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Lisa

With your cheap rewards, your blackmail and your comical rage, just remember you'll only be the boss

About Me

Traveller, adventurer, music lover, English teacher, artistic, smart geek girl.

My Interests

Travel, art, indie music, books.

I'd like to meet:

Steve Valentine or Hugh Laurie. Please note: I am not desperate, and I am not looking for a boyfriend. Unless you are someone I actually know, a really brilliant band, one of my students or one of my relatives, I do not want to be your friend. Actually, just follow this rule. If you want to tell me I'm attractive, I do NOT want to meet you. In fact, I will respond to your email, but it will be a response full of vitriol and swears. It will make you feel bad, and you will write back something that I will not read, but delete immediately. This does not apply if you are either Steve Valentine or Hugh Laurie.

Music:

The Wedding Present. The National. Elefant. The Arcade Fire. Death Cab for Cutie. Superchunk. Neutral Milk Hotel. The Afghan Whigs/The Twilight Singers. Weezer. Interpol. John Wesley Harding. New Order/Joy Division. Bob Mould/Sugar/Husker Du. The Shins. The Magnetic Fields/Future Bible Heroes. Rilo Kiley. Elvis Costello. Ted Leo/Pharmacists. The Pixies. The Hold Steady. Yo La Tengo. Beck. The Futureheads. Belle and Sebastian. The Jesus and Mary Chain. The Sounds. The Raveonettes. Old Punk. New Wave. Oldies. Et cetera...

Movies:

Lost in Translation. The Princess Bride. Rushmore. Ferris Bueller's Day Off. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Brazil. The Wedding Crashers. Alfred Hitchcock movies. The old Star Wars movies.

Television:

I prefer the iPod sounddock... but when I do watch... The Simpsons. House. The Family Guy. Crossing Jordan. CSI. The Avengers. Blackadder. Monty Python.

Books:

How about authors? Kurt Vonnegut. Salman Rushdie. Albert Camus. Tim O'Brien. Joyce Carol Oates. TC Boyle. Dave Eggers. David Sedaris. William Shakespeare. Oscar Wilde. John Cheever. Toni Morrison. Jeanette Winterson. I teach English. I like lots of books.

Heroes:

Emma Peel. Catwoman.

My Blog

Whatcha gonna do with all that junk?

Instructions for renting a car in Crete: Enter an automobile rental office. Ask for an automatic car. The guy will tell you something you do not entirely understand about how it is hard to rent cars t...
Posted by Lisa on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 03:00:00 PST

There's no stoppin' the Cretans from hoppin'

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Posted by Lisa on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 01:50:00 PST

Set a course for adventure

*note* for some reason, apostophes and ellipses have vanished from this piece of writing when I cut and pasted it from Word... Im composing this from what Ive begun to think of as the Lido deck on the...
Posted by Lisa on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 12:10:00 PST

Are you waiting? I've been waiting....

In an internet cafe in Athens, up on the second floor (by myself, and not getting pickpocketed), I've got the Afghan Whigs on the iPod, and I couldn't be happier. London was a whirlwind. I slept for ...
Posted by Lisa on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 09:30:00 PST

I love the sound of you walking away

Today was museum day. The Rijksmuseum is located about five minutes from our apartment, and since the frigid air temperature was excruciating today, we were particularly pleased with its proximity. Th...
Posted by Lisa on Fri, 06 Jan 2006 09:45:00 PST

You look as if you're going somewhere

Because we trekked all over Amsterdam on foot instead of riding the tram, my feet are  blistered and screaming. Though our intentions were to commence our adventures for the day at the Anne Frank hous...
Posted by Lisa on Fri, 06 Jan 2006 09:43:00 PST

Let's go away for a while, you and I, to a strange and distant land

Half a day vanished into the ether as I attempted in vain to arrange a money transfer with my uncooperative bank. Ill spare the chaotic details, but the evil empire of Chase refused to send me money ...
Posted by Lisa on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 08:25:00 PST

Out of routine, but it's not as bad as you think

After I left the internet café today, I walked straight down Damrak and through Dam Square to pick up the tram stop back to Leidsepleine. I missed the number 5, got on the number 2, and somewhere betw...
Posted by Lisa on Wed, 04 Jan 2006 08:24:00 PST

So this is the new year

If you haven't figured this out, all of the travelogues are a day behind. I write them up around 1 am every  night and send them out the next day... --- Today's entry starts with a most shameful ...
Posted by Lisa on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 09:06:00 PST

Wake Me Up Before You Go GO

 It is 2 am, and I'm writing this from my apartment in the Leidseplein area in Amsterdam. Kim and I are drinking herbal tea while Madonna's "Hung Up" reverberates through the walls from the bar n...
Posted by Lisa on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 10:28:00 PST