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Tequila Mockingbird

below, or maybe next to, the self-righteousness and the self-hatred is a certain hope instilled far

About Me



I am the blank cavern of indeterminate size in which my thoughts occur.

My Interests

Film, photography, music, philosphy, fashion and some combination of these things...

I'd like to meet:

High-fivers. Hand-shakers. Eye-Contact-Makers. People who think things about stuff.

Music:

Beat the Devil, Neil Young, Electric Six, David Gray, Eve6, (Old) Alkaline Trio, Atmosphere, Fiona Apple, Rammstein, Journey, The Beatles, David Bowie, Tears for Fears, Modest Mouse, Radiohead, Crime Mob, The Knife, M.I.A., Atmosphere, Aesop Rock, Depeche Mode, Robyn...I could go on for days.

Movies:

Donnie Darko, American Beauty, Requiem for a Dream, The Lion in Winter, The Princess Bride, Shopgirl, Happiness, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Little Miss Sunshine, The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited, Rushmore, Me and You and Everyone We Know...lots more

Television:

Smash you T.V. and have adventure!!!

Books:

Gone with the Wind, Fight Club, A Clockwork Orange, Stranger in a Strange Land, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity, How We ARe Hungry, What is the What, Of Human Bondage, Pride and Prejudice, Shopgirl, Running With Scissors, Dry, Magical Thinking

Heroes:

My dad. I miss him more everyday.

My Blog

Mirrors

There are so many steps between right here and where I want to be.  And where I want to be is in a place where I know where I want to be...so, one step at a time, I suppose. I'm learning to accep...
Posted by Tequila Mockingbird on Wed, 14 May 2008 02:15:00 PST

Thunderhorse

"If you don't feel like you are going to throw up, you aren't taking enough risks." This weekend was pivotal in a whole lot of ways.  It was so good to be with two people that I love so much at a...
Posted by Tequila Mockingbird on Mon, 05 May 2008 10:48:00 PST

Zoe

My dear sweet baby girl, I will have to find some other way to say this you.  I'm not sure what I will say.  I want to sheild you from as much as I can.  I wish that there were words t...
Posted by Tequila Mockingbird on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:23:00 PST

Quick Update

I’m going out completely by myself tonight.  I’m going to a lecture about dark energy being given by a renowned astrophysicist from Berkeley and then probably going to Casa ...
Posted by Tequila Mockingbird on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:49:00 PST

Motion(less)

Trying not to censor myself so hard that it begins to feel like a censorship in itself.  Consuming and consuming and consuming myself.  Down the rabbit hole.  Into the hall of mirrors.&...
Posted by Tequila Mockingbird on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:16:00 PST

Written on a napkin at Casa while drinking alone, awaiting my next margarita and my destiny...

to prove that motion is still a viable source of momentum - that reality can be recreated and perspective altered - FURTHER, to abandon re-creation as a meaningless recreation and to embrace instead j...
Posted by Tequila Mockingbird on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:52:00 PST

I’m Moving!

This was a bulletin.  Now it's a blog. Anyway, for those of you that don't know, I'm moving to Athens on March 9th.  It's rather abrupt, I know...but there are lots of reasons why this makes...
Posted by Tequila Mockingbird on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:18:00 PST

2007

It seems that I'm not in the mood to post much lately.  I think when I'm spending my time living my life, I tend to spend a lot less time writing about it.  So here is some generic survey th...
Posted by Tequila Mockingbird on Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:19:00 PST

Dooms Day

Nowhere in the world glowers quite like Akron in November.  It gets everyone a little down, I think.  I think it is impossible to think happy thoughts under a sky like that.  Or maybe I...
Posted by Tequila Mockingbird on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 12:30:00 PST

Catch Up

It has been a long time since I've written anything real about what is going on in my life.  Despite this being the best summer of my life, there were a few dark moments that caused me to retreat...
Posted by Tequila Mockingbird on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:39:00 PST