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Olivia Our Lady of the Snows

the desert is no place for a lonely codependent hemophiliac robot

About Me

"you go away too much. that's why you're unhappy, because you can still remember what the world is like outside of new york's cement tenterhooks." -Olivia Allin "An irony directed against the whole of existence produces estrangement and poetry" -Kierkegaard"We are drinkers with writing problems" -Truman CapoteI sleep in the fetal position with one knee up. I want nothing more, at any given time, than to get in a car with a good friend, some heavy caffeine, some vocal chords, and a highway map to go somewhere far and new...as long as we stop in Graceland for Dippin' Dots.I like the random aspects of life, I like eccentric people and obscenely long awkward silences. If I could spend half of every day writing and the other half cuddling, i would be pretty psyched.

My Interests

Driving without directions, Drawing clothed people naked, writing without censor, loving without limitations, crying without attention, fighting without intention of winning, sarcasm without guilt, judgment without foresight, sewing without patterns, cooking without recipes, singing without lyrics, giving without expectations, falling without fear of death, sleeping without waking, etc.

I'd like to meet:

Someone with all of my interests but none of my qualities.missbehavemag.com

Music:

The Jam, Belle and Sebastian, NOFX, MADNESS, Of Montreal, Death Cab For Cutie, Sufjan Stevens, Weezer, The Rentals, Adam Ant, Queen, Bowie, T. Rex, The Smiths, The Pet Shop Boys, Tears for Fears, James Taylor, The Wunder Years, Nerf Herder, Willie Nelson, Kind of Like Spitting, MC Chris, The Streets, Bloc Party, I Heart Metal, Elliot Smith, The Format, Stars, Lola Ray, Aqueduct, Spoon, Mirah, The Russian Futurists, Architecture in Helsinki, The Magnetic Fields, Nouvelle Vague, CAKE, Smoking Popes, Earlimart, Man Man, Wolf Parade, Gogol Bordello.

Movies:

Labyrinth, Amelie, Clockwork Orange, Fight Club, Ghost World, Absolute Beginners, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Jesus Christ Superstar, Happenstance, Clueless, Charade, The Ewok Adventure, Velvet Goldmine, Boondock Saints, Blade Runner, Dark City, City of Lost Children, Adventures in Babysitting (got me through two cases of the chicken pox), The Rules of Attraction.

Television:

Daria, South Park, Sealab 2021, Sex and the City, Dead Like Me, Golden Girls, Absolutely Fabulous, Scrubs, Clarissa Explains It All, The O.C., Invader Zim, Clone High, Family Guy, Freaks and Geeks.

Books:

1984 by George Orwell, Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Nausea by Jean-paul Sartre, Catch 22 by Joseph Heller, The Concept of Irony by Kierkegaard, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers,everything by Francesca Lia Block, everything by David Sedaris, all of James Tate's work, Tony Hoagland- Donkey Gospel, The Bell Jar, Everything by Banana Yoshimoto, Letters to a Young Poet- Rainer Marie Rilke, William Blake's songs of innocence and experience. Cook Books! also...buy this book:

Heroes:

My parents, mark ryden, Martha Stewart, david sedaris, chynna clugston-major, amy sedaris, Ray Davies, Tony Hoagland, James Tate, Jeffrey McDaniel, Robert Wilder, Pat Greathouse, Mary HK Choi.

My Blog

we ain’t nobody’s darlings

Half of the time I'm awkward, it's because I'm halfway between laughing and crying. I've been halfway laughing and crying for years now. Haven't slept in days. Just rolling back and forth. Covers on. ...
Posted by Olivia Our Lady of the Snows on Thu, 01 May 2008 12:05:00 PST

Sentimental Heart

I want someone who’d cross oceans for me. Is that REALLY too much to ask? I’d cross hemispheres. Doesn’t everyone deserve that? Of course not everyone needs that, some people are con...
Posted by Olivia Our Lady of the Snows on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:59:00 PST

Happiness is a warm gun

I think I read something about how doing a cleanse is supposed to help you focus and find clarity in your life. In reality, five days of no food on the Master Cleanse has turned me into a hungry hermi...
Posted by Olivia Our Lady of the Snows on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:10:00 PST

Menage a un

Everytime I return to the land of sunburned tongues, I tie a knot around my heart and hand you the unraveled end of tortured rope. And as I step back over the crumbling walls to the place I will never...
Posted by Olivia Our Lady of the Snows on Sat, 29 Dec 2007 02:20:00 PST

Results in Massive Stroke

Does everyone else out there stop periodically during their day to ask themselves why they bother living? Sure, your blood will keep pumping outside of your better judgment. But why isn't freeing thos...
Posted by Olivia Our Lady of the Snows on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:02:00 PST

This is not a love song, I’m happy to have not to have not

"If I made the reason we broke up into the title of a short story, it would be You Didn't Care That I Speak French" -a svelte and intelligent mentorI would say first and foremost, it's that you wouldn...
Posted by Olivia Our Lady of the Snows on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:01:00 PST

it’s just weight for the anchor to keep your ship here

Blah blah blah.I am officially 24...right NOW. Not really though because no one remembers what time of day it was...not that it does any good to anyone anyway...still soooo many years until senior dis...
Posted by Olivia Our Lady of the Snows on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 11:57:00 PST

Get out your measuring cups and we'll play a new game

Sometimes I wonder if I've become a cold person. Sometimes I have no idea how I ever arrived where my head rests. It's as if I drove home drunk two years ago and just woke up...in my brick dust and do...
Posted by Olivia Our Lady of the Snows on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:32:00 PST

Then live the rest of our life, but not together

Ah, the summer's hand lays heavy on this land and what is left of it suffocates the heavy-headed who can afford it. What is there to be excited about at this age? It's just like every other day but wi...
Posted by Olivia Our Lady of the Snows on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 01:01:00 PST

You know I still find you dashing

So, I do realize that my recent/present collection of blog entries are wildly depressing and unhopeful, but I would like to take this chance to ensure you that I am good. Working on being so much more...
Posted by Olivia Our Lady of the Snows on Tue, 05 Jun 2007 03:16:00 PST