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Zhana

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhapp

About Me

"If you cultivate caring long enough the next thing you know you think its love.”
“What’s wrong with love?”
“Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you’ll never meet them."
-Bukowski

My Interests

Writing, painting, travelling, reading, music, mind-altering substances, biking, coffee and cigarettes......

I'd like to meet:

No one. I've pretty much had it with this scene.

Music:

Regina Spektor, Rachel Reis, The Goodnight Loving, Decibully, Lake, The Candliers, Jail, The Paper Chase, Against Me!, Tom Petty, The Decembrists, Local H, Robert Blake, Chopin, and lots of other stuff. Milwaukee bands are pretty great.

Movies:

the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, I Heart Huckabees, Waking Life, Dead Poets Society, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, 21 Grams, Lost in Translation, Good Bye Lenin, The Corporation, The Spanish Apartment, Adaptation, Control Room, The Edukators, and almost all foreign films and movies with a point.

Television:

Family Guy. Six Feet Under and Carnivale were pretty good...I don't watch TV.

Books:

Tom Robbins, Milan Kundera, Hermann Hesse, J.D Salinger, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, George Orwell, Dostoevsky, Oscar Wilde, Sylvia Plath, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Pushkin, Gogol, Alexandre Dumas, Kahlil Gibran, Zora Neale Hurston, Carson McCullers, Jonathon Safron Foer, T.S. Eliot, Allen Ginsberg, E.E. Cummings, Virginia Woolf, man there are way too many to even start mentioning books....

Heroes:

Jon Stewart, Tom Robbins (I want his babies), Dali...authors in general. Good people...they are hard to come by.

My Blog

Riverwest Junkyard (a poem)

Riverwest Junkyard It smells like beer that's beenleft out in the sun;black guitars like rebellion,  the kind you play dress up with. And hey, look at us,we can snort more shit up our n...
Posted by Zhana on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:48:00 PST

:)

The trick of finding what you didn't lose(existing's tricky:but to live's a gift)the teachable imposture of alwaysarriving at the place you never left (and I refer to thinking) rests uponA dismal misc...
Posted by Zhana on Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:07:00 PST