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Casey

I love French; the language, the people, the toast.

About Me

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal.

My Interests

Words.
People.
Looking at things.
Listening to things.
Touching things.
Adventures.
Artistic expression of any kind.
Facial expressions.
Lucid dreaming.
Learning things.
Singing.
Thinking.
Reading.
Writing.
Acting.
Lists.
Knights.
Eating.
Things I find on the ground.

I'd like to meet:

Sometimes I look at people and think about this:

Music:

Twee, Anti-folk, and my parents' music (especially The Beatles.)

Specifically:
Regina Spektor
Death Cab for Cutie
The Magnetic Fields
Rilo Kiley
Aberfeldy
Ani Difranco
Cat Stevens
Tryo
Hellogoodbye
The Decemberists
The Mountain Goats
Metric
Belle and Sebastian

Movies:

Garden State
American Beauty
The Royal Tenenbaums
I ♥ Huckabees
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
Adaptation
Say Anything
Stranger Than Fiction
Pulp Fiction
Howl's Moving Castle
Buckaroo Banzai
Fight Club
Serenity
Est-Ouest

There's a definite "Casey" kind if movie. I want it to make me laugh, cry, or think (at least one.)

Television:

The Simpsons is so intricately woven into my soul that I find it redundant to even list it.

Others:
The Office
Scrubs
House
Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Cancelled:
State of Grace
Firefly
Sports Night
Sex and the City
Malcolm in the Middle
Arrested Development

Books:



My favorites in rough order of preference:
Don Quixote
A Wrinkle in Time
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Fight Club
The Fountainhead
Breakfast of Champions
Pride and Predjudice
Illusions
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
His Dark Materials
Cyrano de Bergerac
The Power of One
To Kill a Mockingbird
Farenheit 451
Madame Bovary
1984
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
Winesburg, Ohio
The Outsiders
Wuthering Heights
Alice in Wonderland
Lolita
Where the Wild Things Are
Mirette on the High Wire
Harry Potter (obligatory)
The Elements of Style

Authors not mentioned:
Shakespeare
E.E. Cummings
Orson Scott Card
Francesca Lia Block
John Steinbeck
Tamora Pierce

Pretty much anything they make you read in school.

Heroes:



And, of course, the brave men and women of Ninja Warrior .

My Blog

Webcomics that remind me of Sophies World

xkcd.com:                  plif.com picturesofwalls.com PS: What a terrib...
Posted by Casey on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 07:32:00 PST

Resurfaced Feelings

It's been a while since I've had these feelings... this feeling of loss and loneliness...Coming home to feel like there's no one waiting for me...It's been a long time since I've read a book as good a...
Posted by Casey on Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:14:00 PST

The future is an adventure?

I know how much I talk about the future and how exciting all the possiblilities are. And how I don't want to know what happens; I want it all to be a surprise.And I believe all of that and I find it a...
Posted by Casey on Sun, 10 Jun 2007 10:54:00 PST

Post AP Reflection

Statistics - 3 is safe, 4 is expectedBiology - 3 is realistic, 4 is highly optimisticPsychology - 4 is realisticEnglish - 5 is expected, anything else is disappointingI could not be more glad that all...
Posted by Casey on Thu, 17 May 2007 08:31:00 PST

Yooooooth

I am forever being told not to take things for granted. The old tell me not to take my youth for granted. The sick tell me not to take my health for granted. I am forever being told to appreciate all ...
Posted by Casey on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 05:02:00 PST

"Every man who has ever lived

holds tight to the belief that for him alone the laws of probability are cancelled out by love."Lancelot and Guinevere are famed as having the romance of the ages. Before reading King Arthur, I had no...
Posted by Casey on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 04:34:00 PST

Because God Said So

Every Sunday, despite how busy the week before has been or how full and social my Friday and Saturday were, I find myself inadvertantly observing the Sabbath day with my own day of rest.Another instan...
Posted by Casey on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:24:00 PST

Mood is good

After posting this as a bulletin, I decided that I wanted to add to the permanence of it by posting it as a blog.The last few days have been among the most enjoyable of my life. To my cast: I cannot...
Posted by Casey on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 05:34:00 PST

I've missed this

Feeling like this.It makes me wish situations were different.Regardless, it's nice to feel.I know I'm being vague and cryptic but it's the only way I feel comfortable expressing myself here.Besides, e...
Posted by Casey on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 06:28:00 PST

Feathers in my hair

I hit so many strangers in the face today.IT WAS AWESOME.
Posted by Casey on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 07:22:00 PST