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Nick

the thoroughbred of sin

About Me

i can wiggle my nostrils!!!

oh, more? okay! well, you'll notice that my "favorites" are in alphabetical order. it's because i'm anal.

well, except for the books - those are alphabetized by author. only i didn't list the authors.

because i'm Uppity.

also? i hate shredded lettuce. fuckin' shredded lettuce. bane of my goddamn existance.

well, that and frank motherfucking gehry, of course.

My Interests

architecture, astrology, britpop, brunch, carpaccio, certain incense, clique culture, dancing, diary-style books, drama, erieau, family histories, fashion, flappers, gay shit, group mentality, independent films and music, karaoke, knitting, makeup artists, movies that people made before they became famous and now they're embarassed for other people to see them, music, music, music, nana bertha (who's totally cooler than your grandmother by the way), paint samples, places the tourists don't go, portsmouth (rhode island), saturday nights, sausage patties, stalking via google earth, sweaters, watching processes, 80's culture

I'd like to meet:

huh. i don't know, actually. i don't "collect faces", as it were, so i guess this question has sort of been rendered irrelevant. i'd like to meet emma thompson though - she's a fly lady, y'all. shannon's unicorns too. or, well, cadillac.

Music:

A Night in the Box, Lily Allen, Alphaville, Animal Collective, Antony and The Johnsons, the Apartments, the Arcade Fire, Architecture in Helsinki, Atom and His Package, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Bloc Party, Bright Eyes, Cassette, Catatonia, Leonard Cohen, the Cure, Kimya Dawson, Taylor Dayne, De/Vision, the Dead Milkmen, the Decemberists, Depeche Mode, DeVotchKa, the Divine Comedy, Duran Duran, Echo and The Bunnymen, Elkland, Erasure, the Faint, Fiction 8, Fictional, the Fiery Furnaces, Fischerspooner, Ad Frank and The Fast Easy Women, the Fruitbats, Gerling, Lauryn Hill, Holopaw, Ima Robot, Interpol, Intuition, James, the Jets, Wyclef Jean, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Joy Division, Joy Zipper, Jump Little Children, Keane, the Killers, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem, Lightning Seeds, the Magnetic Fields (and really all things Stephin Merritt), Cerys Matthews, Mobius Band, Modest Mouse, Morrissey, Muse, The National, Neuropa, Neutral Milk Hotel, New Order, the Ocean Blue, Sinead O'Connor, of Montreal, Will Oldham, Padma, Pansy Division, Dolly Parton, Michael Penn, Liz Phair, the Pixies, Placebo, the Pogues, Ryan Powell, Psychadelic Furs, Pulp, Radio Dept., Red House Painters, REM, Rilo Kiley, School of Fish, the Shangri-Las, the Shirelles, Siouxsie and The Banshees, the Sleepy Jackson, the Smiths, Jill Sobule, the Soup Dragons, Soviet, Stars, Suede, the Sundays, Tilly and The Wall, Travis, Trembling Blue Stars, Ultravox, VHS or Beta, Voxtrot, Andrew W.K., Rufus Wainwright, We Are Cassette, Wolf Parade, Wolfsheim, XTC, The XYZ Affair, Yaz

Movies:

The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of The Desert, All About Eve, Beautiful Thing, Bring It On, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Clueless, Donnie Darko, Doom Generation, Driving Miss Daisy, Grey Gardens, Harold and Maude, Heathers, Howard's End, The Ice Storm, Lean On Me, Mommie Dearest, Mrs. Palfrey at The Claremont, Mysterious Skin, Nowhere, Pretty In Pink, Orlando, Remains of The Day, Rent, Romy and Michele's Highschool Reunion, Rushmore, Shallow Grave, Stand By Me, Stonewall, Tarnation, Trainspotting, Velvet Goldmine, Vibes, Welcome to The Dollhouse, Wet Hot American Summer

Television:

absolutely fabulous, america's next top model, charmed, coupling, dynasty, gilmore girls, my so-called life, popular, punky brewster, supernatural, twin peaks, ugly betty

Books:

The Thief of Always, When Surface Was Depth, Egalia's Daughters, Entries From a Hot Pink Notebook, Running With Scissors, Observatory Mansions, Girlfriend in a Coma, Good Omens, Memoirs of a Geisha, Young Man From the Provinces, Harold and the Purple Crayon, A Dirty Job, Youth in Revolt, The Wuggie Norple Story, Closet Case, Me Talk Pretty One Day

Heroes:

Bertha Martin, Eileen Wasserman, Nick Twisp

My Blog

goodbye

my cousin beth just called. nana is gone. i may not be around for a while.
Posted by Nick on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 06:05:00 PST

nana bertha again

i got a call from my cousin this morning, nana had a stroke and heart attack. she's in the hospital, she's alive, she's just not speaking yet. me, i'm shaky, but otherwise okay. today is nana's 9...
Posted by Nick on Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:43:00 PST

mrs. anacropolis

who is or was mrs. anacropolis? she's certainly not my friend's boyfriend, despite the woman who accuses him of being her. what do we know about mrs. anacropolis? not much. she has a drinking problem...
Posted by Nick on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 05:28:00 PST

nana bertha

i figured since she is one of my heros (the other two being my mom, who passed away before the era of digital cameras and who i have no scanned pictures of, and the other being a fictional character),...
Posted by Nick on Sun, 08 Jan 2006 10:49:00 PST

not so much

okay, so i actually already have an online journal, so this one really isn't gonna be getting any use. just a heads up, no need to check in here. cheers.
Posted by Nick on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST