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Julie

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I was a yuppy and now I'm going to try on dilettante for the spring and summer. And apparently the fall...

My Interests

self-improvement via baking and 'broidering. brunch with spicy bloody marys. the roof deck. eavesdropping on dinner conversations. face.

I'd like to meet:

I love Robert Mitchum and would want to meet anyone who could challenge his cool. Plus Dirk Nowitzki.

Music:

LCD Soundsystem cheers me up.

Movies:

Velvet Goldmine, Some Like it Hot, The Impostors, Night of the Hunter, Casablanca, Fever Pitch, Guy Maddin's stuff. And silly enough, I recently watched that schlock Rob Zombie horror movie "The Devil's Rejects" and kinda really liked it.

Television:

flight of the conchords

Books:

The authors I really like are: Jonathan Ames, Haruki Murakami, Dashiell Hammett, Jane Austen. The Sun Also Rises is one of my favorite novels. I quite enjoy reading gofugyourself.com every day. Also, my friend Daniel Browne generally recommends really good books you otherwise would never have heard of. Just ask him.

Heroes:

just for one day

My Blog

Damn-near perfect summer Sunday 7.1.07

Poker at 8am / some sleep from 9.30 to 12.30 / Up and at 'em with an iced coffee and a sundress / "Indians are way better drawers than me" / easy G train ride / cinematic images of 1970s tight jeans a...
Posted by Julie on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 10:47:00 PST

Things I don't enjoy about waking up in a crap hotel in Rochester, MN.

  1. There was a used q-tip on the floor in the hallway directly outside my room. Good morning, earwax! 2. Maxwell House coffee 3. Old people making their own waffles 4. The crunchy, en...
Posted by Julie on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:23:00 PST

The walls in my apartment building are thick

...but one night last week when I couldn't sleep I heard my next door neighbor having sex. No vocals, just the faint but certain rhythms of a headboard banging against the opposite side of the wall. H...
Posted by Julie on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 06:22:00 PST

Things I actually dreamt about last night. 4/3/07

Chris complimenting my new black wool coat and then realizing it is spring and turning his nose up at it.  Me missing Dan and Lisa's wedding and only making it to the last hour of the recept...
Posted by Julie on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:09:00 PST

are the scissor sisters

perverted or wholesome? anyone? 
Posted by Julie on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:59:00 PST

cage match: shangri-las vs. rihanna

Oh, obviously the Shangri-las would win. Not because they are 3 to Rihanna's 1. Rihanna's single "Unfaithful" - which I hate but kind of can't get enough of - should be the most desperate, crazy wai...
Posted by Julie on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:01:00 PST

taxis, man

I was in portland last week with Denise, you guys. We had a cab driver on Wednesday night and he kept on calling us "you guys" and was really bummed out to be working.  Then on Monday when I went...
Posted by Julie on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 09:25:00 PST