderson movie), annie hall, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the big lebowski (and every other coen brothers movie), punch-drunk love, delicatessen, dr. strangelove: or how i learned to stop worrying and love the bomb, true romance, blue velvet, frenzy most recent favorite(s): burn after reading, there will be blood, the pineapple express, no country for old men, wall-e, the dark knight most anticipated: where the wild things are, milk, frost/nixon.

Television:

weeds.

Books:

haruki murakami, mcsweeney's, richard brautigan, vladimir nabokov, william s. burroughs, chuck klosterman, mark z. danielewski, carlos castaneda, j.d. salinger, walt whitman, jonathan franzen, don delillo, ernest hemingway, gabriel garcia marquez, sylvia plath, jon krakauer, miranda july. currently reading: the diary of anais nin & 'ada, or ardor' by vladimir nabokov

Heroes:

lauren greenfield, kim deal, sarah silverman, sebastiao salgado, the dalai lama, my mom.

My Blog

back yard show 05/11/06

photos that meg and i took at the band of annuals' show last night at the guys' house: darling girl. artsy fartsy. last time i checked, my nose wasn't that big.   ...
Posted by Bearsy Wearsy Puddin' Pop! on Fri, 12 May 2006 12:03:00 PST

san francisco: 2/03/2006 to 2/05/2006

these are just a bunch of random pictures that i took while in san francisco this weekend: wandering around a rest stop. cliche bird in tree branches photo. breanne! i sat in the backseat and read ...
Posted by Bearsy Wearsy Puddin' Pop! on Tue, 07 Feb 2006 02:26:00 PST

of montreal: 02/03/2006

great american music hall is so gorgeous. grand buffet! the singer actually drew muscles on himself, and you can kind of see them here. so fucking rad. of montreal! i wish i could've taken a pict...
Posted by Bearsy Wearsy Puddin' Pop! on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 01:03:00 PST

peter salett @ the dip

he's super rad. the end....
Posted by Bearsy Wearsy Puddin' Pop! on Sun, 11 Dec 2005 07:12:00 PST

halloween pictures!

oh, it's a shit-ton of halloween pics: i think we're both pretty sober here. drunk? coke dealer, dead girl, and the dali lama. dali lama trying to cop a feel, eh? coke dealer, dali lama, helte...
Posted by Bearsy Wearsy Puddin' Pop! on Tue, 01 Nov 2005 05:02:00 PST