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Asher

a river ain't too much to love

About Me

prose in motion

My Interests

smiles, music, writing, small gestures, the great outdoors

I'd like to meet:

poetry at rest

Music:

beatles, belle and sebastian, broken social scene, panda bear, cat power, animal collective, antony, neil young, bob dylan, elephant 6, stars, slowdive, pavement, magnetic fields, smog, shins, sufjan, devendra, feist, jens lekman, jolie holland, joni mitchell, joanna newsom, smiths, decemberists, iron and wine, bach, beach boys, billy bragg, radiohead, elliott smith, simon and garfunkel, sigur ros, wilco, motown, nick drake, songs that make your heart ache

Movies:

rushmore, bottle rocket, Y tu mamá también, once, amores perros, little miss sunshine, all the real girls, city of god, the constant gardener, junebug, bonnie and clyde, princess bride, badlands, ghostbusters, sans soleil, in the mood for love, the big lebowski, magnolia, philadelphia story, annie hall, say anything, anything krzysztof kieslowski

Television:

six feet under

Books:

howards end, pride and prejudice, watership down, calvin and hobbes, to kill a mockingbird, prufrock, nabokov, murakami, borges, wordsworth + coleridge, foer, kundera, woolf, whitman, wilde, that morrissey children's book on wilde

Heroes:

the movers and the shakers of human kindness

My Blog

the rain falls hard on a humdrum town

Now Spinning: The Smiths - This Night Has Opened My EyesThe Schuylkill appeared like a swirling, angry brownie mix this morning; perhaps the flow was unnatural, and the mud-colored quagmire was bellig...
Posted by Asher on Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:33:00 PST

Sara got into college!

Now Spinning: Diana Ross - I'm Coming OutOh afterschool special, you do come true!Now that there's a bonafide success in the family, I can resume the slacking and slothy slothery....
Posted by Asher on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 02:13:00 PST

miss scarlet you harlot

Now Spinning: Led Zeppelin - KashmirOn seeing Syriana, the conclusion is... George Clooney killed JFK, with a candlestick, in the library.Or was it Damon with all his Bourne-abilities?I suck at life ...
Posted by Asher on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 02:25:00 PST

then you got the flows, then they trip out the flowmasters

Now Spinning: DJay f/ Shug - It's Hard Out Here for a PimpWho would've thought a film about a pimp, his hoes, and a dream would be the best film of the year?...
Posted by Asher on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 02:21:00 PST

my manger got run over by a klepto

Now Spinning: Grandma Got Run Over By a ReindeerOh no! Someone has absconded with the baby jesus! For that matter, the whole nativity set is MIA. Beware, there are manger thieves on the loose!(they...
Posted by Asher on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 02:17:00 PST

RIP RP

Now Spinning: The Silver Jews - Honk If You're LonelyI now have a full-on nativity set on my desk. I am the worst Jew ever.
Posted by Asher on Fri, 24 Mar 2006 02:10:00 PST

all hallowed grieve

Now Spinning: The Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #1 (Tunnels) On my way home the other night, passing through the subway to get to Market East (when there was a subway to pass through), I saw a group of...
Posted by Asher on Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:14:00 PST

politics is / the enemy of romance

Now Spinning: Billy Bragg - Scholarship is the Enemy of RomanceI wrote this in response to an article in the citypaper about a documentary on the Rosenbergs that played at the First Person Festi...
Posted by Asher on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

moved by kitty kuteness

sharing time. sometimes I think hurt, little animals almost perfectly reflect that tight little ball of pain inside of us all that remains aloof but needs that remedial coaxing and love to salve and ...
Posted by Asher on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

one mother of a day

quick - !stoopid, stoopid, stoopid, I had a poppy-seed bagel with lox and cream cheese today and I start work tomorrow. Now I'm afraid I'm going to test positive (damn seinfeld episode and your abunda...
Posted by Asher on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST