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Irene

The greatest singer of your grandparent's generation.

About Me


I love to read, watch movies, listen to music, and do French stuff - oh and I improvise with some pretty great folks at IO and the Playground.

My Interests

Practicing my French, hanging out making fun times happen with dear friends.

Also, world affairs:

I'd like to meet:

People that I know. Actual, physical people. Not bands or those poor girls sold into prostitution who use Myspace as thier sole means of escape. Please. So depressing. Put some pants on, ladies.
You know know I'd really like to meet? This guy:

Mostly for his yuck yucks

This dude:

For the romance
And finally this guy:
For the philosophical convos.
I just noticed there isn't a place on here for goals. Can you believe that!? Don't you want to know what your friends goals are? I sure do. If you feel this is unjust please post your own goals somewhere on your myspace page. The following video shows a woman who has hijacked my dreams and made them her life.
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Music:

I'm madly in love with The Decemberists, also MC Solaar, Serge Gainsbourg, Andrew Bird, MIA, Feist, GIRL TALK!!, The Rapture, Daftpunk, Air, Beyonce!, Kanye West, Mos Def, Ghostface, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Strokes, Wilco, Tom Waits, That one song by Soul Decision, Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, David Bowie, Kate Bush, anything that has a good beat that I can dance to, The Books, The Unicorns, Feist, The White Stripes, Bjork, Spoon, The Shins (despite being featured in Garden State), Joanna Newsome, DJ Shadow, Peaches, Louis Reed, Neil Diamond, Tori Amos when she was good, Kings of Leon, The Black Keys, Dusty Springfield, Broken Social Scene, Man Man, X-tina, The Rolling Stones, Journey (for real.), disco, club anthems, summertime pop songs that you can't escape, anything that will make a group of people sing.

Movies:

The Professional, Lost in Translation, Paper Moon, All that Jazz, Wet Hot American Summer, The Butcher Boy, Jaws, The Temple of Doom, Better off Dead, The 5th Element, All the Presidents Men, Swing Kids, 400 Blows, Belle Du Jour, Amelie (yeah, yeah whatever. It DID change my life.), Battle Royale, Oldboy, Ringu ... I LOVE J-HORROR. ANYTHING by Michael Haneke (Cache, Piano Teacher, Time of the Wolf, Funny Games), Crash (not the dumb new one), Videodrome, History of Violence, Beaches, The Seventh Seal, Blue Velvet, Ghostworld, Kill Bill, LOTR, The New World, Repulsion, Secretary, Strictly Ballroom, Waiting for Guffman, Charade, Breakfast at Tiffany's, X-men 1&2 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, The Fly and anything starring Hilary Duff.

Television:

Twin Peaks, Mr. Show, Monty Python, Comedians of Comedy, Six Feet Under, Freaks and Geeks, Undeclared, Deadwood, Curb Your Enthusiasm, V-Mars, Stephen Colbert, League of Gentlemen, The Wire (!), Dancing with the Stars and ANTM - don't judge me - and I'm looking forward to finally watching the end of the Prisoner.

Anything historical. ....

Books:

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Little Friend, The Secret History, The Jungle, The Color Purple, Disgrace, Wise Blood, The Watchmen, V for Vendetta, From Hell, The Sandman, Wuthering Heights, Breakfast of Champions, Lolita, Despair, Franny and Zooey, Shirley Jackson, A personal matter, HIS DARK MATERIALS!!!, Beowulf, Samuel Noah Kramer, Their Eyes were Watching God, Night, The Bluest Eye, Divine Comedy, Labyrinths, Love in the time of Cholera, Confederacy of mutha fuckin Dunces. The Preacher, Wind Up Bird Cronicles, Paradise Lost, Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Illiad, The Stranger, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Unbearable Lightness of Being, books with citations (I'm looking at you bell hooks and I'm not impressed), Song of Roland, Fast Food Nation, Prep, books about France or old stuff.

Heroes:

Heroes probably isn't the right section for this, but I just found this video of my old belly dancing instructor Nabila Metwali on Arabic Television. This woman is in her late 40s.

Nabila Metwali
Uploaded by 5ra

Heinrich Schliemann and Maya Angelou.

My Blog

To the members of the Senate - or anyone who wants to read this

Griffen and I have had problems with our apartment pretty much since we moved in. I will spare you the litany of complains but they have included (but are not limited to) a mouse, a hole in the bedroo...
Posted by Irene on Thu, 24 May 2007 06:28:00 PST

Travelogue 3: The Empire of the Dead

I've been back in Paris since Tuesday afternoon & ah I love it here. I've been taking a lot of long walks or sitting in parks reading my book in between visits to museums. I haven't done anything real...
Posted by Irene on Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:10:00 PST

Travelogue 2 : this one's long

I caught an earlier train out of Cassis yesterday morning for several reasons. First of all, I was hoping to get to Lyon a bit earlier. I didn't, it was okay. Secondly, after checking out of my hotel ...
Posted by Irene on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 12:33:00 PST

Travelogue 1

This is my second day in Cassis, a little resort town about 20km east of Marseille. I didn't spend any time in Marseille itself and after riding the train through what I assume is a large part of the ...
Posted by Irene on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:32:00 PST

Things I like

Here are a few things that make me really happy right now. (Let's forget this dreary, snowy day)* The fact that a week from now I will be in France watching the sun set and thinking about the cheese i...
Posted by Irene on Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:14:00 PST

What's new?

So what's it been, a month? Maybe longer. I haven't felt like writing anything lately and I've been doing so much I haven't had the time. Here's a few things that have been going on. We had to pr...
Posted by Irene on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 02:21:00 PST

Pantyhose/tights - have you noticed my unhealthy preoccupation with underwear?

I'm so tired of wearing pantyhose and tights. Who's with me? It's definitely warmer today (the sign outside the Lakeshore Athletic club tells me it's 24 degrees - paradise) but since I'm wearing a ski...
Posted by Irene on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 08:08:00 PST

Read my big game recap!

Every conversation I've had with a cab driver in the last few days has been weird. I mean really weird.   For those of you who don't know, it's been hovering around 0 degrees since Friday (that...
Posted by Irene on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:32:00 PST

My unending search for proper undergarments

I've been doing a lot of shopping lately. I don't mean to, it's just that I didn't have a lot of nice winter clothes going in to this winter and in the past year I've decided that looking nice is imp...
Posted by Irene on Wed, 31 Jan 2007 09:06:00 PST

It really IS a new year, new me. Also - why are people so mean to old folks?

There's so much going on right now - I'm very busy in exactly the way I want to be. Last night was my first rehearsal for a play that I'm doing that Maya wrote and is directing. It's playing at a fest...
Posted by Irene on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 11:15:00 PST