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Heather

Clever Clever Jazz

About Me

Wicked awesome, super busy, subtly unsubtle..

My Interests

Politicking, Theatre, Painting, Writing, Loving, Jim "The Hammer" Shapiro (he's one mean SOB), Bat Boy, Coveting Office Supplies, Shiny Things, Laughing, Immigrating to a Different Country, Hearting People and Being Hearted In Return, Organic food (it's not just for hippies!), Talking Smack, Making Gifties for Loved Ones, COLDLAMPIN', Nerding out with PBS, Giving the Sass

I'd like to meet:

A quiet but sturdy sherpa who can carry two binders full of scripts and three tote bags at a time...a Red Line train that isn't "waiting for signals up ahead"....people that are literate and care..a taxi driver that doesn't ask for directions...

Music:

Elvis Costello, Ben Folds (+ or - Five),Van Morrison, Damien Rice, The Clash, Jawbreaker, Avalanches, Joni Mitchell, Spoon, Le Tigre, Interpol, Wilco, Paul Simon (+ or - Garfunkel), The Faint, Elliott Smith, Beastie Boys, Ryan Adams, The Stills, Hot Hot Heat,Sparklehorse, The Jam, Wolf Parade, Ben Kweller, , Ani DiFranco, Led Zep, Nick Drake, The Postal Service, The Specials, Stars, Superchunk, Everything But the Girl, Beth Orton, Weston, Sebadoh,Tilly and the Wall, Mike Przygoda (The Cynics), Janes Addiction,The Rapture, The Moldy Peaches, Mary Lou Lord, Rilo Kiley , Jude, Joyzipper, Velocity Girl, Sufjan Stevens, The Magic Numbers, matt pond PA, Jolie Holland,The Decemberists, Annie, Tapes 'n Tapes, Islands, Beirut, Jose Gonzalez, Art Brut, The Band, Juana Molina, Cold War Kids

Movies:

Harold and Maude, Office Space, Broadcast News, Annie Hall, Really Rosie, The Philadelphia Story, The Virgin Suicides, Rushmore, The Money Pit, Waking Life, BongWater, Sleeper, The English Patient, George Cox: A Life, Delicatessen, SouthPark, Bottlerocket, In America, Sixteen Candles (I heart Jake Ryan always), Manhattan, All About Eve, Human Traffic, The Grapes of Wrath, Pride and Prejudice

Television:

WKRP in Cincinnati, Six Feet Under, Salute Your Shorts, El Simpsons, Mr. Show, Nova, Newsradio, The Daily Show (mad love for Jon Stewart), That '70's Show, Ed, Amazing Race, Seinfeld, Scrubs, MASH, Perfect Strangers, The Ben Stiller Show, South Park, The Young Ones, Arrested Development, America's Next Top Model, Frontline, Regency House Party, Lost (I've become addicted like everyone else)

Books:

Jitterbug Perfume, Out on a Limb, The Life of Pi, McSweeneys, The Onion ( I know, I know but there is no favorite newspaper section), Stones from the River, Life After God, All Families are Psychotic, Valley of the Dolls, Harold and the Purple Crayon, How to be Alone, Everything is Illuminated, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, White Noise, No Logo, Secrets, Lies and Democracy, Americana, A Fan's Notes, Basic Eight, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Crossing California, The Pacific and Other Stories, Prep, Bright Lights Big City, Pastoralia, Freddy and Fredricka,Shame of the Nation, Anything by Murakami

Heroes:

Kathleen Hannah, Margaret Sanger, Noam Chomsky,Edith Piaf, my Mom

My Blog

Woke Up New

I was packed onto a delayed Red Line train car earlier today. Shoved between other commuters, their arms reaching around me and above me clutching onto the backs of seats and metal poles. Grasping for...
Posted by Heather on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:01:00 PST

Schoolgirl Crushes

When I was fifteen years old (the summer between my sophomore and junior years of high school, a summer full of craziness and sadness and moving out of my childhood home and summer school gym - yeah, ...
Posted by Heather on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 08:47:00 PST

Red Light Stop, Green Light Go!

What a wonderful weekend! Way busier then I thought it would be, packed with awesome alone time and awesome together time and wicked awesome napping on the couch time (p.s. I am suddenly 81 yrs. old, ...
Posted by Heather on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:13:00 PST

Avalanche

Just when I think that things will get simpler they inevitably become a hundred times more complicated. I've found myself caught in an avalanche of prior commitments and obligations and thoughts and f...
Posted by Heather on Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:35:00 PST

The Hardest Way to Make An Easy Living....

Suddenly it is November and Halloween zipped by in a whirl of running shows, seeing terrible costumes on the #36 bus (I shake my fist at you Broadway bus!), and throwing together a costume that almost...
Posted by Heather on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:01:00 PST

Topsy Turvy

I was fooled this morning, woke up and the sun was already coming in through my window and I thought, "It must be a regular autumn day" and ended up wearing a skirt which was bad news - I have no idea...
Posted by Heather on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:20:00 PST

Hits and Misses

I've been feeling really quiet and stuck in my head lately - part of it is this time of year and part of it is the overwhelming feeling that I am repeating the same mistakes over and over again.....Wh...
Posted by Heather on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:04:00 PST

"Same as it ever was....."

The calm after the storm, the feeling that life has suddenly grown bigger because there is time to do nothing or even time to imagine doing nothing...Already those first few mornings of Fall when you ...
Posted by Heather on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 12:51:00 PST

Spending Days in a Daze....

I worked exactly two days this week (I have had this horrible "cold" known as teching a beast of a show that has kept me out of the office), and those two days have been enough to make me realize that...
Posted by Heather on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:17:00 PST

Bleep, bleep, blorp (or the noise my brain is currently making)

I feel like a perpetual motion machine - one of those office trinkets that live on your co-workers desk that you play idly with while having meaningless conversations about spreadsheets - like that an...
Posted by Heather on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:01:00 PST