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Kirstie

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. -Leonard Cohen

About Me

I don't know how to use chopsticks.

My Interests

blogging: My blogkilling plants. painting. reading. writing.listening to music and seeing bandsart films.politics (liberal). photography.collecting fortune cookie sayings and popsicle stick jokesgolfokay..okay..I'm totally kidding about the golf.

I'd like to meet:

I want to meet decent human beings. Only the decent ones. Or, you may be redeemable if you love great art.

Music:

Orouni, SAINT THOMAS! The 1900s, Toy Fight, Gerard Manset, Dominique A, Francoiz Breut, Juana Molina, Colossal Yes, Peter and the Wolf (both of them), Beirut, Bridget St John,INARA GEORGE, theConcretes,Eels, Jens Lekman, Belle and Sebastian, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, The Shout Out Louds, Bowie, Bjork, Benjamin Biolay, Keren Ann, Palace Music/Will Oldham, the Kinks, Radiohead, the Go Betweens, Innocence Mission, Catherine Wheel, The Dears, Stars, Czars, Bob Dylan, Tangiers, Mice Parade, Weakerthans, Say Hi To Your Mom, DCFC, the Magnetic Fields, Lali Puna, Luna, Solex, Stereolab, Laika, Broadcast, Portishead, Deerhoof, Animal Collective, Luna, FF, GYBE, Modest Mouse, Feist, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, the Beatles, the Flaming Lips, House of Love, Tenki, Palaxytracks, ANDREW BIRD, Nick Cave, Simon & Garfunkel, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Serge Gainsbourg, Beth Gibbons, A Silver Mt. Zion, Jason Falkner, Kings of Convenience, caribou/manitoba, Super Furry Animals, GBV, Palaxytracks, Sufjan Stevens, the Fall, Robyn Hitchcock, Matt Pond PA, Mark Mothersbaugh, Jon Brion, Francoiz Breut, Richard Swift, Arvo Part, Sigur Ros, Mum, Broadcast, Morphine, Wire, James, Sufjan Stevens, Pedro the Lion, Travis, The Undertones, Low, Built to Spill, the Buzzcocks, Queen, Can, Modest Mouse, the Cush, Arlo Guthrie, Tim and Jeff Buckley, Love, Harry Chapin, Edith Frost, Julie Doiron, Nina Nastasia, Francoise Hardy...this is a good start.

Movies:

Magnolia, The Saddest Music in the World, Requiem for a Dream, Dirty Pretty Things, Annie Hall, Deconstructing Harry, North By Nothwest, Rear Window, Vertigo, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Royal Tenenbaums, Naked, Moulin Rouge, Punch Drunk love, Being John Malkovich, Say Anything, High Fidelity, 21 grams, the Dreamers, Ma Vie en Rose, Waking Life, Playtime (Tati), After Life, Brazil, Run Lola Run, Mulholland Drive, Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Memento, All The Little Animals, Velvet Goldmine, The Hours, The Life Aquatic with SZ, Dear Frankie, Monty Python films, Soapdish (no really, it's a good film), The Princess Bride, Saved! and more.

Television:

.. width="425" height="350" ....Simpsons, SNL, okay I *used* to watch Sabrina, Monty Python, Kids in the Hall, Coupling (UK) I 3 Jeff!

Books:

Blindness and Seeing (Saramago) The Confessions of Max Tivoli (Andrew Sean Greer) Middlesex(Eugenides), Girlfriend in a Coma(Coupland), Life After God (Coupland), The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Kundera), quite a few Shakespeare, Ionesco, and Oscar Wilde plays, A Prayer for Owen Meany (Irving), Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Dick), Invisible Cities (Calvino), Steppenwolf (Hesse),The Ground Beneath Her Feet (Rushdie), Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut), Galapagos (Vonnegut), Flannery O'Connor short stories, Disgrace (Coetzee), Franny and Zooey (Salinger), Hardboiled Wonderland (Murakami), Eleven Minutes (Coehlo), The Hours (Cunningham), A Home at the End of the World (Cunningham), Assasination Vacation and Partly Cloudy Patriot (Vowell), To the Wedding (Berger), Reading Lolita in Tehran (Nafisi) and more.

Heroes:

tragic and Greek?

My Blog

Jury Duty

About a month ago, I received a summons for jury duty at the criminal court on 2600 S. California Ave. I've never served on a jury before and I was intrigued to say the least.  Tuesday was the da...
Posted by Kirstie on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:42:00 PST

flight

I know it is Easter though it doesn't feel like it.  I don't really want to talk about Easter even though I am sad about it and the ending of Science of Sleep, which I just watched.  I want ...
Posted by Kirstie on Mon, 09 Apr 2007 08:03:00 PST

Brilliant Art....

My friend Robert, who is also a photographer, posted some paintings and collages he has done to flickr and I am amazed.  I've known him for about a year now and, though we've talked at many diffe...
Posted by Kirstie on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 11:43:00 PST

Awkward Conversations About Presidents

I'm off for President's Day and I wanted to share a story about something that happened last week at work.  I work with kids who often have difficulties not only with the fine motor skill of writ...
Posted by Kirstie on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:43:00 PST

I am way too sensitive to criticism.

One thing I would change about myself is that I am way too sensitive to criticism. It's true...I don't know why but I always have been.  I was having such a good day today eating my omelet and li...
Posted by Kirstie on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:14:00 PST

Six Weird.Odd Things

Normally I wouldn't do this randomly but I guess I was tagged. I can't exactly figure out who else to tag though.  If someone wants to be tagged, send me a message I guess.Here were the rules: "E...
Posted by Kirstie on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:58:00 PST

Tomorrow Never Knows Festival

I am completely finished with my Tomorrow Never Knows photos...230 of these babies...I've looked after them like my own children and I've set them free into the vastness of the internet.  It's ti...
Posted by Kirstie on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:33:00 PST

Why you shouldn't know your neighbors.

You shouldn't know your neighbors because when you get home at 3am sleep for six hours, feel like crap but drag yourself out of bed to finish another photoset you might realize something.  And th...
Posted by Kirstie on Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:21:00 PST

Somebody Misses You

The best fortune cookie I ever cracked open had a simple message inside that made me think collectively of every memory I'd ever had and feel everything at once.  It read in deceivingly simple la...
Posted by Kirstie on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:25:00 PST

Thank You, My Friend

For about five years now, I've been going to this place called The Middle Eastern Bakery on Foster Avenue in Chicago (in Andersonville)  It's close to where I live and they have really good spina...
Posted by Kirstie on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 01:19:00 PST