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tea & cake!

so tangle - oh tangle us up in bright red ribbons!

About Me

a little steam-punk sprocket girl, made of gears &lace. my spare time is consumed by my ever faithful elna sewing machine, dreaming of riding my moped again, riding my bicycle sometimes, long bus rides, spray paint, watching movies, drinking tea, "beautification" of the city streets/walls/surfaces, and spending time with close friends amongst a dozen other projects/ideas. most often i am full of heartache. in love with having crushes, dumpsterdiving, trains and old things. to earn a paycheck, i am currently a bartender and server at ye lovely smarty pants .

things are okay.

My Interests

travel, graffiti &street art of all kinds, bartending, body modification, mopeds, mopeds, taserham, mopeds, dumpster diving, railyards &traintracks, the stories behind yer scars, baking &baking &baking, collar bones, booze &beer &grub, antiques & trinkets, hips &hands, hunting tourists, sewing &always, recycling fashion, cellos, shiny things, musical saws and other quirky instruments, kissing by the trains, spray paint and stencil graffiti.

cut&collect: skeleton keys &old locks, hearts, feathers &bones, strange antiques.

I'd like to meet:

people to make my heart race and have adventures with. someone to take a nap with. bartenders, cute boys, stray cats, story tellers. someone to teach me how to play cello and/or musical saw. people with good scams. people with ideas involving semi-permanent to permanent unsolicited public artwork. maps of good dumpsters in a variety of cities and someone to climb inside with. someone for midnight bicycle rides through georgetown alleyways. vandalists &artists, makers of mischief and beauty, &good kissers.

Music:

godspeed you! black emperor (i said kiss me, you're beautiful..), converge, placebo, gogol bordello, ¡BLUDMUFFN!, yann tiersen, david bowie, the pogues, nick cave, t. rex, mastodon, catharsis, modest mouse, against me!, HRSTA, the ramones, wolf parade, the specials, the misfits, a hawk and a hacksaw, neurosis, ¡tchkung!, the blood brothers, xiu xiu, the unicorns, tiny vipers, the streets, spike jones city slickers, and the hideous thieves, louis armstrong, ella fitzgerald, immortal technique, filastine, fifths of seven, dead kennedys, lightning bolt, ire, isis, zegota, the arcade fire, molasses, the geraldine fibbers, aesop rock, rasputina, muse, the yeah yeah yeahs, portishead, the mile end ladies, defiance ohio, infernal noise brigade, sigur rós, johnny cash, neutral milk hotel, hint hint, grizzly bear, the gits, the silver mount zion memorial orchestra and tra la la band... ++&give me the sounds of trains.

Movies:

the city of lost children, the motorcycle diaries, the prestige, the black dahlia, the triplets of belleville, kung-fu hustle, ghost dog, stranger than fiction, trainspotting, garden state, crimethinc's guerilla film series vol 1, the boondock saints, little miss sunshine, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, dead man, fight club, lain; serial experiments, waiting, office space, the proposition, borat!, 12 monkeys, delicatessen, amelié, ghibli films... +

Television:

only on dvd; the ali g show, house m.d., aquateen hunger force, robot chicken, the venture brothers, the boondocks, dead like me, FLCL, sealab 2021...

Books:

so many...

My Blog

things that are new;

Moped(!). Throwing mementos and memory inducing trinkets into the trash (and sometimes over bridges). Packages arriving in the mail from distant European countries. Resoled shoes. New Converse shoes f...
Posted by tea & cake! on Tue, 01 May 2007 05:38:00 PST

quiet mumblings;

Huh...
Posted by tea & cake! on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 06:02:00 PST

i have not been well;

Yes, I'm terribly depressed. Kind of wrecked lately. Therapy appointments soon. No more drinking for a while, either. :I am sorry.
Posted by tea & cake! on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:01:00 PST

the butcher boy;

She went upstairs to make her bedAnd not one word to her mother saidHer mother she went upstairs tooSaying, "Daughter, oh daughter, what troubles you?""Oh mother, oh mother, I cannot tellThat butcher'...
Posted by tea & cake! on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 03:27:00 PST

damaged;

So many bruises. Ow. Tough...
Posted by tea & cake! on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 11:33:00 PST

recently.. ;

I quit my job at the Bakery. I'm finishing up my three weeks, then I will be working at Smarty Pants (http://www.smartypantsseattle.com) in Georgetown. Four or five days a week, close to home, co...
Posted by tea & cake! on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 01:02:00 PST

goodbye forever, once again;

Rest in peace, Josh. I love you. "Spc. Joshua M. Boyd, 30, of Seattle, died March 14 at Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas, of wounds sustained when an improvised explosive device exp...
Posted by tea & cake! on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:30:00 PST

and so it goes;

I burned myself on Thursday night on the inside of the oven door. Last night was feverish, puking multiple times, and racing to get out of work before I fell over dead. The burn on my arm is swol...
Posted by tea & cake! on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:34:00 PST

my heart stopped pumping but my blood is still alive;

I've been drinking with Chelsea and Lyle. Bus Stop, Crescent, Bus Stop again. Walking in front of SCCC towards Charlie's and Muddy runs up to me. My dear fucking goddamn lovely friend got hurt in Iraq...
Posted by tea & cake! on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 02:58:00 PST

pause;

It's definitely a setback. It's definitely a wakeup call. I still have a lot of self-mending to do. It's definitely fucking with my head; that I am still doing stupid shit like this, that all I have d...
Posted by tea & cake! on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:22:00 PST