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About Me



FLERINE ♥♥♥ MSG ME - ADD ME - CMNT ME - XANGA

SENIOR! c|o '08 @ northside high
17 yrs old
musician/lover/performer/fight-for-righter/human/open mind
i enjoy hot tea, good laughs, & drives around town
i love to travel & i enjoy the world's thriving plethora of cultures
i sing in the shower, dance anywhere, stand on stairs to pretend i'm taller, laugh at everything, & smile quite a lot.
i tend to adapt to everything.

sometimes, whenever the ceiling starts to cave in, i imagine myself floating in a hot air balloon towards an intangible destination. make believing will get the best of me. however, i do enjoy reality because lately it's been better than my dreams.

I WANT TO HELP THE WORLD.

first stop: southeast asia & africa
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My Interests

+ YOUTH AGAINST POVERTY.
+ GLUE BOYS.
+ GENOCIDE WATCH.

the sound of ocean waves crashing, sandy feet, decade nostalgia, gourmet italian cuisine, sushi, culture, appreciation, sharp grass, senior citizens, slow motion,love & prosperity, mother nature, humanity, music, transcendentalism, the stage & lights, spotting ursa major, shaky knees, line memorization, voice crescendo-ing, the space between fingers & he who fills the space, various forms of inspiration, intellectual conversations, immature jokes, & nonessential clauses

I'd like to meet:

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party. - Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

Go on, lean in. [the students lean in] Listen, you hear it? [whipsers in a raspy voice] - - Carpe - - hear it? - - Carpe, carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary. -John Keating, Dead Poet's Society

"Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had." --Nick Carraway, The Great Gatsby

Music:

Across the Universe (beatles cover) - Fiona Apple

the blood brothers
janis joplin
bb king
eric clapton
benny goodman
radiohead
patrick wolf
bjork
francoise hardy
beck
cold war kids
the blow
silversun pickups
neutral milk hotel
the smashing pumpkins
sigur ros
architecture in helsinki
minus the bear
pedro the lion
the fall of troy
the sound of animals fighting
chiodos
the snake the cross the crown
bear vs shark
the mountain goats
alanis morissette
ambulance ltd.
the andrews sisters
andrew bird
the arcade fire
simon & garfunkel
the beach boys
the beatles
mamas and papas
james taylor
fleetwood mac
cat stevens
regina spektor
clap your hands say yeah
belle & sebastian
eisley
buddy holly
antonio vivaldi
dave brubeck
azure ray
mates of state
babyface
the decemberists
the fiery furnaces
billie holiday
elliott smith
bob marley
bobby darin
the jam
the strokes
queen
the police
count basie
damien rice
the doors
dizzy gillespie
the eels
the electric soft parade
ella fitzgerald
elvis presley
fear before the march of flames
fiona apple
mirah
frou frou
the fugees
glenn miller
the goo goo dolls
gRegory and the hawK
head automatica
her space holiday
the hush sound
incubus
jimi hendrix
hope
pierce the veil
jim croce
jamie cullum
long wave
the matches
metric
of montreal
the postal service
the stills
tegan & sara
sufjan stevens
the bee gees
broken social scene
rufus wainwright
the field mice
joanna newsom
morrissey
french kicks
natalie imbruglia
the velvet underground
hayley westenra

gotta love my musicals, too!
les miserables
miss saigon
wicked
the pajama game
chicago
the light in the piazza
the sound of music
grease
fiddler on the roof
guys and dolls
spring awakening
west side story
phantom of the opera
how to succeed in business without really trying
my fair lady
hairspray
a chorus line
bye bye birdy
south pacific

Movies:


classics
disney
sundance
cannes
war movies
foreign
blockbuster
&transient new age low budget indie films
the lord of the rings trilogy
star wars I, III, V, VI
gummo
the dangerous lives of altar boys
life as a house
the great raid
pearl harbor
tristan + isolde
spiderman II, III
casablanca
fanny and alexander
breakfast at tiffany's
lolita
the secret garden
titanic
v for vendetta
phantom of the opera
leon
mr. smith goes to washington
the holiday
pirates of the caribbean I, II, III
queen of the damned
matilda
interview with the vampire
peter pan
the virgin suicides
fight club
pulp fiction
harold and maude
the notebook
big fish
brothers of the head
the 300
imaginary heroes
almost famous
death in venice
dead poets society
dazed and confused
amelie
edward scissorhands
chitty chitty bang bang
the seventh seal
the nightmare before christmas
a streetcar named desire
city lights
marie antoinette
the little mermaid
(all disney movies, actually)
donnie darko
lucas
she's all that
10 things i hate about you
cold mountain
finding neverland
factory girl
the outsiders
breakfast club
pretty in pink
empire of the sun
the devil wears prada
hope and glory
elephant
the science of sleep
garden state
princess mononoke
in the land of women
elizabethtown

Television:

grey's anatomy
top design
project runway

Books:



the outsiders
the gashlycrumb tinies
the melancholy death of oysterboy &othersadstories
the bell jar
the perks of being a wallflower
this lullaby
catcher in the rye
the little white bird
peter pan
lolita
& of course the harry potters

henry david thoreau
f. scott fitzgerald
ralph waldo emerson
vladimir nabokov
t.s. eliot
shakespeare
sylvia plath
ee cummings
anne rice
virginia woolf
j.r.r. tolkien
j.m. barrie
stephenie meyer
thomas mann
sarah dessen
walt whitman
chuck palahniuk
etc

Heroes:

♥ ralph waldo emerson
♥ henry david thoreau
♥ mother
♥ the little children of the world

My Blog

photographs over the years

back when i used to take photographs.i stopped because...i felt so amateur.but i realize now that you shouldn't discontinue things that make you...you. these were all taken by me (either by hand or se...
Posted by free as a bird on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 03:11:00 PST

nerd city

JULY 21, 200712: AM (&earlier)@ booksamillionheck freaking yes!SANCHEZ = RONSOPHIE = HERMIONEWAYNE = HARRYFLERINE = CHO CHANG[by the way, in OotP, jkrowling wrote that cho is "a 'head' shorte...
Posted by free as a bird on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:11:00 PST

photograph set: philippines 2006

SUMMER '06 TRIP TO THE PHILIPPINESwhile in the philippines, my mom & i stayed in our little house we bought for my grandparents while they were still alive. right now, two of my cousins (they are ...
Posted by free as a bird on Sat, 26 May 2007 07:41:00 PST

they are hungry

they are hungry...   in the philippines... in malaysia... in moscow... & in honduras... that's not food in their plastic baggys.there isn't enough money to pay for food.so they sniff glue to&...
Posted by free as a bird on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 04:40:00 PST

san clemente

dearest san clemente, california...   i miss you, oh so much.  ...
Posted by free as a bird on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 05:56:00 PST

I KNOW I KNOW

i've fallen back into the pit of myspace.had one from 2001 - 2006.deleted it in 2006.made a new one now in 2007. i've got hundreds(literally) of photographs to upload sometime soon.from summer 2006 - ...
Posted by free as a bird on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 11:29:00 PST