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joysette

she pirouetted in the dust without a sound

About Me

I have a penchant for learning about the government, corporations, and fanatical religious groups.

My Interests

guitar, writing creatively, masochism, sarcasm, singing, conversation, tennis, early a.m. gym workouts, mental illnesses, cooking, buying old LPs, tofutti, dancing, skirts

I'd like to meet:

Free thinkers.

People who will read my blog posts on www.subversivesoapbox.com.

From Waking Life:"The more that you talk about a person as a social construction or as a confluence of forces or as fragmented or marginalized, what you do is you open up a whole new world of excuses. And when Sartre talks about responsibility, he's not talking about something abstract. He's not talking about the kind of self or soul that theologians would argue about. It's something very concrete. It's you and me talking. Making decisions. Doing things and taking the consequences. It might be true that there are six billion people in the world and counting. Nevertheless, what you do makes a difference. It makes a difference, first of all, in material terms. Makes a difference to other people and it sets an example. In short, I think the message here is that we should never simply write ourselves off and see ourselves as the victim of various forces. It's always our decision who we are."

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Music:

Brian May, Cake, Charlie Terrell, Christine Kane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Damien Rice, Donovan, Elvis, Janis Joplin, Jeffry Foucault, Joan Osborne, Joe Cocker, Josh Ritter, Led Zeppelin, Lovin’ Spoonful, Lynrd Skynrd, Mamas and the Papas, Nina Simone, Old Crow Medicine Show, Paul Cebar, Peter Mulvey, Pink Martini, Queen, Ray LaMontagne, Stitchcraft

Movies:

Abre los Ojos, The Believer, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Buffalo '66, But I'm a Cheerleader, Dangerous Beauty, Dark City, Dogma, Donnie Brasco, Freeway, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (but sometimes they don't), Ghost World, The Godfather Trilogy, Guinevere, Heathers, Household Saints, Kill Bill, Labyrinth, My First Mister, No Such Thing, The Opposite of Sex, Secretary, Slums of Beverly Hills, Sweethearts, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Waking Life, Wet Hot American Summer, Wonderboys

Television:

is bad for society.

Books:

1984, Angela’s Ashes, (Annotated) Alice in Wonderland, Blue Italian, Crime and Punishment, Cyrano de Bergerac, The Graduate, Household Saints, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

My Blog

children books that never got published

1. You Are Different and That's Bad 2. The Boy Who Died From Eating All His Vegetables 3. Dad's New Wife Bruce 4. Fun Four-letter Words to Know and Share 5. Hammers, Screwdrivers and Scissors: An I-C...
Posted by joysette on Tue, 27 May 2008 12:38:00 PST

slogans of the party (part 2):FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.

Part II of my series on the slogans of the Party in 1984 is freshly psoted on www.subversivesoapbox.com.  Check it out!
Posted by joysette on Tue, 27 May 2008 07:26:00 PST

you spin me right round baby right round

So I'm purging my bedroom and I just have SO MANY CDs and jewel cases I don't want anymore.  I'm reluctant to throw them in the garbage because they'll just end up in a landfill.  So I looke...
Posted by joysette on Mon, 26 May 2008 08:18:00 PST

marlboro marine

Here is a beautiful, sad story about a Marine from Kentucky who became the "Marlboro Marine" from a picture taken of him with the thousamd-yard stare.  The photography and narrative on these shot...
Posted by joysette on Wed, 21 May 2008 11:46:00 PST

gimme a head with hair, long beautiful hair

I made the mistake of leaving some scissors in the bathroom, so last night I took them to my hair and started chopping away!  Luckily for me I have naturally wavy/curly hair that likes to be out ...
Posted by joysette on Wed, 07 May 2008 11:26:00 PST

yummy

your lips are sprinkled cinnamonlovingly burnt, suggestive of spicemy mouth like vanilla ice creamscoops up your timeless flavor
Posted by joysette on Thu, 01 May 2008 08:33:00 PST

you wear hypocrite shoes

Giuliani criticized for receiving Holy Communion during pope visit Posted: 02:53 PM ET NEW YORK (AP)  New York Cardinal Edward Egan says Rudy Giuliani should not have received Holy Communion dur...
Posted by joysette on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:54:00 PST

priorities

Obama and Clinton have spent a combined $110 million on TV ads to this point; we've had a race that's literally gone on since last summer for ad spending," said Evan Tracey of TNS Media Intelligence/C...
Posted by joysette on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:39:00 PST

choices?

"when they were given the chance to enact Sen. Russ Feingold's measure ordering Bush to withdraw most U.S. troops by July 1, 2007, both Clinton and Obama voted 'no.'" (http://www. msnbc. msn....
Posted by joysette on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:25:00 PST

"trapped in a dream" from waking life

This is adapted from the last scene in Waking Life, and it is really my favorite scene in the movie.  A little long, but quite poignant.I'm gonna tell you about a dream I once had. I know that's,...
Posted by joysette on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:26:00 PST