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franda panda

I am here for Friends

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

A car that's mine!

Music:

Recently: The Mountain Goats, "The Neon Bible" and David Byrne.

Movies:

Almost Famous, Empire Records, Donnie Darko, Blade Runner, Fargo, Death To Smoochie, Sixteen Candles, Igby Goes Down, Fight Club, Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Grease, Pleasantville, Effroyables Jardins, Life is Beautiful, Goodbye Lenin, American Beauty, Lost in Translation, I 3 Huckabees, Don't Move, Kids, The Guide To Recognizing Saints, The Edukators....

Television:

Gilmore Girls, FREAKS AND GEEKS, and every kind of Law and Order

Books:

A Farewell to Arms, Angela's Ashes, We The Living, Blindness, A Moveable Feast, The Sound and The Fury, A Short History of Nearly Everything, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Look Homeward, Angel, A Wrinkle in Time, Heart of Darkness, so much poetry.

Heroes:

Thom Yorke, Evan Black and William Faulkner.

My Blog

I counted the houses one by one

"I counted the houses one by one by one&"              As I stood with the somnambulist in the kitchen, the balls of my feet started to ache again...
Posted by franda panda on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:01:00 PST

Motion and the Illusions of Animation

Motion and the Illusions of Animation An innocuous traveler sitting to one side of the trackslooks down either end of infinityanticipating the next speedy locomotive,the constant, evenacceleration: th...
Posted by franda panda on Thu, 22 Dec 2005 08:37:00 PST

a failure to thrive

In the organic field, all things are similar. Ground make-up, animal tendency, textural sensibility. And I speak to this in us all. One thing, though, the animals know as we know But know in the de...
Posted by franda panda on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:54:00 PST

and I'm just thinking..

...I will make a stride from monotony in the starry reaches of my mind; in the regions of purity which exist solomely. I am proud to say I'm still moved utterly by free things, by fog, ...
Posted by franda panda on Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:28:00 PST

hey, check it.

Today is one of those days when i am just expediating the slow decay until death. I'm distilling in this ancient house with antiquated windows and doors waiting patiently for that moment when I r...
Posted by franda panda on Thu, 18 May 2006 11:08:00 PST

The Magnolia Tree

  The magnolia tree died. It spread its trinity-bloom branches heavy, extended. They stretched to the tips, actual white and pinkish, laughing like Persephone must have  a solid ...
Posted by franda panda on Sat, 01 Apr 2006 12:39:00 PST

rough rough draft...

Clean lines cut the conductor into two half-circle pieces because he fell to the inevitable traffic, vowing that electricity makes these things move, he left his engine and went back into the d...
Posted by franda panda on Sat, 18 Mar 2006 08:41:00 PST

the future stream of conscious

A thick sponge soaks up the water left behind on the boxy surface of that table, while the only living apes left in the world sit on roof tops screaming that the end of the world is only a vivid explo...
Posted by franda panda on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 10:26:00 PST

what happens sometimes when i go outside..

I don't know the words... Black cat iron stair cases a cove of an alley, quiet rocks, right next to houses, at a loss, cat crossed my path right as i turned back but desolate deserted insular place be...
Posted by franda panda on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 12:03:00 PST

YESSSSSSSSSS

the chances are pretty high that I, Francesca Clare Black, might get to go see Built to Spill in Chicago in April. enough said.
Posted by franda panda on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 02:34:00 PST