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KateAbelle

Conserving Grace For A Later Time

About Me

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My Interests

sewing (and trying not to sew my fingers to the fabric), magic tricks (they make it look so gaddamned easy), making collages, crossword puzzles, jig-saw puzzles, and life puzzles, collecting beauty, using compasses, crying.

Music:

cure, tori amos, nick cave and the bad seeds, tim buckley, leonard cohen, pet shop boys, bright eyes, depeche mode, cat power, joni mitchell, regina spektor, kate bush, moody blues, frank sinatra, johnny cash, the monkees, sioxsie and the banshees, and lots and lots more. Lately, the Arcade Fire too.

Movies:

And God Created Woman (with Brigitte Bardot), Memento, Best in Show, Amelie, City of Lost Children, Heathers, Mildred Pierce, It's A Wonderful Life, Willy Wonka and The Chocolate Factory, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, You Me and Everyone We Know, and more I can't think of.

Heroes:

Ira Glass

My Blog

Live Journal

Hey everybody, I joined LJ. Finally. So if you're on there and you wanna inspire me to write stuff, find me. I need help navigating too.
Posted by KateAbelle on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:13:00 PST

How to make me?

How to make a kateabelleIngredients:1 part anger3 parts self-sufficiency5 parts empathyMethod:Blend at a low speed for 30 seconds. Add a little curiosity if desired!Username:http://www.go-quiz.com/coc...
Posted by KateAbelle on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 04:10:00 PST

Kate

Kate --[adjective]:Similar to butter in texture and appearance'How will you be defined in the dictionary?' at QuizGalaxy.com...
Posted by KateAbelle on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:19:00 PST

There are coyotes in the desert.

Last night Colin, Jonah and I made a pot of rice and beans for dinner. We piled into the truck with the pot of beans on our laps. We drove to the edge of civilazation and sat tailgate style, watching ...
Posted by KateAbelle on Mon, 06 Mar 2006 08:56:00 PST

The Dance of Time

"This period of time, the coldest and darkest of the year, when the world seemed dead, bore no name. Sixty nameless days-- a custom almost inconceivable to the modern mind. Simple terror gives us an e...
Posted by KateAbelle on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

30th Street Station

. Since May, I have gone to 30th street station in Philadelphia five times. This is a lovely place, and can make you feel very important and grand. Four of those were either directly or closely re...
Posted by KateAbelle on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Clicking Shoes on Cobblestones

I could never be in a place without distinct seasons for too long. Everything about Fall is delcious to me; the smells especially. I find myself in a state of sadness, inspration, nostalgia, and refle...
Posted by KateAbelle on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

The Yellow Wallpaper

"It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping and most women do not creep by daylight. I see her on the long road under the trees, creeping along, and when a carriage comes she hides und...
Posted by KateAbelle on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Thunder, and lightening too

I wish it were summer so it could thunderstorm, and I could take naps with the window open in the afternoon with my cat. I could sit on the stoop and eat peanuts out of the shell and watch the sky ope...
Posted by KateAbelle on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

My Blue Eye

I feel blue this morning at 5:37 AM . . . I feel a most horrible feeling . . . I do not like this.
Posted by KateAbelle on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST