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MochaChild

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About Me



My Interests

breaking things

I'd like to meet:

the girl whose number i lost, the boy i waited too long to call, the friend of a friend i always wanted to talk to but didn't, the blind date i blew out, the boy i drifted out of touch from, the couple i met once ,briefly, on holiday...

Music:

portishead, tricky, selfish cunt, paloma faith,france gall,noblesse oblige,hercules and love affair, deise tigrona, cocorosie,lady sovereign,jahcoozi, haduoken, metronomy, the presets, new young pony club, the gossip, the slits, tetine, tribe called quest,handsome male modelling school, busta, missy, n.e.r.d, blackalicious,lil kim, t.t.c, la rumeur ,cibelle, nouvelle vague, the cure, the rapture, peaches, miss kitten, gnarls barkley,4hero, outkast, erykah badu, the streets, goldie,felix the housekat,de la soul, beastie boys, amon tobin, pizzicato 5, pink martini, mr. scruff, simian, al green, jill scott, billie holiday, cole porter, ella fitzgerald, frank sinatra, gilberto gil

Movies:

a bout de soufle', breakfast at tiffany's, humoresque, sunset boulevard, cabaret, chung king express, happy together, chasing amy, the postman always rings twice, i shot andy warhol, basquiat, kurt and courtney, metropolis .. width="425" height="350" ..

Television:

pass

Books:

giovanni's room, the bluest eye, the powerbook, gut symmetries, don quixote, breakfast at tiffany's, 1984, fanny hill, fear of flying, on beauty, the nightwatch

Heroes:

my mom, my girlfriend, my best friend.

My Blog

it wasnt me... it was paula varjack

woooooooooahkay. so Paula Varjack made her berlin debut and i have to say it was a success.but who is this monster/mistress i've created? i won't lie, i'm equal parts excited and overwhelmed. its stra...
Posted by MochaChild on Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:24:00 PST

call it cross pollination

ok so this berlin thing is really starting to make sense again. yeah sure its way colder, and all of my friends seem affected by it, a certain kind of introspection and focus and calm that was inevita...
Posted by MochaChild on Tue, 07 Oct 2008 03:16:00 PST

divided cities/ divided personas/ divided

prologue: i deliberated so much over whether to post this here or on Paula's profile until i couldn't make up my mind and decided i'd post here as default. i think in the future audio poems will be on...
Posted by MochaChild on Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:23:00 PST

Alter egos and alternative identities.

So while i was in London the pseudonym i used on my poetry blog started to become her own character. I think it might have had something to do with those glasses. Add Paula Varjack as your friend. she...
Posted by MochaChild on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:53:00 PST

why i love bar 25...

It was suddenI walked off And found himThe friend I'd lostWandering off the dancefloorHe gestured for me to sitSomehow I knew to be quietAnd as I turned my headI saw itWhat he'd sawWhat had made himS...
Posted by MochaChild on Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:22:00 PST

getting back together with the ex [london]

ahhhh london london london. i had you all wrong. i must say i struggled to keep up with you (and am currently feeling an exhaustion even a week of nonstop partying in berlin could not match)&n...
Posted by MochaChild on Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:04:00 PST

losing the _home_ in homecoming...

five am- The Guten Morgens that spill out of the mouths of all the Schonefeld airport staff are far too cheery. I look like a girl who has walked straight out of the club and into a cab to the airport...
Posted by MochaChild on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 06:13:00 PST

restless nights in and crushing on unknown writers

friday night and i'm in. friday night in berlin. two nights before i return to london for the first time in six months. my LAST weekend in berlin (for two whole weeks anyway). friday night and the onl...
Posted by MochaChild on Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:53:00 PST

the thing is

it may be a city but you mustn't forget. i mean really you ought to bare in mind. seriously. its always smaller than you think. what do I mean? is it a scene thing? or what? what am i on about really?...
Posted by MochaChild on Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:17:00 PST

Hello, my name is...

Mochachild. Mocha as in the chocolate coffee, child as in not quite an adult yet. When I was little I always wished I had the kind of name you could easily modify. Daniel across the road got to be dan...
Posted by MochaChild on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:47:00 PST