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Cheryl

She is more than her thousand names

About Me

Please don't proposition me to add your band (music project, rock star fantasy, WHATEVER), if I'm so inclined, I'll find you eventually on my own.
I'm 27, I lived in Dedham my entire life, up until two years ago (and the exception of college). I live in Fitchburg now with my husband, Ron. I think in the 5 years that we've been together, I have learned and realized more about myself than any other time in my life. He is so supportive, and just plain amazing.
I love anything that has to do with the arts - most of it is just from an appreciation standpoint - painting, film, music, etc. - but some things I do like to try myself (writing, photography). I love doing fun, crafty projects. There is no better feeling than completing something and knowing you did it yourself.
I'm not going to pretend to be someone I'm not just to please other people. Just because I'm not loud or obnoxious (unless intoxicated), doesn't mean that I'm a bitch or a loser. If you take the time to actually get to know me, you'll find the time you invest in me worthwhile. I don't care what other people think of me, because I know who I am - and if you don't or don't want to - that's your loss. I'm always looking to expand myself and grow - mind, body and soul. I'm not perfect, nobody is - but I'm always looking to learn more about myself and about the world. (I do realize that this explaination of myself does in fact sound bitchy...but anyone who knows me knows that I'm the exact opposite of that)

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

your mom.

Music:



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Other artists I love:
aimee mann, alana davis, amon tobin, andreas johnson, andy stochansky, ani difranco, arcade fire ash, asian art, awry, beck, belle & sebastian, beth orton, beulah, billie holiday, bjork, bleu, cibo matto, cocteau twins, coldplay, cooper temple clause, count zero, david bowie, david gray, denali, doves, ed harcourt, elastica, elliot smith, frou frou, geggy tah, gomez, guster, handsome boy modeling school, holly miranda, imogen heap, innocense mission, jeff buckley, joni mitchell, joseph arthur, juliana hatfield, jump little children, jurassic 5, kings of convenience, lamb, leona naess, low, manic street preachers, massive attack, matthew jay, mistle thrush, mum, neil finn, neko case, new bands, nick drake, nina simone, pete yorn, pj harvey, plaid, pleasurehead, porcupine tree, portishead, radiohead, regina spektor, reflecting skin, reindeer section, remy zero, rilo kiley, ron, ron sexsmith, run lola run, rushdie, ryan adams, sarah mclachlan, sharon olds, sigur ros, simon & garfunkel, sleepy voice, sondre lerche, sparklehorse, spritualized, superhoney, sylvia plath, the curtain society, the promise ring, tori amos, travis, trespassers william, turin brakes, twelfth of never, wilco, will hoge, zero 7, and too damn many to put down here!!

Movies:

Lost in Translation, The Graduate, Dancer in The Dark, Akira, Run Lola Run, The Princess and the Warrior, Pi, Requiem for a Dream, Big Fish, my mind if blanking out I'll finish this lata

Books:

Read in 2005:
Chronicle of a blood merchant / Yu Hua ; translated and with an afterword by Andrew F. Jones.
Fall on your knees : a novel / Ann-Marie MacDonald.
Happiness / Ferguson, Will.
In the hand of Dante / Nick Tosches.
The lone samurai : the life of Miyamoto Musashi / William Scott Wilson.
Birds without wings / Louis de Bernières.
The age of innocence / by Edith Wharton ; with an introduction by R.W.B. Lewis.
Firethorn : a novel / Sarah Micklem.
The tree bride : a novel / Bharati Mukherjee.
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families : stories from Rwanda / Philip Gourevitch.
Breakfast of champions, or, Goodbye blue Monday! / by Kurt Vonnegut ; with drawings by the author.
The lady and the unicorn / Tracy Chevalier.
Holidays on ice / by David Sedaris.
The birth of Venus : a novel / Sarah Dunant.
Gilligan's wake / Tom Carson.
Eats, shoots & leaves : the zero tolerance approach to punctuation / Lynne Truss.
Citizen girl : a novel / Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus.
Kafka on the shore / Haruki Murakami ; translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel.
Transgressions / by Sarah Dunant.
Wise children / Angela Carter.
The well-tended perennial garden : planting & pruning techniques / by Tracy DiSabato.
My Talk Pretty One Day / by David Sedaris
Microserfs / Douglas Coupland. ** currently reading 7/13
The magician's assistant / Ann Patchett.
Shade : a novel / Neil Jordan.
Never let me go / Kauzo Ishiguro.
Eleanor Rigby : a novel / Douglas Coupland.
Small mediums at large : the true tale of a family of psychics / Terry Iacuzzo.
The future homemakers of America / Laurie Graham.
The virgin blue / Tracy Chevalier.
Dreamland / Kevin Baker.
The meaning of wife / Anne Kingston.
Not tonight, honey : wait 'til I'm a size 6 / Susan Reinhardt.
Queen of dreams : a novel / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.
A long way down / Nick Hornby
The guide to lodging in Italy's monasteries : inexpensive accommodations, remarkable historic buildings, unforgettable settings / Eileen Barish. *** reading now - 9-7-05 ***
Shalimar the Clown : a novel / Salman Rushdie
Shopgirl : a novella / Steve Martin
Lamb / by Christopher Moore
The time traveler's wife / Audrey Niffenegger
How to be alone : essays / Jonathan Franzen
The complete idiot's guide to playing the guitar / by Frederick Noad
Checked out of Library now
Shalimar The Clown - Salmon Rushdie (reading currently, not sure if I even want to finish...story is really dragged out)
The complete idiot's guide to playing the guitar / by Frederick Noad.
Setting free the bears. Irving, John
White teeth : a novel / Zadie Smith
The accidental tourist / Anne Tyler
Devil in the details : scenes from an obsessive girlhood / Jennifer Traig. **reading now 10-24 **
Give me : songs for lovers / Irina Denezhkina ; translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield
The problem with Murmur Lee : a novel / Connie May Fowler
Saturday : [a novel] / Ian McEwan
Books I read in 2004:
The Raven - Charles Grant
Lost boy lost girl - Peter Straub
The Invisible Circus - Jennifer Egan
All She Was Worth - Miyuki Miyabe
The Dark Tower - Stephen King
Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut
Carter The Great - Glen David Gold
Miss Wyoming - Douglas Coupland
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenedes
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Shakey - Biography of Neal Young
Life Before Man - Margaret Atwood
The hundred secret senses - Amy Tan
Bastard out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison
The education of Mrs. Bemis : a novel - John Sedgwick
The Usual Rules - Joyce Maynard
Song of Susannah - Stephen King
The Opposite of Fate - Amy Tan
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon
Balzak and the Little Chinese Seamstress - Dai Sijie
The Church of Dead Girls - Stephen Dobyns
The god of small things - arundhati roy
Bel Canto - Anne Pachette
Icy Sparks - Gwyn Hyman Rubio
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
The House of Sand & Fog - Andre Dubus III
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Cutting Room - Louise Welsh
Life of Pi - Yan Martel
Lizard - Banana Yoshimoto
Tree of heaven - R.C. Binstock
The Corrections - Jonathan Franzen
The rules of attraction - Bret Easton Ellis
Black House - Stephen King / Peter Straub
Lady Oracle - Margaret Atwood
The Ultimate Intimacy - Ivan Klima
Cats Eye - Margaret Atwood
Sputnik Sweetheart - Murikami
The Dante Club
Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer (gave up on it about 50 pages in - didn't like it at all)
The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
Wolves of the Call - Stephen King
The Bonesetter's Daughter - Amy Tan
A Density of Souls - Christopher Rice
The dying animal - Philip Roth
A quiet life - by Kenzaburo Oe
The unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro
Abandon -Pico Iyer
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Posted by Cheryl on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:00:00 PST

Low - leak

2 songs from the new Low album (out next month) have leaked.  Asthetically I like them.  And one I had heard previously in a live show but...well I miss Zak Sally.  Maybe it's not him b...
Posted by Cheryl on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:46:00 PST

Spank me

This new video by Asylum Street Spankers, and it's excellent and political and worth watching for a great laugh.  Watch it here PS - We're going to see them in Fall River in November @ the Narro...
Posted by Cheryl on Sat, 30 Sep 2006 05:51:00 PST

Ok, I'm going to say it...

It makes me sad that people keep getting photo shopped out of the Twelfth of Never pictures.   I dunno, I'm just the kind of person that still keeps tucked away somewhere pictures of former frien...
Posted by Cheryl on Sun, 10 Sep 2006 04:40:00 PST

Vermont here I come!

First off, i'm very sorry to the people that have posted picture comments or just regular comments and I haven't responded, I WILL get back to people, I'm just slow and preoccupied!   I can't WAI...
Posted by Cheryl on Fri, 30 Jun 2006 04:56:00 PST

I love pictures of myself!!!

That is SUCH a lie...but I do in fact love wedding pictures of myself.  ;)   Y'all should check out Leanh's page for pictures...really - otherwise I'm just going to spam you with them. (clic...
Posted by Cheryl on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 07:07:00 PST

I'm married

HOLY CRAP   Check out the pics and tell me how beautiful I am, it's ok, I can take it 
Posted by Cheryl on Wed, 31 May 2006 01:22:00 PST

For the record...

I'M GETTING MARRIED IN 10 DAYS.   How crazy is that?
Posted by Cheryl on Thu, 18 May 2006 03:47:00 PST

I can't believe it's been about 2 months

Things are just too hectic these days to post - however I'm alive and VERY well. 
Posted by Cheryl on Mon, 15 May 2006 05:18:00 PST

Hope you get laid!!!

Happy V Day ....now go get lucky!  ;)  
Posted by Cheryl on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 06:53:00 PST