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becky

I am here for Friends

About Me

a sucker for catchy lyrics. in a long-distance relationship with my pet tortoise. not the strongest conversationalist. reluctantly sentimental.

My Interests

babies

Music:

menomena, modest mouse, dismemberment plan, built to spill, spoon, the decemberists, the cure, the shins, the pixies, songs: ohia, the cars, tears for fears, piebald, firebird band, ben folds five, calexico, arcade fire, andrew bird, the postal service, ugly casanova, knapsack/jealous sound, neutral milk hotel, peter bjorn & john, love spit love, this american life, weezer, spiritual rez, cake, radiohead, tapes n tapes, new pornographers, les savy fav, pre-reality show inxs, pavement, oingo boingo, smashing pumpkins, pinback, sufjan stevens, sunny day real estate and i like the spin doctors. deal with it.

Movies:

rushmore, donnie darko, stranger than fiction.

Television:

veronica mars, the office.

Books:

a prayer for owen meany, the complete sherlock holmes, the westing game, the great gatsby, lolita, harry potter, empire falls, the sportswriter.

Heroes:

dan savage, ira glass.

My Blog

i finally played guitar hero and other true tales

oh, hi. i didn't see you sitting there. i haven't blogged for awhile. Spring has sprung in Holland - the beginning of May brought about 10 sunny days in a row, which I think might be considered a Dut...
Posted by becky on Sun, 18 May 2008 03:12:00 PST

la di da, i made a video.

Here’s something I didn’t know about Holland when I moved here: the Dutch hate the Germans. Something about football, or fascism. Possibly both. What’ll it take to bring them all to...
Posted by becky on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 01:33:00 PST

the sky is falling

in the past 24 hours it has: sprinkled, poured, sunshined, sleeted, hailed, snowed, and, finally, sleeted while sunshined.meanwhile, currency exchanges in amsterdam are refusing to buy dollars because...
Posted by becky on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:47:00 PST

Dutch Health Care.

Holy God.  I couldn't be more excited right now.Here's the deal.  I've lived in Holland for 18 months and since 2 weeks before I moved here, I have been dreading the day I have to go see a doctor.That...
Posted by becky on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 06:11:00 PST

TELEVISION pt 2

Tuesday it was made official: Boom Chicago will be returning to the ill-watched airwaves of the mid-evening Dutch Comedy Central lineup for 15 minutes a week for 8 weeks. In other words:I HAVE ACHIEV...
Posted by becky on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:40:00 PST

the anatomy of a chicken.

Socially Responsible.Sounds pretty awesome, right? A do-goody catchphrase you can snuggle up to after a day of dodging pan-handlers and throwing away newspapers. Can't afford a car? That's right, as...
Posted by becky on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:03:00 PST

a story problem

Betty, who often has problems with indulgent spending, has $1200 in her savings account. Her boyfriend, Brandon, is out of the country for six weeks. Betty - who is earning euros now, folks - could ...
Posted by becky on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:22:00 PST

update!

i'm still here, though many illustrious blog plans have faded into memory before being attended to and typed fully. so, briefly:a - i am now somewhat officially on vacation for christmas, after a lon...
Posted by becky on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:50:00 PST

soccer is intense.

i went to my first real soccer game yesterday ("real" in this case meaning "my brother was not on the team, and most players were over 3 feet tall"). it was the amsterdam ajax (or "the jews" as they ...
Posted by becky on Mon, 26 Nov 2007 12:13:00 PST

happy thanksgiving

in the immortal words of krissy lenz, "happy thanksgiving, fuckers." i know everybody's burning question is this: becky, you savvy (and gorgeous) expatriate, how do you celebrate thanksgiving in holla...
Posted by becky on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:34:00 PST