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Kat

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

(if you're all that interested) sheslipsintofocus.blogspot.com

My Interests

making self indulgent films, taking photographs of my friends, sushi, my sewing machine, kodachrome, amaretto sours, wes anderson, editing all-nighters, riding gleeson's bike, jacques henri lartigue, drawing on post its, balenciaga, monarchies, writing in secret, yellow traffic lights, people's success stories and ac grass.

I'd like to meet:

people with big old hearts

Music:

cat power, arcade fire, velvet underground, interpol, the kinks, modest mouse, clap your hands say yeah, feist, tom waits, the shins, new order, broken social scene, spoon, rolling stones, camera obscura, pavement, radiohead, yo la tengo, rogue wave, the national, vampire weekend, band of horses

Movies:

the umbrellas of cherbourg, daisies, chungking express, passionless moments, the royal tennenbaums, belle de jour, secretary, paris texas, lost in translation, notorious, high school, l'eclisse, repulsion, chidren of men, all the real girls, l'atalante, stalker, faces

Television:

arrested development, the office, this american life, home movies

Books:

"the virgin suicides" jeffrey eugenides "bad behavior" mary gaitskill "the english patient" michael ondaatje "what matters most is how well you walk through the fire" charles bukowski

Heroes:

saint dymphna, catherine deneuve, pavle levi, jonas mekas, miklos radnoti, sylvia plachy

My Blog

wong kar wai, bitches!

Okay the bitches part was a bit much, but how fucking cool is it that I get to work for Wong Kar Wai?
Posted by Kat on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 07:59:00 PST

school girl crushes

When I dream of things I shouldn't, faces I've forgotten that were once in the forefront of my silly lovelorn mind, I feel this guilt. As if they suddenly are important in my life. Men I've given up o...
Posted by Kat on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:08:00 PST

apartment 2k

I live in a beautiful apartment complex in the very suburban neighborhood of Larchmont. It makes me blush since I ended up not too far from where I started, the mecca of middle class families with art...
Posted by Kat on Fri, 25 Aug 2006 07:29:00 PST

student academy awards

It was like sitting at the kids table again. I found myself embarrassed and inadequate, holding a glass of wine and thinking that I was a phony. I watched a waiter pass by and drop a fork. I went to p...
Posted by Kat on Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:00:00 PST

Martin

Martin is a cook at the restaurant I work at. The first few days, he'd snap at me. When I put in an order wrong, I got a cold sigh and a stern warning "I'll remake it this time." Last week he threw ra...
Posted by Kat on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:07:00 PST

I was so young when I wrote this.

MinneapolisIt came from boredom, the red-eyed laughter of apathy. We rode buses into a blizzard, jumped into fountains and getaway cars. We smoked beneath bridges, beside train tracks and fences. Brou...
Posted by Kat on Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:04:00 PST