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krista lee

only that day dawns to which we are awake

About Me


I would rather be the next Fidel Castro and Che then anything else in this world

My Interests


spray paint stencils (all over the city), perfect-lighting photographs, producing and performing music, international human rights forums, color and paint, and most importantly dialogue.

I'd like to meet:


“In human societies there will always be differences of views and interests. But the reality today is that we are all interdependent and have to coexist on this small planet. Therefore, the only sensible and intelligent way of resolving differences and clashes of interests, whether between individuals or nations, is through dialogue. The promotion of a culture of dialogue and nonviolence for the future of mankind is thus an important task of the international community.”– His Holiness the Dalai Lama, in a speech to the “Forum 2000? Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, September 4, 1997

Please, talk to me.

Music:

killradio, x, los crudos, subhumans, adicts, oingo boingo, bijork, tiger army, stray cats, bad brains, flogging molly, glassjaw, doom, postal service, death cab for cutie, portishead, massive attack, bad religion, alicia keys, pink floyd, radiohead, horror pops, garbage, dk, madsin, murder city devils, pennywise, air, smiths, KRS1, pj harvey, misfits, muse, mcr, pantera, most anything on KCRW
And my own.

Movies:

Fidel- the untold story, Now, La Puebla, Yo Soy Jaquien, Senoritas Extraviada, Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary

Books:

A MANS SEARCH FOR MEANING, NIETZSCHE, works by silvia wynter, works by quijano, earth abides, way of the peaceful warrior, less than zero, the perks of being a wallflower, a clockwork orange, trainspotting, american psycho, anything stephen crane, anything franz kafka (esp, the metamorphosis), poems by e. e. cummings, poems by auden, crickwing

Heroes:

Sylvia Plath Hughes and Viktor Frankel, Nietzsche, Raymond Telles for teaching me the power of documentary film making, and....
MY BROTHER- for being a wonderful human being, being beautiful and a role-model, being hard-working, being an artist above all others, and most of all- for being significantly thought provoking

My Blog

pouring

I wrote this for all those people that keep complaining... sure 'whiteness' exists. We all deal with it every day, but the fact that you can come in our classrooms, our places of healing, and pretend ...
Posted by krista lee on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:58:00 PST

Keep Dreaming

Note: Wake up, this isn..t a dream. You..re here, in the now, and you keep sleeping it all away. Wake up, you idiot, you..re a long way from home. Wake up, wake up, wake up.... It..s all the same. Le...
Posted by krista lee on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:48:00 PST

Fools and the Sea

There is a terrible pettyness here. It is insatiable, a plaugue of American student to become some sort of world force, ransacking reality for the price of material goods and an easy means of ..sleepi...
Posted by krista lee on Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:11:00 PST

ramblings- May 19th

5-19- Not to be taken literally, like everyone else takes me. I see the world stretched out before me on a giant silver platter. In the middle of the platter is a tree, as tall as the sky is high a...
Posted by krista lee on Tue, 20 May 2008 11:21:00 PST

perception

I see the hours ahead of me. And I see the most lucid potential.I told Camille in the emergency room that I was going to change all this shit. I was going to flip a 180- and document it. I was going t...
Posted by krista lee on Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:13:00 PST

open up

I'm angry that life has turned out this. I'm almost 21 and all the fun is already gone. Got to get up early, got to look pretty, got to dress well, got to say 'yes ma'am' and 'no sir' to any fucking p...
Posted by krista lee on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:34:00 PST

we’re all just worms

I have two black eyes. It's really awesome. I mean, it is REALLY funny. I walk around campus and I get so many looks, mostly ones that involve people cringing or asking if I'm okay. Sometimes they jus...
Posted by krista lee on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:07:00 PST

a broken nose

Sometimes I wonder about the hilarity of life. For instance, last night I broke my nose and suffered a serious concussion. A friend dropped me on my face immediately after saying "don't worry I won'...
Posted by krista lee on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:07:00 PST

sunrise

The sun is going down and with it, complete possibility. It's been years since I went to sleep content, but today is different. When my room was dark my head became trite and boring, fiddling with all...
Posted by krista lee on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:44:00 PST

The rain taps on the wind-shield

and I can't quite seem to get home fast enough. I just love my family so much. Sometimes I cry for the happiness, for the completeness. Sometimes I revel in all the amazing places we've been, the idea...
Posted by krista lee on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:13:00 PST