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Pearl

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About Me

I think this is SO GOOD:

My Interests

Kitsch, glitter, citrus fruits. And turning Big Tent into a Leviathan.

I'd like to meet:

Creatures. Lithe ones.

Music:

now: final fantasy, feist, crystal castles
usuals: mars volta, yeah yeah yeahs, the rapture
fun: air
drippy: tainted love, fascination street, to sheila, the crying tree of mercury, soft as snow (but warm inside)

Movies:

Logan's Run, Barbarella, 8 1/2, Inland Empire, Belle de Jour, Souffle au Coeur, Monsieur Ibrahim, Howl's Moving Castle, Totoro

Television:

Project Runway, other reality show fixes, put anything animated in front of me and I'll watch it.

Books:

The Giver, works by Chogyam Trungpa, The Awakening, Siddhartha, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Against Nature, Averno, now reading Revolutions.Comics: Sandman & Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind.

Heroes:

are tasty when toasted.

My Blog

How to start or end a saga?

The co-founder of my company announced that he was resigning yesterday. To say it was a shock is simple understatement -- he might as well have deployed an atomic bomb in the room, to clear the atmosp...
Posted by Pearl on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:12:00 PST

II

She told me, she told me... "You know Bjork's song, Pagan Poetry? Well in the video she sews pearls onto her body, her hair... It reminds me of you," she said. She was smiling as she said it, the way ...
Posted by Pearl on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:16:00 PST

I

I found these today, and didn't want to lose them.------------------------------------------------------I followed a guy onto the train today all because the back of his head was just like yours. His ...
Posted by Pearl on Sun, 03 Feb 2008 03:14:00 PST

Yawwwwwwwn

I've felt so strongly the urge to write recently, only I can't think of much that's interesting to recount.Life marches on, marches on, and amidst the loveliness of its richness and textures there is ...
Posted by Pearl on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:27:00 PST

Madness

I think I've been here before -- at this hemisphere, straddling two worlds. But why limit the number to two? I've always had many worlds to reconcile.How do I convince the people I love that I love th...
Posted by Pearl on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:12:00 PST

Recursion Theory

Pain threshold is when your words grow so ripe and full that they burst under their own weight, and even then they are only the flimsiest skin in which one garbs the thought that carries them.
Posted by Pearl on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 11:14:00 PST

Autumn

The moon hangs low and luminescent tonight, and I know I'm not the only one bearing witness to its pallid majesty. Today is the day of the mid-Autumn festival, and incidentally, my father's voice was ...
Posted by Pearl on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 10:46:00 PST

My dear, what a bright palette you have (with which to paint your vivid worlds)

I've never had trouble sleeping in my life before; not till moving back to San Francisco have I had all these late night bouts of anxiety thinking about what I'm doing with my life, where I am going a...
Posted by Pearl on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 06:09:00 PST

Do people still stick their boogers on the wall?

I used to do this when I was little, and I'd have a smothered giggle fit afterwards every time. I thought I was being so tricky, and had schemed up a wiley new way to leave my mark.Over the last three...
Posted by Pearl on Sat, 04 Aug 2007 03:25:00 PST

smart spider

The neighbors' cat wandered into our apartment, and he periodically comes over to rub himself on the carpet next to me and to mew in my direction. He stares very keenly at me as he meows. He will stop...
Posted by Pearl on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 03:00:00 PST