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Adelaide

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About Me

When I was in kindergarten my teacher sat me next to a mean boy with a buzzcut.
Buzzcut said:
"You have stupid hair. And a stupid dress. And a stupid backpack."
I went home to my mom and told her I needed a new backpack.
"But you love that backpack."
(It had a face, arms and legs. It had a name, too, but I forget what it was.)
"Nope. It's stupid."
So I got a new backpack and hid the old one in my closet.
One night I approached my discarded backpack and whispered in his ear
"Don't worry. I don't really think you're stupid."

My Interests

american dialects, austronesian languages, autodidacticism, bad neighborhoods, bahasa indonesia, bandoneon, banjo, basil (fresh), bus rides, calamity jane, callumus, cheap wisdom, children's literature, choreographed dances, christopher judge, clint eastwood, country music narratives, dirty cookbooks, do-good outlaws, dr. cox, dustin hoffman, eating, electric thumb piano, elephants, english, español, ethical consumerism, fairy tale antagonists, food history, geeks, grandiose piano chords, grey hoodies, hangover falafels, harpsichord, hitchhiking, human faces, improv everywhere, inappropriate punctuation, jakarta, josephine baker, joshua trees, lafayette, look around you, magical realism, mary ellen mark, memphis, monomania, motorcycle calf-scars, mustard, new york, norman rockwell, office supplies, pajamas, parrots, peanut butter, pedal steel, perspectives of the elderly, perth, pidgins and creoles, rats, reciprocal generosity, reverb (sometimes), robert altman, roller rinks, saguaro cacti, seasoned seaweed, snowshoeing to gamalan, solitude, southern bus stations, split infinitives, stimulants+libraries, suggestions for further reading, syllabaries, tabasco, television vicariousness, the act of folding, the mojave desert, the socially inept, third culture kids, trains, tucson, typewriters, vampires, vegan pie, vitamin b, web comics, wireless hill park,
listing interests.

I'd like to meet:

Really,
Teman teman saya dari Jakarta
And fleeting American companions-
Sometimes I wonder about you.
Look me up.

Music:

Sometimes: Tango, Hungarian Folk, Hip Hop

Most of the time: Mirah, Blind Willie McTell, The Moldy Peaches, The Mountain Goats, John Vanderslice, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, Regina Spektor, Sentridoh, CocoRosie, Joanna Newsom, Nikaido Kazumi, Kaki King, Tracy + the Plastics, The Breeders, Yoko Ono, The Slits, The Raincoats, Cocteau Twins, Young People, The Books, The Fiery Furnaces

Always: The Beatles, Tori Amos, The Pixies, The Magnetic Fields

Movies:

-Movies Which Were Made in the Early Seventies.

-Movies About Cowboys.

-Movies About Cowboys Which Were Made in the Early Seventies.

-Anything With Steve Carell In It

Television:

Joss Whedon. And others.
eg Deadwood.

Books:

Ruth Krauss. And others.

Heroes:

My family.

My Blog

Yellowcake

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Look Around You - Module 5 - Sulphur

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The Moebius

The Moebius
Posted by Adelaide on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 08:15:00 PST

I Wrote a Letter...

I Wrote a Letter... by Donald Barthelme I wrote a letter to the President of the moon, asked him if they had towaway zones up there. The cops had towed away my Honda and I didn't like it. Cost me sev...
Posted by Adelaide on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:57:00 PST

Pearblossom Highway .2

Pearblossum Highway #2 by David Hockney
Posted by Adelaide on Sun, 26 Nov 2006 08:12:00 PST

A Hole is to Dig

A Hole is to Dig A First Book of First Definitions by Ruth Krauss Mashed potatoes are to give everybody enough A face is so you can make faces A face is something to have on the front of your head Do...
Posted by Adelaide on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:31:00 PST