Something cooler than

Something cooler than "Peggy"

Time may change me, but I can't trace time.

About Me

I've been sitting here, wondering what I really want to say about myself, and I'm really not sure.
I'm sure I'll come up with something in time.
"At his lips' touch, she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete." - the Great Gatsby
JE VIS, JE MEURS: JE ME BRÛLE ET ME NOIE
Je vis, je meurs: je me brûle et me noie;
J'ai chaud extrême en endurant froidure;
La vie m'est et trop molle et trop dure;
J'ai grands ennuis entremêlés de joie.
Tout à un coup je ris et je larmoie,
Et en plaisir maint grief tourment j'endure;
Mon bien s'en va, et à jamais il dure;
Tout en un coup je seche et je verdoie.
Ainsi Amour inconstamment me mène;
Et quand je pense avoir plus de douleur,
Sans y penser je me trouve hors de peine.
Puis quand je crois me joie être certaine
Et être au haut de mon désiré heur,
Il me remet en mon premier malheur.
- Louise Labé (,,uvres, 1555)

In the year 2007 I resolve to:
Stop wearing pants again.

Get your resolution here


"Sorry I hit your van. Hope your day gets better."
"Tell me you love me, but don't say it with words."
"We listened to PJ Harvey and I kissed his neck."
"We were living in a fairy tale, where nothing existed but art, order, and beauty."
"How exactly does one suck a fuck?"
"Do you understand? Do you see the forest through the trees? Do you not see what I am no longer not saying to you? If so - congratulations! Prepare to have sex constantly."
"I'd rather seek nothingness than seek nothing." - Nietzsche
"Holding hands was something we had to do. It was beyond our control."
"Anyone could have me, but no one could have all of me, and no one would ever truly understand me."
"A writer leaving the house without a pen is like a girl leaving the house without clothes."
"Heroes often fail."
"And you mustn't stroke anyone's head - you might get your hand bitten off." - Lenin
"When your legs are black and blue, it's time to take a break."
"Hallelujah. I'm not a shriveled up spinster in the making."
"Those who aren't busy being born are busy dying."
"I'm pretty troubled and I'm, I'm pretty confused, and I'm afraid. Really, really afraid. Really afraid. But I... I... I think you're the fucking Antichrist."
"And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers."
"I wonder if, like riding a bike, kissing is something you can't forget."
"For once in my life, let me get what I want. Lord knows it would be the first time." - Morrissey
"The condom is the glass slipper of our generation."
“He’s driving and he doesn’t know where he’s going but he’s going to get there and he’s wearing his seat belt and he’s got condoms in his pocket. He is sixteen and dangerous.”
"I am not going to sit on my ass as the events that affect me unfold to determine the course of my life. I'm going to take a stand. I'm going to defend it. Right or wrong, I'm going to defend it." - Cameron
"Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly, thou."
"Fuck the flick, start the fucking!"
"Do not tell me what art is and isn't."
"When everyone is against you, you are either absolutely right or absolutely wrong."
"Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Study hard. Be evil."
"If this doesn't qualify me for an ass-kicking, nothing does."
"They sound like pineapples in a blender on Christmas morning."
"I feel like a quote out of context."
“Sometimes everything seems entirely ridiculous and leaves me shaking my head, shrugging my shoulders, as if to imply: You want answers? I’m seventeen, you fuck.”
“Brilliant men, beautiful jazz babies, champagne baths, midnight revels, petting parties in the purple dawn, all ending in one terrific smashing climax that makes you gasp.”
"If you name yourself C-Murder and then you actually murder someone, consider yourself Advanced. "
“But wait! MY HEART IS NOT A MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION! Oh, you silly girl. Who cares about hearts? Do you have a number-two pencil?”
"17. You are sitting in an empty bar, in a town you've never before visited, drinking Bacardi with a soft-spoken acquaintance you barely know. After an hour, a third individual walks into the tavern and sits by himself, and you ask your acquaintance who the new man is. 'Be careful of that guy,' you are told. 'He is a man with a past.' A few minutes later, a fourth person enters the bar; he also sits alone. You ask your acquaintance who this new individual is. 'Be careful of that guy, too,' he says. 'He is a man with no past.' Which of these two people do you trust less?"
“We call each other beautiful and amazing and we say ‘I love you’ with utter conviction.”
"He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God."
And how do you afford your rock and roll lifestyle?
Have you reckon'd a thousand acres much? have you reckon'd the earth much?
Have you practis'd so long to learn to read?
Have you felt so proud to get at the meaning of poems?
- Whitman
I am inscrutable, and the pain you seek is me.
"i didn't go to the moon, i went much farther, for time is the longest distance between two places. not long after i was fired for writing a poem on the lid of a shoe box... i left saint louis. i descended the steps of this fire escape for a last time, and followed, from then on, in my father's footsteps, attempting to find in motion what was already lost in space. i traveled around a great deal... the cities swept around me like dead leaves... leaves that were brightly colored but torn away from the branches. I was pursued by something... it came upon me unawares, taking me altogether by surprise. perhaps it was a familiar bit of music. perhaps it was only a transparent piece of glass. perhaps i am walking along a street at night in some strange city, before i have found companions. i pass the lighted window of a shop where perfume is sold. the window is filled with pieces of colored glass, tiny transparent bottles in delicate colors, like bits of a shattered rainbow. then all at once my sister touches my shoulder. i turn around and look into her eyes... oh laura, laura i tried to leave you behind me, but i am more faithful than i intended to be! i reach for a cigarette, i cross the street, i run into the movies or a bar, i buy a drink, i speak to the nearest stranger... anything to blow your candles out. for nowadays, the world is lit by lightning. blow out your candles laura. and so goodbye... " - tom, scene seven
"Listen, you might want to pack a few of your things together before going to bed. The former bishop of Turkey will be coming along tonight along with six to eight black men. They might put some candy in your shoes, they might stuff you into a sack and take you to Spain, or they might just pretend to kick you. We don't know for sure, but we want you to be prepared." - David Sedaris
"17. You are sitting in an empty bar, in a town you've never before visited, drinking Bacardi with a soft-spoken acquaintance you barely know. After an hour, a third individual walks into the tavern and sits by himself, and you ask your acquaintance who the new man is. 'Be careful of that guy,' you are told. 'He is a man with a past.' A few minutes later, a fourth person enters the bar; he also sits alone. You ask your acquaintance who this new individual is. 'Be careful of that guy, too,' he says. 'He is a man with no past.' Which of these two people do you trust less?" - Chuck Klosterman
"Her voice is full of money." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
If I haven't already given it away, I've got a plan to lose it all.
Made by Andrea Micheloni
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My Interests

humping stop signs, slutville, requiem for a dream, popped foot, early sunrises, musical men, peanut butter toast, warm pavement, car backseats, a bunch of little kids out in front of a chicago whorehouse, Sudoku, movie fests, carriage rides, high tops, shoelaces, messanger bags, chopsticks, yarbles and gullivers, eunuch jelly, rings, things that glimmer, space heaters, six to eight black men, fortune cookie fortunes, driving, eye liner, tiered skirts, vinyl records, literature that is able to be quoted, gay cowboys, steak and shake fries and freezes, hell freezing over, people with common interests, obscure quotes and lyrics, developing chemicals, mixtapes, brightly colored hair, boys who let me fall in love with them, chicago, long car trips, easter eggs, five pointed stars, new york, termbooks, late night tv, any and all kinds of music, driving with the windows down and music up and sunglasses on, the sun that makes me shine, never really giving up, 28:06:42:12, vocabulary, giving and not taking advice, Anthony Burgess' English slang, traveling, sunrises and sunsets, musicals, law and order, badges, hair fetishes, high heels, sparkles, late night driving all alone in my car, music from major motion pictures, collages, poetry of the lips and mouth, zoe trope, flying, beijing, pina colada philosophy, independent thinking, covering my walls, military jackets, postsecret, your mom, your face, not Fresno, nephews, shredded sweatshirts, cutting up magazines, umbrellas, carolina, theater, devil horns, mirror pictures, the power of goodbye, rainbows, imaginations, journaling, midnight showings, the tivoli, franchises based on sporks, releasing emotion through screaming, aimless wandering, getting lost in music, comforters and quilts, john the revelator, dancing to music from india, the time warp, psychology, the loop, 80s movies, a trichotillomania cure, acting, banana phones, birds of paradise, boy meets world, candy necklaces, chewing on guitar picks, dirty rockers, duct tape, free verse poetry, pink flamingos, pins, photography, ripping up phone books, rocky horror picture show, lizard king, the muppets, tip and tipsters, trampolines, ukaleles, ultimate frisbee, warm sidewalks, wear a skirt wednesday, lollerskates and roflcopters.

Music:

I like everything. No one believes me, but it's true. I make mixes for myself, and they are what you could call eclectic. Who else do you know who has Punjabi next to the Rolling Stones? Pulp next to Chantal Kreviazuk? Sean Costello next to The Dandy Warhols? R.E.M. next to the Eagles? Beck next to the Waitresses? Villa Lobos next to Kylie Minogue? Albert King next to Queen? Ravel next to The Cure? John Coltrane next to MC Chris? Aphex Twins next to De La Soul? New Model Army next to Howlin' Wolf? The Angels next to Interpol? Switchfoot next to Eminem? Johnny Lang next to Bizet? Three 6 Mafia next to Flogging Molly? The Hub City Stompers next to Frankie Valli? Donna Summer next to DMX? Mandy Moore next to the Foggy Mountain Boys? Fats Domino next to Frank Zappa? System of a Down next to Jump Little Children? Green Day next to Stretch Princess? Jefferson Airplane next to Lauren Hill? Cream next to Dido? The Fleiss next to Chris Isaak? The Dixie Chicks next to Tom Waits? Eric Clapton next to The Be Good Tanyas? Mozart next to Maria McKee? Air Supply next to Big D & the Kids Table? Chris Cain next to the Dresden Dolls?I could go on like this for hours.Right now, I have things for Voxtrot, Bishop Allen, Arrah and the Ferns, and the East Village Opera Company.

Movies:

The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Requiem for a Dream, Donnie Darko, The Breakfast Club, A Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, Identity, Mallrats, Spice World, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, Pulp Fiction, Pretty In Pink, Empire Records, Sixteen Candles, Girl Interrupted, Center Stage, St. Elmo's Fire, Edward Scissorhands, Dogma, The Muppet Movie, Dirty Dancing, Chicago, Moulin Rouge, The Girl Next Door, Shakespeare In Love, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Coffee and Cigarettes, The Pink Panther, The Milagro Beanfield War, Saved!, Ghostbusters, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Gattaca, Evolution, It's A Mad Mad Mad World, A Knight's Tale, Kung Pow: Enter the Fist, Pirates of the Carribean, Kissing Jessica Stein, 10 Things I Hate About You, Zoolander, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Young Frankenstein, The Producers, The Wedding Singer, Finding Neverland, Whale Rider, Four Weddings and A Funeral, Bad Girls, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Riding in Cars with Boys, The Station Agent, Stakeout, Minority Report, This Is Spinal Tap, Best In Show, Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind, Memento, The Royal Tennenbaums, Save the Last Dance, Sideways, The Hours, Dodgeball, Rosencratz and Guildenstern are Dead, Say Anything, The Terminal, Run Lola Run, Pink Floyd's The Wall, Blues Brothers, Blues Brothers 2000, The Commitments, Carrie, Life of Brian, O Brother Where Art Thou, Night at the Roxbury, Bon Voyage, Office Space, Moonstruck, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, A League of their Own, Mean Girls, The Jerk, Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill I and II, Whatever it Takes, Airplane!, Animal House, Big Fish, Clerks, Heathers, Monty Python's Meaning of Life, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Tommy, The Usual Suspects, Back to the Future, Clue, The Princess Bride, The Goonies, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Benny and Joon, High Fidelity, Apocalypse Now, The Shining, The Good Girl, Brokeback Mountain, Heathers, Wicker Park, Waking the Dead, The Game, Reefer Madness, Cyrano de Bergerac, Cabaret (1972), The Rules of Attraction, Waiting, The History Boys, Stranger than Fiction

Television:

Gilmore Girls, America's Next Top Model, Project Runway, Scrubs, Ugly Betty, the Sopranos, Boy Meets World, Rock of Love, 24, CSI, Roseanne, Any vh1 countdown show, I Love the 80s, I Love the 90s, I Love the 70s, Without a Trace, South Park, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Charmed, Law and Order, SVU, Will and Grace, Bug Juice, Faulty Towers, Carnivale, Rome, Project Greenlight, Top Chef, Judging Amy, So Weird, The West Wing, Twin Peaks, As Time Goes By, Keeping Up Appearances, The Wonderful World of Pigeons, The Wonder Years, JAG, The Muppet Show, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Providence, Daria, Third Rock from the Sun, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, MXC, Mad TV, Any Day Now, Saturday Night Live, What Not to Wear, The Last Comic Standing, Next, Flavor of Love, Arrested Development, Big Love, Nickelodeon circa 1991-1998, Comedy Central Presents...

Books:

Dante's Divine Comedy, Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings by Megan McCafferty, Please Don't Kill the Freshman : a memoir by Zoe Trope, Beijing Doll by Chun Sue, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey, Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides, The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris, Girl Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen, Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, Sex Drugs and Cocoa Puffs by Chuck Klosterman, Hairstyles of the Damned by Joe Meno, Pretty Little Dirty by Amanda Boyden, How I Paid for College : A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship & Musical Theater by Marc Actio, The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout, City Lights Poetry Anthology, A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray, Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause, Gingerbread by Racheal Cohn, Alt Ed by Catherine Evans, The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler, Positively 4th Street by David Hajdu, The Glass Menagerie by Tennesse Williams, The Princess Bride by S. Morgensten (William Goldman), Choke by Chuck Palahniuk, She Came to Stay by Simone de Beauvoir, The Doctor is Sick by Anthony Burgess, The Bus Driver Who Wanted to be God by Etgar Karat, Beyond Good and Evil by Nietzsche, Our Town: A Play in Three Acts by Thorton Wilder, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer, Superstud or How I Became a 24-Year-Old Virgin by Paul Feig, The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath, Shopgirl by Steve Martin, Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon, Animal Farm by George Orwell, Brave New World by Adolus Huxley, Side Effects by Woody Allen, Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Hamlet, and anything else Shakespeare.NO DAVINCI CODE. NO AMY TAN. NO MITCH ALBOM. NO JODI PICOULT. NO FOUNDING BROTHERS.

Heroes:

Mr. Shockley, for being Mr. Shockley.
Daniel, for being the one to start it, for understanding, for laughing even when I'm lame, for talking me down from a giggly high, for not abandoning me in East St. Louis, for St. Patrick's Day and my Christmas present, for listening to my mix cds, for traveling the miles, for the weekends, for holding my hand while I drove, for loving me, and for putting up with me, hour after hour after hour on the phone.
Caitlin, for being everything you are and have made me.
Alison, for being there the last twelve incredible years, and for taking my hand and never letting go.
Andrew, for being the one to touch my heart and crack my shell.
Bruno, for being the best influence I could ask for and my first "girly kiss".
Erin, for being there at every moment, and helping me live each of them randomly, wildly, and beautifully.
Brett, for the smiles and the hugs, for being my hubby, and above all, the understanding.
Sam, for being there for me 100 percent, for trusting me, for loving me for me, and for being the most genuine and amazing person I've ever met.
Diana, for skanking and knowing what I mean.
Gabrielle, for listening and getting me, for calling me a whore, and for saying what I need to hear.
Mac, for the spirit and joy behind everything, and for loving in spite of it all.
Martha, for everything you are that I want to be.
Annie, for being in love and being everything you are with no hesitations.
Vinegar, for opening my eyes and heart.
Evan, for brightening my day and all the hugs and kisses.
Dante, for showing me life in true light, simple words, and hugs.
Jere, for being my child and being beautiful when you cry.
Victoria, for not knowing how truly amazing you are.
Chun Sue, for writing her life in pink and yellow.
Zoe Trope, for living and writing the book that changed my entire life.
Zach, for never giving up.
Jill, for late night driving and patches on your jacket.
Laura B, for being living poetry and changing the way I live and write, and for being made of blood and poetry.
My mother, for living.
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I wrote this song for you, to show how I'm selling out.

I can only beat myself up so many times... Break the cycle, break the habit, I shouldn't take myself so sesriously, but I do, and I don't capatilize, and there is the downfall - letters, eyes, heart ...
Posted by Something cooler than "Peggy" on Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:26:00 PST