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k is for katrina

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About Me


"There will come a moment when, like deer quivering and flicking up their ears toward a noiseless noise in the woods, the first adopters will suddenly realize they’re spending their time blogging and adding and gawking at the same alarming photos an army of 14-year olds are and, quick as deer, they’ll dash to the next trend. And before you know it, we’ll all follow.”

My Interests

i love love love:
writing
wind up robots
bright red nailpolish
1960s carpet
thunderstorms in summer
music that makes your heart skip and your brain go tingly and you can't help smiling all funny
little silver deer brooches
super hot bloody marys
crazy crazy kitty cats
vinegar on chips
crying at movies
sewing cute little skirts
dancing like i mean it
interactive art
nooners
the little plastic leia
cooking while drinking red
compu pu pu pu pu pu pu puter games
watching tv in bed
the fool who loves me

I'd like to meet:


I’ve Dreamed of You So Much
Robert Desnos

I've dreamed of you so much that you're losing your reality.

Is it already too late for me to embrace your literal, living and breathing physical body
and to kiss that mouth which is the birthplace of that voice which is so dear to me?

I've dreamed of you so much that my arms--which have become accustomed to lying
crossed upon my own chest after attempting to encircle your shadow— might not be able to unfold again to embrace the contours of your literal form, perhaps

So that coming face-to-face with the actual incarnation of what has haunted me and ruled me and dominated my life for so many days and years

Might very well turn me into a shadow.

Oh equilibriums of the emotional scales!

I've dreamed of you so much that it might be too late for me to ever wake up again.

I sleep on my feet, body confronting all the usual phenomena of life and love and yet
when it comes to you--you, the only being on the planet who matters to me now--

I can no more touch your face and lips than I can those of the next random passerby.

I've dreamed of you so much, have walked and talked and slept so much with your phantom presence that perhaps the only thing left for me to do now

Is to become a phantom among phantoms, a shadow a hundred times more shadowy than
that shifting shape which moves and which will go on moving, stepping lightly and happily across the sundial of your life.

if you're going to bite down don't bite so hard did you know your vagrance smells like tin when my back is turned when i've had one too many when your words mean absolutely nothing and a grant that came that granted shit how can you sit i hope you don't sleep i hope you like listening to music made for girls.

Music:

stuff that sounds a lot like The Microphones, The Velvet Underground, Deerhoof, Lou Reed, David Bowie, GBV, Scout Niblett, Shooting At Unarmed Men, Holly Golightly, Andrew Bird, !!!, Camera Obscura, The Shins, Leonard Cohen, Neutral Milk Hotel, Belle and Sebastian, The Olivia Tremor Control, The Grates, The Panda Band, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Thom Yorke, Stereolab, Cocteau Twins, KOL, BRMC, Brian Eno, Danielson, The Pixies/The Breeders, Polyphonic Spree, The Strokes, Tapes 'n Tapes, The Vasco Era, Mr Wednesday, Mountains in the Sky, The Mountain Goats, Lavender Diamond, Au Revoir Simone, Asobi Seksu, Pipas

Movies:

films almost exactly like Code 46, 15, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Buffalo 66, 2046, Stalker, Naked Lunch, Tampopo, The Pillow Book, Amelie, Donnie Darko, The Warriors, Taxi Driver, Everything Is Illuminated, City of Lost Children, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive, Wild at Heart, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Wizard of Oz, the original Star Wars trilogy, Tron, The Sea Is Watching, Fargo, The Princess Bride, Tideland, Stalker, Labyrinth, Calvaire and most b-grade horror especially vampire movies

Television:

The Mighty Boosh, Dr Who, Twin Peaks, Get Smart, Black Books, Six Feet Under, Grey's Anatomy, Meerkat Manor, Macross, Absolute Power, Extras, Degrassi, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Wilfred, Scrubs, Battlestar Galactica, The Magic Roundabout, Love My Way, Carnivale

Books:

yes! almost anything by:
Anais Nin, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S Thompson, Kinky Friedman, Philip K Dick, Charles Bukowski, Robert Desnos, e.e. cummings, Frank Moorhouse and others from The Push

pretty much enchanted by
The Little Prince, Where the Wild Things Are, Love In The Time Of Cholera, Catcher In the Rye, and oh too many more to mention

My Blog

thesis schmesis

due tomorrow. aaaaaaagh! after which i will return to the world.
Posted by k is for katrina on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:16:00 PST

the world is a question

yes! in melbourne for work on september 6, i had a couple of hours spare, so i went to the guggenheim exhibition currently visiting the melbourne art gallery. kids, do yourself a favour and go see it ...
Posted by k is for katrina on Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:25:00 PST

yellow tiles and elevator music

i went to see a living arts festival thing in a carpark elevator. it was called 'elevator music'. it promised me yellow tiles and mr wednesday music. i love my installation art as much ...
Posted by k is for katrina on Thu, 16 Aug 2007 01:59:00 PST

Gilliam Madness

So. Last night we went to see Mr Gilliam's latest creation: Tideland. Wow. It's the kind of film where it's too soon for me to have an intelligent opinion, and I suspect it may be that way f...
Posted by k is for katrina on Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:51:00 PST

words and pictures

    Pictures of Me     Standing outside the prison gates, it seems I'm breathing fresh air for the first time in ten years, although a quiet voice in my mind tells me this is an il...
Posted by k is for katrina on Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:04:00 PST

so incredibly rich

  yesterday, the prize money arrived for the award i won for 'the invitation'.  a cheque for $300 for my writing. oh. my. goodness. you mean it's possible to get paid for this? wow.  ...
Posted by k is for katrina on Sat, 26 May 2007 09:50:00 PST

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese. ~G.K. Chesterton

The Stereotype & The Cliché or Jeremy's Magic Poem What would you do if, one day, you woke up and everything looked different? If you looked around and the world seemed so much more colourful, m...
Posted by k is for katrina on Fri, 18 May 2007 10:58:00 PST

writing...

The Invitation I'm standing in the shelter of a shop verandah, looking out at the mist of rain. The Tokyo weather bureau has predicted that the summer of 1999 will be the hottest in years, and it ...
Posted by k is for katrina on Sun, 13 May 2007 08:36:00 PST

SAMiZDAT

hell yes.
Posted by k is for katrina on Fri, 11 May 2007 04:58:00 PST

little magazines and bubble wrap and cute girls and clever sayings

so i went to a zine fair on the weekend. in this little town, there were probably about thirty or so zines at the fair and i would guess that's a small amount but it was busy tables all around. i'm in...
Posted by k is for katrina on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:45:00 PST