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juju ♥

she's aware of the implant.

About Me



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My Interests

music. design. expressive fashion. baking. knitting. touching nature. collecting cute stationery. my vespa. cupcakes. cheese. my fat, fuzzy cat. space. riding thru old neighborhoods in an old hearse. being married. soft horse muzzles. sharing. idisk. ipod. ipets! (-- i knit those.) lately, ocd-style mcm home stalking and fixing up our home and garden.

I'd like to meet:

cheap piano tuners and someone to electrify my cello.

Music:

strings, pianos, electronics, penderecki, richter, part, mahler, glass, dj honky, alan and mimi, james and meredith, crazy gang gang dance and such noises, astrud, billie, ella, nina, icelandic, scottish, post-punk, idm, abstract, ecm, slow and pretty, field recordings, boy music, girl music, leaf, type, morr, piano, birds, electricity generators, the tide, kitty on the keys, bands who play on cruises to norway...

Movies:

short films, cult films, noir and musicals, miyazaki, gondry, gilliam, sound of music, dancer in the dark, amadeus,... old merchant-ivory, wes anderson, christopher guest, wong kar wai, jean-pierre jeunet, john hughes, coens, lars von trier, asian cinema with wes (for playing kung fu afterwards), the odd british sort, not too-off kilter german sort, and of course, the occassional ben stiller, colin firth, and wilson bros, not to mention classic john hughes...

Television:

project runway, ANTM, HGTV, IFC, colbert report, larry david...

Books:

recooperating after hp6... palahniuk, eggers, sedaris, tolkein, cs lewis, jane austen, the brontes, em forster, stuart david, etc. if there isn't time to delve into a novel, there are always design, architecture, furniture, crafting, sewing, knitting, and vespa books...

Heroes:

wendy phipps, kate bush, twiggy, debbie harry, mary poppins, mom... people who make things beautiful and inspiring enough to make me forget the lameness of the rest of the population for just five minutes...

My Blog

can't slow down

can't wake up, either. i've been going to sleep every night to the 2005 version of pride & prejudice since i got the dvd basically... i have no time to go into why or how it started. i just have ...
Posted by juju ♥ on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:20:00 PST

i dream in houses v.43240203459

still having house dreams. last nite w got into a house that our friends put an offer on (the girl's a realtor), and tho noone really let him in, he was helping himself to the kitchen stuff... making ...
Posted by juju ♥ on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 04:49:00 PST

the nu hazelwood/sinatra?

not sure how i feel about isobel campbell's nu project. i don't really care much for mark lanegan. i think he's sorta creepy. but then, that character fits the part of such a duo... i'm going to have ...
Posted by juju ♥ on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:44:00 PST

my flickr

just started uploading... more to come. http://www.flickr.com/photos/softestthing/
Posted by juju ♥ on Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:28:00 PST

FME heart

i finally scored my own buddha machine. i got an orange one for wes for xmas, and for congrats on getting a new job, i got myself a purpley one (same color as the one i got for fu which got eaten by t...
Posted by juju ♥ on Wed, 25 Jan 2006 04:53:00 PST

will pedal for keys

i have an addiction. to pianos. it's subsided since we got the U3 last year, but it's resurfacing... the rhodes, the wurlitzer, the air organ, the organ in the garage, the oberheims, the moogs, the me...
Posted by juju ♥ on Thu, 13 Oct 2005 04:53:00 PST

gma and friends

horrah for another super fun weekend getting yelled at by grandma. to tears! we decided to take the scenic route home and stop at apple hill to pick pumpkins and pie. i also wanted a pine cone to mak...
Posted by juju ♥ on Mon, 10 Oct 2005 09:08:00 PST

in a foot world...

move over, record shop! juju gots a brand new job!!! thanks to sabs and heather and stephanie, yours truly will soon be working for foot people. foot doctors. in a foot office on a foot street. eat it...
Posted by juju ♥ on Sat, 08 Oct 2005 04:32:00 PST

photoshop = puts hair on your chest!

when i was a kid and my mama was married to her third husband, life was pretty sucky. it was all brady bunch on paper, but to see us six step kids (3 blondes, 3 brunettes, each brought to the family b...
Posted by juju ♥ on Tue, 04 Oct 2005 03:39:00 PST

help, they need somebody, help

there are several cities on craigslist where you can offer assistance to the communities in need. here's one: http://neworleans.craigslist.org/ccc/ not a lot of people can even get to the inter...
Posted by juju ♥ on Thu, 01 Sep 2005 09:39:00 PST