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Kristin

I am here for Friends

About Me

I enjoy being perfect and right about everything all the time.I'm not really perfect, and this is how I know: I can't make pancakes. And I'm not right about everything all the time, just most of the time. However, were I perfect and right about everything all the time, I would very much enjoy it.

My Interests

You wouldn't understand. Or, see Friends.

I'd like to meet:

"There is nothing to which nature seems so much to have inclined us as to society; Now, the most supreme point of its perfection is this: generally, all are so much the less beautiful and generous and so much the less friendships by how much they mix another cause, and design, and fruit in friendship than itself…Friendship, on the contrary, is enjoyed proportionably as it is desired and only grows up, is nourished and improved by enjoyment, as being of itself spiritual, and the soul growing still more refined by practice.For the rest, what we commonly call friends and friendships are nothing but acquaintance and familiarities, either occasionally contracted or upon some design, by means of which there happens some little intercourse betwixt our souls. But in the friendship I speak of, they mix and work themselves into one piece with so universal a mixture that there is no more sign of the seam by which they were first conjoined…Let no one, therefore, rank other common friendships with such a one as this. I have had as much experience of these as another, and of the most perfect of their kind: but I do not advise that any should confound the rules of the one and the other, for they would find themselves much deceived. In those other ordinary friendships, you are to walk with bridle in your hand, with prudence and circumspection, for in them the knot is not so sure that a man may not half suspect it will slip. Common friendships will admit of division; one may love the beauty of this person, the good-humour of that, the liberality of a third, the paternal affection of a fourth, the fraternal love of a fifth, and so of the rest: but this friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, cannot possibly admit of a rival." --Michel de Montaigne,"Of Friendship"

Music:

Whatever Wes Anderson and Wes Pearsall are listening to.

Movies:

The yet-to-be-made gypsy cab film by Gulotta Productions, inc.


"Again and Again," Rilke

Television:

The Colbert Report but never The Daily Show.

Books:

The Sensuous Corpse. Read these: Allison Burnett's Christopher: A Tale of Seduction and The House Beautiful.

Heroes:

People who can write sestinas, Gene Biby. Nick French for setting this up for me and just because he's Nick French. Frank Fiorina, Jane Eyre, Ryuta Kawashima, and Anuradha Koirala.
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Harald Sohlberg, "Selvportrett," 1896 Monet, "Waterloo Bridge, soleil dans le brouillard," signed 1903

My Blog

Heres What I Think

There are truly beautiful people in this world. And I know some of them. I am one lucky girl. ...
Posted by Kristin on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:11:00 PST

Why I Love Stephen Colbert

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Posted by Kristin on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:52:00 PST

Notti calde, or Wisconsin February, You Suck

There's something to be said for balmy nights when you lie awake watching the ceiling fan And the water is from the cistern on the roof that the sun kept at boiling all day So a cold shower's out of ...
Posted by Kristin on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 09:00:00 PST

Rhapsodie Caillebottesque

  Et donc, c'est fini, Quoi que tu me demandes Et quoi que je m'exige D'aller, venir, De rester, mourir  Je ne puis plus le faire     Comme la tête de Caillebotte Coupée du...
Posted by Kristin on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:04:00 PST

Im Voting for George

This is one of my favorite pieces of writing. If you haven't read it, you really should. It is a bit long. I condensed it as well I could, but there's just not a lot of fluff in it. Well worth every m...
Posted by Kristin on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:22:00 PST

Sesame Street

So, I'm trying this again because the silly videos wouldn't embed themselves properly the first time around. I mentioned to Nick and Wes and Joey recently how I liked Sesame Street, and I started thin...
Posted by Kristin on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:01:00 PST

David Lynch - The Alphabet

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Posted by Kristin on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 08:46:00 PST