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Eir-Anne

noli volare adversus solem: calor ceram solvet

About Me

j. marinelli. nietzsche's theory of lightness and perspective. zapitistan revolution for the ejidos. cigarettes and coffee. scorching tangle limbed sex. achieving the togethercoloured instant.

My Interests

rocking and rolling. reading and writing. making you writhe. true revolution that affects the hearts and minds of many.

I'd like to meet:

kubla khan. the hiltons. moses. the jabberwocky. fidel castro. trotsky. king arthur.

Music:

radiohead. bad brains. xiu xiu. patsy cline.silver apples. parliament funkadelic. lil' kim. the pogues. godspeed! you black emperor.dog-faced hermans. astrud gilberto. braille drivers. the emergency.

Movies:

THE LIFE OF BRIAN

Television:

simpsons. the young ones.

Books:

cummings, plath, henry miller, shakespeare, dave eggers, anais nin, nabokov, homer, milan kundera, lewis carroll, tolstoy, plato, friedrich nietzsche, david sedaris, marx, chomsky, foucault.

Heroes:

frida kahlo

My Blog

words, words, words

yeesh. so right now I'm stuck in paper hell... count down to three more weeks... can't wait to get everything done! "The polymorphousness of Christ's body, with its feminine genital wound and its sim...
Posted by Eir-Anne on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:06:00 PST

Higher Education

So I got hired to teach through Duke this summer. I'm really excited, but I don't know if I'm going to get a break at all before school starts in the fall. I wish I could just fast forward to the end...
Posted by Eir-Anne on Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:51:00 PST

bookwormer

I've been reading a lot over break, and I've decided to list the books I've read / am reading. Here goes: Thomas Pynchon Against the Day; Marisha Pessel Special Topics in Calamity Physics; Nick Horn...
Posted by Eir-Anne on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:06:00 PST

finally, finally, finally

This semester is over. AND I'm almost finished with the present buying. The next month is all about reading (for fun) and drinking (for fun!). All you people that I'm always too busy to see - call or...
Posted by Eir-Anne on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 04:59:00 PST

end of semester bliss

sweetness, I just finished my last paper of the semester. now all I have left is a final on Tuesday! I'm so excited for break. Peoples are coming in to visit, that mean we'll probably plan a party. Al...
Posted by Eir-Anne on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 02:44:00 PST

"The Spirit of Terrorism"

WARNING: This is very long, but interesting and worth reading. Baudrillard's "Spirit of Terrorism", translated. I'd be interested to know in what y'all think. Leave me a note!   "We have had many...
Posted by Eir-Anne on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:32:00 PST

new glasses

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Posted by Eir-Anne on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 08:07:00 PST

"Don't Go To Gradatoot School Honey - I'll Do the Thinkin' For the Both of Us"

Update... hopefully this doesn't get erased. Graduate school: not all that I'd hoped it would be. I know this is extremely early to make such a judgement, but so far I'm not happy. I spent about ten ...
Posted by Eir-Anne on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:47:00 PST

CHICAGO!

yea! Friday J & I are leaving for Chicago. Pitchfork Music Festival is Saturday & Sunday. I'm so glad that I bought those 2 day tickets over a month ago, despite not knowing whether or not I c...
Posted by Eir-Anne on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 08:35:00 PST

Finally Going My Way

All of my tuition hours got covered for the fall! yea! I just saved about $4000. yeeee-haw!
Posted by Eir-Anne on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 09:21:00 PST