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About Me

god, addiction, and cruetly free: I want to live in a city where my friends and I can ride our bikes without being hit by cars, where people stop eating animals, and everyone can surpass all this elitist daytoday bullshit. and p.s. right now I'm in the process of academically losing my mind, so if you do not hear from me, or see me, this is why.

My Interests

DU WEIÃŸT NICHT, WOGEGEN ICH ANZUKÃ„MPFEN HABE.

Music:

Smoke weed, listen to metal(death/tech/black/doom). AND punk, crust, jazz, grind, screamo, thrash, post-rock, hip hip, folk country.

Movies:

Films by the directors: Leslie Thornton. Yvonne Rainer. Peggy Ahwesh. Carolee Schneemann. Abigail Child. Su Friedrich. BÃ©la Tarr. Jan Svankmajer. Krzysztof Kieslowski. Andrzej Wajda. Lech Majewski. Wim Wenders. Fritz Lang. G.W. Pabst. Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Andrei Tarkovsky. Aleksandr Sokurov. Mikhail Kalatozov. Sergei Eisenstein. Ingmar Bergman. Kenji Mizoguchi. Federico Fellini. Lars Von Trier. Jean-Luc Godard. Francois Truffaut. Jacques Rivette. F.W. Murnau. Luis BuÃ±uel. Woody Allen. Andy Warhol. Elia Kazan. David Lynch. Stanley Kubrick.

Books:

The poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, Federico Garcia Lorca, Jim Carroll, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Sylvia Plath, T.S. Eliot, ee cummings, Kay Ryan, Edgar Lee Masters, Pablo Neruda, Charles Bukowski, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Francis Picabia, Rita Dove, Edgar Allen Poe, and Arnold Adoff. Bret Easton Ellis. Frederick Nietzsche. Arthur Miller. James Joyce. Aldous Huxley. Pierre Guyotat. Edith Wharton. Franz Kafka. Rosalind Krauss. Gilles Deleuze. Jean-Paul Sartre. Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Sam Shepard. AndrÃ© Gide. Immanuel Kant. Ayn Rand. Ernest Hemingway. Jean-FranÃ§ois Lyotard. Erich Maria Remarque. Anais Nin. Walter Kaufmann. Jacques Lacan. Virginia Woolf. Michel Foucault. Simone de Beauvoir. Henri Bergson. William Shakespeare. Albert Camus. Vladimir Nabokov. Martin Heidegger. Slavoj Zizek. Ludwig Wittgenstein. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Tony Kushner. Hermann Hesse. George Batailles.

Heroes:

Pierre Guyotat. the great e.e.

My Blog

WHERE ARE THE PUNKS?!

That has been my question basically since I arrived here, but I thought I just haven't been looking in the right places. Now it being my third week here, still no sign of them, anywhere! Is anyone fam...
Posted by Cassandra on Thu, 16 Oct 2008 03:32:00 PST

FIRST WEEK IN PARIS

Hello Friends! I've decided to start writing in this blog again as a way of keeping everyone posted with my adventures in Paris. If you haven't already heard, in this first week I have already been r...
Posted by Cassandra on Mon, 06 Oct 2008 07:17:00 PST

Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 July 30, 2007)

He was one the reasons I originally fell in love with film. When I saw The Seventh Seal it changed the way I thought about cinema, seeing that it can be a true artistic means for creation. Another gre...
Posted by Cassandra on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 08:19:00 PST

LAUGHTER IN THE DARK

"So that's all," he thought quite softly, as if he were lying in bed. "I must keep quiet for a little space and then walk very slowly along that bright sand of pain, toward that blue, blue wave. What ...
Posted by Cassandra on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 06:27:00 PST

PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO MERGE

"I think I would rather die in a plane crash than any other way," my father said after some time. "I think it would be dreadful." "But it would be nothing. You get bombed on the plane, take a Librium,...
Posted by Cassandra on Fri, 26 May 2006 10:56:00 PST

A preview of London/Scotland adventures.

Shopping in London. Orgasms during We Will Rock You (Queen rock-opera.) Seeing the Complete collection of Frida Kahlu's work at Tate Modern. Riding on The Tube, and double-decker buses. Having dri...
Posted by Cassandra on Tue, 16 Aug 2005 09:23:00 PST

This is more than clarity

More than ever I'm really starting to realize that the most basic needs are the most important. 1.) Friends who would never betray or disappoint me in any way, shape, or form. 2.) Productivity. 3.) S...
Posted by Cassandra on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST