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Ashley

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in

About Me

I love: fashion magazines, coffee, well-written poetry, gerbera daisies, birds, traveling, Southern writers, Southern gothic anything, good soundtracks, catching up, a good quote, having my hard work pay off, to keep people guessing, finding new music, spring, finding new writers, spending hours in a bookstore.AshleyGracelessdotcomMyspace For Girls Only - MyGirlySpace.com

My Interests

Music, learning how to cook (baby steps), shopping, hanging with my Aveda girls, reading, writing, interior design/home decor books, Southern American Literature, collecting books(not to be confused with reading), traveling.

I'd like to meet:

Robert Plant, Dorothy Parker, Woody Allen, Craig from Craigslist, Tennessee Williams, Kurt Vonnegut, Kim Addonizio.

Music:

At the Drive-In, Azure Ray, AC/DC, Ben Folds, Brand New. CCR, Converge, Park, Coheed and Cambria. Jeff Buckley, Strung Out, Glen Hansard, St. Vincent, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Wilson Pickett, Inspection 12, Neutral Milk Hotel, Jenny Lewis, Feist, Frou Frou, Staring Back, Small Brown Bike, The Mars Volta, Tool, Scout Niblett, Foo Fighters, Q and not U, Led Zeppelin, LeSalle, Nina Nastasia, Pink Floyd, Minus the Bear, Mastodon, Explosions in the Sky, Kaki King, Queen, Mock Orange, Pinback, the Promise Ring, the Mercury Program, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Amy Winehouse, The Black Keys, A Wilhelm Scream, Propaghandi, Rilo Kiley, Death Cab, The Postal Service, The Bronx, Imogen Heap, Weezer, Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Movies:

Love Actually, Annie Hall, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, Almost Famous, Bio-Dome, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Moulin Rouge, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Garden State, Terminator II, Pirates of the Caribbean (II wasnt bad), High Fidelity, The Graduate, Dawn of the Dead, Cool Hand Luke, To Kill a Mockingbird, Dr. Strangelove, Jazz on a Summer's Day, In Good company, Dangerous Beauty, Kindergarten Cop, Lord of of the Rings, Star Wars, A Streetcar Named Desire.

Television:

Sex and the City, Big Love, Friends, Will & Grace, Anything on TLC, Boomerang or the Style Network, Chapelle's Show, The Daily Show, Gilmore Girls, The Golden Girls.

Books:

authors: Flannery O'Connor, Kurt Vonnegut, Laurie Notaro, Emerson, Whitman, Kim Addonizio, Connie Baechler, Jacques Derrida, de Beauvoir, Tennessee Williams, Julia Kristeva, Voltaire, Dante, Douglas Coupland, and most anything that will make me laugh.

Heroes:

C. Baechler, R. Daniell, my parents.

My Blog

June DE

I finally posted the DE pictures. Not all of them yet, but some. I'll get the rest up later.Moving this weekend. So pumped.
Posted by Ashley on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:42:00 PST

This was just too good to pass up

Plus I'm sitting here waiting for my coffee to cool down so I can actually drink it. Ok, here goes:1. You're infected. Your top 8 has the cure. One must die.Who's in my top 8? Ah jeez, I don't know....
Posted by Ashley on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:12:00 PST

Vonnegut

One of my favorite authors in the world passed yesterday, and it might sound hokey, but his book Slaughterhouse-Five really made me change my mind about reading and writing when I read it in 12th grad...
Posted by Ashley on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 05:39:00 PST

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist..

So yesterday I found out that I qualify for my company's tuition reimbursement program. I. am. so. psyched. I've got a lot of planning ahead of me though, because I have to front the money and then t...
Posted by Ashley on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 05:22:00 PST

questions?

1. Where did your last kiss take place?this morning2. Who knows a secret or two about you?lots of people3. Three words to explain why you last threw up?drank too much4. Did you ever burn yourself?Ever...
Posted by Ashley on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:34:00 PST

post-Christmas, pre-New Year

I felt somewhat obligated to give an update after Christmas, as a little after-Christmas pre-New Year kind of thing. Expect talk of proposed resolutions.So, Christmas completely spoiled me rotten. ...
Posted by Ashley on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 06:28:00 PST

bitch bitch bitch

So the job search isn't going as well as I'd like it to.  I really want to be picky and I can't because it seems like there's nothing out there (for me).  I  keep putting out the resume...
Posted by Ashley on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:49:00 PST

Because I don't have to be at work for another two hours

1.) Where were you when the ball dropped for 2006?The Pink Pony2.) How did you get the idea for your myspace name?Its only the most common name in the effing world.3) What are you listening to right n...
Posted by Ashley on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 07:21:00 PST

Everything else I've been doing

Two weeks ago I went to Capri with my roommate Meredith.  You have to go through Naples to take the ferry to the island, and Naples was about as ghetto as you can possibly get.  We managed t...
Posted by Ashley on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 02:20:00 PST

Happy Birthday to me

I'll give you guys a real update soon.  I'm feelin pretty sick today, had lots of birthday wine last night.  Thankfully its not a field trip day or else I'd be hurting.  Thanks for all...
Posted by Ashley on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 02:14:00 PST