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gigi la joie

i can care about the good things that are real

About Me

patchwork heart, firey soul, tendency to overflow, come undone, burn down, rise up.

My Interests

art and lovin. subway love - a public service announcement - pamela samuelson director - PRESS PLAY ON SCREEN ABOVE TO WATCH!

I'd like to meet:

bleeding hearts and squeaky wheels and self-aware perfectionists with a sense of irony who are ready to love...doers, makers, bootie shakers, people with grandiose visions and the balls to make shit happen...tall handsome fellows who look like clark kent...revolution starters...healers...people who have more than one speed and know when to slow it down and when to step it up. john patrick shanley...those who are FIERCEly KIND.

Music:

penchant for women who will kick your ass and men who can croon your panties off.

Movies:

ET, baz luhrmann movies, wes anderson movies, fellini movies, charlie chaplin movies, woody allen movies, life is beautiful, triplets of belleville, roman holiday, 200 cigarettes, best little whore house in texas, sweet charity, morocco, who's afraid of virginia woolf, blue, white, red, unfaithful, snow white.

Television:

dawson's creek - do not fight me on this.

Books:

john patrick shanley and tennessee williams plays...and so many books. i love books. i prefer to sleep with books in my bed over men.

Heroes:

michael jackson, wonder woman, evita, bukowski, most any diva who would appeal to a gay man ie - bette midler, liza minelli, elizabeth taylor, marilyn, marlene, etc etc.

My Blog

let's party like barack stars!

what do you guys think? barack obama for president? i want to believe in someone...i want to be active again in trying to make positive change happen on a large scale. should i put time and energy ...
Posted by gigi la joie on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 06:54:00 PST

stay human

Stay human (all the freaky people) by Michael FrantiStarvation is a creation of the devila rebelI'm bringin' food to the people like a widowbringin' flowers to a grave in the midd...
Posted by gigi la joie on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 03:05:00 PST

awwww!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4  
Posted by gigi la joie on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:06:00 PST

more poems - text excerpts from my "embodying the learned lady" piece

Enheduanna Excerpt from Hymn to Inanna Lady of all the great rites,Who can understand all that is yours? In the forefrontOf the battle,All is struck down by you--O winged Lady,Like a birdYou scavenge ...
Posted by gigi la joie on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:01:00 PST

some favorite poems

THE KISS My mouth blooms like a cut.I've been wronged all year, tediousnights, nothing but rough elbows in themand delicate boxes of Kleenex calling crybabycrybaby , you fool!Before today my...
Posted by gigi la joie on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:09:00 PST

nothing makes me feel like an old old man with the blues

like getting my period.  also, a thought that popped into my head today is that i wish i had those special vitamin meth shots that hitler had back in the day because i would be sooo much more pr...
Posted by gigi la joie on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 01:29:00 PST

Op-Ed: Self-help Plan for Depressed Liberals and Other "Losers"

hey guys!  nolan found and sent me this old op-ed i wrote for school a couple years ago.  it's pretty good, no?  he also sent me this link to update me (and now you) on the State Of Af...
Posted by gigi la joie on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 02:12:00 PST

you're the cream in my coffee

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAwKPpyNpFI
Posted by gigi la joie on Fri, 29 Sep 2006 01:15:00 PST

watch these films!

judgement at nuremberg and ship of fools directed by stanley kramer.  he's my new idol.  so wonderful!  his films are crisp and beautiful and sort of perfect and he films his actors in ...
Posted by gigi la joie on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:27:00 PST

shackles

i was just reading a little article about how bill cosby is helping raise money for a slavery museum, one that's been in the works for years but has had trouble amassing the funds it needs to really c...
Posted by gigi la joie on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 12:04:00 PST