Eileen - ProfilesArchive

About Me

well. my favorite month of the year is either may or september, i have tie-dye sheets, i like to cut pictures out of magazines and glue them onto things. i have blue eyes and wear too much eye makeup. i've gone through a grunge phase, a pop phase, a punk phase, and a hippie phase. they called me blanquita in spain. i think it is good for your health to spend at least an hour or two outdoors every day, and i get this little thrill when i write my name inside a brand-new book. i have a tattoo of a goldfish on my back. i'm kind of obsessed right now with david bowie. i'm going to be an art therapist. i'm a member of the green party, as both democrats and republicans exasperate me. i'm a light sleeper. i like jim beam and sangria. not together. someday i'm going to own a giant fishtank and lots of fish, i'm deathly afraid of spiders, and my favorite color is green.

My Interests

art, music, being outside, rivers, lakes, oceans, books, boats, virgin mary tchotchkes, taking pictures, camping, decorating things, latin america and spain, the oakland raiders, watching soccer, playing darts, cooking when i'm stressed out or bored, daydreaming, friends who make me laugh, popsicles, cigarettes and chocolate milk, christo and jeanne-claude, bagpipes/gaitas, reading when i should be working, fields/meadows.

I'd like to meet:

your mom.

Music:

all of it. except shania twain. man, she bugs me. also, her real name is eileen, did you know that? yeah.

Movies:

annie hall, raging bull, the godfather (parts I and II), a streetcar named desire, on the waterfront, anything else with marlon brando aka god, peter pan, the little mermaid, mallrats, clerks, the royal tenenbaums, y tu mama tambien, amelie, assorted dumb interchangeable 80s movies

Books:

gabriel garcia marquez,james joyce, ernest hemingway and other expats, john steinbeck, joseph heller, jack kerouac, henry david thoreau, paolo coelho, pablo neruda, jose marti, roald dahl, william james, etc. etc.

Heroes:

marlon brando. the pope. tammy faye baker. johnny cash. pamela anderson. jesus. willie nelson. john lennon. simone de beauvoir. david hasselhoff. rosa parks. paul cezanne. nelson mandela. orson wells. perry farrell. jane fonda. oscar wilde. bobby sands. rocky balboa. elton john. jim henson. jerry garcia. henry ford. abraham lincoln. federico garcia lorca. that black woman who just emerged as strom thurmond's illegitimate daughter. dick van dyke. allen ginsberg. che guevara. cary grant. henry david thoreau. bill clinton. the colonel. tony danza.

My Blog

a letter from kenya

This is a letter I got from a boy named George in Kitale, Kenya. I HAVE AN AFRICAN PENPAL. Apparently my handwriting in my letter to him was hard to read, because the outside of the letter says "To ...
Posted by Eileen on Thu, 16 Feb 2006 11:02:00 PST

blogalicious

the other night i had a dream that i was sitting on the roof of my apartment by myself eating a blue popsicle and looking at a tree full of fireflies. it was pretty cool, especially since i have...
Posted by Eileen on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 06:47:00 PST

myhumpmyhumpmyhump

god damn, someone get that song out of my head already. love, eileen.
Posted by Eileen on Mon, 07 Nov 2005 01:40:00 PST

free, but lazy.

i've never been very good at motivating myself. i get distracted easily, i stare out windows, i stop caring. then i don't go to class, and instead of spending that time catching up, i star...
Posted by Eileen on Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:25:00 PST

cheesiness

"be strong, be idealistic, speak well, be well. and get a tattoo." that was the last line of my proclamation night letter i wrote freshman year. proclamation night is a weird combina...
Posted by Eileen on Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:53:00 PST

so, now.

well, this was fun for a little while. i'm at home and so far it has been, um, good-ish, i suppose. when i flew from london to washington it was quite possibly the worst journey of my entire lif...
Posted by Eileen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

gay pareeee

just got back from my sojourn in paris, and these are my (shortened, concise) conclusions: 1. the french really do wear berets, smoke all the time, and carry around baguettes. 2. cram...
Posted by Eileen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

my head's too big for my skull

sometimes, you know, you just feel like your brain is expanding and swelling up uncomfortably, putting pressure on your eyes and your ears and the back of your head and it HURTS and all you want to do...
Posted by Eileen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

hoodlums

a couple of weeks ago i met a boy in a local bar who ended up being from novato. he was wearing a san francisco giants hat so i started talking to him, but, being incredibly wasted, made the hor...
Posted by Eileen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the beach boys.

Why, oh why, did i start this thing? now it'll never go away and whenever i don't feel like doing something, i'm going to come on here and write a stupid, stupid blog. i'm sucked in and th...
Posted by Eileen on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST