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emily

My salad days, when I was green in judgment, cold in blood.

About Me

a riveting and hideous compendium of sinister thoughts and savory delights

My Interests

cooking, reading, artforum and sometimes artnews, living above the poverty line, thrift shopping, singing in spanish, googling, birol ünel, breakfast in bed, bold prints and bright colors, the chelsea piers, salsa, bitforms, snobby beer, cheap wine, sleeping in so late that i feel good but not guilty, ny times online, , taking a vacation, under presents, other various/sundry things

I'd like to meet:

my bahamavention

Music:

orishas, afro-funk, the arcade fire, air, kinky, tosca, dj spooky are some current selections

Movies:

chaos, city of god, head-on, battle of algiers, sex and lucia, habla con ella, best in show, the big lebowski, babel

Television:

the office, iron chef, grey's anatomy, house, the travel channel, the discovery channel

Books:

It was love at first touch rather than at first sight, for I had met her several times before without experiencing any special emotions; but one night, as I was seeing her home, something quaint she had said made me stoop with a laugh and lightly kiss her on the hair—and of course we all know of that blinding blast which is caused by merely picking up a small doll from the floor of a carefully abandoned house: the soldier involved hears nothing; for him it is but an ecstatic soundless and boundless expansion of what had been during his life a pinpoint of light in the dark center of his being. And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out Paris with the gaunt arches of its boulevard Exelmans and the ceaseless alpine gurgle of desolate latrines), is the most adequate and ever-present symbol of that vast silent explosion. (nabokov)

My Blog

London-Paris

I leave for London this Thursday, March 3 and then onto Paris the next week. If any of you savvy travelers would like to impart a-moi some bit of savvy travel information about these two places, fe...
Posted by emily on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Ten Inches OR Take It All Off

Whichever title you choose, you'll still be disappointed--the subject of this entry refers to my hair. For the past year I've been growing my hair out to donate it to Locks of Love as part of penn ...
Posted by emily on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

are we done here?

you know what really gets my goat and dowery is this final week business up here. my 3 papers and 1 final to complete in the next 2 days in the snowy, miserable town of state college, where i will pou...
Posted by emily on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST