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just pickle

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About Me

loud-mouthed and filthy but mostly amazing.

My Interests

just about everything but bugs and sunny d

I'd like to meet:

goose-steppers, globe-trotters, go-getters and James Stewart in 1939.

Music:

sonny clark, wes montgomery, duke ellington, oscar peterson, fats waller, coleman hawkins, count basie, edith piaf, charles trenet, yves montand, joe dassin, félix leclerc, georges brassens, charles aznavour, the breeders, the vaselines, sufjan stevens, travis, blur, jurassic 5, mos def, the roots, bjork, architecture in helsinki, the blow, belle and sebastian, daniel johnston, the elected, feist, thao with the get down stay down, pluxus, devendra banhart, joanna newsom, rufus wainwright, loudon wainwright, field music, glenn gould, harry nilsson, ink spots, kimya dawson, of montreal, iggy pop, small faces, simon and garfunkel, spoon, the fiery furnaces, stephen malkmus, the velvet underground

Movies:

Crimes and Misdemeanors, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Midnight Cowboy, Harold and Maude, Rushmore, Bottlerocket, the Apartment, Sideways, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dumb and Dumber, Annie Hall, Ma Vie En Rose, Buffalo '66, Brown Bunny, Paper Moon, Pulp Fiction, Swingers, Cop and a Half, A Gnome Named Gnorm, Trainspotting, the Shining, the Shawshank Redemption, the Antoine Doinel series, Muppet Xmas Carol, Finding Nemo, TRON, Down by Law, Eraserhead, the Squid and the Whale, Revenge of the Nerds, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1 and 3), A Christmas Story, Emmett Otter's Jugband Christmas, A Muppet Family Christmas, the Warriors, muppet movie, muppets take manhattan, THE BAXTER, les voisins, les boys 1, jésus de montréal, les invasions barbares

Television:

Roseanne, Arrested Development, Curb Your Enthusiasm, the Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Golden Girls, the news, King of the Hill, Malcolm in the Middle, Freaks and Geeks, Home Movies, Kids in the Hall, Dr Katz, the Critic, Hey! Arnold, Rocko's Modern Life, Reading Rainbow, Scientific American Frontiers with Alan Alda, Animal Planet's the Most Exteme, Most Extreme Elimination Challenge, Leave it to Beaver, the Facts of Life, Fraggle Rock, Diff'rent Strokes, Fishing with John, The Office BRITs version, Spaced, Dumbland, Black Books, STELLA, Original Lifetime moves such as: Sweet Temptation, Our Mother's Murder, She's Too Young, and others about being a teen parent or having an eating disorder.

Books:

raymond carver, flannery o'connor, tobias wolff, vladimir nabokov, mcsweeney's quarterly concern, jd salinger, adrian tomine, daniel clowes and petit nicolas

Heroes:

jim henson

My Blog

dont say I didnt try

well I have to beat it until it's dead, and guess what? it's dead. even with my 16,000 inheritance money and loans, i will not have a degree at the end of this year, and there's no way i can come up...
Posted by just pickle on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:27:00 PST

new poem!

le conseil: cours toujourscourscours loincours vitecours fortcours pour une heureou cours pour plusieurscours autour d'un amiou si la police te le permetcours sur un mur ok?mais je t'en priscours touj...
Posted by just pickle on Mon, 14 Jan 2008 05:12:00 PST

Goomba (or goodbye)

See ya.  I'm going back to Montreal November 5th.  It's been interesting.  Come take a good look at me, if you want to remember magic.
Posted by just pickle on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 09:00:00 PST

poem (english)

For AmandaI heard you were a birdbrown and blue and another descriptive wordI can't think of nowYou flewI knewOut and over the houseA trick they'd guessedTo fool the restBut after two daysAnd then two...
Posted by just pickle on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:20:00 PST

poems

Connais-tu le gars-hibou?connaisconnais-tul'histoire du début?on diraitou quand même je saisqu'un garçon avec un petit hibouavec six grands talonsa perdu ses yeux(les gens disent que c'était l'hibou)e...
Posted by just pickle on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 09:50:00 PST

terminus

so I'm all emotional and tired and hot and a little irritable. I've got hours and hours to kill before I hitch a plane to portland. i've done all the preparation I can do so now all that's left is t...
Posted by just pickle on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 02:10:00 PST

a year abroad!

so I actually lived in a different place and didn't die for almost a year. I lived through -40 winters, through seven roommates, through being evicted, through spackling, painting, exterminating, bou...
Posted by just pickle on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:36:00 PST

PORTLAND AUGUST 2007

In light of increasingly deteriorarting circumstances and a "been there, done that" attitude, this Taylor is leaving Montreal one month ahead of schedule. Expect me back in P-Town the first week of A...
Posted by just pickle on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:53:00 PST

sunshine from now on

It snowed last Monday, but for almost a week it's been absolutely amazing. Yesterday it was around 75. Needless to say, I've been outside. A LOT. And I've seen friends. And been to parties. And ...
Posted by just pickle on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 07:56:00 PST

wanting, needing, living: the battle continues

so after the move, i find myself with no money. and not like the kind of 'no money' where you really have money you just want to save it because there's not much of it, but the real NO money - the ki...
Posted by just pickle on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:45:00 PST