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Snow Blanket Smitten Only by the Sun

Live, don't exist.

About Me

Intelligence gets me hot.

These pretty much sum it up.
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My Interests

Mainly: Kissin', Readin', Performin', Laughin', Lovin', Learnin', Listenin', Living.Oh yes! And proper grammar.

I'd like to meet:

He doesn't exist.

Music:

Thomas Newman, Phillip Glass, John Williams--circa Angela's Ashes(notice a cinematic composer trend. Think accordingly.) Radiohead, Billie Holiday, George Gershwin, Frankie, Dorothy Dandridge, The Album Leaf, Bowie!, Slint, !!!, Silver Mt. Zion, John Vanderslice, The Magnetic Fields, MC Lars, Of Montreal, Ok Go, Sigur Ros, The Unicorns, Bjork, Tori Amos, Ben Gibbard, Placebo, The Decemberists, Norfolk and Western, NickDrakeNickDrakeNickDrake, Feist, Themselves, The Notwist, Kings of Convenience, The Cure (Pre-1996 Robert Smith), Blonde Redhead, the Faint, The Microphones, Little Wings, Azure Ray, Rilo Kiley, Sleater-Kinney, Modest Mouse, LunaChicks, Menomena, GodSpeedYouBlack Emperor, Earlimart, Clinic, Yo La Tengo, Reclinerland, Damien Jurado, Jill Sobule, Joanna Newsom, Sufjan Stevens, Ani Difranco, Le Tigre, The Breeders, Pixies, Dykehouse, Red House Painters, Low, Neutral Milk Hotel, Interpol, Quasi, That Dog, Tattle Tale, Vast, My Bloody Valentine, Lamb, Belle and Sebastian, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Stereo Total, The Flaming Lips, The Violent Femmes, Nada Surf, TV on the Radio, Stephen Malkmus, Pavement, selective Cursive, Iron and Wine, Calexico, Fancie, Apples in stereo, Arcade Fire, Arab Strap, The books, Band of Horses, Broken Social Scene, Enon, Clinic, Jesse Sykes, Mates of State, Xiu Xiu, Bonnie Prince, Coastal, Beta Band, Polysics, Mos Def, The Blow, The Psychedelic Furs, Mirah, Pelican, Ladytron, Teagan and Sara, 13 and God (Notwist and Themselves. Not so much separately), Ambulance LTD, Beck, Fisherspooner, Maria Taylor, PJ Harvey, Victory at Sea, Denali, The Robot Ate Me, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Did I say The Shins? Meh..., Mercury Rev, Tribeca, Dressy Bessy, ISIS, Moldy Peaches, Deerhoof, Do Make Say Think, Does this offend you...Yeah?, Cat Power, Uhhhh...Anything on HUSH records, Vilatic, Hot Chip, Gravy Train!!!!, CSS, Dan Deacon, Daft Punk, Poe, Portishead, Red Sparrows, Ugly Casanova, Esmerine, Set fire to Flames, Zero 7, Destroyer, The Murder City Devils, ...Trail of Dead, Piebald, Joy Division, Royksopp, Super Furry Animals, Edith Piaf, MIA, Sugar and Gold, Architecture in Helsinki, Prince, The Swell Season, New Young Pony Club, Hot Snakes, Sonic Youth.

Movies:

American Beauty, Secretary, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Tommy, Triplets of Bellville, Romy and Michelle, Requiem for a Dream, 30 Conversations about One Thing, But I'm a Cheerleader, Heavenly Creatures, QUILLS, Garden State, Music From Another Room, Matchmaker, Truth About Cats and Dogs, Anything but Love!, Dogma, The Last Unicorn, Neverending Story II, Secret of Nimh, Muppets take Manhattan, Amelie, Love the Hard Way, Dummy, Fight Club, Being John Malkovich, Dancer in the Dark, Roman Holiday, Anything with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers, Funny Face, Sabrina, Adaptation, Me, You and Everyone we Know, Streetcar Named Desire, Any screenplay written by Nora Ephron, Amistade, I All things indepedent. I like 'em slow and drawn out.

Television:

Six Feet Under.

Books:

John Milton wrote: We boast our light but if we look not wisely on the sun itself it smites us into darkness.With that being said I'm an English Literature major. Spitting out authors is meaningless. If it's good I like it. If nothing else know that Frank McCourt is a poor man's James Joyce.

Heroes:

The Honorary President of the American Humanist Association, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Emily Dickinson. Anyone who can do Shakespeare and do it well. Man Ray.

My Blog

It needs to be said again. And Again.

 Today, I was thinking about humanism vs. humanitarianism while driving to school. As I was working through similarities and differences, I spotted a truck with the humanitarian "=" sticker on th...
Posted by Snow Blanket Smitten Only by the Sun on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 11:42:00 PST

I feel peachy, too.

             I am twenty-one. In what person's eyes does that make me an adult? My sister was a mother at twenty-one. My parents were married for ...
Posted by Snow Blanket Smitten Only by the Sun on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:14:00 PST

I want to forget the past but the past does not want to forget me.

  Cat Power makes me cry a little. Just a few songs, and when I'm in the right state of mind. ....Mind you, I'm not actually crying. I'm pondering. I'm very fond of my current life. I love my jo...
Posted by Snow Blanket Smitten Only by the Sun on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:54:00 PST

Words fall through me and always fool me.

"You are what you love, not what loves you."       What do I love? I love films, I love art, I love my family, my friends, writing, music, performance, learning, hold my breath u...
Posted by Snow Blanket Smitten Only by the Sun on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 07:20:00 PST

I don't really listen to The Beatles--

But George Harrison knows where it's at. Living, that is. Here comes the sun, here comes the sun And I say it's all right Little darlin' it's been a long cold lonely winter Little darlin' it feels li...
Posted by Snow Blanket Smitten Only by the Sun on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 06:19:00 PST

Fuck Happenstance.

We should know by now. Life never really goes the way we plan it.
Posted by Snow Blanket Smitten Only by the Sun on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 10:41:00 PST

Searching for a Hyphene in Walgreens

 I am wrapping a gift and it is not for you. Wrapping a gift, but you're lost in that sweet abyss of nothingness. Sweeter, I hope, than the life you lead, and sweeter still than the attentio...
Posted by Snow Blanket Smitten Only by the Sun on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 05:09:00 PST

Ah fuck It, I'm gonna have a party.

  We spend so much time grasping, vainly, to relationships we know will only end when someone better comes along. Someone funnier, more fun, fun-loving. Fun. Someone who will make you say, "Oh my...
Posted by Snow Blanket Smitten Only by the Sun on Mon, 28 May 2007 09:02:00 PST

Her "You" becomes her "I"

I recall when Ryan first said to me, "I've been reading this guy, Kurt Vonnegut. He's really funny, his writing reminds me of you." I recall the first novel I opened. Timequake. I remember the ridicu...
Posted by Snow Blanket Smitten Only by the Sun on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 06:26:00 PST

Das Leben der Anderen

Das leben der anderen It isn't a new concept: To live and die for art. To sell your voice, your body; sacrifice your reputation, your livelihood. He listens in the deepest silence.    Pe...
Posted by Snow Blanket Smitten Only by the Sun on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 09:53:00 PST