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i always mew mew

it's not so much an 'existential inquietude', yeah? well, yes

About Me

a nice little housewife who'll give me a steady life and won't keep going off the rails.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

lovebirds. starlings. finches. sparrows. parrolets. cockatoos and cockatiels.

Music:

abba. alpha. autour de lucie. bjork. blanket music. blonde redhead. bright eyes. broken social scene. camera obscura. cardigans. !!! cinerama. cocteau twins. covenant. cure. decemberists. depeche mode. echo and the bunnymen. elvis costello. frausdots. GOLDFRAPP. herspaceholiday. interpol. joy division. junior senior. kaito. kings of convenience. kylie! *ladytron* leonard cohen *lush*. madonna. mamas and the papas. manu chao. mates of state. metric. michael johnson. moving units. mlwttkk. neutral milk hotel. new order. nick cave. now it's overhead. patsy cline. phillipe katerine. portishead. primal scream. pulp. radiohead. ride. siouxsie. smiths. soft cell. sons and daughters. sophie ellis-bextor. stars (the EP! the EP!). stone roses. suede. supergrass. teenage fanclub (howdy!). thom yorke. but, especially and oh so much---**TILLY AND THE WALL**. tricky. unwound. vnv (i admit it. do you?). vive la fete. wire. there are oh so many more.

Movies:

bringing up baby. secretary. cat on a hot tin roof. amelie. the royal tenenbaums. the baxter. i love you to death. cq. shopgirl.

Television:

arrested development. top model (except this season, my lord!). local news.

Books:

paul celan. joan didion.

Heroes:

ira glass. miki berenyi. albert camus. coco chanel. pierre hardy. marc jacobs. tilly and the wall. tony kushner. harold pinter. jean-pierre jeunet. my mom.

My Blog

the best kind (flat, smelly, with painted-on windows)

when i was about 4, it had been declared chez sullivan that i would end up getting married on the couch.  curled up in my favorite corner of this brown, green, and orange couch wit...
Posted by i always mew mew on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 06:01:00 PST

i knew it!!!: cul de sacs, worse than we thought

the following is excerpted from npr. on safety myths of cul de sacs. they could have avoided backing over their _own_ children. Safety HypeLucy says safety has always been a big selling point for cul-...
Posted by i always mew mew on Fri, 09 Jun 2006 05:06:00 PST

i love gore vidal...

...and not just because of Myra Brekinridge, though would be reason enough. http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/25/1458238i would say listen to this rather than read it. i love his voice....
Posted by i always mew mew on Tue, 31 Jan 2006 05:11:00 PST

miss my bird

yep. for the first time in 17 years i am without my beloved Baby the Lovebird, my partner in crime and super chewer-of-paper-strips. it is possible that at her age she was a very unusual lovebird, as ...
Posted by i always mew mew on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 05:06:00 PST