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Christa Miller

I'm neat.

About Me

I guess I'm going to be a writer someday, but my current track record is saying that I'm going to be a full-time massage therapist. Sometimes I think that maybe I'll dig up bones instead. I'll probably become a stand-up comedienne. Or I could incorporate fossils into my stand-up routine and that could be my "thing."If we're going for labels here, I think maybe I'll call myself a tweaker. Why, you ask? It has nothing to do with drugs. Let me tell you what I mean: I like to tweak things. It gives me joy. You know, 1984-style. Kidding. Kind of.Are you my soul mate?

My Interests

Nice things.

I'd like to meet:

you, please.Come visit me at my blog: http://www.athousandparts.blogspot.com/

Music:

Really? Here's a taste and in no particular order (going partially through my CD case and partially through my head) Regina Spektor, Coldplay, U2, Fiona Apple, Tori Amos, Björk, Ani Difranco, Frou Frou, Postal Service, Pidgeon =), Muse, Keane, Radiohead, Ace of Base, Enya, Sigur Ros, Queen, The Smashing Pumpkins, Sarah McLachlan, No Doubt, showtunes, Josh Groban, Madonna, lots of happy hardcore, The Beatles, ATC, La Bouche, Collective Soul, older Michael Jackson, Daft Punk, Depeche Mode, John Mayer, Ian Van Dahl, Cranberries, Alice Deejay, DJ Sammy, Gigi D'Agostino, Maroon 5, some Britney, Blessid Union of Souls, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Simon and Garfunkle, Dashboard Confessional, Frank Sinatra, Santana, John Mayer, The Shins, Iron & Wine, Nick Drake, Remy Zero, Portishead, Cary Brothers, Zero 7, Colin Hay, Thievery Corporation, Norah Jones, Joni Mitchell, Ben Harper, Eric Clapton, Dave Matthews Band, Rufus Wainwright, anything classical, Silverchair, The Violent Femmes, Daniel Bedingfield, UNKLE, Michael Buble, Belle & Sebastian, Goldfrapp, Alanis Morissette, The White Stripes, Duncan Sheik, and that's about all for now

Movies:

Phew, ok here we go: Some favorites are, Garden State, Love Actually, Memento, Billy Madison, Dancer in the Dark, The Sixth Sense, Lost in Translation, Requiem for a Dream, Baz Luhrman's Romeo and Juliet, Moulin Rouge, Lolita (with Dominique Swain), Office Space, anything Disney and/or Pixar, The Butterfly Effect, Party Monster, Saved!, Thirteen, dumb girly movies (such as She's All That, You've Got Mail, Nine Months, When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, At First Sight, Pretty Woman, Mean Girls, Clueless, Legally Blonde, What Women Want, Titanic, Return to Me, Notting Hill, The 10 Things I Hate About You) The Terminal, Girl Interrupted, Boys Don't Cry, Edward Scissorhands, American Beauty, Amelie, Supersize Me, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Mrs. Doubtfire, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, I Am Sam, Finding Neverland, I 'Heart' Huckabees, Connie and Carla, Home Alone 1 and 2, What's Eating Gilbert Grape?, Benny & Joon, Superstar, BIG, Chocolat, Best in Show, Forrest Gump, Forever Young, Mermaids, A Beautiful Mind, A Christmas Story, Jerry Maguire, The Object of My Affection, One Hour Photo, Camp Nowhere, Now & Then, Crazy/Beautiful, Centerstage, Snatch., La Vita e bella, What Dreams May Come, Hook, Bogus, As Good as it Gets, Big Fish, Tadpole, Pumpkin, Interview With a Vampire, Addams Family Values, Life as a House, Wild America, Tom and Huck, The Virgin Suicides, Hocus Pocus, The Score, Liar Liar, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, The Wedding Singer, Run Lola Run, This Boy's Life, Before Sunset, Before Sunrise, Catch Me If You Can, and I think that's about most of it

Television:

I don't watch a lot of television, but when I watch television, I am kind of a stereotypical girl.Friends is fun. The Simpsons rocks my world (I feel sort of grammatically incorrect when I say "The Simpsons ROCKS"... oh God I'm a geek.)I also like Blind Date, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, Sex and the City, The Surreal Life, and old shows like My So-Called Life, Full House, Step-By-Step... heh =)

Books:

The Great Gatsby, Native Son, The Awakening, 1 stupid cheesy romance novel I won't REALLY admit to ever reading unless you're my best friend, books on writing, The Things They Carried, books of poetry (namely by poets like Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens,) White Oleander, Autobiography of a Face, Reunion, random self-help books, The Notebook, but there are so many more I want to read

Heroes:

Those who survive Phoenix summers. I have yet to try accomplishing said feat.

My Blog

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 2

2When people see things as beautiful,ugliness is created.When people see things as good,evil is created.Being and non-being produce each other.Difficult and easy complement each other.Long and short d...
Posted by Christa Miller on Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:45:00 PST

Tao Te Ching, Ch. 1

The tao that can be toldis not the eternal TaoThe name that can be namedis not the eternal Name.The unnamable is the eternally real.Naming is the originof all particular things.Free from desire, you r...
Posted by Christa Miller on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:47:00 PST

Something I finished awhile ago. (Warning: Don't read if you're very sensitive.)

                                      &n...
Posted by Christa Miller on Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:15:00 PST

Some thoughts...

You know you're in the lower bracket (of life?) when:you march around feeling like a robotic cog with the rest of the suits, caring only about how much money you're getting for being awake + staring a...
Posted by Christa Miller on Wed, 30 May 2007 06:43:00 PST

New Year, New Phone

So I partied a little too hard last night and I managed to lose my cell phone for the first time ever. (I also banged up my knees pretty badly but that's another story entirely!) I got a new phone at ...
Posted by Christa Miller on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 12:51:00 PST

I don't CHOOSE to be tagged.

*TAG* YOU'RE IT ...I was tagged... The first player in this game starts with the *8 weird things/habits about yourself* and people who get tagged need to write a blog of their 8 weird habits/things ...
Posted by Christa Miller on Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:31:00 PST

Memorable text messages

I'm not naming any names here. These are the text messages that, for some reason or another, were memorable enough to me over the past year and a half or so for me to want to save them indefinitely in...
Posted by Christa Miller on Sun, 02 Apr 2006 04:20:00 PST

trips to nowhere

trips to nowhere   parallel, perpendicular, calculated beauty was painted in one dimension unassuming land and sky touch the horizon is their love child and we were th...
Posted by Christa Miller on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:43:00 PST

Incessant

Incessant   Like the song that doesn't end, incessancy is everywhere: rhymes in off-rhyme incessant sounds superfluously stilting ceasing thought -bridges it to cessant- in bridg...
Posted by Christa Miller on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 11:47:00 PST

What if?

What if You and I were the same word Defined only by what it is, not how it sounds And what it means, not what it will be What if it all rhymed in sync with the instant We said goodbye Wonde...
Posted by Christa Miller on Sat, 17 Dec 2005 04:18:00 PST