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nikki

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About Me

laugh attacks, listening, in love with life and certain concepts, very honest answers, word games, silly names, adventure trips, fun times, reading, writing, learning, participating in general. I used to be in a band, and I want to do it again, so let's make music!!

My Interests

the outdoors, parks, lakes, trees without leaves, sunshine, rain, singing in the car, road trips!, breaking your favorite lamp, animals of all sorts, loose change, oolong tea, making stupid faces, questioning your authority, jumping on beds, guitar hero, you look like's, tangerines, free refills, 'castling, sudoku, solitude, puddles and jumping in them, swinging from doors, sliding down stairs on mattresses, sharpies, tire swings, photograpy, polaroids, comebacks, NOT HORSES!!!

Music:

buddy holly, pinback, the beatles, weezer, wilco, the get up kids, regina spektor, pavement, bill ricchini, the mountain goats, cold war kids, owen, owls, sleater-kinney, nick drake, stephen malkmus, harry mcclintock, clinic, braid, tokyo police club, rick ross, the beach boys, minus story, stevie wonder, jazz june, jawbreaker, doves, the gin blossoms, dismemberment plan, eels, pixies, neutral milk hotel, the microphones, tortoise, am/fm, metric, magnetic fields, mineral, the notwist, promise ring, stereolab, the turtles, zero zero, the album leaf, joanna newsom, american football, mineral

Movies:

better off dead, welcome to the dollhouse, ghost dad, ghost busters, kindergarten cop, midnight madness

Television:

you cant do that on television, pete & pete, law & order, family matters, modern marvels, mythbusters

Books:

Life Studies and For the Union Dead, Diary, Ariel, Native Speaker, the Bell Jar, Visions of Gerard, the Captain's Verses, On the Road, Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters, Hot Water Music, Living and Dying. One day I will write a book that shows up on other people's lists.

My Blog

an elaboration on the undwewear story

By popular demand I'm going to tell the whole undwear story.   The bathroom in our apartment is broken and has been for weeks.  We have to go out our door and to the downstairs apartment to ...
Posted by nikki on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 09:46:00 PST

reclusive, elusive

It's past the point of no return.  Time to sink into chairs and think too much.  I want to say that I'm too sensitive, but I feel like it's the only proper reaction of one with any type of f...
Posted by nikki on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 11:34:00 PST

the aftermath of lengthy musing

This is when you find out that everything you thought was real was fake. Everything you thought was life and death was all made up. Every person every word everyone said every piece of nature you inve...
Posted by nikki on Wed, 23 May 2007 08:53:00 PST

letters put togehter, recapitulated literature of mine

At best the worst fear is That this is only  oh so ephemeral Being slept off On couches and floors with Widths meant for lips and limbs Of those who do not prefer reticence The thought of refus...
Posted by nikki on Thu, 17 May 2007 12:29:00 PST

oh all the sea salt

do you know what it is to be run down, mouth wry in one solid sip you could drink the sea dry and sky will come down down and shake hands with the ground while the trees tilt as stitls and fall all a...
Posted by nikki on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:36:00 PST