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China Blue

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About Me

I am so excited for my upcoming year in Germany! As you all know, I have been working very hard to raise the money I will need for basic expenses (i.e. schnitzels and laundry) and the exchange rate is killer. It's at €1=$1.57 today and likely to get worse. So I am asking for donations. My goal is $10,000 for the year. I have almost half of that. I really don't expect anything from this donation button. I just thought it would be a neat idea. Every dollar (or Euro) will make a difference. If you don't donate, I will still love you. If you get too scared by the giant red WARNING pop-up that follows pushing this button (a MySpace thing), well, that's ok too. It's through paypal if that makes you feel any more secure. Thanks so much everyone!

My Interests

art, cheap art supplies, reading about everything,dancing, Dominions III, eating chocolate, excellent virtu--best gallery ever, my hodge-podge computer, fixing my 1986 BMW, not shopping, ok go!, Crowds of 80,00 people or more, KINAF. Vegetarianism

I'd like to meet:

Dominique Streatfield,and the resurrected soul of Eyvind Earle

Music:

Anything with a violin. Notes that physically tickle. Things that remind me of bonfires and bare feet.Bob Dylan and Coralie Clemmont. Traveling Music. The Frankies, No Circus, and Cold War Kids, Band Marino. Old movie scores and new ones

Movies:

Spirited Away, Empire Records, The first 50 minutes of Elephant, Fantastic Planet, Anything with Maggie Gyllenhaal *The Secretary*, A Tale of Two Sisters, Grave of the fireflies: do not watch this at four am, Mirror Mask, Dr.Seuss cartoons, Metropolis, The Labyrinth, Land Before Time, Pan's Labyrinth, Legend, Crimes of Passion

Television:

I don't have the time to watch other people's notlives.

Books:

Life of Pi, Catch 22, Vanity Fair, Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography, We The Living, Pride and Prejudice, Alas Babylon, Waiting for Godot, Beowulf, Cryptonomicon, Slaughterhouse five, The great Gatsby, Hero with a Thousand Faces, Lou Tzu, A Theory of Everything, Fastfood Nation, Till we have faces, The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Blink, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, Watership Down, Phi, Vegan: A new Ethics to eating, Reefer Madness, I can't name them all

Heroes:

Lauretta Manendez, China Blue and Eyvind Earle

My Blog

Getting carpet-shocked by God

The beautiful piece below, "Because of Toast" by Joe Sorren, has recently caught my attention. It reveals a  quiet wonder at the splendor of simple things. He is so happy in his anticipation and ...
Posted by China Blue on Mon, 19 May 2008 12:05:00 PST

Aristeia en Ikea

In the beginning there was compressed wood chips in a card board box. Ikea called this "Dresser" and Kris saw that it was goodIkea created guidelines for Kris to construct her life by and showed them ...
Posted by China Blue on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 06:36:00 PST

Le Sacre du Printemps

Things have been hectic, but in a good way. I submitted my application to the German CBYX program the day before yesterday. I hit "finalize", threw on a dress and my boots and ran out the door to Carn...
Posted by China Blue on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 05:44:00 PST

Family Circus, Calvin, Hobbes and Nietzsche

The family circus ones are from a website: Fun but the Calvin and Hobbes meets Nietzsche quotes were of my devising. Have fun!God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.Behind your though...
Posted by China Blue on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 01:35:00 PST

Ad Hoc Living

I am gearing up for my next step in all of this: School. I am plotting my way into Columbia so that I can eat nothing but Ramon Noodles and potatoes for the next three years and be in debt for the nex...
Posted by China Blue on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 12:24:00 PST

Am I ever afraid in New York?

I am currently sitting at my cousin's desk in Florida. She was kind enough to buy me a plane ticket down here, knowing how much I wanted to see my family. Sunday my great grandfather turns 100, not th...
Posted by China Blue on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 08:10:00 PST

A Letter Back Home

'Allo Chuck,Losing my job really wasn't my fault. The person they hired me to replace decided not to go back to school or something so I became superfluous. I needed to find a job that wasn't so confl...
Posted by China Blue on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:11:00 PST

Just me complaining, pay no attention

All I want to do is work hard at my internship and go to school full time. What a crazy dream eh? I want to take French III, a course in current global politics, a class on software for the art i...
Posted by China Blue on Fri, 31 Aug 2007 08:14:00 PST

A Plea for Corporate Conscience

..> .. ... . Monday, August 13, 2007   ..>   ..>   A Plea for Corporate Conscience By LEO HINDERY JR. AMERICANS ARE RELENTLESSLY OPTIMISTIC, and we want to believe tha...
Posted by China Blue on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:54:00 PST

On Building A Kite

Have ever wanted to build a kite? Well, here is a simple kite you can make your self! A kite consists of these basic parts: The Spine. The up-and-down, or vertical stick that you build your kite a...
Posted by China Blue on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:36:00 PST