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danica

and an ape with angel glands erased the final wisps of pain with the music of rubber bands

About Me

"There are many ways to fall: head first, feet first; like a leaf or a stone, on a banana skin or off a log; in a blaze of glory or in the darkness of despair. A fall can be trivial or dangerous; falls have a place of honour in comedy, in the circus, in tragedy and in melodrama. A fall may be biblical or farcical or, perhaps, both. Many of the different stories of the descent into colour are stories of a fall from grace. That is to say, they have roughly similar beginnings and ends; we know very generally where they are going to finish up. In that sense, they are not mysteries. But the manner and details of the falls are what's interesting: the terms used to describe the descent; the stages and locations; the twists and turns; the costumes and props; and, finally, the place where the falling stops, the place of colour.

My Interests

creating an internet presence, art openings, singing out loud, painting my nails, talking shit about literary movements, pratfalls and leaps, cleaning/not cleaning, taking advantage of situations, green, lazy hippies vs lazy anarchist punks, the possible improbable, new seasons, popping my collar,sport (not sports), being professional, trespassing, being too enthusiastic, getting offended, riding my bike

I'd like to meet:

someone who can teach me how to tell better jokes

Music:

reflections, cluster, hot 97, growing, hank williams, bob dylan

Movies:

beware of a holy whore, wings of desire, a woman is a woman, contempt, willy wonka and the chocolate factory, fanny and alexander, pinnochio, the 400 blows, hard days night, HELP!, don't look back, the muppets take manhattan, the women, breakfast at tiffany's, roman holiday, casablanca, the saddest music in the world, l'aaventura, broken flowers, my life as a dog, kicking and screaming, meet the parents, the royal tennenbaums, the dark crystal, peanuts christmas, barkleys barnyard critters, psychadelic bicentennial animations, a christmas story, PBS's anne of green gables, disney's sleeping beauty, argento, rohmer, herzog

Books:

seymour an introduction, franny and zooey, the aesthetics of disappearance, gravity's rainbow, anna karenina, jane eyre, where the wild things are, the savage detectives, proust, the old testament, jesus quotes, a lovers discourse, leif goldberg, the songlines, baba yaga stories, magazines

Heroes:

christa at the top of the pear tree

My Blog

repetition

Was gallantly taken to a foggy and cold baseball game last night and suffered the slings and arrows of many Mets fans who didn't understand why my date was wearing a Milwaukee Brewers hat, but after a...
Posted by danica on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 03:24:00 PST

real courage (boogaloo at the barbecue)

get out your dancing SHOES. it’s spring, finally. i’ve got gold nail-polish on my fingers and i sat in central park today on muddy green grass and watched happy dogs chase a crazy surplus...
Posted by danica on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:36:00 PST

i get all uppity and then i hear this

and then i remember that it doesn’t matter if i work in a restaurant or change diapers or whatever. ...
Posted by danica on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:48:00 PST

i’m alive!

what a pretty day for a birthday. now if someone would show up at my door with an arm-load of silks and linens and a ticket to a safari... but still, i’m looking out the window of the top floor ...
Posted by danica on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:07:00 PST

good morning, hello, good afternoon

i just bid farewell to friends and marched through my big house-sitting house playing the harmonica as loud as i could. the sun is shining. i have a hangover. last night was one of those evenings w...
Posted by danica on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:15:00 PST

magical realism

The 3-year-old I watch was sick today so while her brother was asleep and she was down the hall, I had nothing to do, which is usually when I read. So I was in the midst of the true bliss of reading ...
Posted by danica on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:36:00 PST

when things change

yesterday was absolutely unreal. heavy storms swept through one after the other, with periods of calm that were so wet and windy, that the darkness of the downpours only made sense. and then the col...
Posted by danica on Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:05:00 PST

the rain in spain vs the rain in brooklyn

i would imagine is probably warmer. smells better. maybe a little bit like texas.
Posted by danica on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 09:19:00 PST

Chloe in the Afternoon

For some reason, I've been rewatching all of these french movies from the 1960's and 70's that I haven't seen since college. Since I tend to have spans of unoccupied time late at night (babysitting) ...
Posted by danica on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:22:00 PST

jan. 2

It's a bright, cold and windy day! I'm up on the 4th floor of an apartment on N. 9th trying to see what the guys a few blocks away on the roof of a partially constructed soon to be high-rise are doi...
Posted by danica on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:51:00 PST