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emily

i ain't no square with my corkscrew hair

About Me

i'm a keepin-it-real-ist

My Interests

my orfeu negro, eating, drinking, sleeping, reading, going to shows, shopping for records, playing dr. mario, doing crossword puzzles, harmonies and handclaps, traveling

I'd like to meet:

nice people.

Music:

beatles (+solo+wings), kinks, stevie wonder, sly and the family stone, david bowie, bill withers, can, t.rex, ike and tina turner, carpenters, ronettes, os mutantes, later beach boys, earlier de la soul, digable planets, bow wow wow, squeeze, blondie, elvis costello, blur, blonde redhead, young people, deerhoof, mates of state, magnetic fields, junior senior, the rosebuds, neko case, the dodos, very be careful, the moore brothers, vancougar, the cops, glassy globe, battleship, the makes nice, harold ray live in concert...

Movies:

west side story, the [original] stepford wives, fame, hairspray (again, the original...this is getting annoying), party girl, todo sobre mi madre

Television:

buffy the vampire slayer, freaks and geeks, parker lewis can't lose, pee wee's playhouse, the adventures of pete & pete, the muppet show, arrested development, and twin peaks

Books:

murakami, zadie smith, raymond carver, on love by alain de botton, apollinaire's calligrammes, be my baby: how i survived mascara, miniskirts, and madness, or my life as a fabulous ronette by ronnie spector, and happiness is a warm puppy by charles schultz

Heroes:

NANCY PEARL. and i like the way these guys play drums: mindy from taigaa!, maureen tucker, karen carpenter, jaki liebezeit, sheila escovedo, janet weiss, cc rose, jordan dalrymple, joe haener, logan kroeber, jason hammel, mitch mitchell, mick avory, dave barbarossa, clem burke, and richard starkey.

My Blog

greetings from canadia

battleship (aka pants of fire) rules. vancouver rules. being on tour...rules.
Posted by emily on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

radio sucks

as if it wasn't bad enough that i have to listen to kfrc every day all day long at work (granted, most of the songs they play OVER AND OVER again are decent songs to begin with...i suppose it could be...
Posted by emily on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST