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sarah lilly

i haven't laughed that hard since my last business transaction!

About Me

amateur etymologist.

my heart's a scientific diagram.

aim: sarahmodern
email: [email protected]
flickr
music/photo/writing blog

show photos
nyc photos

My Interests

music
information
writing
reading
etymology
travelling
my vocabulary
canada
nyc
coney island
chicago
detroit
ireland, scotand and the rest of the U.K.
history
languages
photography
unusual medical conditions
socialism
feminism
evolution
d.i.y.
simon pegg
overheardinnewyork.com
stand-up comedians (arj barker, demetri martin, jim gaffigan)
holga cameras
lomography
bubble tea
beards/trevor's facial hair
anything jewish
steeplechase face
wikipedia
chocolate-covered almonds
thai food
people-watching
vice magazine's do's and don'ts
irony
generally interesting things
lists

I'd like to meet:

everyone i've ever met once.

Music:

french kicks
the changes
the natural history
ted leo and the pharmacists
the walkmen
white rabbits
sam roberts band
talking heads
the joggers
spoon
whipping cats
coffee sandwich
jens lekman
the beatles
the shins
sondre lerche
love is all
peter bjorn and john
jonathan fire*eater
the recoys
oxford collapse
the streets
the most serene republic
matt & kim
brendan benson
interpol
of montreal
girl talk
justice
muscles
feist
amy winehouse
the fratellis
klaxons
1990s
the nice device

Movies:

a hard day's night
a very long engagement
almost famous
amelie
better off dead...
captain ron
fast times at ridgemont high
ferris bueller's day off
forrest gump
the goonies
high fidelity
hot fuzz
all monty python movies
office space
orange county
rocky horror picture show
the royal tenenbaums
run lola run
shaun of the dead
sixteen candles
splash
splitting heirs
strangers with candy
wayne's world 1 & 2

Television:

the office
kenny vs. spenny
late night with conan o'brien
flight of the conchords
30 rock
spaced
sex & the city
heroes
skins
midsomer murders
heartbeat
rick mercer report
trailer park boys
monty python's flying circus
stella
are you being served?
thin blue line
CBC, TVO & PBS documentaries
anything on the CBC
girlfriends
cosby show

Books:

and now you can go (vendela vida)
everything is illuminated (jonathan safran foer)
extremely loud & incredibly close (jonathan safran foer)
a heartbreaking work of staggering genius (dave eggers)
you shall know our velocity! (dave eggers)
the history of love (nicole krauss)
slaughterhouse five (kurt vonnegut, jr.)
ant farm (simon rich)
let the northern lights erase your name (vendela vida)
the unthinkable thoughts of jacob green (joshua braff)
on the road (jack kerouac)
ant farm (simon rich)
me talk pretty one day (david sedaris)
dress your family in corduroy and jeans (david sedaris)

Heroes:

my mum

My Blog

redheads going extinct?

as a person of irish/scottish descent (happy st. pat’s day, by the way) with hair that’s an obvious tell, i was shocked and worried about the news that, according to the oxford hair founda...
Posted by sarah lilly on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:10:00 PST

totally offensive

did anyone ever notice how offensive the cleaning product Spic-n-Span is? urbandictionary.com defines 'spic' as: A highly offensive term referring to a Spanish-speaking person from Mexico, Central o...
Posted by sarah lilly on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:02:00 PST

my father has a problem

and they're called 'europeans' they kept him up until like 4am one night where we were staying in nyc. they had the room beside us and wouldn't shut the fuck up. also should be noted the hilariou...
Posted by sarah lilly on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 12:04:00 PST

live vs. recorded

i went to chicago last weekend with trev and picked up popular favourites 1976-1992/sand in the vaseline by talking heads on sale at virgin megastore for $21.99 USD. listening to this album and t...
Posted by sarah lilly on Sun, 27 May 2007 05:28:00 PST

WANTED: OLD MAN BIKE

hey guys, please do my dirty work! spring is here and i'm looking for, what is essentially known as an 'old man bike' or 'beach cruiser' or even 'hipster bike.' i have gotten a suggestion of a store i...
Posted by sarah lilly on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 12:46:00 PST

black donnellys

just a thought. nbc has a new show named the black donnellys about irish brothers who are troublemakers. the brothers have names like tommy, jim and a female lead named jenny. there are also farrell c...
Posted by sarah lilly on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:25:00 PST

crocs

are crocks of shit.
Posted by sarah lilly on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:59:00 PST

terrifying

sometimes, shit frightens me. but very few things actually terrify me. let's take into account a film made in 1982 by jim henson and frank oz. now, you're thinking, hold on sarah, these guys created ...
Posted by sarah lilly on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 10:05:00 PST

ginger

just thought you should know that both george washington and thomas jefferson were redheads. just think! the president who shot alexander hamilton and the president who got stuck in a bathtu...
Posted by sarah lilly on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 03:51:00 PST

fruit

i'm a pretty big fan of it in general.
Posted by sarah lilly on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 04:25:00 PST