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shannongreen

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About Me

I appear pretty mellow. I think that I feel pretty calm until spoken to about anything that involves my performance level or preparedness. I am sappy. I like the word cake. I prefer red wine. I don't like to answer questions unless the interviewer plans to do something with my data. I don't get sick on swingsets or fair rides. I do not want your advice most likely. I'm stubborn like that. I can drink more coffee than anyone I've met. I am terrible with money. I sometimes cannot think in words. I like WH Auden.

My Interests

my marc, Imperfection, lack of certainty, bad hair, hidden lust, large print books for old folks, bike riding on summer nights in small towns with no helmet, vegetables, geriatric animals, people who do what they want, magic tricks, surprising others, the occasional garage sale, learning to do man tasks like changing oil, hot bread, cold entrees, movie nights, clean bathrooms, new looks, sprinting for 15 seconds, vintage bathing suits, silent clocks, ambidexterity, the concept of catch and release, watching people breathe, getting fitted by a seamstress, walking tall, the color red, first kisses/last kisses, starting fresh.

I'd like to meet:

People with machines for making pills to replace food and sleep and all of the other weaknesses and necessities that rule my life and rob my time and give back so very little.

Music:

Iron & Wine, Beirut, Devotchka, Mos Def, Architecture in Helsinki, Morals, Copy, Stone Roses, Trail of Dead, Stars, Decemberists, Olivia Tremor Control, ladybug transistor, blondie, Neglect, ladytron, kim motherfuckin' deal, Clinic, Papas Fritas, Metric, Echo and the Bunnymen!, Dolly Parton, Neu!, Scissor Sisters, Blackalicious, Rasputina, SnuggleUps, Sleepytime trio, Belle, Shins, Elvis Presley, Elvis Costello, coltrane, Dizzy, Super furry Animals, Sigur Ros, Delgados, Notwist, parker and lily, outkast, Cure, Tricky, rainer maria, chevron, flaming Lips, Johnny Cash, Kid Loco, Morrissey, Milemarker, Interpol, Rapture, Faint, Astrud Gilberto, thurston moore. Ella. Mint royale when De la Soul sings with them, Willie Nelson, Peggy Lee, Air, Pixies, Neutral Milk Hotel, Garageland, Broken Social Scene, LEonard Cohen, Yo La Tengo of course, sonic youth, mazzy star, hoodoo gurus, low, some badly drawn boy songs, maybe 5 little wings songs, the sound of fingernails being clipped, and when my dad sings "You are My Sunshine."

Movies:

The Hunger, Grifters, Little Miss Sunshine, City of God, I Shot Andy Warhol, Harold and Maude, wim wenders, FArewell My Concubine, Mr. Hire, Delicatessen, Noi Albinoi, Amelie, Barton Fink, Psycho, trainspotting, the usual suspects, american beauty, jacob's ladder, Strange Days, Dangerous Liaisons, the Graduate, Almodovar, Preminger, J. Waters, The (orginal) Manchurian candidate, Billy elliot, movies where women get fed up and cut their hair off onscreen with a knife...

Television:

Televisi-OFF! Seriously though, I could use a pop culture injection.

Books:

A Confederacy of Dunces, Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me, The Botany of Desire, Hopscotch, If You Want to Write, The Yellow Wallpaper, Love in the Time of Cholera, Time's Arrow, The Human Rights Reader, The World According to Garp, The Gnostic Gospels, Anthony Bourdain, On Death and Dying...

Heroes:

eve ensler, dorothea dix, dominick Vetri, rigoberta menchu, desmond tutu, and lots of people who just do simple things that make them happy .. .. ..

My Blog

A Bland but Overdue Note on New York

Day 35, BrooklynStep down! To stay or to go?! Hurryhurryhurry. Don't worry about the change, just keep the line moving! I cannot say that I have really endured her tempermental charm for a sufficient ...
Posted by shannongreen on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 06:56:00 PST

Home on the Strange

I made it home safely for my 6-week layover on Penny Road. I got in Saturday afternoon and my brother picked me up in his bitchin' Camaro from the airport. He sped down the length of street outside th...
Posted by shannongreen on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:31:00 PST

Shannongreen on JetBlue

I just did it. I put all the info in the boxes and then sat on it for an hour. Finally... "SUBMIT." And there it is. No looking back. I am leaving at 11:59 pm December 15. God fucking only knows if my...
Posted by shannongreen on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:44:00 PST

Poor Ashel...

1.What does your Myspace Name Mean?I get down about how nobody knows anyone's last name anymore. I am as much to blame as anyone else, but I want everyone to know mine. Also, the name shannon by itsel...
Posted by shannongreen on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:17:00 PST

There is no there there.

Tick tock, tick tock. The clocks in my mom's house used to really irritate me when I'd stay here. I would get wound up tighter than their metal coils until I would ultimately let out a cry of desperat...
Posted by shannongreen on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:00:00 PST

Motivation

So thanks to Michael McLaren, who put a pic of himself on my desktop just to "remind (me) of where this came from," I now have a new computer.  I think I wrote awhile back that I have some violen...
Posted by shannongreen on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 02:44:00 PST

Blank Inside

Our endless numbered days... exactly the topic I want to think about. I was made aware this weekend that I had dropped off the planet a bit. I really didn't feel it, but I suppose I have isolated some...
Posted by shannongreen on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 04:32:00 PST

What a surprise

This is just a short thought and then I must DO something... like take a bath (when did I stop doing that regularly???) or finish writing that thing I can't even mention anymore, not even to myself. B...
Posted by shannongreen on Wed, 24 May 2006 12:26:00 PST

hands full

"Hands full for the summer..."- hands full of money for a hot minute, then you'll hear people saying: 1. there's shan on her new green bike 2. there's crazy shannon singing along to her new iPod (and ...
Posted by shannongreen on Tue, 23 May 2006 03:32:00 PST

Just something I am reading

I am reading this book by Javier Marias called Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me. I know I said I was reading it last month, but then it got lost under my bed for awhile. (Hey, has anyone seen my bik...
Posted by shannongreen on Thu, 18 May 2006 10:38:00 PST