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♥ J ♥

Rosa sat so Martin could walk; Martin walked so Obama could run; Obama ran so our children could fly

About Me

I am a grad student getting a PhD in French.

I love Eddie Poe, Morrissey, French New Wave cinema, jazz music, William Faulkner and cats.

You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor ! What horrible Edward Gorey Death will you die?
You will perish of fits. Repeat this to yourself: "Things can work out even if I don't get my way. Things can work out even...."
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Your Spring Fairy Name is

Sunflower Morning-Dew

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My Interests

Poetry, smoking, absinthe, flaneries, prostitutes...no wait...that's Baudelaire.

I am interested in interesting stuff. Bring it on.

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who's funny, intelligent, real, honest, and nice. Please don't contact me if you want to play games, cause I'm all played out. Honestly, people, give it a rest.
I'd like to meet James Ellroy, Crispin Glover, Nick Cave and Bud Cort, too, if we're talking heroes. And Dexter. And the Divine Edgar.

Your Adult Film Star Name Is...
Spanky Bottoms What's Your Adult Film Star Name?

Your Birthdate: March 6
You tend to be a the rock in relationships - people depend on you.
Thoughtful and caring, you often put others needs first.
You aren't content to help those you know... you want to give to the world.
An idealist, you strive for positive change and dream about how much better things could be.

Your strength: Your intuition

Your weakness: You put yourself last

Your power color: Rose

Your power symbol: Cloud

Your power month: June What Does Your Birth Date Mean?
You Act Like You Are 33 Years Old
You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more!
You're responsible, wise, and have enough experience to understand a lot of the world.

You're at the point in your life where you understand yourself pretty well.
You are figuring out what you want... and how to get it! What Age Do You Act?..
adopt your own virtual pet!

Music:

John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, the Clash, Ray Lamontagne, Jeff Buckley, Miriam Makeba, Chopin and Satie and Mozart, Pylon and all Athens bands from the old days, Dizzy Gillespie, Bird, Billie Holiday, Nick Drake, Nick Cave, the Pretenders, Leonard Cohen, the Killers, the Cure, Amy Winehouse, Todd Rundgren, many others.

Movies:

Le joli mai, Peeping Tom, Monsieur Hire, A Bout de souffle, M, Harold and Maude, Annie Hall, Lolita, Pépé le Moko, Double Indemnity, in fact, all film noir, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Phantom of the Paradise, Blow Up, Heavenly Creatures, Orphée. Porn is good, too.

Television:

House, natch

Books:

Franny and Zooey, The Big Sleep, La Bete humaine, Crime and Punishment, The Black Dahlia, Light in August, Invisible Man, Le Voyeur, Red Dragon, anything by Angela Carter, poetry of Edgar Poe, Hart Crane, Walt Whitman, Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Apollinaire.

Heroes:

My dad, God rest his soul.

My Blog

Ciao Manhattan, Baby

I've been a very bad blogger, I realize. But it's because I've been swamped with stuff lately...getting ready for school and getting ready for teaching, and then teaching and most recently MEETING CRI...
Posted by e J e on Sun, 31 Aug 2008 05:54:00 PST

My neighbor was in Talk Talk

Really. I wrote about this the other day on my regular blog, www.ciaomanhattanbaby.blogspot.com, but I wanted to share here, too, cause I found a video with him in it. He told me tonight that he was p...
Posted by e J e on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 09:38:00 PST

God love these horoscope writers!

Friday, July 4 Close relationships are apt to be distorted by wishful thinking, or they could go to emotional extremes beyond all reason. Be careful what you say today. Someone may be trying to twist ...
Posted by e J e on Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:50:00 PST

Lovely lyrics

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That's how the light gets in. - Leonard Cohen, Anthem...
Posted by e J e on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:39:00 PST

I just happen to have Mr. McLuhan right here.

This is such a perfect scene, and (among other things that make it important to me) reflects exactly how I wish the world operated. We should always have an expert on hand, hidden behind a g...
Posted by e J e on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:09:00 PST

Well at least I have my health...

Kids, I've been through the emotional ringer again. This one was bad. I'm swearing off all things love, for a long, long time. I refuse to live this way anymore.I'm not going to rehash everything here...
Posted by e J e on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:20:00 PST

Duh...its Friday the 13th

Seriously, every few years I have a really rotten Friday the 13th. This is one of those years. We're visiting Mom in Rome, which is great, but so far today has been a serious of really freaky and anno...
Posted by e J e on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:58:00 PST

Take a breath

I have to repost the bulletins sent out for the last two days by my dear friend Fiona. They make me happy.Thursday, June 12Love and accept who you are, not who you will be or should be. If you love yo...
Posted by e J e on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:50:00 PST

Imaginary Bitches

I have no idea what this is...found it on someone's page. It's pretty damn funny though... ...
Posted by e J e on Sun, 08 Jun 2008 11:10:00 PST

St. Vincent...who is this chick?

Look, I don't keep up like I used to. I just found this girl on YouTube and am dumbfounded. Where did she come from? She's a kind of female (and living...) Jeff Buckley. Damn! And this one......
Posted by e J e on Tue, 03 Jun 2008 10:14:00 PST