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Mrs.D

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. -Emily Bronte

About Me

Just a yank expat living in East London, Essex with my soon-to-be husband.Love books, writing, music music and more music, tattooes, reinventing myself, counterculture, english lit, indie films, foreign films, standup comedy, sports (if only for the chicken wings and pints that go along), open to all new experiences the world can offer me...will try almost anything once....and engaged to the most amazing guy in the world!!!!! Girly MySpace Layouts - Wedding MySpace Layouts Girly MySpace Layouts

My Interests

I love long walks on the beach, candlelit dinners, and poking dead things with a stick...Loves: 80's, adult swim, alter egos, argyle, beaches at night, being barefoot, being gotten, big words, bill murray, bubblewrap, cheese, cream soda, dapper dan, dead baby jokes, domos, eastern philosophy, eccentricity, fishhooks, furry things, ginsberg, gin n juice, golden girls, good juju, heffalumps, hellenistic art, imported beer, inappropriateness, jarmusch films, karaoke, krabby patties, kubrick, kung fu films, laughing at mullets, lawn gnomes, lichtenstein, mediterranean food, milk duds, monty python, my old school chucks, not being gotten, penguines, pink, popcorn, prosciutto, pubs, randomness, rocko's modern life, rubber balls, saki, salt n vinegar chips, savage humor, shiny things, silliness, smiles, socrates, stars, steve zissou, stuffed bears, sushi, tattoos, the smell of play-doh, thunderstorms, tricycles, unicycles, velvet underground, voltaire, writing, yarn, zombies. Hates: mean people, ignorant people, users, drugs, hip-hop, perfection, cockroaches, brusselsprouts, psychic vampires, religious extremists, other extremists, shallowness, major conglomerats, liars, cheaters, narcissists, bills, "the man", celebrity gossip, hangovers

Music:

..........The Shore, Keane, Velvet Underground, Cranford Nix and the Malakas, The Roots, Danzig, Ann Beretta, Bad Religion, Op Ivy, Motorhead, Pulp, Rancid, Sex Pistols, Black Flag, Propaghandi, Bouncing Souls, Butch Walker, Cockney Rejects, Massive Attack, The Casualties, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, The Streets, Lucero, Driveby Truckers, NOFX, Radiohead, The Specials, The Streets, Stone Roses, Sublime, Roy Orbison, Social D, Johnny Cash, Sublime, the Ramones, The Postal Service, Chevelle, Neutral Milk Hotel,Jeff Buckley is a god!!!!, Regina Spektor, Muse, Interpol, The Mars Volta, Taking Back Sunday, The Cure, Simple Minds, Human League, OMD, Spandau Ballet (for the very ultimate in cheesy 80s), Dexy's Midnight Runners, Men at Work, Toto, Men Without Hats, Culture Club, QUEEN motherfuckers!, Aha!,VNV Nation, Joplin, Billy Idol, Nina Simone, The Buzzcocks, Tiger Army, The Bravery, Dead Milkmen, The Killers, Kasabian, The Pixies, Elliot Smith, Tom Waits, Tricky, Weezer, Beastie Boys, Nina Simone, UB40, GG Allin, Depeche Mode, the Zutons, Buju Banton, The Specials, The Skatellites, Lucero, Willie Nelson, Dean Martin, APC, Tool, Mr.Bungle, FNM, Andrea Bocelli .......I could go on forever.

Movies:

Let's see.....Scarface, The Usual Suspects (one of my very favs), Motorcycle Diaries, Before Night Falls, The Sea Inside, Dawn of the Dead, Shaun of the dead,(pretty much anything w/ zomibes in it) The Color Purple, O' Brother Where Art Thou?, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Big Lebowski, Broken Flowers, Coffee and Cigarettes, Eurotrip, Out of Africa, The English Patient....Old School, Snatch, ...Lock,Stock, and Two Smoking Barrells...Whipped...Trainspotting...A Clockwork Orange...Full Metal Jacket, American Beauty, Van Wilder....and last but not least ANYTHING to do with zombies!

Books:

I'm currently about a quarter of the way through writing my own novel right now....

Heroes:

Anyone who makes the best of every moment of their life, and whose happiness is not a result of circumstance, but the cause of it. Specifically Hugo, Emerson, Troward, Einstein, ChurchillAnd last but not least: Turtle Power!!!!

My Blog

through the telescope

You are the only one that sees the stars when the city lights are too bright  Can see the rings of Saturn when the clouds block the moon The majesty of the universe in full form when al...
Posted by Mrs.D on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:49:00 PST

Ive been tagged

  I was tagged by Ellen, so here is my blog on 7 weird habits/things about me...   1. I have mild OCD...my right and left side always have to be even...like if you touch my right arm, i wan...
Posted by Mrs.D on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:00:00 PST

from a writer to the one she should be writing for

Some have the words and not the story. Some have the story and not the words.I, I have both. And yet I find myself unable to comprise something worthy of what I feel.I seem to be only able to draw fro...
Posted by Mrs.D on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 09:11:00 PST

Letter to the Dead

It was summer here. We opened all the windows in the house to let the cool breeze pass through. It hit my skin, my face chilled from the air for a moment, and the sweat trickling over it dried sl...
Posted by Mrs.D on Sun, 22 Jul 2007 10:40:00 PST

Germany, 1944

Aah the good old days poor and sick and desperate clinging to each other each frozen night revelling in rations of vodka   Recalling the times that were good Dancing and swaying in your arms Your...
Posted by Mrs.D on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 10:11:00 PST

Home.

My eyes flicker open, struggling against heavy lids that feel as if the weight of my body had been sewn to them. I awaken to nothing new. The room is as black as the sleep between my eyes. I pani...
Posted by Mrs.D on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:15:00 PST

Stasis

I coughed myself awake Struggling against atrophied musclesMoving as much as I could, if ever so slightlyAgainsgt thick coarse bedsheetsI awakened to tubes pouring out of meDeciding each breath and ea...
Posted by Mrs.D on Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:52:00 PST

Random Facts About Chuck Norris

. Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.2. Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.3. Chuck Norris does not hunt, because the word 'hunting' infers the probability of failure. Chuc...
Posted by Mrs.D on Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:01:00 PST

Social Ectomies

  I have recently made the conscious decision to extract all the carcinogenous people from my life. Psychic Vampires, the Emotionally Obtuse, and just all around social cancers that I seem to wil...
Posted by Mrs.D on Fri, 13 Jul 2007 10:51:00 PST

Stranger Music

He approached the music boxin tall lanky formdisheveled hair casting odd shadows across the dusky dingy floorjingling loose change as if about to roll a set of dicehe tossed unsuspecting quarters int...
Posted by Mrs.D on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:07:00 PST