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day tripper

you don't dress like an american

About Me

i like too many things and teeter between constant exasperation at endless possibilities and frustration with the difficulty to put ideas to action.

My Interests

music, design, architecture, shows, interior design, italian furniture, fashion design/photography/illustration, graphic design, photography, art, fashion/design magazines, eurotrash, numbers but not math, thoughts not words, aimless wandering, reading books when i get the chance, dreaming, thinking too much, traveling, playground sociology, lectures, stalking anonymous individuals, social justice, japanese graphic design, psychology, learning, politics, thrifting, dark rooms of various sorts, pretty girls in streetlight, convo over coffee, sustainability, walking around the city, indian food, antiquated books, taking public transportation, the economic south, going on photographic adventures, cute shoes, cracking my back, trash as treasure, being nocturnal, vintage photography, activism, colors, boys with stretched ears, comparitive discourse, long rides on the highway, scandanavia, wandering, wishing, wondering, gedoogbeleid, whispers, exploring, observing people, intimate late night conversations, gelato, substance+style, vintage flower prints, smiling, laughing to myself, crying to myself, overanalyzing, the feeling of snowflakes tickling my lashes, reflections off puddles, kissing, love and loving, chartreuse, sweden, nederland, public radio, cuddling with my roommates, scarves, taking pictures of old people, educational television, and holding hands and skipping. yay.

I'd like to meet:

perhaps and likely you, someone who speaks swedish, someone to provide body heat, someone with an absurd amount of tattoos, someone with a tuppee, an old academic, someone whose idea of leisure and entertainment is creating art, someone with delusions of grandeur.

Music:

at the drive in, the mars volta, radiohead, these arms are snakes, the new pornographers, kinski, poison the well, aesop rock, elliot smith, the postal service, air, hopesfall, coheed and cambria, circle takes the square, hot hot heat, foredirelifesake, sigur ros, fata, nodes of ranvier, the walkmen, bikini kill, the plot to blow up the eiffel tower, underoath, between the buried and me, vnv nation, bjork, deftones, forstella ford, portishead, belle and sebastian, q and not u, beulah, the cure, the bled, joy division, stereolab, murder by death, cursive, appleseed cast, tilly and the wall, tool, norma jean, saetia, hot cross, my bloody valentine, the breeders, braid, since by man, black eyes, architecture in helsinki, ladytron, tori amos, esthero, elliott, christiansen, vaux, interpol, british sea power, the killers, ..trail of the dead, built to spill, fischerspooner, the blood brothers and more and more :)

Movies:

you, me and everyone we know, amelie, fantasia, moulin rouge, the other side of the bed, evil, waking life, american beauty, fahrenheit 911, bowling for columbine, frida, big fish, i heart huckabees, welcome to the dollhouse

Television:

rots your mind

Books:

deterring democracy, hegemony or survival, fahrenheit 451, discipline and punish, madness and civilization, emerson, tolstoy, chopin, i'm boring

Heroes:

people who read while they walk. punk rock parents. professors urban exploring.

My Blog

emily's big bad bureaucratic misadventure

everyone knows i hate bureaucracy. and yesterday is just another example why. after months and months of uncertainty about a possible UTI (and its consequential multiple and relent...
Posted by day tripper on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 04:46:00 PST

brown brain mish mash

these days set me back to infinity. the hue of the trees sends my mind spinning in a million directions. the colors of the browning trees and grass and weeds, the neutralizing process of what was once...
Posted by day tripper on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:38:00 PST

no really, you go

everyone knows it already, but i love the mini apple. i could go on for hours about the arts, civic engagement, wonderful places, intelligent, interesting, good-hearted people, awesome organ...
Posted by day tripper on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:12:00 PST

there flies a kite

in my tree, and how have i not noticed? the lions growl and black cats run directly out from my mushroomcloud mind as i look out the window at hummingbird clouds and take portraits...
Posted by day tripper on Sat, 06 May 2006 11:46:00 PST

metaphysical musings

this was supposed to be a photoblog, though it never happened. however, i am still planning on putting up more stuff once i finish printing/designing the series. the end.
Posted by day tripper on Thu, 01 Dec 2005 04:12:00 PST

sueisfine

i hope she is i just wish we could all learn to help each other through this   and we all dream of that bridge in the sky.
Posted by day tripper on Sun, 06 Nov 2005 12:56:00 PST

lousy poetry

she dotted her eyescrossed her teasand was especially ineffective at making distinct separations between related thoughts forgot the certain peroids conjoining (in)significant events. <inserttransi...
Posted by day tripper on Wed, 31 Aug 2005 01:26:00 PST

amsterdam

i'm still not done but i guess it's fine for now some of my fav pics from amsterdam stedelijk museum   de baarsjes van gogh museum   i don't know what i would have done ...
Posted by day tripper on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

yep. i always knew.

I've lived my life inside daydream lies, imaginary friendsThat always knew one day I'd leave for goodI'll give away this girl who tried to make you fall in loveI'll give her to youSo keep her close to...
Posted by day tripper on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

stadswandeling met dicht ogen

walking around the city with closed eyes. literally, not metaphorically. i dont know where to start. i really dont. i think ive been thinking about more than i have than almost any point in my life. ...
Posted by day tripper on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST