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holly

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About Me

twenty-something.

My Interests

music, history, sexuality, pop culture as a category of analysis.

I'd like to meet:

"And with each step my heart broke for the person I would never find, the person who'd love me." - Dennis Johnson, from Jesus' Son.Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Stephen Colbert, Tommy Lee, Brandon Boyd, and someone who was at Woodstock '69.

Music:

Incubus, Metallica, Aerosmith, Rise Against, Eagles of Death Metal, Fiona Apple, Foo Fighters, Billy Thomas, Muse, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Billy Thomas, Tomorrow's War, and the like.

Movies:

Across the Universe/Almost Famous/Amores Perros/Blow/Boondock Saints/Brokeback Mountain/Broken Hearts Club/A Dream For An Insomniac/Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind/Farenheit 9-11/Fight Club/Garden State/Gia/Girl, Interrupted/The Good Girl/The Graduate/High Fidelity/Kevin Smith movies/Kill Bill 1 &2/Love, Actually/Maria Full of Grace/Playing By Heart/Secretary/Snatch/Swingers/Tadpole/Transamerica/21 Grams/200 Cigarettes

Television:

CSI, The Colbert Report, Real Time with Bill Maher, Entourage, Dirty Jobs, The Office, Curb your Enthusiasm, Extras, The L Word, Weeds, Californication, Tell Me You Love Me, DVDs of Queer as Folk.

Books:

The Grapes of Wrath, 1984, The Journals of Sylvia Plath, Fluffy White Clouds, On the Road, Heart of Flesh: A Feminist Spirituality

Heroes:

political prisoners, refugees, those that go hungry, and altruists.

My Blog

Equality: A White Middle- to Upper-Class Heterosexual Male Privlege?

It's 11:30PM and I just got home and settled down. I need to do a little reading before tomorrow's class, but I need to vent first. I just had a farily/extremely disappointing discussion with a few fr...
Posted by holly on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:10:00 PST

Sex and Violence: Inextricably Linked in American Society?

(Disclaimer:  the title of this blog is much sexier than it sounds. This blog isn't about sex, per se, but about abortion rights and gun control).   If we are living in an era of relativism,...
Posted by holly on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:36:00 PST

To Those Who Think We Live in a World of Equality...

From "Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence" by Adrienne Rich: "Kathleen Gough lists eight characteristics of male power in archaic and contemporary societies which I would like to use as ...
Posted by holly on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:53:00 PST

Cheap Wine and Cigarettes

I'm a few glasses of wine deep right now and feeling good about my life. I shouldn't be thinking good about my life. I'm in the middle of an existential crisis right now, questioning the meaning of my...
Posted by holly on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:10:00 PST

School Days & Summer Haze

Update for those curious: First year of grad school is officially o-v-e-r!! It's great. I've been enjoying my last days in Jersey since last Monday. Since then, things have gotten pretty crazy. My f...
Posted by holly on Wed, 16 May 2007 01:49:00 PST

California - Here I Come!

Alright, not really. At least not yet. But fingers crossed, if all goes according to plan....I'll be home in six weeks. Not sure how I'm going to afford the ridiculous plane ticket prices, but hopeful...
Posted by holly on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 08:59:00 PST

MIA

For those of you from CA who are wondering what I've been doing out here in New Jersey, I'll give you a little update. I apologize for not being in touch with a lot of you, but this semester has been ...
Posted by holly on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:48:00 PST

Say No to Censorship

I talked to Jimmy earlier today and he turned me on to Brooke's bulletin earlier this week about Mel Gibson's inappropriate behavior at my alma matter, Cal State University, Northridge. E! is currentl...
Posted by holly on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 12:35:00 PST

I Want Dan Rather To Be My Grandpa

No offense to my actual grandfathers, one living and one not, but Dan Rather would make a pretty sweet grandpa. I just watched "Real Time With Bill Maher," which is one of my faaaavorite shows. I wis...
Posted by holly on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:31:00 PST

I'm Over the Spring Semester

I have tons to do and not enough time to do it, it's cold and snowy/rainy again, I can't find the research I need and all I want to do is sleep until I get to go back to LA for the summer.
Posted by holly on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:17:00 PST