c'mon don't you know about stuff?

About Me

I'm a professional.

My Interests

senseless art, typewriters, snobs, polaroids, cultural anthropology, you, kitties, the meow meow, seattle, anne lamott, j.d. salinger, sidewalks, streetlamps, the 80's, staring you down, kissing, night walks, old streets, that's right...livejournal http://www.livejournal.com/users/keelykeely/, san francisco, getting over this and into everything else, off the record, bangles, black eyeliner, doves, chakras, starting over, poetry.

I'd like to meet:

all the pretty eyed boys and girls

Music:

deathcab, pedro, cocorosie, get up kids, sigur ros, copeland, built to spill, postal service, joseph arthur, low, cat power, jason anderson, ryan adams, ben kweller, believing in june, american football, owen, with a bullet, joan of arc, starflyer, tegan and sarah, wilco, rocky votolato, sun kil moon, norwegian chalk, yeah yeah yeah's, tortoise, bobbie birdman, whiskeytown, the stills, pinback, mewithoutyou, explosions in the sky, dear nora, doug martsch, bright eyes, m83, phil elvrum/mt.eerie, mew, the shins, rilo kiley, mixtapes, heartless bastards, deerhoof, metric, jenny lewis, camera obscurba, album leaf, jeremy enigk, mirah.

Movies:

waking life, life is beautiful, royal tenembaums, sandlot, amelie, dead poets society, ponette, lost in translation, endless sunshine of a spotless mind, you tell me.

Television:

pbs documentaries

Books:

traveling mercies by anne lamott, franny and zooey by salinger, the reservoir by dan peters, letters to a young poet by rilke, my name is asher lev by chaim potok, weathered pages by blue begonia press.

Heroes:

big deal classy snobs and, people who hold tight.

My Blog

a short excerpt

"The way I always see her is the way she used to be on a Sunday afternoon, say, when the old folks were talking after the big Sunday dinner. I always see her wearing pale blue. She...
Posted by c'mon don't you know about stuff? on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 02:28:00 PST

While I Am Still Asleep

While I Am Still Asleep In a poem I write for you while I am still asleep, you have two brown wings. They are easy for you. You believe in god. And the antibodies in your blo...
Posted by c'mon don't you know about stuff? on Fri, 14 Oct 2005 05:12:00 PST

spring

Communion Dogwood blossoms down the street have opened with their purple centers laid out mixed in white and pink their large petals falling and overlapping over and over the color of mouths, ...
Posted by c'mon don't you know about stuff? on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

yet another

Seven Years It wasnt that I couldnt remember why I loved her. It wasnt that at all. That was easy she used to sort of bump her leg a little when we listened to the radio in the car. That was...
Posted by c'mon don't you know about stuff? on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

manhattan

co. Into the Streets We would scale the chain link fences the metal pinching and blacking our shoes lighters falling out of our pockets tremendous leaps down to the pavement. Wed meet up ...
Posted by c'mon don't you know about stuff? on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

setting

Somewhere west of here: Its the kind of town where overhangs hang lowdripping with rain in broad daylight. And people who dont usually smoke feel the urge to, and stoop to light ...
Posted by c'mon don't you know about stuff? on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

when there is nothing safe to say:

co. New Year It starts on the thirtieth turning into the thirty first of December, when you decide to reflect on the last year, make some choices, modify then profess your new beliefs, ...
Posted by c'mon don't you know about stuff? on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

first class

how disappointing to know that the last boy you kissed, does not have you for the last girl he's kissed. really first class.
Posted by c'mon don't you know about stuff? on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

to the bitches:

family dinner tonight and we should all win academy awards, dress up real fancy and smoke classy cigarettes because god knows we're all faking it like it's brilliant, like this is the most compelling ...
Posted by c'mon don't you know about stuff? on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

not even worked up about it

having done livejournal for 3 years i don't know if i have the heart for this. I don't know at all. we'll give it a go. here's my most recent character sketch copyright this: Shes got style. ...
Posted by c'mon don't you know about stuff? on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST