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julie

no one can quite begin to guess.

About Me

you don't know me.

My Interests

street art, Tetris, music, ALF, literature, robots, politics, bento, postmodernism, trashy tabloid gossip, cryptozoology, the Documentary Hypothesis, pinkberry, conspiracy theories, keys and g's and all those illy things

I'd like to meet:

pretty much anyone with a library card. or a robot.

Music:

A Tribe Called Quest. Gangstarr. KRS-One. De La Soul. Aesop Rock. Brand New. Nice and Smooth. Afrika Bambaataa. Das Efx. The Hit Squad. Common. Canibus. Boogie Down Productions. Zulu Nation. Original Concept. Stetasonic. Poor Righteous Teachers. Nas. The Roots. Roxanne. K Solo. LL Cool J (pre-G.O.A.T.). Doug E. Fresh. Big Daddy Kane. Coldcrush Brothers. Grandmaster Caz. Scott La Rock. Run-DMC. Schoolly D. E-40. Kool Moe Dee. Public Enemy. Slick Rick. Jeru the Damaja. Main Source. JJ Fad. Ultramagnetic MCs. Brand Nubian. Kool G Rap. DJ Polo. Mos Def. The JBs. Pharcyde. DJ Shadow. The D.O.C. Marley Marl. Pete Rock and CL Smooth. Crash Crew. The Treacherous 3.

Movies:

The Red Balloon. Teen Witch. Breakfast at Tiffanys. Shawshank Redemption. Full Metal Jacket. The Wizard of Oz. Swingers. Made. Revenge of the Nerds. Love and Sex. Word Wars. American Splendor. High Fidelity. E.T. You and Me and Everyone We Know. Life is Beautiful. Clueless. Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Chasing Amy. The Triplets of Belleville. Godzilla. Kung Fu Hustle. The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Rabbit.

Television:

ALF. Ace of Cakes. Project Runway. The First 48. Lockup. Iron Chef. UFO Hunters. My So-Called Life. Gangland. American Idol. Jon and Kate + 8. Gossip Girl.

Books:

Interpreter of Maladies: Jhumpa Lahiri, Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth: Chris Ware, The God of Small Things: Arundhati Roy, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues: Tom Robbins, The Awakening: Kate Chopin, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man: James Joyce, Our Mutual Friend: Charles Dickens, Vanity Fair: William Makepeace Thackeray, Much Ado About Nothing: Shakespeare, The Holy Bible, A Passage to India: E.M. Forester, Neuromancer: William Gibson, Slaughterhouse 5, Mother Night: Kurt Vonnegut, Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close: Jonathan Safran Foer, The Crying of Lot 49: Thomas Pynchon, A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters: Julian Barnes, The Holder of the World: Bharati Mukherjee, Without a Hero,The Catcher in the Rye: J.D. Salinger, The Giving Tree: Shel Silverstein, Leaves of Grass: Walt Whitman, Haiku: R.H. Blythe, Four Quartets: t.s. eliot, The Complete Sonnets: Shakespeare, Atonement: Ian McEwan. The Medium is the Message: Marshall McLuhan.

Heroes:

the unafraid.

My Blog

safe in my hands

I promise you are. You told me today that you love me. The saddest part was where I believed you. Were I a superstitious man, I'd pray for the fortitude to do right by you. Dictated by the unromantic...
Posted by julie on Mon, 12 May 2008 09:11:00 PST

the most beautiful girl in the world

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Posted by julie on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 01:05:00 PST

it's not you

All I really want in this world is someone to whom this means something."The Sylvia Plath story is told to girls who writeThey want us to think that to be a girl poetMeans you have to dieWho is it Tha...
Posted by julie on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 07:45:00 PST

everyday epiphanies

there are certain moments in life when one finds oneself inexplicably, improbably but throughly delighted with something which is ostensibly fundamentally at odds with everything one believes. this is...
Posted by julie on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 05:32:00 PST

a few of my favorite things.

So, I just randomly found this list in a hidden documents folder on my laptop. I have no recollection of writing it yet as I read I found myself going 'yes! yes! fuck yes! this is a list of things tha...
Posted by julie on Sat, 07 Oct 2006 06:30:00 PST

the love of my life

my parents created her because they thought that a sibling would make my life happier. they had no idea. she's my world. ...
Posted by julie on Sun, 01 Oct 2006 04:38:00 PST

random thoughts about my vagina

it occurred to me today that, contrary to popular belief, owning a uterus really doesn't mean that i am horribly persecuted and oppressed. lucky me! i live in a contemporary western society which allo...
Posted by julie on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:19:00 PST

The end.

In retrospect, it was a bad idea. We emptied our pockets, laid everything on the table. Between receipts and keys and change and phones, there they were- the things wed been hiding. It was like a game...
Posted by julie on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 01:19:00 PST

Poetry is gay.

I. Im kind of like the ocean- blue, I thought. (but, then, everything reminds me of my ocean.)Her salty skin, patiently, deflectsShattering, spectrums bleed pastel.A heavy sun, slipping , reflectsslid...
Posted by julie on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 12:33:00 PST

IV:XX

THIS IS NOT THE REAL WORLD. This Christmas, we were the only apartment in our building to put up lights and a wreath. Easter came & went last weekend but, in Isla Vista, you would have never know...
Posted by julie on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:10:00 PST