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jackie

beauty will be CONVULSIVE

About Me

a voracious yet slow reader. a lover of makeshift hammocks, fruit trees, and bad sleeping habits. let me share my food with you!

My Interests

genderless pronouns, radical mental health, hapa issues, theory of the derive, poignant tragicomedies, childhood, queer theory, wanderlust, le theatre de l'absurde, unrestrained dancing, sharing food, anarcha-feminism, fending off the postmodern corruption, love. love!

I'd like to meet:

manic & urgent lovers of life. honest artists. queer hapas.

Music:

bjork, mirah, destroyer, sleater-kinney, diane cluck, tujiko noriko, erik satie, max richter, microphones/mount eerie, animal collective, yann tiersen, flaming lips, jeff buckley, brian eno

Movies:

abbas kiarostami, shirin neshat, michael haneke, wong kar wai, guy maddin, tsai ming-liang, stan brakhage, michel gondry, chan-wook park, lars von trier, agnes varda

maya deren

Books:

(+)samuel beckett, al burian, anais nin, andrea smith, edward said, j.d. salinger, thomas pynchon, judith butler, michel foucault, john fante, derrick jensen, william faulkner, kazuo ishiguro, allen ginsberg, lorna dee cerventes, e.e. cummings, jose saramago, toni morrision, august strindberg, emma goldman, anne sexton, virginia woolf, guy debord, raoul vaneigem, jorge luis borges, flannery o'connor, george orwell, helene cixous, georges bataille, bell hooks, karl marx, nicole krauss, zadie smith, andre gide, kurt vonnegut, simone de beauvoir, milan kundera, albert camus, marguerite duras, eugene ionesco, henry david thoreau, sappho, jeanette winterson, cindy crabb, howard zinn, dave eggers, lydia davis, craig thompson

Heroes:

assata, bell hooks, andrea smith, bjork, hannah hoch, amy goodman, kathe kollwitz, s. beckett, zinn, arundhati roy, judith butler, wangari maathai, anais. inspiring radical women of color. angela davis

My Blog

when the personal becomes postmodern

It was about to rain. It was dusk in the park. My hair was blowing wildly. The cups and plates and forks kept flying off the tables. Boxes blowing over, strewing colorful plastic items all over the gr...
Posted by jackie on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:40:00 PST

dreams

I woke up. Fell back asleep, the screen projecting some 60s experimental Japanese film on my languid face. The manic nights have become less frequent, but this is not to say they have ceased to exist....
Posted by jackie on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 06:04:00 PST