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About Me

She lives each day to its fullest and is afraid that there is never enough time. She is reasonably athletic though would like to be more; passionately begins new projects but finds it hard to finish them. About important things, she is consistent. Spiders and umbrellas frighten her, so does stupidity and indifference. She is sensitive, the song that brings her to tears is "The Ground Beneath Her Feet," and she still cries when she sees "The Bridges of Madison County," though she knows it by heart. She cares; she doesn't feel entirely comfortable in the world today. She is worried that there are books she will never read, that's why she finds libraries intimidating. She keeps distance and opens up slowly, but she does open up in the end. She dreams, she laughs out loud, she dances in her living room and doesn't care if anyone sees. Her favourite painter once said "The center of the world is where I am," and he painted this:
Your Aura is Red
You have a high level of emotion. This can mean passion, but it can also mean rage.
Usually, you don't take these emotions out on others. You just use them as motivation - and it works!
The purpose of your life: embracing all the wonders of the life, lots of travels, and tons of adventures
What Color Is Your Aura?

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My Interests

yoga, photography, philosophy, sailing, chaos, creaturly art, elephants, writing, pataphysics, film, postmodernism, dancing, large music festivals, libraries, hiking, travelling, literature and ethics, clay

Music:

tori amos, morcheeba, morphine, red hot chili peppers, voo voo, the roots, ani di franco, david bowie, u2, the rolling stones, jeff buckley, rem, lisa gerrard, janis joplin, bruce springsteen, stone temple pilots, elton john, tomasz stanko, brooklyn funk essentials, tribe called quest, promoe, led zeppelin, tab two, massive attack, the doors, pj harvey, miles davis, the beatles, nina simone, hey, the cure, fisz, pearl jam, rakim, peter gabriel, nosowska, the cult, tom waits, thievery corporation, portishead, bjork, peter hammil, kate bush, moloko, pudelsi, czyzykiewicz, three fish, placebo, lou reed, the police, nick cave, the waterboys, grammatik, radiohead, david gray, the shanghai restoration project, the smiths, swietliki, O.S.T.R., erykah badu, cocteau twins, quantic, the flaming lips, nicola conte, gus gus, flunk, depeche mode, pink floyd, king crimson ... the list goes on

Movies:

lulu on the bridge; lost highway; the smoke; million dollar hotel; paris, texas; in the mood for love; buena vista social club; don't look back; badlands; eternal sunshine of the spotless mind; dekalog; persona; the straight story; dead man; a pure formality; live flesh; cinema paradiso; picnic at hanging rock; dlug; the end of violence; breaking the waves; lisbon story; wild at heart; being john malkovich; dracula, the vampire; il postino;

Books:

chopin 'the awakening,' greene 'the end of the affair,' erdrich 'love medicine,' tokarczuk 'prawiek i inne czasy,' danticat 'krik? krak!' marquez 'one hundred years of solitude,' baldwin 'notes of a native son,' faulkner 'light in august,' bowles 'the sheltering sky,' szczypiorski 'poczatek,' the poetry of walcott and neruda, morrison 'the song of solomon,' carpentier 'the lost steps,' kundera 'the book of laughter and forgetting,' federman 'twofold vibration,' robbins 'still life with woodpecker,' proust 'rememberance of things past,' obejas 'days of awe,' silko 'ceremony,' kapuscinski 'lapidarium,' borges, hrabal 'too loud a solitude,' hesse 'steppenwolf,' patrick o'leary 'the gift,' john barth 'the friday book,' calvino 'invisible cities,'

My Blog

the runners

Last Monday Olga Tokarczuk, without doubt one of the most (if not the most) interesting 20th c. Polish writers, was going through contortions, as was the audience, when a youn...
Posted by Ania on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:18:00 PST

benches

in-between one hour of work and another two hours to kill so then of course to read a book in the sun caramel filled chocolate and green apple in one hand in the other a bag too big for such a sm...
Posted by Ania on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 09:22:00 PST

makes me wonder if i ever finish anything...

"I am lazy, as all Poles are. I'd rather dream about a novel than write it. A dream about a literary work of art is always much more beautiful than the reality of the printed thing. Besides, English f...
Posted by Ania on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:50:00 PST

probably the best ever written on writing

"A first precaution for writers: in every text, every piece, every paragraph to check whether the central motif stands out clearly enough. Anyone wishing to express something is so carried away by it ...
Posted by Ania on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:57:00 PST

what i want for my next birthday

18 most lovable creatures were born in Panda Breeding and Research Center in Sichuan. Here you can see all of them: They have 11 different mommies. Last Saturday they moved into a big, brand new hous...
Posted by Ania on Mon, 12 Feb 2007 11:52:00 PST

adam lizakowski's two more poems (trans. myself)

What I was thinking about on my way to Chinatown Dangerous things are bread and water, sugar, freedom, meat, shoes, work. Because of hunger nations and empires crumbled away Beware,...
Posted by Ania on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:32:00 PST

adam lizakowski 'carl sandburg' (trans. myself)

Carl Sandburg I remember your first lesson in the poetry primer "look out how you use proud words" "when you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back" and yet when I think about ...
Posted by Ania on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 06:26:00 PST