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carly

Oh, to be a good woman!

About Me

Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men.There is much to be said for contentment and painlessness, for these bearable and submissive days, on which neither pain nor pleasure is audible, but pass by whispering and on tip-toe. But the worst of it is that it is just this contentment that I cannot endure. After a short time it fills me with irrepressible hatred and nausea. In desperation I have to escape and throw myself on the road to pleasure, or, if that cannot be, on the road to pain. When I have neither pleasure nor pain and have been breathing for a while the lukewarm insipid air of these so-called good and tolerable days, I feel so bad in my childish soul that I smash my moldering lyre of thanksgiving in the face of the slumbering god of contentment and would rather feel the very devil burn in me than this warmth of a well-heated room. A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad impulse to smash something, a warehouse, perhaps, or a cathedral, or myself, to commit outrages, to pull off the wigs of a few revered idols,... or to stand one or two representatives of the established order on their heads. For what I always hated and detested and cursed above all things was this contentment, this healthiness and comfort, this carefully preserved optimism of the middle classes, this fat and prosperous brood of mediocrity."

My Interests

Woo! Spring Break! Get a tattoo!
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Pog mo thoin
Pog mo thoin - 'Kiss my ass.'You're one tough bastard, and if anyone doesn't like it, they can kiss your ass. You enjoy fighting and causing grievous bodily harm. Hey! What are you lookin' at, punk?

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"Most men will not swim before they are able to." Is not that witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they won't think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what's more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth for the water all the same, and one day he will drown. - HesseCURRENT MOON lunar phasesUndergoing constant epiphanies...Anthropology. Archaeology. Geology. History. Indian ruins. Native American history. Women's Rights.Runa.Mathematics. Hiking. Riding my sweet bicycle. Thinking. Collaging. Photographs. Crocheting. Crafting. Bees. Watching movies and writing books. Languages.Words - I am quite enamored with my dictionary and thesaurus (recently discovered that I am a virago...)I love to sing.Tattoos. I plan on writing many quite fantastic books. I am a voracious reader, an avid writer, and a crocheting machine.

I'd like to meet:

I would be most content to meet the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

Music:

The Beatles, Sinead O'Connor, The Mars Volta, Amy Winehouse, Billy Joel, Cher, Michael Nesmith, Garth Brooks, The Monkees, Pearl Jam, Joni Mitchell, Def Leppard, Styx, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Oysterhead, KORN, The Cranberries, Traveling Wilburies, Beck, Elton John, Tom Petty, Metallica, Eric Clapton (and his collective projects), Primus (and their collective projects), James Blunt, George Strait, Cat Stevens, Silverchair, Simon and Garfunkel, Janis Joplin, The Smashing Pumpkins, good soundtracks, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Depeche Mode, The Police. I'm a serious critic of female vocalists. I LOVE A GOOD CHOIR!

Movies:

Dances With Wolves. House of Flying Daggers. Light Years: Heavy Metal. Batteries Not Included. Y Tu Mama Tambien. The Labyrinth. Fire and Ice. The Last Unicorn. Wizards. Nausicaa. Flight of the Navigator. The Never Ending Story. The Princess Bride. The Dark Crystal. Legend. Pure Country. Interview with the Vampire. Princess Mononoke. Legends of the Fall. Finding Neverland. Braveheart. Terminator 1&2. King Kong. The Lord of The Rings. Dogma. The Life Aquatic. Capote. HELP! American Beauty. Head. Shakespeare in Love. Gladiator. The Notebook. A Beautiful Mind. Apollo 13. 50 First Dates. Blades of Glory. Grandma's Boy...

Television:

We haven't had a TV for almost two years. And it's GLORIOUS!

Books:

Don't ever judge a book by its movie. EVER! Grendel by John Gardner. The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card.

Heroes:

My sister Kate.

My Blog

Oh, that I could breathe

This working in Memory began with exhilarating expectations. I didn't know what to expect, and have been quite unnervingly yet pleasantly surprised. But of course, I did not expect pain. The...
Posted by carly on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 07:40:00 PST

and i am holding back the tears no more: I love you.

August 8, 2007The older I grow and the more I experience - the more my life becomes increasingly multi-dimensional. I look back with new anger over injustice never before realised. My understanding b...
Posted by carly on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:52:00 PST

Sorry, I had to kill Jake Gyllenhaal

I finished reading The Cider House Rules this morning. The ending surprised me. All along, I pictured Jake Gyllenhaal as Homer Wells. The movie came out in 1999, and I remember nothing more than Charl...
Posted by carly on Mon, 10 Sep 2007 03:23:00 PST

war on plastic - the hilarity and horror

This can also be found on our website - www.meangreeny.com - it's a work in progress, as you will surely see! But hey, you want it to be better? Make an account (for free, of course) and BLOG AWA...
Posted by carly on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 12:10:00 PST

I still love Richard Simmons

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Posted by carly on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 04:52:00 PST

Oh Loathsome Caterpillar! and Ode to my Tomato...

With mouthwatering anticipation I watch green tomatoes swell Watered well. Not too much or the leaves turn yellow. Too little and her whole body frowns at me forlornly! Every day I measure her progres...
Posted by carly on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:50:00 PST

Getting some long awaited INK!!!

..> So... the long awaited day has come!! (Or, is coming). On June 18 I am beginning the tattoo that I have wanted for the past 2 years. It should take just about that long to complete! Four hour...
Posted by carly on Sat, 19 May 2007 10:08:00 PST

Show shines a good woman in a weary world

I've been anticipating the movie "300" for months. It was hyped up to be glorious and gory-ous, and indeed it was. Yet I was more than entertained and impressed: I was touched in my very core by an un...
Posted by carly on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:47:00 PST

currently reading: my mother's recipes

In this moment, I miss my mother consciously. I found her recipes down in the garage. Actually, I knew they were there all along; I just never took the time to get them out. As I sat tonight, eating a...
Posted by carly on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:54:00 PST

check the wash

The girl who lives beneath us is crazy. I know because she washes plastic sacks full of necklaces and batteries in our washer. Sometimes she peppers it with ratty swimsuits with no crotch, just tatter...
Posted by carly on Sat, 27 Jan 2007 11:36:00 PST