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ella

A Real Berliner: Over Educated, Under Employed

About Me

I feel pretty and witty and gay.

My Interests

abandoned lots & train platforms. caffeine. acrobatic feats. exhibitionism. seamed stockings. black & white postcards. hamburg slang. fire swallowers. the edge-line between image & word. pearls. empty fields. foriegn fashion magazines. cut & paste. chocolate.

I'd like to meet:

"Its future [the cupcake] is quite possibly the only cause to unite Texas Republicans and at least some left-wing foodies behind a singular mission: keep the cupcake safe from harm." NYT On-line 9.24.07

Music:

vari: johnny cash, cat powers, louis XIV, bjork, joy division, gillian welch, magnetic fields, air, nouvelle vague, the smiths, woody guthrie, belle & sebastian, ella fitzgerald, beastie boys, die sterne, the clash, devandra banhart, le tigre, nico, nirvana, pixies, oval, pole, etc.

Movies:

paris texas, down by law, wings of desire, fight club, being john malkovich, 8 1/2, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the 5 obstructions, the girl on the bridge, lost in translation, virgin suicides, little miss sunshine, dogville

Television:

bad german crime shows & even worse german game shows- but hey, its the only "practice" I get since everyone here speaks english.

Books:

poetry: anne carson, t.s. eliot, rilke, wallace stevens, neruda, celan, mark doty, adrienne rich, baudelaire fiction: calvino, kundera, wolfe, nabakov philosophy: deleuze, derrida, kierkegaard, nietzsche, plato & the pre-socratics

Heroes:

david bowie & marlene dietrich

My Blog

These Boots Are Made For Walking- Just Not Here

If fashion in Berlin is typified by a grim blandness it is not only the weather that is to blame, but the sidewalks. That's right, the sidewalks. For some reason, the authorities in question have deci...
Posted by ella on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 02:47:00 PST

Dark in Deutschland

It is 4:30pm in Berlin and already dark. I do not mean the purply haze of dusk. I mean pitch black night. By 2pm the sun is low enough in the sky to be blocked by 4-6 story buildings. On cloudy days, ...
Posted by ella on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 08:31:00 PST

The Oldest Profession Berlin Style

The cold and continually wet weather has a marked effect on one German enterprise: prostitution. In the spirit of German planning, even the prostitutes seem to wear a uniform: tight jeans, tall boots,...
Posted by ella on Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:49:00 PST

like a ribbon around a bomb.

This is how andre breton described frida kahlo's paintings. A seductive package. Pull the bow & you lose your hands. you can now find me at www.myspace.com/aribbonaroundabomb
Posted by ella on Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:48:00 PST

nietzsche on love

Friedrich Nietzsche, Writings from the Late NotebooksLoveIs the most astonishing proof wanted of how far the transfigurative force of intoxication can go? 'Love' is that proof, what's called love in a...
Posted by ella on Fri, 21 Apr 2006 04:50:00 PST

confessions of a serial procrastinator

it is 12:45am. I am writing a paper that I am due to present at noon in Chicago. I leave for the airport in 4 hours. And yet, here I am, on myspace. I have refreshed my e-mail with a devotion that bor...
Posted by ella on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:53:00 PST

guilty as charged

alright, I admit the self evident. I've succumbed to the temptation to "pimp" my page. even worse, I chose something pink. just one shade from peptobismal. for this, and my many other sins I beg forgi...
Posted by ella on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:27:00 PST

atlas

"There is no such thing as freedom,: said Atlas."Freedom is a country that does not exist.""Its home," said Heracles. "If home is whereyou want to be."Jeanette Winterson, Weight...
Posted by ella on Fri, 23 Dec 2005 05:22:00 PST

hamburg

just back from germany where all is snow & rain. berlin had the wall, but hamburg has the best graffiti.
Posted by ella on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:49:00 PST