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hoptza! ali vagabunda

odetonarwhal

About Me



the paper ghost

I dropped out of high school and I play the accordion.
My dad is a musician, and my mom was a traveler, so I guess I got the best of both.
I wish I could daydream for a living.

My Interests



world citizenship, photojournalism, greek food, corsairs, tea, crappy self-haircuts, accordion, transmigration, narwhals, mango, sx-70, hand-shadow animals, sick voice, ethiopian food, artificially-coloured daisies, gold, gold teeth, sentimental ephemera, best friends/sisters, romani people, decaying pumpkins on doorsteps, ghosts, hula dancing, horses, 11:11, winter holidays, helping/giving, showers in the driveway with a hose, daydreams, reading, exploring, dark chocolate, and food in general.

I'd like to meet:

Any other Italian-Indonesian-Greek-Polish people.

Music:

nothing is more important.

Movies:



Everything is Illuminated, Legend of 1900, Wild Tigers I Have Known, Science of Sleep, Schultze Gets The Blues, Born Into Brothels, Paper Moon, Au Revior Les Enfants, Shawshank Redemption,Gummo, A La Folie... Pas Du Tout, Angels in America, Une Dia De Suerte, Mysterious Skin, Koyaanisqatsi, Breathless, Swimming Pool, Pirates of the Caribbean, American Splendor, Borat

Television:

Little Britain, Lost, History Channel, Travel Channel.

Books:


Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Journey is the Destination, The Master and Margarita, Wind-Up Bird Chronicles, Candy, Another Woman Who Looks Like Me, A Death in the Family, Drawn and Quarterly Showcase, Eastward to Tartary, A Good Year, The Stranger, Franny and Zooey, Diary of Petr Ginz, Home Life in Old Russia, Chichikov's Journey, Cheri, Last of Cheri, Claudine, Anything by Anais Nin, So Far From the Bamboo Grove, On The Road, Collapse, Manhattan Transfer, Everything is Illuminated, Perfect Day for Bananafish, One Hundred Years in Solitude, The Fixer

Heroes:

Dan Eldon is my hero. Lily Boughtwood, Pirates, Django Reinhardt, Tony Gatlif, Emir Kusturica, Lyn Lifshin, Audrey Kawasaki, Doseone, Genevieve Elverum, People who dislike David LaChapelle, Eugene Hutz, Jermaine Clement,

My Blog

Black Cat White Cat - Emir Kusturica

Here you can watch one of the greatest films of all time.Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Part 5. Part 6. Part 7. Part 8. Part 9....
Posted by hoptza! ali vagabunda on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 12:26:00 PST

I miss home.

"I remember being a little girl, and my mother held my hand in this strange place. All the people looked so frustrated, no matter how beautiful and clear the day was. The yelled and shoved and waved p...
Posted by hoptza! ali vagabunda on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 09:05:00 PST

Helena Kvarnstrom

"He has never seen the inside of my flat, the way the rain scratches against the French doors and drips in through a crack in the window, how the boiler squeaks and rolls when the hot water turns on. ...
Posted by hoptza! ali vagabunda on Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:41:00 PST

Wise words.

There are many of us for whom music is an irreplaceable part of life We rely on it to take us out of sadness, pressures of poverty, youth, age, etc Mixed with alcohol it seems to be a remedy for just ...
Posted by hoptza! ali vagabunda on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 09:39:00 PST