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mj

myunglet

About Me

i contain multitudes. or, you know, at least a sizable crowd.

fotografs.

i want to tange the intangible.

My Interests

Lately: turning the beat around. learning how to write good. Always: writing. rainstorms. old regrets, new obsessions, and vice versa. The New Yorker. ZOMBIES! scotch, neat. solipsism, onanism, sublimated desires.

I'd like to meet:

assassins. cat power. kyle maclachlan.

Music:

music is DUMB! (indie rock.)

Movies:

favorite: 28 days later. recent favorite: delicatessen (it's like amelie minus the sheepish guilt for liking it!). others: 2046, fallen angels, labyrinth, lotr 1-3, the english patient, peter pan, royal tenenbaums, spirited away, bright young things, edward scissorhands, the professional, amelie, certain parts of scarface, shaolin soccer, dead poets society; i like wong kar wai and hayao miyazaki and luc besson. i will watch pretty much any movie that has explosions, zombies, or sparkles in it. or andre 3000.

Television:

favorites: arrested development, deadwood. others: malcolm in the middle, scrubs, M*A*S*H*; undeclared and futurama. batman: the animated series. grey's anatomy, CSI, law and order (SVU is my favorite). the adventures of pete and pete. firefly, battlestar galactica.

Books:

current ecstatic favorite: gilead, by marilynne robinson. others: the catcher in the rye, nine stories, wuthering heights, a farewell to arms, a room with a view, the god of small things. the shamefully little i've read of graham greene. stephen king. short stories of lydia davis, william trevor, jhumpa lahiri, lorrie moore, grace paley. anything by p.g. wodehouse.

Heroes:

people awesomer than i am; my little sister

My Blog

anyway.

basically people are just looking for someone who will always be there for them whenever they need someone, so they don't have to be alone. not alone like an afternoon or a week or a month, but alone...
Posted by mj on Sat, 11 Aug 2007 01:10:00 PST

hello my lovelies

long time, no write.i find that usually, when i am happy with my life, i find less occasion to blog. i'm sorry that this probably means i only write about horrible, self-pitying crap that is more fun...
Posted by mj on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:24:00 PST

quiet shut-up smart nice people are the best people around.

i think the more you keep your mouth shut, and the less invested you are in trying to impress people, maybe the smarter you are. maybe it's because people like me try to use up all their cleverness i...
Posted by mj on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 10:39:00 PST

start to a new story.

Puppy Love "Otto?" she asks. "As in von Bismarck?" "No," he says. "As in 'autocoprophagia.'" He scratches the puppy's chin fluff. "That means eating your own poop," he adds, when she doesn...
Posted by mj on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:42:00 PST

new year.

a lot has happened since i last wrote. most recently, i spent my first wholly pleasurable new year's eve in many years. i think it was because i haven't been miserable for a while. kelly was visiti...
Posted by mj on Wed, 03 Jan 2007 01:54:00 PST

new york, new york.

i haven't really missed new york that much since i've been down here -- at least, not like i used to miss it when i went away for a week or a few days. i guess it's because i had the mindset, upon mo...
Posted by mj on Thu, 19 Oct 2006 06:50:00 PST

better.

it was rainy all day yesterday. i feel a little better now that it's a sunny morning.-M!
Posted by mj on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:50:00 PST

turn and face this discouragement.

well, i got helpful feedback i guess. we spent a ridiculous amount of time on my story today in class, which i appreciated and also felt guilty about. it was better than my last story, at least i th...
Posted by mj on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 09:16:00 PST

new story.

i wrote a new story, which is going to be workshopped on tuesday. i like it better than my first workshop story, but that is not saying much since i hated that one and never want to lay eyes on it ag...
Posted by mj on Sun, 15 Oct 2006 08:34:00 PST

motherfuckin' writer's block.

the story i submitted for my first workshop was really shitty. so i'm getting a jumpstart on my next submission by starting on it now (due friday the 13th -- AHHHHHH) instead of a week before it's du...
Posted by mj on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 04:45:00 PST