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Pentagonista

Live to Love When You Love to Live

About Me

Native New Yorker transplanted through the sunny skies to LA. I'm a writer who would die without spell check. I like long walks, words of wisdom from youth, fresh fruits and veggies, rainbows after it rains, a good opponent in a wicked game of chess, novels that I wished went on forever, sunsets, and art of all forms. My Mother, my friends, and my dog are the axis my world spins on. ..

My Interests

Writing, Reading, Friends, Traveling, Gourmet Cooking, Hiking, My Dog, The Beach, Boating, Museums, Philosophy, Music Listening and Making, Films, NFPT League Poker Nights, Hosting Small Unforeseen Parties, Swimming, Spoken Word, Belly Dancing, Earrings that don't get lost in my hair, Going to Live Shows, Random Adventures, Fantastic Surprises, Farmers' Markets, Birthdays, Holidays, (or any other cause for celebration), Road Trips Just Because, Dining Out, Eating In, Tea Parties, Really Long Walks, Sunsets, Stars, Mountains and Rainbows.

I'd like to meet:

Brainiacs, talented artists, people with good taste in music, other writers with deadlines who are procrastinating on myspace.com, and me 15 years ago so I wasn't still cleaning up after her, but only after I met me 10 years from now.

Music:

The Beatles, Sade, NAS, Amy Winehouse, Eminem, Lauryn Hill, Madonna, (all the depressing chicks Tori, Sarah, Ani) Louis Armstrong, U2, Pink Floyd, Aaliyah, Missy Elliot, Everything But the Girl, A Tribe Called Quest, Christa Black, Suzanne Vega, Joan Osborne, NIN, Tina Turner, Thievery Corporation, Bob Marley, Lil' Kim, De La Soul, Fleetwood Mac, Pre-bankrupt Toni Braxton, Tracy Chapman, Bjork, Prince, Depeche Mode, Beastie Boys, Marta Chapman, Michael Jackson, Billie Holliday, Damien Rice, Cafe Del Mar, Lenny Kravitz, Massive Attack, Delerium, The Police, Van Morrison, Enigma, Nirvana, Bauhaus, Concrete Blonde, TLC, Coldplay, Dave Matthews, Classical, Reggae, Drum-n-Bass, Trip Hop, House, anything really good...

Movies:

PLANET BROOKLYN, Breathless, The Game, Heathers, Raising Victor Vargas, Whale Rider, Forrest Gump, Ghostbusters, Better Off Dead, Terms of Endearment, Irreconcilable Differences, Elephant, The Kid Stays in the Picture, Waking the Dead, High Art, Dangerous Liasons, Finding Forrester, Fresh, Pretty Woman, Chinatown, Funny Girl, Big, E.T.,Miller's Crossing, Any Nightmare on Elm Street, Gremlins, The Legend of Billie Jean, The Goonies, Billy Madison, The Wedding Singer, The Notebook, Stand By Me, The Little Mermaid, Full Metal Jacket, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Kids, Revenge of the Nerds, Badder Santa, Mulholland Drive, The NeverEnding Story, The Rock, Freeway, Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle, The Godfather I and II, Legally Blonde, Mean Girls, The Professional, Dying Young, In America, St. Elmo's Fire, Scary Movie I, Overboard, When Harry Met Sally, The Breakfast Club, Goodfellas, Akira, My Best Friend's Wedding, Brewster's Millions, In the Name of the Father, Serpico, The Wall, Basquiat, Frida, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Believer, The Lost Boys, Less Than Zero, Back to the Future, The Secret of My Success, Bright Lights, Big City, Usual Suspects, Kalifornia, Pulp Fiction, Pump Up the Volume, Garden State, Office Space, Carlito's Way, Scarface, Love Actually, Maria Full of Grace, Hotel Rawanda, Motorcycle Diaries, Tarnation, City of God, Elf, The Shape of Things, The Squid and the Whale, Jesus Camp, Babel, Everything is Illuminated, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe...

Books:

Any Shakespeare, Plath, Hesse, Nin, Plato, Miller, Angelou, L'Engle, Mann, Sartre, Silverstein, or Poe... Valley of the Dolls, The Giving Tree, Henry and June, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Fountainhead, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Republic, Harry Potter, 1984, Tuesdays With Morrie, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, The Prophet, Aesop's Fables, Any Pooh books, Running in Heels, She's Come Undone, A Wrinkle in Time, Love Story (thanks for listening to my tears Bunni), The Bell Jar...

Heroes:

My Mom, Madonna, Anais Nin, Shakespeare and Dictionary.com.

My Blog

Then Came Tomorrow

It is the blood from the Earth that shrieks through my veins crying like breaking leaves ripped from swaying trees drowned in ocean waves Floating numb as bitter broken ice in arctic seas sweet spr...
Posted by Pentagonista on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:39:00 PST

Uprooted Sidewalk Cracks

Old memories walk down these crowded, dirty, narrow cement streetsdotted with yellow cabsand redecorated in new storefronts.The East village is more like Soho  and Harlem gets more like downtowne...
Posted by Pentagonista on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 06:03:00 PST

Unveiling the Black Widow

Blindly, my fingers fellinto the Black Widow's handwho led me waywardthrough a thicket of impossible shadows.Phantoms, ghosts, copies, and unilluminated illusionswere all I could reach.So I built a ma...
Posted by Pentagonista on Mon, 20 Feb 2006 05:13:00 PST

Just Then

It is in the evening,when my naked legsfirst hit the cold and empty sheetsand I pull the dog close to me.The moment I walk through the door  surrounded by my luxuriesthat stretch and grow big and...
Posted by Pentagonista on Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:30:00 PST

Sycamore Rain

Dangling to theclick, click, clickof the white plastic mobilesturning metal music box keyBaby blue and pink poniessway in the air ever so slightlyfrom tattered, woven, butter yellow yarn.Tinkering:Hus...
Posted by Pentagonista on Sat, 07 Jan 2006 12:39:00 PST

A Grown-Up-A-By

  My eyes are pinned open by, a giant red supermarket machine's blue gumballs. Dust may be jammed between the ridges of my cerebellum, causing these same memories to jarringly skip,  &n...
Posted by Pentagonista on Sat, 03 Dec 2005 03:36:00 PST

Behemoth Pain in the HAiku

You are a Shakespearean behemoth, and I just a peddlers haiku. Imitations of you are like kindergarten noodle faces fastened by fluorescent plastic letter magnets on refrigerators. ...
Posted by Pentagonista on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 04:16:00 PST

Quenching the Breach of Life

Aggressive foreigners threaten travel into my reluctant familiar seas. Tides rage so high froth tucks-in the water blue, with white blankets. Breeze's whispers: "Unknown toxicity" ...
Posted by Pentagonista on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 12:18:00 PST

Rain Man's Drought

"You too will face this day." (((((echo))))) my predecessors whispered warnings.   Virginity was lost, long before my first job and schooling commenced, while a driver's ...
Posted by Pentagonista on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 12:22:00 PST

To This River I Pay My Respects (work in progress)

After quite a journey, down a long, long road ... she finally arrived. Although she was covered in soot and sweat, with hair mucked into dirty, tight, long tangles she simply fell to her knees ...
Posted by Pentagonista on Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:50:00 PST