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lady di

i can't watch nature while i eat.

About Me

i am an artist
[www.bohemianartista.com]


there is a place where the sidewalk ends
and before the street begins,
and there the grass grows soft and white,
and there the sun burns crimson bright,
and there the moon-bird rests from his flight
to cool in the peppermint wind.

let us leave this place where the smoke blows black
and the dark street winds and bends.
past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow
we shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow,
and watch where the chalk-white arrows go
to the place where the sidewalk ends.

--shel silverstein

My Interests

life, love & happiness. aerial views of city lights. alliteration & assonance. barter. beads. butterflies. cd retailers. celebrity gossip. cheap thrills. crossword puzzles & sudoku. fashion. formal & semi-formal wear. free stuff. free thinking. gregarious hijinks. guilty pleasures. hilarity. irony. isolated island drug cartels. jack daniels [together, we are a little ditty]. korean egg tempera. linden green. matches [specifically, collecting them]. nerds. newness. non sequiturs. opulence. pilates. pirates. positive thinking. prime numbers [particularly, prime number birthdays]. raspberry-flavored anything. red. romantic gestures. sarcasm & sardonic smiles. sharpies. shiny & sparkly things. sincerity. spending $. stationary. sunlight & the way it shows up as hexagons in photographs. sushi. tattoos. tomato juice [but only on airplanes]. turtles. travel. urban bohemia. vampires [& vampire fetishes]. vegetables that start with the letter a. violins. vocabulary. voyeurism. water lilies. wreaking havoc [in moderation & as long as i don't have to clean it up]. zeal [but not religious zealots].

I'd like to meet:

erudite, sartorially-savvy literati
with altruistic tendencies
and epicurean tastes.
and also, i want a print of this dali:

Music:



the secret machines
the clash
the cure
yeah yeah yeahs
clap your hands say yeah
of montreal
stars
the shins
the smiths
elliott smith
broken social scene
arcade fire
snowden
radiohead
tv on the radio
vhs or beta
lcd soundsystem
metric
maximo park
the decemberists
the streets
the faint
the postal service
death cab for cutie
pinback
blur
beck
placebo
enon
french kicks
voxtrot
controller.controller
pixies
frank black
alkaline trio
franz ferdinand
modest mouse
ugly cassanova
wolf parade
kings of leon
the black keys
les savy fav
the futureheads
the mars volta
the rapture
le tigre
ted leo & the pharmacists
magnetic fields
!!! (chk chk chk)
the stills
radio 4
gang of four
stereolab
lily allen
belle & sebastian
tegan & sara
the killers
jimmy eat world
elefant
blonde redhead
death from above 1979
moving units
stellastarr*
every move a picture
sondre lerche
frou frou
imogen heap
bjork
zero 7
gotan project
tanghetto
steel pulse
bob marley
damian marley
a tribe called quest
hieroglyphics
talib kweli
common
blackalicious
dilated peoples
jurassic 5
dangerdoom
ozomatli
handsome boy modeling school
pharoahe monch
outkast
missy elliott
jean grae
lauryn hill
logistics
klute
cyantific
caesars
billie holiday
ella fitzgerald
madeleine peyroux
no doubt
the slackers
thievery corporation
gorillaz
weezer
the strokes
interpol
q & not u
the beatles
iggy pop
sex pistols
duran duran
new order
depeche mode
hot hot heat
hot chip
the dandy warhols
we are scientists
dogs die in hot cars
bloc party
kaiser chiefs
the white stripes
the raconteurs
david bowie
the rolling stones
johnny cash
simon & garfunkel
coldplay
badly drawn boy
oasis

Movies:


edward scissor hands
amadeus
clueless
stand by me
almost famous
empire records
the beach
the royal tenenbaums
rushmore
sideways
igby goes down
the dangerous lives of altar boys
willy wonka & the chocolate factory
charlie & the chocolate factory
fear & loathing in las vegas
the big lebowski
amelie
frida
kinsey
interview with the vampire
napoleon dynamite
garden state
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
about a boy
party monster
hedwig & the angry inch
school of rock
kill bill 1 & 2
the last unicorn
lilo & stitch
finding nemo
pulp fiction
velvet goldmine
i heart huckabees
donnie darko
the good girl
waking life
anne of green gables
gia
pieces of april
lost in translation
dazed & confused
sixteen candles
mannequin
sex, lies, & videotape
chocolat
secretary
sin city
coffee and cigarettes
y tu mama tambien
motorcycle diaries
like water for chocolate
shopgirl

Television:

lost
grey's anatomy
entourage
weeds
the tudors
project runway
america's next top model
what not to wear

Books:

my favorite:
the picture of dorian gray
others:
harry potter
anna karenina
the man with the dancing eyes
the perks of being a wallflower
memoirs of a geisha
the devil wears prada
a little princess
authors:
gregory maguire
david sedaris
leo tolstoy
oscar wilde
virginia woolf
currently reading:
mrs. dalloway

Heroes:

stacy london & clinton kelly for beautifying the world one sartorially-misguided person at a time, and i sure do love that angelina jolie.

My Blog

i am starting to regret my tattoo, yes.

my yi dynasty tribute tattoo, the one on my neck, the one i spent much time debating and thinking about and pondering the meaning of, is starting to rub me the wrong way. i feel like i know exactly ho...
Posted by lady di on Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:29:00 PST

kerouac might be overrated.

after all these years of not having read anything by jack kerouac, i finally read on the road last week. you know...i wasn't that impressed. i mean, i like the way he strings certain phrases together ...
Posted by lady di on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 07:06:00 PST

views from buses and other random musings

today i took the chinatown bus from NY to DC...i'll be in DC for a little less than a week, just hanging out and laying low. i didn't really tell anyone except maybe a couple people that i'd be down h...
Posted by lady di on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:08:00 PST

my not-so-undercover adoration of british children's programming

i watch a lot of disney channel these days, as i am currently a nanny, and that's what nannies are prone to do. i know the theme songs of all the shows that come on between 7am and 9:30am, and i often...
Posted by lady di on Wed, 06 Jun 2007 06:41:00 PST

i've finally succumbed to gmail.

man, i've been posting a lot of blogs lately. i must be feeling talkative. i'm also in the throes of allergy woes [i'm a poet, and yes, i know it]. my throat, nose and eyes have been itching as if eac...
Posted by lady di on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 02:55:00 PST

ode to painful prada

i'm documenting this moment for posterity. you see, my sister gave me some very beautiful prada mary janes a few years ago as they didn't quite fit her, and i've only worn them on two occasions: once ...
Posted by lady di on Thu, 31 May 2007 06:19:00 PST

i really hate to admit this, but i think i may have lost it

i was talking to one of my best friends, laura, the other day, and i told her: "i've started to doubt my sense of style since arriving in new york." she replied, "OH NO! OH NO!" she is someone who und...
Posted by lady di on Wed, 30 May 2007 07:11:00 PST

damn the flakes

definitions of "flake" and "flaky," as presented on urbandictionary.com:1. flake n. An unreliable person; someone who agrees to do something, but never follows through.2. flaken. An Irish slang word f...
Posted by lady di on Tue, 22 May 2007 03:11:00 PST

that virginia woolf...such a literary genius.

"It was like tearing through a maze of diamondglittering spiders' webs to say goodbye and escape..." [what a beautiful phrase.]"He tried to recall the actual words of his little outburst, and uncons...
Posted by lady di on Wed, 16 May 2007 07:32:00 PST

i'm getting closer...i can feel it

alright, so i don't have a job yet. yet! my search had been proving rather fruitless and discouraging until today, and i gotta say: job-hunting is a cruel and unrelenting bitch. today, however, i feel...
Posted by lady di on Mon, 14 May 2007 03:07:00 PST