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francesca-you-betcha

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king...

About Me

Who cares. What really matters is that you touch my tra-la-la. This pretty much says it all

My Interests

Art, Architecture, Binomial Nomenclature, Beautiful Dead things, Blacksmithing, Bioremediation, Carnivorous Plants, Cooking Well, Dada, Dancing my Ass Off, Ecology, Etymology, Entomology, Gardening, Global Economics, Human Rights, Justice, Landscape Architecture, Language, Laughter, LOVE, Mangrove reforestation, Metal working, MIT, Plants, Political efficacy, Politics, Problem Solving, Regenerative Design, Revolution, ROCK-CLIMBING, Scuba-diving, Social equity, Sustainable development, Sushi, Systems Analysis, Travel, Trees, Urban Planning, Welding, Wine, Working for the UN, Viticulture

I'd like to meet:

Like minded monsters, tomatoes fresh off the vine, sunlight still clinging to their skin... Oh, and tra-la-la touchers, of course.

Music:

Adam Ant, Air, Alain Goraguer, Aphex Twin, Amon Tobin, Arcade Fire, Arthur H, Atmosphere, Autechre, Bach, Balkan Beat Box, Benoit Charest, Besh O Drom, Birthday Party, Bjork, Black Heart Procession, Black Sabbath, Blonde Redhead, Blur, Boban Markovic Orkestar, Boards of Canada, Bonobo, Bowie, Brian Eno, Bright Eyes, Broadcast, Serge Gainsbourg, LPD, PIL, Dead Kennedys, Cocteau Twins, Stereolab, PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Jane's, Interpol, early 80's, Busta Rhymes, Public Enemy, Ska, Billy Holiday, Aphex Twin, Wesley Willis, Skinny Puppy, Charlie Mingus, Sinatra, CAt Power THIS IS SILLY:I LIKE GOOD MUSIC, and too many genres of it to get into here

Movies:

Life is a pretty great movie.

Television:

rots your brain, corrodes your soul

Books:

Vonnegut, Desert Solitaire (anything Edward Abbey), John Muir, Dune, The Master and Margarita, Marquez, Tao te Ching, Kafka, Bukowski, Poe, Confederacy of Dunces, Philip K. Dick, Anais Nin, Henry Miller, Oscar Wilde, T.S. Elliot, Truman Capote, Sedaris, Jhumpa Lahiri, Cormack McCarthy, Angela Carter, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury

Heroes:

Dr. John Todd, William Mcdonnough, Noam Chomski, Micheal Moore, Al Franken, Le Corbu, Louise Brooks, Dorthy Parker, Lenny Bruce, Jello Biafra, Buckminster Fuller, Ghandi, Stephen Hawking, people who have to balls to do what they dream.

My Blog

Bring the Noise!

Not the fireworks, but rather a little somethin'-somethin' for on this holiday. .....
Posted by francesca-you-betcha on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:32:00 PST

Limbo and the Like

I've been in quite the funk of late, cagey and weird, refusing to answer my phone and yet longing for the comfort of those voices of all the far-flung loved ones whose absences from my life consume me...
Posted by francesca-you-betcha on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:53:00 PST

The earth moved (beneath the corn fields)

Waking uneasily from disturbing dreams this morning, the windows answered my panicked waking with glassy shudderings. Even the bed seemed to be shaking. And I was really afraid for a minute, it seemed...
Posted by francesca-you-betcha on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:29:00 PST

Post Cards/Addresses

Dear everyone (including Angel & Colin)It appears that I am very retarded at saving contact info. Pretty please send me your mailing addresses, as I know some of you have moved since last summer, and ...
Posted by francesca-you-betcha on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:33:00 PST

Morning Miracle

I don't really want to blog here anymore...really. But this morning...I wish I had more time for eloquence, because this morning deserves much more than I can possibly give it here and now.We are cond...
Posted by francesca-you-betcha on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 10:14:00 PST

Really, really out of the loop

I'm in Sri Lanka, by way of Singapore, after a brief visit to Banda Aceh. I'm not blogging here much these days, as I am plagued with a very slow internet connection at the University of Moratuwa, and...
Posted by francesca-you-betcha on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:08:00 PST

Toast to the sky, 2008

It's neither superstition nor ritual that forces me to acknowledge and celebrate New Years each year. It is a blind optimism concerning the mechanics of the universe that washes over me in warm, rolli...
Posted by francesca-you-betcha on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 07:48:00 PST

Dear Caulk Gun

Dear Caulk Gun, We really need to talk. I thought we had something good going. I squeeze your lever-handle, and you pump out a smooth, even bead of caulk into the cracks in my century-old home, helpin...
Posted by francesca-you-betcha on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:29:00 PST

Stephanies hot 20 Questions

I never do these things, because I am busy...but today, I finished all my school work, and these 20 rock:Stefanie's 20 Questions:1. Do you look like anyone famous? Who? Duh, Betty Boop. I've also been...
Posted by francesca-you-betcha on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 06:43:00 PST

Autumn comes

Today the sky was the type of crystalline blue~nay, cerulean blue, that often coincides with dreams. I cycled through town, my scarf trailing behind me, just getting soaked in sunshine. It's crisp now...
Posted by francesca-you-betcha on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 06:39:00 PST