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Downer

Just gettin' by since 1996.

About Me

I had this idea that instead of pictures of ourselves, we should put pictures we've taken. That way, we'd tell each-other not what we look like, but what we see. Get your myspace layouts at ..Misanthrope. Wingnut. Alcoholic.

My Interests

BioluminescenceI'd like to start drinking in bars. Alcohol makes you so much more tollerable.

I'd like to meet:

Sex peppers.

Music:

Anything beautiful and anything you can dance, cry, get drunk, or walk around for hours to. Currently I've been listening to a lot of music I just rediscovered or that I just discovered I'm not too punk rock to like, especially Mirah, Regina Spektor, Jolie Holand, Jose Gonzales, Manu Chao, The Faint, Andrew Bird, Sufjan Stevens, Ratatat, The Metric, Mates of State, CocoRosie, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Sigur Ros, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Joanna Newsome, Dandelion Junk Queens, and Iron and Wine. I will always love Songs: Ohia, Cat Power, Tori Amos, Cat Stevens, Bright Eyes, Belle and Sebastian, earlier Weakerthans, Kimya Dawson, Radiohead, Neutral Milk Hotel, Modest Mouse, Aesop Rock, Portishead, Bjork, The Mountain Goats, Lucero's first album (the one you can only get at their shows), Tracy Chapman, and Against Me's Reinventing Axle Rose. Also, Springstein.

Movies:

Oh, man. Harold and Maude, Benny and Joon, Say Anything, Pi, Amelie, City of Lost Children, The Princess Bride, the Labyrinth, Requiem for a Dream, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, The Last Unicorn (seriously, this rocks), more when I can remember them...

Television:

Is a good thing to drop off an office building on a cop.

Books:

Old Turtle, Old Turtle and the Broken Truth, Grandfather's Prayer of the Earth, The Education of Little Tree, The Black Unicorn, Ariel, Leaves of Grass (sometimes), The Outlaw Bible (of course), Reflections on a Gift..., Bridge to Terabithia, anything Robinson Jeffers, the Bible (seriously), One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love in the time of Cholera, anything Chekov or Dostoevsky, The God of Small Things, The Good Earth...more. The Little Prince should be read by everyone every year of their life, in French if possible. And look at the fucking pictures.

Heroes:

Stellabean. Fuck you, humans, I will destroy you.

My Blog

Oh, yes

Sorry just a little for all the joyful Portland blogs.  It doesn't mean I don't miss you, just that...well, I'm happy here.  So happy I don't have time for waiting to die, or for the world t...
Posted by Downer on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:56:00 PST

A short list

Things I like today:*  Curry*  All-day sunshine*  Being tucked in*  Finishing a long book*  Balconies*  Being woken from zombie reveries by someone who likes you enough t...
Posted by Downer on Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:40:00 PST

O, ye far and not-so-far

Tonight I found myself defending what is wrong with me.  Again.  Wait--restart.  It wasn't defending what's wrong (and o, you know what's wrong) so much as trying to explain that I am b...
Posted by Downer on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:40:00 PST

Today

Thing I like:Riding on damp, fallen leaves.  The yellow on the black of the tires, the airy whirring sound.Thing I do not like:Snot, snot, snot, and sickness.
Posted by Downer on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:40:00 PST

Alergic!

To every place except Denver, apparently.  I've got some sinusy cold similar to the one I had in Missouri, and I've only been here a week.  Dosing a lot of echinacea and goldenseal tincture,...
Posted by Downer on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:45:00 PST

Portlanding

Earlier today I was feeling encouragingly hopeful about being here.  I feel like leaving Denver was a good decision, which is a bit surprising considering that my decision making process is king ...
Posted by Downer on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:01:00 PST

Whoa!

My color quiz results:Your Existing SituationUnder considerable stress due to the demands of the existing situation. Trying to extricate herself from the things which restrict her or tie her down.Your...
Posted by Downer on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 12:40:00 PST

10 Things I Hate About You

1.  Telling me how to feel (i.e. "cheer up" or "relax" or "smile").  My emotional state is not somewhere you have jurisdiction.2.  Borrowing money from me (even small amounts) constantl...
Posted by Downer on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 03:01:00 PST

P.P.S.

It hurts a lot.
Posted by Downer on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:45:00 PST

Things

    I'm listening to Counting Crows, of all things.  It's still good music for a really sad mood, and brings me back to when I was 12 or 13 and felt like the world was ending. ...
Posted by Downer on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 02:41:00 PST