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miss chelsea elizabeth

im leavin on a jet plane

About Me

i take too many pictures. most of doors & windows. some of landscapes. & myself.

i like tea early in the morning. i wish i could tell a bird from its song. my bicycle & my bed are two of my favourite places to contemplate life. i suffer from severe wanderlust.

i like having friends.
i like singing songs.
i like teaching kids.
i like cooking food.
i like drinking wine.
i like breathing deep.
i like making love.

i like life.

i suppose this about sums it up.

My Interests

a : [alligators][applesauce][attics]
b : [breasts][breath][buddhists]
c : [cartwheels][cotton.candy][colour]
d : [decay][dinosaurs][dirt]
e : [eloquence][ettiquette][excess]
f : [futbol][france][freckles]
g : [guitar][giggling][grace]
h : [hide.&.seek][hippies][history]
i : [incense][influence][imperfection]
j : [jade][jazz][juniper]
k : [kites][kittens][knitting]
l : [language][lavender][love]
m : [make.believe][mascara][meditation]
n : [naps][nudity][nutmeg]
o : [october][one.way.streets][organic.tea]
p : [pain][patience][playtime]
q : [questions][quietude][quintessence]
r : [rain][recovery][red.wine]
s : [sailboats][sonnets][sticky.notes]
t : [trains][travel][touch]
u : [ubiquity][ugliness][umbrellas]
v : [verbosity][virility][virginity]
w : [water][waste][&.i.♥.words]
x : [xenophobia][xhosa][xi]
y : [yellow][yoga][youth]
z : [zeal][zeroes][zymurgy]

I'd like to meet:

my lover/s grandmother before she dies.

Music:

antony & the johnsons
arcade fire
architecture in helsinki
arctic monkeys
ashley rae
the beatles
belle & sebastian
belle x1
ben kweller
bjork
bloc party
bob dylan
broken social scene
britney
central services
counting crows
dada
the dandy warhols
deathcab
the decemberists
devendra banhart
django reinhardt
elefant
elliott smith
eric miller
eva cassidy
flick
fiona apple
the format
frank sinatra
the futureheads
garbage
gene kelly
george winston
the go! team
hayden
howie day
imogen heap
incubus
in praise of folly
jan kaczmarek
jim noir
jon brion
kidney thieves
the killers
kristin allen-zito
kyo
lata mangeshkar
leo kottke
the long goodbye
mae
magic system
manau
mates of state
mozart
new buffalo
page france
the police
the pretenders
psapp
puscifer
radiohead
rilo kiley
rooney
route 7
rose polenzani
rosie brown
ryan adams
sam roberts
shout out louds
sia
snow patrol
soma for kinder
something corporate
spinto band
stars
sufjan stevens
the sundays
tally hall
the trucks
wolf parade
& a bunch of mindless shit youd never understand

Movies:

dancer in the dark
dead poets society
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
fight club
finding neverland
gia
i am sam
i ♥ huckabees
la reine margot
little miss sunshine
les miserables
memento
ponette
pulp fiction
rabbit proof fence
requiem for a dream
science of sleep
singing in the rain
stand by me
titanic
underworld

Television:

[read.a.fucking.book.]

Books:

l'amant [marguerite duras]
the anatomy colouring book [various]
angels in america [tony kushner]
brave new world [aldous huxley]
choke [chuck palahniuk]
the color purple [alice walker]
the corrections [jonathan franzen]
diary [chuck palahniuk]
les dormeurs [sophie calle]
douleur exquise [sophie calle]
l'étranger [albert camus]
fast food nation [eric schlosser]
farenheit 451 [ray bradbury]
the gay science [friedrich nietzsche]
girl with a pearl earring [tracy chevalier]
the girls guide to hunting & fishing [melissa bank]
the giver [lois lowry]
the grapes of wrath [john steinbeck]
great expectations [charles dickens]
ham on rye [charles bukowski]
in a sunburned country [bill bryson]
inferno [dante aligheri]
invisible monsters [chuck palahniuk]
in watermelon sugar [richard brautigan]
ishmael [daniel quinn]
lolita [vladimir nabokov]
the lovely bones [alice sebold]
les miserables [victor hugo]
nine hills to nambonkah [sarah erdman]
orlando [virginia woolf]
le petit prince [antoine saint-exupery]
the picture of dorian gray [oscar wilde]
poisonwood bible [barbara kingsolver]
prodigal summer [barbara kingsolver]
requiem for a dream [hubert selby jr.]
richard iii [william shakespeare]
survivor [chuck palahniuk]
story of b [daniel quinn]
tristan & iseut [beroul et thomas]
the virgin blue [tracy chevalier]

Heroes:

ma jolie mère.

My Blog

silver

& then it hit her, while sitting on the stoop of the office, back pressed against the glass door behind her. she was no longer a child. & she tried to think back to a specific point in time, t...
Posted by miss chelsea elizabeth on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:55:00 PST

yellow sun days of leaving

  yellowyellow sun, yellow sky         &nb sp;         &nb sp;       &nb...
Posted by miss chelsea elizabeth on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 04:54:00 PST

under your awning

i remember those cigarettes& that back porch, too.the way the darkness fellheavy as velvetacross our laps& sometimes the coldwould reach herbony fingers so deepwe couldnt tellour smoke from ou...
Posted by miss chelsea elizabeth on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 10:53:00 PST

ruins

the yellowing of your nails scares me. his withered frame twitches in the wind unsure of which way to bend. how much longer can this hold before i break?travel these days is no longer travel. we cross...
Posted by miss chelsea elizabeth on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:35:00 PST

she said

she said i deserved that kind of happiness and unbeknownst to her my life was changed. i rolled your words across my tongue like marbles in my small hands. i thought the taste of you upon my lip...
Posted by miss chelsea elizabeth on Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:12:00 PST

they

they broke her from the inside. wore her down like favourite jeans. holes in all the wrong places. thin & weak & losing colour fast. she clung fast to life. blood & dirt deep beneath her ...
Posted by miss chelsea elizabeth on Thu, 25 May 2006 10:59:00 PST

title

my closed eyes      listen in tent ly to each & every syllable you let slide past your chapped lips each ah & ee the way your r,s roll off your tongue    &nb...
Posted by miss chelsea elizabeth on Thu, 11 May 2006 01:10:00 PST

timeless

he takes his coffeewith no milk to prevent the acid from coating his stomach but still he lets the bullshit in he says because this way it goes straight through. his hand shakes a little uneasy on ...
Posted by miss chelsea elizabeth on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:41:00 PST

in dreams

i dreamt you held me the whole night through the scent of your warm skin rife upon my humpbackhumpback spine , permeating the satin folds of pulp pink muscle layed like bricks or feathers smooth acro...
Posted by miss chelsea elizabeth on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 04:13:00 PST

finish you

its 1234 & i think of you what of that? why do you consume my thoughts even when i have no control i hate punctuation perhaps because im indecisive i can never decide when the time is appropr...
Posted by miss chelsea elizabeth on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 05:39:00 PST