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Lucy

I've heard a lot about your potatoes

About Me

i find this world a cornucopia of joy, frustration, challenge and tedium. i prefer intelligent, thoughtful, considerate, sharp, self-assured, confident people, so i choose to believe that everyone is such.i like salad a lot.

My Interests

dance, music, fashion design, sewing, rhetoric, grammar, urban use, politics

I'd like to meet:

people who don't need to be babysat, have their hands held,
or constantly need reassurance.

people who know when i need my hand held
and when i need reassurance.

Music:

jazz, revolution-espousing folk, and deep, funky, chewy, non-drippy soul

Movies:

Buster Keaton, The Sting, Antonia's Line, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Cold Comfort Farm, The Corporation, Swimming To Cambodia, Blade, Serenity, Bladerunner, The Usual Suspects, Down By Law, Little Miss Sunshine, City of Lost Children, The Philladelphia Story, Charade, The Sting, Cool Hand Luke, Underworld, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, Strangers On A Train, Scared Sacred

Books:

Howard Zinn, Barbara Ehrenreich, Barbara Kingsolver, Louise Erdrich, Shani Mootoo, Laurie R. King, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Michael Ondaatje, Mikhail Bakhtin, Richard Dawkins, Norman Solomon, Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Michael Crummey, Alice Munro

Heroes:

the guy who spraypainted "PENIS" on a wall in my neighbourhood, over a cunningly crafted graphic of a penis with what appear to be claws on the tip (i suspect it is supposed to be ejaculating). . .my mom. . .your mom.

My Blog

Do you ever get the feeling that youre adopted?

Yesterday featured the flag-raising ceremony at Vancouver City Hall. Yes, the big ol' Olympics are coming to our little burg, and for the next four years we'll have the iconic five rings flapping...
Posted by Lucy on Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:56:00 PST