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Julia

I am here for Friends

About Me

Tour d'USA.Traveling through the USA in a van with good company, good music, and no expectations. Got pulled over in rural Missouri for no reason. Had a blast in St. Louis-- the city museum is like an acid trip without the acid. El Paso is a lot cooler than I thought it would be... If only I still spoke spanish. My weak attempts to order ice cream from the guy on the street were only met with laughter. Hand gestures accomplish everything anyway, words are overrated. Tried to settle in AZ for a stint... stayed one month too long. If all of the California retirees weren't hell bent on ruining every decent town in a 1000 mile radius, I don't think the place would have been that bad. Unfortunately we were at the epicenter. Prescott is now the fastest growing retirement community in the USA. So... if you cant beat them, join them. Currently we are in LA for a week before exploring the third largest state in the union... CALIFORNIA. More updates to come.

My Interests

organic fair-trade coffee. cheap red wine. dancing. watching people dance. CHAKRAS. pure joy. post-modernism. transcending time and space. hand rolled cigarettes. making out. making art. musicals. pablo neruda. rilke. community gardening. connections. energy. SPRING. watching the lake thaw. riding my bike with no hands. several of the seven deadly sins. hippies. bad jokes. existentialism. rawk. nomads and gypsies. people with vices. people in general. procrastination. the present moment.

I'd like to meet:

Gypsies. Vagabonds. Hobos. Tramps. People who live at truck stops.

Music:

Elliott Smith. Yo La Tengo. Al Green. Velvet Underground. The Clash. RJD2. Sun Ra. Modest Mouse. Grandaddy. T-Rex. Mirah. Radiohead. The Pixies. The Shins. The Arcade Fire. Built to Spill. Ms. John Soda. M-ward. Fiest. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Coco Rosie. Devo (that's right, D-E-V-O). The Kills. PINBACK. Talk Demonic. The Unicorns. Viva Voce. Electrelane. Portishead. Iron and Wine. Nina Simone. The Frames. Four Tet. Stereolab. The Dandy Warhols. Miles Davis. Muddy Waters. Ray Charles. The Cure. Joy Division. Broken Social Scene. The Talking Heads. David Bowie. James Brown. Lali Puna. The Magnetic Fields. Nick Drake. Toots and the Maytals. The Ramones. The Slits. Tom Waits. My housemates Greg and Xander. And just for Mando: Freebird (It's a really good song).

Movies:

YES! I love films. It would be wonderful if they would someday make good films again.

Television:

Motel 6 has 15 channels and still nothing to watch. Although I am gaining interest in the World Series of Poker. Weird.

Books:

I like to read five at once and I like them to teach me about things.

Heroes:

still enablers!

My Blog

History as I See It

This is something I wrote a little while ago... I feel like I am ready to share it.  I realized that of my blogs... only one is something that I wrote and it is pretty boring.  So here is a ...
Posted by Julia on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:17:00 PST

This is all Abby's fault...

Well... I have been tagged.  There is nothing I can do about this.  So I guess the way this works is I have to list 6 random/weird facts about me and choose 6 people who I want to hear rando...
Posted by Julia on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:51:00 PST

Zen and the art of Bicycle Maintenance

I live for spring.  Oregon's spring is lovely.  A time when it shifts from cold and bitter winter rain to a slightly warmer spring rain. It is a subtle shift from one season to the next.&nbs...
Posted by Julia on Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:34:00 PST

State of the Union? A mess!

Well, it has definitely been awhile since I have felt the need to post a blog on here.  I have never been very good at keeping journals, especially ones that are public for all to read.  I t...
Posted by Julia on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 11:55:00 PST

Let the Revolution Begin!

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is a visionary.  I am blown away by the insight, compassion, and political strategizing that I see.  Now, mind you, I realize that there are some controversi...
Posted by Julia on Thu, 22 Sep 2005 08:30:00 PST

I wish that I had written this...

So for my first blog, I guess it would be more appropriate to actually write something myself, but I saw an amazing movie the other night.  Waking Life absolutely blew me away!  especially t...
Posted by Julia on Tue, 23 Aug 2005 08:19:00 PST