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justine.

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About Me

"The (wo)man who stands for nothing will fall for anything" -Malcolm X

My Interests

compassion, language barriers, feminism, doo wop, unrequited love, education, ray liotta's eyes, inspiration, monmartre, acceptance, cobblestone streets, arabic, creating, steve madden boots, writing, activism, alleys, wondering, fam, a good meal, good drinks, coexistence, beautiful things, making out with gay guys, benazir bhutto, the spoken and written word, humanity, paul rudd, surrealism, postcolonialism, turn-around jump shots, quoting anchorman, live music, anything that constitutes as a potential muse, salvador dali, dark humor, the pacific ocean, downtowns, learning, sarcasm, suheir hammad, freedom, drifting, alfred hitchcock, resistence, chelsea handler, jager bombs, the outrageous.

I'd like to meet:

"The one thing in which the world will never have enough is the outrageous." -Salvador Dali

Music:

smashing pumpkins, the beatles, billie holiday, muse, nas, shakira, mana, the cure, the smiths, jane's addiction, slug, bebel gilberto, journey, the white stripes, beirut, sigur ros, mos def, jefferson airplane, common, the psychedelic furs, aesop rock, lauryn hill, sublime, modest mouse, franz ferdinand, etta james, random doo wop.

Movies:

the breakfast club, goodfellas, american beauty, zeitgeist, anchorman, superbad, reality bites, the departed, wait until dark, breakfast at tiffany's, sabrina, roman holiday, and every single film directed by alfred hitchcock.

Television:

grey's anatomy, cnn siu, top chef, project runway, sex and the city, six feet under, def poetry, anderson cooper

Books:

franz kafka, kurt vonnegut, suheir hammad, bell hooks, gustavo arellano, chuck klosterman, sor juana ines de la cruz, padmanaban, moliere. oh, the places you'll go, by dr. seuss.

Heroes:

those who speak up, challenge, and resist. all of those brave men and women who refuse to fight in this pointless war.

My Blog

The reasons.

There is no such thing as getting lost.There is nothing better than being really, really far away.We need to stop wanting more.Never assume that other people know what they're talking about.Starbucks ...
Posted by justine. on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 02:51:00 PST

The Kingdom.

Mucus dripped slowly down his mouth like a forgotten bathroom faucet running from his nostrils. Flesh caves indented into his cheeks. Exhaust, magget shit, bottoms of shoes, blood, asphalt dirt, sidew...
Posted by justine. on Sun, 06 Apr 2008 11:00:00 PST

Chanson des Veuves (Bruges)

Canals run through the city like veins, circulating life into theGreat grandma buildings that keep each other company inCobblestone courtyards, exchangingLove stories from departed Centuries-Hostesses...
Posted by justine. on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:18:00 PST

please mind the gap.

I'm here, by the way.The severe delay in communication/storytelling/picture uploading has partially to do with the facts that1) My luck never lets me down, as demonstrated in the circumstance that in ...
Posted by justine. on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:12:00 PST

Benazir Bhutto has been murdered.

she was going to make a lot of changes. good changes. she used to be PM of pakistan, and was a liberal opposition leader against the corrupt, oppressive pakistani government. though she was flawed, an...
Posted by justine. on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 10:53:00 PST

eulogy [dream variations of a venus fly trap]

[part of an intended series]sunstripes our bodies through spaced panels at 4:06pm turning us in tocriminalsblades of brown grass surround our vision likerusted prison barsI let the breeze beckon me to...
Posted by justine. on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 07:23:00 PST

Scansion

[spoken word piece...better performed than read...but you get the idea]I heard a Shakespearean sonnet murmering from your chest, when the world caught fire and torsos replaced goose down pillows&abab,...
Posted by justine. on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 10:50:00 PST

she deals her kisses like daggers

(i seem to be manic depressive when it comes to my feelings about things i write, so today i like this piece so i'm putting it back up after veto-ing it earlier. might not get the full effect if you'r...
Posted by justine. on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:54:00 PST

i thought we were getting past this mess.

this was originally a bulletin but i want more people to be aware of this nonsense.1) why the fuck is pat robertson supporting giuliani, who, though he is a conservative jackass, is the most liberal o...
Posted by justine. on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:46:00 PST

hollow men

hollow menby t.s. elliotIWe are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw. Alas!Our dried voices, whenWe whisper togetherAre quiet and meaninglessAs wind in dry g...
Posted by justine. on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 04:04:00 PST