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Nicole

About Me


Which Rock Chick Are You?
Your Brain's Pattern
Your mind is a firestorm - full of intensity and drama.
Your thoughts may seem scattered to you most of the time...
But they often seem strong and passionate to those around you.
You are a natural influencer. The thoughts you share are very powerful and persuading. What Pattern Is Your Brain?
Your Rising Sign is Leo
You are confident, self-assured, and more than a little vain.And you have a flair for the dramatic - whether you're on stage or causing trouble.Your spirit can't stay in one place very long.You like to live in new places and travel the world.Cultured and sophisticated, you pride yourself on having good taste.You are an expert in art, music, food, and film. What is Your Rising Sign?This is so true! Especially the last line!

My Interests

words, sentences, paragraphs, writing, reading, french theory (esp. the feminist/post-structuralists), visual rhetoric, numbers, photography, music, poker, the 70s, courtroom proceedings, hotels, travelling and some other stuff i can't remember right now.

Music:

the cure, white stripes, band of horses, the national, cold war kids, muse, pixies, red house painters, radiohead, verve, sonic youth, bauhaus, joy division, spiritualized, slowdive, bread, beegees, patsy cline, linda ronstadt, jeff buckley, pj harvey, led zeppelin, billie holiday, etta james, ella fitzgerald, drive like jehu, leonard cohen, yokodeathray, velvet underground, queens of the stone age, etc.Check out my 70s mix on finetune (love love love this!)

Movies:

donnie darko, the royal tenenbaums, life aquatic, confessions of a dangerous mind, fargo, raising arizona, hurly burly, the hours, cabinet of dr. kaligari, wizard of oz, la dolce vita, clueless, killbill2, waiting for guffman, requiem for a dream, the shining, streetcar named desire, breakfast at tiffany's, most of tarantino's work, edward scissorhands, the nightmare before christmas, 2001: A Space Odyssey, dracula (w/gary oldman of course), apocalypse now, repulsion, spirited away, crash, you and me and everyone we know, etc.

Television:

snow

Books:

any or most things by: clarice lispector, anne carson, julia kristeva, helene cixous, virginia woolf, gertrude stein, milan kundera, tolstoy (just read anna karenina--what a fucking genius!), maurice blanchot, charlotte bronte, jeanette winterson, hermann hesse, georges perec, roland barthes, anais nin, henry miller, jean rhys, don delillo (esp. white noise), dostoyevsky, camus, anne sexton, marilynne robinson, knut hamsun, nadja by andre breton, J.K. Huysman, toni morrison, faulkner, fitzgerald, hemingway, ted hughes so many more.

Heroes:

batman, anne carson, virginia woolf, edward r. murrow

My Blog

Cannibal

"If you keep eating me up," she told him,  "There won't be anything left of me." He took another bite anyway, Telling himself it was love....
Posted by Nicole on Fri, 23 Sep 2005 11:11:00 PST