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Bessie

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About Me

MyGen Profile Generator I'm not jaded. I'm probably the most sociable loner you'll ever meet. I was that kid on the playground, sitting on the merry-go-round, dangling my feet, nose buried in a book. Now my life is confettied with fanciness having to do with booking bands, planning parties, event promotion, marketing, etc. (it's still kind of a merry-go-round) I'm all about: reading (the paper, the New Yorker, Esquire, Salinger, Billy Collins, Michael Chabon, David Eggers, Lorrie Moore, Borges, and on and on), coffee, music, being open, movies, stimulating conversation, sushi, politics, silliness, dancing, experiencing nature, wine, serendipity. I'm not at all about: smarminess, toxic relationships, pasta, self-pity, destruction, arguing for the sake of arguing, status symbols.

My Interests

Whenever it gets chilly and drizzly out, I like to make warm food for warm people. Scrabble is more fun than you think. Shopping? not so fun. I write when I can conjure up the time, I sing constantly in the car, I so dig live music, I check my messages (email, voicemail, what have you--by the way, Sprint PCS is utterly and incomprehensibly incompetent, I'm just sayin'...) freakishly often, politics move me, I absolutely love going to the movies.

I'd like to meet:

The modern day Ferris Bueller. Anyone who can talk and listen as much as I can. A fellow insomniac.

Music:

Adem, Hem, Amadou and Mariam, Regina Spektor, Cat Power, Eleni Mandell, Death Cab for Cutie,Imogen Heap, Ray LaMontagne, Gotan Project, Mark Kozolek, Sun Kil Moon, The Elected, The Cure, Martin Sexton, Feist, Damien Rice, Be Good Tanyas, Miles, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Wilco, John Prine, Postal Service, Erin McKeown, Bob Dylan, Ani DiFranco, Everything but the Girl, Greg Brown, Cassandra Wilson, Lucinda Williams, Leonard Cohen, Nina Simone, Nick Drake---ahhh, listing music I don't like would be easier, because my tastes are eclectic and far reaching. Is there any music I don't like? nothing immediately comes to mind.

Movies:

Life is Beautiful, Word Wars, God is Great and I am Not, Amelie, Royal Tenenbaums, Happy Accidents, Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, If Lucy Fell, Rushmore, Raising Arizona, Shop Girl, Lost in Translation, Match Point

Television:

...is overrated. Except for The Daily Show, Arrested Development, *guilty pleasure* Grey's Anatomy.

Books:

Rumi, Le Petit Prince, Traveling Mercies, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Bridge to Terebithia, Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, anything Nick Hornby, McSweeney's, Chronicles of Narnia, Picnic, Lightning, The Corrections, White Teeth, Sam the Cat, any short story collection

Heroes:

those who stay unswayingly true to themselves. And Mark Canak.

My Blog

humdedumdrum

this new song on my profile grabbed me... the world spins madly on...this world is definitely spinning, and madly on and on.  sometimes i feel as though i may drown in all this work, it would be ...
Posted by Bessie on Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:26:00 PST

currently obsessed with...

www.mcsweeneys.net Rilke the memory of aji sushi at Fin in Lenox with the backdrop of all those plastic superheroes...felt like I was in a child's bento box, a Japanese Happy Meal...aji in the midwest...
Posted by Bessie on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 10:59:00 PST

idioms

too far east is west, he says. true? hm.
Posted by Bessie on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:50:00 PST

no sleep til brooklyn, or elsewhere

do i ever truly sleep? i estimate that my insomnia grants me an extra 4 days or so per month as opposed to the time i'd have awake as a member of the 8 hr or more club. that's six weeks a ye...
Posted by Bessie on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:05:00 PST

Thank you, Captain Obvious

Everyone's saying it. Friends on the phone, the bloggers I'm addicted to reading, my sister, the Yahoo sidebar, et al. Are we all in agreement here? Valentine's Day sucks big time. Why does this holi...
Posted by Bessie on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:00:00 PST

S N O W

My mother used to reprimand me if I walked across the backyard across newly fallen snow.  She had this idiosyncratic obsession with looking out the kitchen window to see the blanket of snow prist...
Posted by Bessie on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:05:00 PST

warmth in the cold

bliss  (bls)  NOUN: Extreme happiness; ecstasy. The ecstasy of salvation; spiritual joy. PHRASAL VERB: bliss out Slang To go into a state of ecstasy. ETYMOLOGY: Middle Engli...
Posted by Bessie on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 09:15:00 PST

sushi

what is it about the dead of the frigid winter in the middle of the midwest that makes me crave sushi so much?  Probably the fact that even if I could have it, it wouldn't quite do.  If I w...
Posted by Bessie on Mon, 29 Jan 2007 01:28:00 PST

inspiration

You Who Never Arrived    You who never arrived in my arms, Beloved, who were lost from the start, I don't even know what songs would please you. I have given up trying to rec...
Posted by Bessie on Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:10:00 PST

new month's resolutions

Drink more coffee, and higher quality alcohol. (anyone who talked to me after 1 am on Saturday/Sunday/you know what I mean can attest: no more cheap shots for, or from, me: unless they are o...
Posted by Bessie on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 08:52:00 PST