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~Shanna~

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. -- Sylvi

About Me

Click on the link above to check out my poetry page!Where do I begin? I am constantly thinking and growing. Sometimes it is subtle and sometimes it is faster than the blink of an eye. I don't know where I am going, but I do know where I have been. I don't know exactly what I want, but I do know the things that are unwanted. I am usually set in my ways, but open to suggestion (even though I might not act on it). I want to laugh. I want to live. I am not afraid to take the extra step even if I look like a complete idiot afterwards. I would rather be a fool than have regrets, so I guess I am not afraid to take chances. After all, living without taking such leaps is just existing and that scares the hell out of me. I am just me. Take it or leave it because I really don't give a damn anymore. MyGen

My Interests

writing, reading, sleeping, cooking, laughing, not being afraid, movies, documentaries, religion, philosophy, working on cellphones, not acting old, lipstick,history, learning a foreign language, karaoke, psychology, smiling, bath&body works lotion, Tyler Durden, noticing my OCD, Siamese cats, complete darkness and silence, video games, being more socially-inclined, having the nerve I had 10 years ago, handbags, Jack White, pens & pencils, journalism, photo-editing, politics, tattoos, Buddha, nail polish, vampires, journals, gossip magazines, true-crime stories, my dreams, and not holding back for one fucking second more than I have to!

I'd like to meet:

You...them...her...him...no-one and everyone!

Here are a couple of my favorite short poems!Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp; Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as well live. -- Dorothy ParkerWhen you came, you were like red wine and honey, And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness. Now you are like morning bread, Smooth and pleasant. I hardly taste you at all, for I know your savior; But I am completely nourished. -- Amy Lowell

Music:


THE WHITE STRIPES, The Raconteurs, Nine Inch Nails, Snow Patrol, Martha Wainwright, Enigma, AFI, Panic! At The Disco, old school Marilyn Manson, Prodigy, The Killers, The Pixies, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, H.I.M., Pearl Jam, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kidney Thieves, Sigur Ros, Blue October, 30 Seconds to Mars, The Stills, Widespread Panic, Three Days Grace, Gavin Degraw, Loretta Lynn, Dixie Chicks, Pink Floyd, The Allman Brothers, The Pretenders, U2, Tantric, CCR, Bonnie Raitt, Elton John, Lucinda Williams, Otis Redding, The Rolling Stones, Billy Idol, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, The Doors, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, The Mamas and the Papas, basically all Classic rock and most 80s music! :D

Movies:

FIGHT CLUB IS THE GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL-TIME!!

300, Trainspotting, Velvet Goldmine, Brokeback Mountain, Labyrinth, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Natural Born Killers, The Lost Highway, Seven, Cold Mountain, The Aristocrats, All LOTR movies, anything with Edward Norton in it, anything with Ewan Mcgregor in it, anything with Jonathan Rhys Meyers in it, anything with Viggo Mortensen in it, Gia or anything with Angelina Jolie in it, I love Jackass 1 & 2 because of Johnny Knoxville, Pulp Fiction, and about a million more that I can't currently think of! :D

Television:

October Road, Nip-Tuck, Grey's Anatomy, The Tudors, Supernatural, One Tree Hill, Gilmore Girls,CSI, Tourgasm, The L-word, Carnivale, Cathouse, and anything on the History Channel! I love documentaries about anything and everything..doesn't matter if they are about crack addicts, the poverty in third-world countries, plastic surgeries gone wrong, or anything relating to 9/11 and politics, comedy specials--especially Lewis Black and Dane Cook, true-crime shows, I watch CNN late at night for some reason and sometimes find myself watching soft porn on Cinemax :D

Books:

OMFG...*brain overload*....."Hamlet", "Divine Comedy", "The Bell Jar", "The Catcher in the Rye", "The Sun Also Rises","A Passage to India", Plato's "The Republic", "Jane Eyre", Pride and Prejudice",anything by the following: Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Toni Morrison, William Wordsworth, William Blake, Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Amy Lowell, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, William Carlos Wililams, T.S. Eliot, Flannery O-Connor, basically any of the Classics and as far as today's authors go....Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake Series, anything by Anne Rice, anything by Chuck Palahniuk but especially "Fight Club" (which is very different from the movie btw) and "Choke", Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum novels, L.A. Banks's vampire huntress series. I love biographies and am really getting into non-fiction lately. Overall, I will read anything once...and yes that includes the dictionary! :D

Heroes:

Sylvia PlathDorothy Parker

My Blog

sadly this is how my mind works :P

so..........I was thinking about the fact that a man has to orgasm to get a woman pregnant, but a woman can surely get pregnant without having an orgasm..wtf is that about......how is that fair?....
Posted by "This love is silent." on Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:40:00 PST

poem called "I am not"

I am not one to swoon at the idea that love is like floating on a cloud aloof but to question its existence and find fallible proof that nightly passion is indeed the effect of a full moon   I a...
Posted by "This love is silent." on Tue, 16 Jan 2007 06:51:00 PST

I should be sleeping when I am dead.

Today I feel restless, unable to sit still.  Distracted and lost in my thoughts all day, I can barely respond to direct dialogue.  Lately, I have been daydreaming of disappearing and startin...
Posted by "This love is silent." on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 11:50:00 PST

holiday ramblings....look out 2007!

Holidays are for the young.  It must give them hope in a hopeless world, so I suppose 20 years ago I was lying in bed restless to know if Santa was eating the cookies that I left out for him.&nbs...
Posted by "This love is silent." on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 09:54:00 PST

new poem: insomnia

insomnia is setting in i am always awake it hurts to close my eyes wish there was something i could take too many tries, too many good-byes over-whelmed with ghosts of the past nothing ever seems to l...
Posted by "This love is silent." on Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:26:00 PST

tomorrow's trash

I am a poet   I have nothing but ink-stained fingers calloused from the perpetual agony of deciphering the transposed words in my head   wads of paper litter my well-kept desk hope...
Posted by "This love is silent." on Tue, 27 Jun 2006 08:29:00 PST

new poem: fated friends

my black nailpolish is chipped and peeling red lipstick smeared, mascara running  hair dripping all over the floor yet I like it this way I enjoy the perfection in imperfections being real makes ...
Posted by "This love is silent." on Fri, 08 Sep 2006 12:01:00 PST

new poem called instant gratification

instant gratification   faster please it cannot come quick enough anticipation is over-rated and waiting is for pussies  I never said I was patient it is no virtue of mine there is no time l...
Posted by "This love is silent." on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:31:00 PST

new poem...

dear diary keep my secrets lock them up tight throw away the key they are merely the ramblings of a mad woman   you will never hear the screams inside my head you will never fathom how I fe...
Posted by "This love is silent." on Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:29:00 PST

possibly the impossible

dissect me break me into little pieces then maybe you can tell me who I am slice me if I bleed out will you suddenly know what its like to be me? the person who solves the puzzle of my thoughts, the ...
Posted by "This love is silent." on Mon, 19 Jun 2006 08:40:00 PST