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Meaghan

Putting evil down.

About Me

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My Interests

Records. Green and Red and Grey and Brown. Poetry, reading, noise making, arts making, ribbons, Copper sheet. Serigraphy. Book Arts. Amy's cupcakes. Summer's cupcakes. Anna's cupcakes. Rell's cupcakes. Spilling things. Nice people. Dinosaur sheets. Small children named Eliot. Puddles. Semicolons; little birds that hop. terrible jokes. history. oceanography. brunch.

I'd like to meet:

Pixellated deer.

Music:

Current Favorites: Margo Guryan, Van Dyk Parks, Larks and Owls, Swan Lake, Les Fleur de Lys, Jana Hunter, The Moon, Grizzly Bear, Ed Askew, Billy Nicholls, The Moths, Kevin Ayers, ELO, Rain Parade, Hidden Cameras, John Cale, Scott Walker, Jackson C. Frank, Old Time Relijun, Bert Jansch, Sparks, Islaja, The Chamellows, Ohsees (OCS), The Bats, The Clean, The Chills, Felt, The Pastels, Alexander "Skip" Spence, Jens Lekman, Pearls Before Swine, Caetano Veloso, Jan Jelinek, Donovan, Yoko Ono, Deer Tick, Rogerio Duprat, Vaselines, T.Rex, Lightning Bolt, Sibylle Baier, Terror at the Opera, Kate Kind, etc...

Movies:

Back to School, Withnail and I, Talk to Her, Don't Look Back, Harold and Maude, The Graduate, Breathless, Brazil, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Annie Hall, The 400 Blows, Pan's Labyrinth, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Manhattan, Back to the Future, Sleeper, House of Yes, The Weather Underground, Au Revoir les Enfants, How to Get Ahead in Advertising, Alice's Restaraunt, Fear and Loathing On the Road to Hollywood, Grey Gardens, City of God, Day For Night, Knife in the Water, Dead Man, Russian Ark, Dr. Strangelove, Head, 3 Women, Dark Habits, Roma!, Fletch, The Scent of Green Papaya, Crumb, Pierot le Fou, A Shot in the Dark, Alphaville, The Bride Wore Black, The Long Goodbye, Blue Velvet, M, Atomic Cafe, Vertigo, Broken Flowers, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Repo Man, They Live, Little Murders, Rope, Songs From the Second Floor, Being John Malkovich, Being There, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Splendor in the Grass, old movies, foreign movies, acting out Smokey and the Bandit on my way to paying the rent; swayze crazy.

Television:

Mythbusters, awesomely bad lawyer/csi type mystery shows. yes.

Books:

The Listing Attic (ha! a pun): Edward Gorey. A Confederacy of Dunces. Anything by W. Kelley Chambers. The Wizard of Oz (illustrated by Barry Moser). Anything involving Ralph Steadman (and of course, the late great Doctor T). Doodaa. The Dark is Rising. Silver on the Tree. Over Sea, Under Stone. The Erasers. His Dark Materials. Galapagos. The Captain's Verses. The Sirens of Titan. Breakfast of Champions. The Bear and the People. Art history books. Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Changing, Changing. Through the Looking Glass. The Prydain Chronicles. books of pictures made by Egon Schiele. Awareness. The Philosopher (Gibran). The Soft Machine. Anthem. books illustrated by Jane Ray. Mother Night. Canterbury Tales. Atlas Shrugged. Infinite Jest. Naked Lunch. Junk(y). books illustrated by Jon Muth. A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again. Their Eyes Were Watching God. The Giver. Tropical Truth. Assassins. A Wrinkle in Time. Bridge to Terabithia. The Society of the Spectacle. The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner. The Fall, The Plague, Hand to Eye. books of pictures of Joseph Cornell's work. Delta of Venus. The Clouds. The Frogs. Vitamin D. No Thanks. You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense. Raise High the Roofbeams, Carpenters; Seymour, an Introduction. Nine Stories. Lysistrata. The Puffin Book of Magic Secrets. Letters from the Earth. Jennifer, Hecate, MacBeth, William McKinley, and Me, Elizabeth. The Last Night of the Earth Poems. Cloud Atlas (Mitchell). Leaves of Grass. The Dead Fish Museum. books filled with short stories. anything illustrated by Alan E. Cober. "sexy books." quiet days in clichy. the romantic poets, especially William Blake. Walt Whitman. Pablo Neruda. Octavio Paz. Reinaldo Arenas. e.e. cummings. Gertrude Stein. Czech fiction, French fiction, anything dark, literate, sarcastic, beautiful, or written for children... etc. I hate books.

Heroes:

Elliott Gould, gold leaf

My Blog

"this song is about not joining the marines"

I don't really blog because I'm always worried that I will sound naive and young, or impetuous or pretentious, and that I may start quoting Kurt Vonnegut or something else as though&nbs...
Posted by Meaghan on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 09:00:00 PST

tomorrow is a special day

starting tomorrow (after school and work) I will no longer be homeless! I will have somewhere to go instead of aimlessly (and expensively) wandering Lamar, people will actually be able to fit in my ca...
Posted by Meaghan on Thu, 08 Sep 2005 06:12:00 PST

heist accomplished.

Today I quit my job at the record store. It was kind of like breaking off a terrible relationship, like, "Cheapo and I sure do fight alot, but the sex is great, so we're staying together..." and then ...
Posted by Meaghan on Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:27:00 PST