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*britta*

punch-drunk and lovesick

About Me

I think my life would be easier, she said, if I could just get my selves to agree on something.

My Interests

i like to read the best. i'm learning to play golf and the guitar. i love music and tea and chocolate chip cookies. i love yoga and rainy days. i'm kind of addicated to chapstick. i'm trying to learn how to cook but no one will teach me.more stuff i like: .....honor copy, smoking poetry, magic moments preschool, glitter cards, the cheat, SCHNAPPI, boys that wear eyeliner, 'fat' stickers, quantum tea parties, the majestic beauty of the fractal sea, sumo wrestler calendars, volunteer potatoes, aspargus, short poems with long titles, big blocks of cheese, sewing circles and lots of other stuff.

I'd like to meet:

strongbad.

Music:

OPERA!! i like classical music, especially the romantic and the baroque. i like old classics like nina simone and louis armstrong. getting more into jazz and blues.favorite pop/rock bands: beatles, bright eyes, radiohead, the cure, belle & sebastian, iron & wine, modest mouse, sunny day real estate and scores of others including neil young and aimee mann and lets not forget rufus wainwright or portishead.

Movies:

mary poppins, amelie, moulin rouge, office space, pretty in pink, edward scissorhands, the hairdresser's husband,................and more, so many more.

Television:

little britain, spaced, six feet under

Books:

way too many to count. some favorites: the little prince (le petit prince), aldo, les miserables, storypeople, the gashlycrumb tinies, a room of one's own. i just read extremely loud & incredibly close, which is pretty much my new favorite book.

Heroes:

my mom!! thomas jefferson, fdr, mother teresa, albert einstein, leonardo da vinci, susan b. anthony, abraham lincoln, winston churchill, sandra day o'connor, audrey hepburn, steve ross, gordon b. hinckley

My Blog

dark circles

The thing about money is you can't think about it too much, he told me, or you won't sleep at night & you get dark circles under your eyes & nothing seems fun any more. I told him it was that ...
Posted by *britta* on Fri, 08 Jun 2007 01:10:00 PST

a blogspot

if you want to check out my other blog, you should go here: http://notesfromtheundergrounds.blogspot.com/ no, really. you should. i don't think anyone has even looked at it.  and i even did a tri...
Posted by *britta* on Thu, 25 May 2006 09:15:00 PST

romantic irish poet...

Believe me if all those endearing young charms,Which I gaze on so fondly today,Were to change by tomorrow and fleet in my arms,Like fairy gifts fading away!Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment...
Posted by *britta* on Wed, 15 Mar 2006 09:29:00 PST

bare november days

Not yesterday I learned to knowThe love of bare November daysBefore the coming of the snowBut it were vain to tell her so,And they are better for her praise.- - Robert Frost "My November Guest"...
Posted by *britta* on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 10:55:00 PST

another favorite totally sweet website

if any of yous "friends" haven't seen this, you should: http://www.realultimatepower.net/
Posted by *britta* on Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:58:00 PST

pirate name

    My pirate name is:        Mad Bess Vane         Every pirate is a little bit crazy. You, though, are more than just a littl...
Posted by *britta* on Sun, 04 Sep 2005 12:50:00 PST

hope for the future -meliorism

"mankind's greatest hope is the rising generation." -cwb my dad used to say that progress for humanity means that each generation surpasses the previous one.   sometimes i wonder where we ar...
Posted by *britta* on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

the bulwer-lytton fiction contest

this is so rad.  see here:  http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/and here: http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/english/2005.htm some good ones:  "After she realized the man she had fallen in love with ...
Posted by *britta* on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

favorite website of the day:

www.thesneeze.com
Posted by *britta* on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

dandelions

not sure when you stop thinking dandelions are beautiful, but i figure it's somewhere around the time you get a job & can afford lawn chemicals
Posted by *britta* on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST