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Penny Lane

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About Me

~"How lovely is it that no one need wait a single moment to begin to change the world?"
-Anne Frank

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My Interests

literature. music. philosophy.
politics. activism. classic films.
adelie penguins.
trees.
exploring. polar bears.
humanitarian. endosymbiotic theory.
indie film&music. siberian tigers.

I'd like to meet:

Charlie Chaplin.
and those of color.
green, that is.

Music:

coldplay. simon & garfunkel. sufjan stevens. elliot smith.
frou frou. iron and wine. a fine frenzy. mi & l'au.
the shins. flogging molly. beyonce.
belle and sebastian. feist.
tegan and sara.
p. ahn.
i don't like:
the fray.

Movies:

garden state. casablanca. good will hunting.
the little mermaid. wicker park. amelie.
it's a wonderful life. the village.
the day after tomorrow. some kind of a wonderful.
what's eating gilbert grape. stardust.

capra. ridley.
cameron.
hughes. scorcese. braff.
burton.
i don't like:
quentin tarrantino.

~i love foreign films.
esp. french ones with audrey tautou. marion cotillard. juliette binoche. & gerard depardieu.

Television:

bbc: mr. bean. wallace and gromit.
absolutely fabulous. blackadder.
nbc: heroes. scrubs.
the office.
espn: college football & basketball.
discovery channel: everything.

Books:

persuasion.
harry potter and thes'. cat's cradle.
the glass bead game.
the lovely bones. slapstick. through the looking glass.
the book of laughter and forgetting.

jane austen. roald dahl. kurt vonnegut.
milan kundera. friedrich nietzsche. j.k. rowling.
herman hesse. henry david thoreau.
nathaniel hawthorne. william shakespeare.

Heroes:

grand da. mohammad mossadegh. molly ivins.
jj. redick. james stewart. lynn margulis.
leonardo davinci. joakim noah.
humphrey bogart.

"Ignorance is bliss, my ass."

"Je ne serai pas indifférent au futur."

"Nous aurons toujours Paris."

"Ici vous regarde, enfant."

My Blog

de mon coeur.

"Now I'm old and feeling grey. I don't know what's left to say about this life I'm willing to leave.I lived it full and I lived it well, there's many tales I've lived to tell. I'm ready now, I'm ready...
Posted by Penny Lane on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 06:48:00 PST

magnum opus.

didn't you know?you couldn't have forgotten.i was here.how silly of me to have fallen so quickly into your arms.expecting content.didn't you know that i was grand?like you told me?that i was time...
Posted by Penny Lane on Sun, 08 Apr 2007 07:35:00 PST

dear john,

dear john, i just wanted to thank you for coming over last night and helping me through that problem i was having. your words seem to have a way of putting my heart at ease without much effort. i als...
Posted by Penny Lane on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 05:48:00 PST