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sharyn

Everyone smiles with that invisible gun to their head.

About Me

You can spend your whole life building a wall of facts between you and anything real. That's the American dream: to make your life into something you can sell.

My Interests

people watching will always be my first love. then green tea, old books (the kind that smell like an attic when you open them), playing violin not nearly enough as I should, finger fucking, fighting off the unrelenting ennui, wishing I knew how to make money, obsessively writing, especially dialogue, despising winter especially right now in February when you feel like you can't take another day and Milan Kundera.

I'd like to meet:

People who stay up all night. Vapid Narcissists & Neuorotics. New bands to book. And I need to meet an Editor who is a complete stranger to help me sort out my writing and make some sense of it.

what I'm listening to...

Music:

don's i-pod

Movies:

Being John Malkovich
Pi
Amadeus
Almost Famous
The Man Who Wasn't There
High Fidelity
Garden State
Mean Girls
Run Lola Run
Chinatown
anything Wes Anderson

Television:

I only get channel 2

Books:

Italo Calvino, Chuck Pahaluniak, Milan Kundera, Murakami, Tom Robbins, Kurt Vonnegut, Khalil Gibran, Edwidge Danticat, Mary Karr, David Sedaris, Augusten Burrough, Bernard Schlink, Leon Uris, Jean-Paul Sartre

Heroes:

the folks at StopSmiling magazine, best publication in the city

My Blog

pitchfork fest bands announced!!

this according to ghost media Pitchfork will be supplying an extra day of fun this year.....  Tickets will go on sale this Monday, March 12th, at noon Central and you can buy them here. Confirm...
Posted by sharyn on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:38:00 PST

david sedaris, april 14

so I found out last night David Sedaris is reading at the Chicago Theater. Excited, I went online to try and find tickets....what I found was a $38.50 ticket plus a $2.50 service fee plus a $10.40 con...
Posted by sharyn on Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:04:00 PST

the elect

Being among the Elect is a theological notion that means: not as a matter of merit but by supernatural judgment, a free, even capricious, determination of God, a person is chosen for something excepti...
Posted by sharyn on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 03:32:00 PST

you really should get a tan...

Matt drops a bottle of wine on the coffee table and the glass shatters. "Dust pan's in the corner," I say, not even flinching.  (The wine was a from a guy whose name I can't remember.A ...
Posted by sharyn on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 01:41:00 PST

I used to be white trash...

When you're growing up you don't realize these things but thinking back I can assure you that its pretty clear that I was once white trash. Let's consider the facts. I met my first boyfriend at a mall...
Posted by sharyn on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:35:00 PST

Teitur--Sunday

this sunday at BK come visit me and see Teitur and of course, the amazing curtis evans.......> TEITUR In 2004...
Posted by sharyn on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 08:14:00 PST

William Elliott Whitmore

hey pick up a copy of Innerview mag to read my William Elliott Whitmore piece. Oddly enough, I bumped into him at Subt a few days after the magazine came out. or scroll down to read here.....> ...
Posted by sharyn on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:25:00 PST

the pAper chAse

pick up a copy of Innervew this month. don't read my dirty on purpose review but this one was ok of The Paper Chase....you should go to the show too....innerview mag THE PAPER CHASE ...
Posted by sharyn on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 08:38:00 PST

man in the sun- Charles Bukowski

i have this posted on my fridge and i thought i would share:she reads to me from the New Yorkerwhich I don't buy, don't knowhow they get in here, but it's something about the Mafiaone of the heads of ...
Posted by sharyn on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:22:00 PST

why i LOVE the music industry

the other day, I was setting up for some sold out emo kiddie rock bullshit show and for these types of shows, there is always a TON of merch to be sold...underwear, tank tops, cds, posters, hoodies, b...
Posted by sharyn on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 03:53:00 PST