always: .!.the.dirty.south.and.o.canada.!.
.the.national.spelling.bee.
.baking.cooking.
.snow.
[but let's backtrack]
then.then.then: .spelling.bees.maps.roads.philately.pen.pals.
then.then:.environmental.antiwar.social.justice.activism.
then:.labor.film.documentary.
now: .labor.
.work.
.routine.habit.ritual.
.community.mental.health.
.text.messaging.
.daily.life.
.tradition.scheduling.patterning.compulsion.
.play.
DANCE.PARTIES
.grey's.anatomy. savage.lovecast . this.american.life .
.community.
.my.former.job.
my.town.
DURHAM.ADVENTURES
[portland|montreal|richmond|stockholm|new.york|washington.dc
]
[asheville|vancouver|akureyri|turku|tampere|murmansk|toronto
|seattle]
and, lest we forget
[ open.eye | caffe.driade | padgett.station ]
[r.i.p.ooh.la.latte.durham|olde.europe.asheville|tate.street
.coffee.greensboro]
<[b>STUMPTOWN.PORTLAND]
[caffe.dante.nyc|firehook.bakery.washington|jumpin.j's.richm
ond]
[kilo.cafe.montreal|caffeine.dreams.omaha]
[KAFFI.KROKUR.SAUDARKROKUR.ICELAND]
<[b>PIKKUPAPU.TAMPERE.FINLAND]
[cafe.lovisa.ja.cafe.zoomit.ROVANIEMI.FINLAND]
anyone who realizes the line above this should say 'whom i'd like to meet:'
[. . . yeah]
- - -
[i can't stand much of what i had listed here anymore :-O]
but i still like ::: des ark, the knife, les savy fav, new order, radiohead, godspeed you! black emperor
college [make you gaaaaay] : indie shit + more indie shit
2005-06 : worship local music
2007 : investigating new music bores the hell out of me; let's listen to lots of this american life
spring/summer 2007 : okay, we'll relent and work ourselves into a riot grrrl//queercore phase!
THIS IS WHERE I'M FROM
[filmed 5 miles from my parents' | featuring my senior yearbook to boot]
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the favorites?
. . .
,
...
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spellbound, the weather underground, the gleaners & i, paradise now, band of outsiders, fanny & alexander, cries & whispers, i am curious - yellow, i am curious - blue, the corporation, bamako, monster, me & you & everyone we know, rabbit-proof fence, akeelah & the bee, scenes from a marriage, notre musique
six feet under, six feet under, carnivale, six feet under, six feet under
recent binge includes : white pigeons, public sex, various issues of the new yorker and harper's, their eyes were watching god, queer/early/modern, + social psychology
the working poor + blood done sign my name = the most influential as of late.
cry the beloved country + god of small things + o pioneers! = the all-time favorites
and let's not forget the moomin tales
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i read voraciously in high school and elementary school. i studied spelling voraciously in middle school. it took until i was 23 to realize it's quite okay that i have less skill and draw to reading as i do to music and film, and that it's okay to get the same experience out of the latter as the former.
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so cheers to music and film!
according to 10th grade english, gilgamesh and luke skywalker were prime examples!
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but if i had to choose
laura
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