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ashley p

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About Me

While extremely rare in my life, this kind of organization is what makes me feel happier, calmer and more satisfied than nearly anything:

Save The World - One Click At A Time!

On each of these websites, you can click a button to support the cause -- each click creates funding, and costs you nothing! Bookmark these sites, and click once a day!

My Interests

blog/vlogging , planning adventures , reading up, the northwest and the southwest (i'll just say The West), speaking spanish and spanglish, struggling to keep my idealism, couchsurfing, mi familia, movies (everything about them - all of them, good or bad), imagining my life narrated by Arundhati Roy, finding the xicanista inside me and bringing her out to change the world!

I'd like to meet:

the succubus hunter! also, this kid .

Music:

Now me and Delia singin' every Sunday,
Watchin' the children in the garden grow.
We listen to the radio to hear what's cookin'
But the music ain't got no soul.

Now they sound tired but they don't sound Haggard.
They got money but they don't have Cash.
They got Junior but they don't have Hank.
I think, I think, I think the rest is

A long time gone...

Movies:

CLICK HERE TO SEE WHAT I'VE BEEN WATCHING
MY TOP 50:
A Love Song For Bobby Long, About a Boy, Adaptation, The Adventures of Sebastian Cole, Annie Hall, As Good As It Gets, Being John Malkovich, The Bicycle Thief, Bottle Rocket, Capote, Children of Men, Cool Hand Luke, Crooklyn, Do the Right Thing, Don't Look Back, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Grizzly Man, Half Nelson, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, High Fidelity, Jackie Brown, Jerry Maguire, The Laramie Project, Life is Beautiful, Lost in Translation, Mad Hot Ballroom, The Motorcycle Diaries, My Life Without Me, Mystic River, Napoleon Dynamite, Primary Colors, Pulp Fiction, Quinceañera, Real Women Have Curves, Reality Bites, Rounders, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, Sherman's March, Spellbound (dir. Jeffrey Blitz), The Talented Mr. Ripley, Temporada de Patos, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, Traffic, The Truman Show, Volver, Waiting For Guffman, Wayne's World, Wonder Boys
"Harvey and I sit in the bars... have a drink or two... play the juke box. And soon the faces of all the other people, they turn toward mine and they smile. And they're saying, 'We don't know your name, mister, but you're a very nice fella.' Harvey and I warm ourselves in all these golden moments. We've entered as strangers - soon we have friends. And they come over... and they sit with us... and they drink with us... and they talk to us. They tell about the big terrible things they've done and the big wonderful things they'll do. Their hopes, and their regrets, and their loves, and their hates. All very large, because nobody ever brings anything small into a bar. And then I introduce them to Harvey... and he's bigger and grander than anything they offer me. And when they leave, they leave impressed. The same people seldom come back; but that's envy, my dear. There's a little bit of envy in the best of us. "

Television:



Books:

Borderlands/La Frontera, Chronicles, Vol. 1, Catcher in the Rye, The Bean Trees, To Kill a Mockingbird, Less Than Zero....

Heroes:

iris almaraz, rina fernandez, isabel coixet sofia coppola, marilyn agrelo, johanna hibbard, barbara kopple, patricia cardoso, amy heckerling, shainee gabel, agnes varda, maya deren, claire denis, mary harron, kathryn bigelow, penny marshall, jane campion, ellen kuras, naomi uman, kelly reichardt, miranda july, susanne bier, sarah polley, tamara jenkins, adrienne shelley, mira nair, nora ephron...

ALSO!

My Blog

Here I Go to México!

I'm leaving! Flying to Monterrey, Nuevo Leon; landing, catching a cab to a hostel, and then devising the details of my plan. I know I'm going to Monterrey, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro and Mexico City,...
Posted by ashley p on Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:23:00 PST

survey time! (thanks nee)

90. First off, what is your name?Ashley89. What did you do last night?Hung out with my primos and then tried to watch 30 Rock online...didn't work. :(88. Do you have a best friend that you can talk to...
Posted by ashley p on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:00:00 PST

"this is a cool, quirky thing about me!" NOT

70 Quirks about me:1. What are your initials? ARP2. What is your favorite thing to wear? beautiful vintage dresses. *Funny side story: i wanted to link to a picture of a pretty vintage dress, so I wen...
Posted by ashley p on Tue, 31 Jul 2007 05:13:00 PST

random late night/early morning survey

A-ZA- available: i don't think i like that wordB- best sport: golf... NOTC- crush: i prefer sunkist orange sodaD- dogs name: no dogE- easiest people to talk to: my friendsF- favorite color: green or ...
Posted by ashley p on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 06:07:00 PST

Food/Comida

So I've been thinking about food a lot lately.  Here are some of my favorites. --Pizza Schmizza Dipsticks with Alfredo Sauce. Oh. My. God. Heavenly. And filling, and with a student discount, less...
Posted by ashley p on Fri, 17 Feb 2006 11:19:00 PST

Facts, Dwight Style

FACT: I get my vegetable intake almost solely from salsa. FACT: I love biting off both ends of a red vine and using it as a straw in Dr. Pepper or Cherry Cola... if those aren't around pretty much an...
Posted by ashley p on Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:08:00 PST

Florida Here I Come!

I just got back from a tournament at OSU and Oh. My. God.  For the first time, I went with a clear goal: for Jess and I to win Duo, which would qualify us for nationals.  And WE DID!  I...
Posted by ashley p on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:19:00 PST

Capote

I saw Capote last night and OH. MY. GOD.  Best new movie I've seen in quite a while.  Here are a few of the reasons in random order. --Technically speaking, it was incredible.  The cin...
Posted by ashley p on Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:11:00 PST

blog writing center

The tutor at the blog writing center gave me some feedback and said that my theory from a few posts back didn't really deliver... the thing about always smelling the sour milk in the fridge. So her...
Posted by ashley p on Thu, 09 Feb 2006 10:15:00 PST

Reel life

One time, probably in between catching 60 peso buses from pueblo to pueblo on the pacific coast of Oaxaca, Mexico, I remember talking to Felipe (a.k.a. Jelipe, Feleepz, Flipz, Flip Fantasia, Phillip, ...
Posted by ashley p on Wed, 08 Feb 2006 09:57:00 PST