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Shay

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About Me

somewhere between a librarian and a sailor

My Interests

awkward silences
thrift stores
road trips
books

I'd like to meet:

someone simple
friends Simple

Beautiful

Humble

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Music:

*RADIOHEAD!! air ambulance ltd amos lee andrew bird *animal collective annuals aphex twin apoptygma berzerk apples in stereo aqualung aqueduct architecture in helsinki at the drive in au revoir simone azure ray bauhaus belle and sebastian ben lee bibio bjork black heart procession bloc party *blonde redhead *blur boom bip brendan benson bright eyes british sea power broken social scene broken spindles buena vista social club camera obscura calexico cephalopod(wink wink!) chin up chin up clap your hands say yeah *clinic cocorosie cursive daft punk damien jurado dead can dance death from above deathcab for cutie deerhoof denison witmer depeche mode desaparacidos dirty three dj shadow dungen echo and the bunnymen *elliott smith elvis costello erlend oye explosions in the sky fischerspooner flaming lips fugazi gatsby's american dream gin blossoms goldfrapp grand national *grandaddy hot chip interpol iron and wine jeff buckley joy division ladytron lcd soundsystem le tigre low luna m. ward mariee sioux mars volta mason jennings massive attack mayday me first and the gimme gimmes metric mew michael andrews mindless self indulgence minus the bear modest mouse mogwai morrissey motion city soudntrack muse my bloody valentine my morning jacket neutral milk hotel nick drake nico nouvelle vague now its overhead of montreal pas/cal paul simon pedro the lion pete yorn *pinback pj harvey polyphonic spree *portishead rilo kiley royksopp sage francis sherwood sigur ros snow patrol son, ambulance sorry about dresden sparklehorse spoon stereolab sufjan stevens sunny day real estate talking heads the album leaf the arcade fire the arctic monkeys the beatles the books the cure the decemberists the faint the frames the futureheads the good life the kills the new pornographers the notwist the organ the pixies the postal service the ramones the sea and cake the shins *the smiths the sounds the velvet underground thievery corporation tom waits travis tv on the radio unkle van morrison vetiver we are scientists wilco wolf parade xiu xiu yeah yeah yeahs yo la tengo

Movies:

The Royal Tenenbaums Me and You and Everyone we Know The Squid and the whale The Virgin Suicides The Shining One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest

Books:

*Crime and Punishment! A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genious *A Separate Peace An Open Heart Animal Farm As I Lay Dying Beloved Beowolf Beyond the Bleep Bird by Bird *Brave New World Cat's Cradle Catch 22 Diet for a New America Demian Ecotopia Exit Music Fahrenheit 451 *Fast Food Nation Great Expectations Grendel Guided Tours of Hell *Heart of Darkness Ignorance *Ishmael Jane Eyre Les Miserables Magical Thinking Middlesex Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Moby Dick Nina:Adolescence Nineteen Eighty Four No Exit One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest Passionate Declarations Persuasion Point Counterpoint Radical Priorities Slapstick Slaughterhouse 5 Steppenwolf Something Wicked this way Comes The Alchemist The Celestine Prophecy The Culture of Fear The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime The Fall The Immoralist The Inferno The Jungle The Lime Twig *The Martian Chronicles The Razor's Edge The Reader The Red Badge of Courage The Remains of the Day The Republic The Screwtape Letters The Secret The Secret Lives of Bees The Sorrows of Young Werther The Sound and the Fury The Tao of Pooh The Things they Carried *The Unbearable Lightness of Being The Uses of Enchantment The Virgin Suicides Thus Spoke Zarathustra *To Kill a Mockingbird To the Lighthouse Twinkie, Deconstructed Watership Down Wide Sargasso Sea

Heroes:



ARBITRARY DETAILS

Status: Married to Catherine
Straight, Bi, Gay?: What day is it...
Occupation: Chiropractic Assistant

My Blog

unabashedly self-gratifying

(this is the san luis blog where you all have to put a comment up as to what your best memory with me was. unabashedly self-gratifying, i know. but it feels so good to hear what all of you have to say...
Posted by Shay on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:16:00 PST

and i can just imagine her writhing in my hands

She made me uneasy the moment she walked in; This was the kind of girl who made you want to run, just to hide your entire being, of which she surely, subtly, made you aware and ashamed.  &nb...
Posted by Shay on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 11:52:00 PST

a tangled mess of legs

It was 2 in the morning. There was no television on in the background; there was only us, a tangled mess of legs on the floor of a hotel room. Tired and damp we just lay there; with only a couple of i...
Posted by Shay on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:37:00 PST

Pleasant Collective Plummet Toward Hell

By morning, my irritation has lessened, and I have forgotten all that i vowed to remember. The precursor to all these thoughts, however i do recall. In a drunken state i said "this shit is raw," and t...
Posted by Shay on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:16:00 PST

you can look at these pictures...if you want to...

me and you and everyone catherine knowsme painting and the bird taking a napwe like trampolineswe like trampolines at night tooex roomies being emo i like to hug trees in big surthose one nights i don...
Posted by Shay on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 11:10:00 PST

I Lost my Mom

After 10 years of a brutal fight, my Mom finally lost her battle with cancer. For a long time before this, however, she was ready to go. The only thing keeping her here was me, and her perpetual worry...
Posted by Shay on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:57:00 PST

Traditional Beauty is too Easy

My eyes look best when I wake up, like my hair, smudgy and fierce, maybe even a little scary. I cut my hair off so strange men wouldn't whistle at me from a distance. I would rather them not see the c...
Posted by Shay on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:09:00 PST

I feel________.

Hi. I feel ________. I dont think anybody could posibly understand that as much as I am sure you will by the time you have read this (this was a litter to John at Linnaea's, by the way)Last night I sl...
Posted by Shay on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:43:00 PST

I squished a bug

So I smashed a little fruit fly a couple of weeks ago, by accident of course. How unimaginably horrible I felt at my inadvertant ending of a life. Such extremes of feelings for such an insignificant a...
Posted by Shay on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 07:20:00 PST

who i am VS what i tell people i am

note to self-- when asked to describe self recite the following: Well, I am not much of a religious person, but I am conscious of the impact of my actions, words, lifestyle, etc on others and on my en...
Posted by Shay on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 07:10:00 PST