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science vs. romance

the sophisticated boom boom.

About Me


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i like this. completely.
"It's getting almost impossible to hear you," said the young girl from her bedroom in Manhattan, as she squinted through a pair of her father's binoculars, trying to find her friend's window.
"I'll holler if I have to," said her friend from his bedroom in the Sixth Borough, aiming last birthday's telescope at her apartment.
The string between them grew incredibly long, so long it had to be extended with many other strings tied together: the wind of his yo-yo, the pull from her talking doll, the twine that had fastened his father's diary, the waxy string that had kept her grandmother's pearls around her neck and off the floor, the thread that had separated his great-uncle's childhood quilt from a pile of rags. Contained within everything they shared with one another were the yo-yo, the doll, the diary, the necklace, and the quilt. They had more and more to tell each other, and less and less string.
The boy asked the girl to say "I love you" into her can, giving her no further explanation.
And she didn't ask for any, or say, "That's silly" or "We're too young for love" or even suggest that she was saying "I love you" because he asked her to. Her words traveled the yo-yo, the doll, the diary, the necklace, the quilt, the clothesline, the birthday present, the harp, the tea bag, the table lamp, the tennis racket, the hem of the skirt he one day should have pulled from her body . The boy covered his can with a lid, removed it from the string, and put her love for him on a shelf in his closet. Of course, he could never open the can, because then he would lose its contents. It was enough just to know that it was there.
from The Sixth Borough
Jonathan Safran Foer
i love my flickr . maybe a little too much.

My Interests

turning food into ideas.
eating cereal and reading comics, at the SAME TIME!!!
taking lots of pictures.
game theory.
ray johnson.
the glass harp.
pictures of myself.
the concept of self image.
playmobil.
stephen merchant being my boyfriend.
the hubble space telescope

I'd like to meet:

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this person .
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Music:

i guess i can do this.bright eyes, joanna newsom, scout niblett, iron and wine, peggy lee, mirah, the blow, le tigre, the books, richard swift, broken social scene, bitter bitter weeks, wolf parade, animal collective, of montreal, phosphorescent, jana hunter, okkervil river, deerhoof, connie francis, devendra banhart, john prine, bob dylan, danielson [everything], tom waits, jenny lewis, neil young, m. ward, tilly and the wall, the natural history, etta james, the baptist generals, the microphones, pyramid, will oldham, the moldy peaches, songs:ohia, magnolia electric co., neutral milk hotel, lee hazelwood and nancy sinatra, the mountain goats, thee silver mount zion memorial orchestra and tra-la-la band, and this documentary about the donnas that i brought over....i thought maybe we could watch it together.

Movies:

documentaries

paul schneider movies

home movies

david gordon green movies

ingmar bergman movies

peter greenaway movies

miranda july shorts

how to draw a bunny, which i've been watching about once a week lately. i don't know why.

smokey and the bandit

Books:

now:
Where We Stand: Class Matters by Bell Hooks - Ms. Hooks writing about class difference in America, viewed seperate or at least at a remove from race and gender. Well-written and intelligent as her books always are, and guaranteed to make me feel firey about class issues, so you might want to avoid related topics with me for a little while. fyi.
The Collected Poems of Ted Hughes which is an ongoing endeavor that will....well, go on and on and on. for quite sometime, i imagine.

in the near future:
Rumspringa: To Be or Not To Be Amish by Tom Schachtman - Like The Devil's Playground, but a book....basically.
a re-reading of Against Love: A Polemic by Laura Kipnis

Heroes:

the virgin mary, mrs. weasley, anyone else who can make magic babies, anything with the ability to regenerate body parts, carnivorous plants.

My Blog

hold me closer tony danza.

so, adding to all the star fueled blog posts of late....my contribution.ted danson (sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name...etc.) came into the bookstore today. unless it's someone l...
Posted by science vs. romance on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 03:51:00 PST

tag that ass.

The first "player" of this game starts with the topic "six weird habits/things about yourself" and people who get tagged need to write a blog about their six weird habits/things as well as to state th...
Posted by science vs. romance on Thu, 30 Mar 2006 04:17:00 PST

a routine flight...

it's nice to know that if some people really need something, they just make it themselves. trailer trailer!!!   it's so great how i'm never going to get tired of this.  ...
Posted by science vs. romance on Mon, 27 Feb 2006 10:06:00 PST

crush. CRUSH!!!!

....on Bill Maher.   it's true. last night was one of the most rewarding television experiences of my life.  second only to the good old days when Poochie was still on.   Bill Maher and...
Posted by science vs. romance on Sat, 18 Feb 2006 11:08:00 PST

blow me.

i'm just in love with love.
Posted by science vs. romance on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 10:20:00 PST