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just Karla

though no longer blind, I can't yet see

About Me

...they have created a world of hypocrisy and violence in which we do not wish to live. Instinctual revolt turns into political rebellion, and against this union, the Establishment mobilizes its full force.



she wanted to die under the sign of lightness. she would be lighter than air...

My Interests

-Lucid dreams
-Doors in the Wall
-Living everywhere and nowhere
-Restlessness
-Cuddling with people and animals
-Photography
-Climbing trees
-Arequipe
-Exploring abandoned anythings
-Conversations that make me question everything I've ever believed in
-Mangoes
-Squatting the planet
-Destinationless road trips -Anything soy
-Trampoline wrestling
-Colombia
-Entire days set aside for thrifting
-Cereal
-Rain
-Moshbeds
-Campfires
-the Moon....
...anyone want to go dumpstering with me?
THINGS I HATE:
-THINGS.
-HATE.

I'd like to meet:

*Anyone who refuses to believe the LIE.

*real eyes...

Music:

The Album Leaf, The Arcade Fire, Beirut, Boards of Canada, Boy Robot, Bright Eyes, Broken Social Scene, Daft Punk, Death Cab, D Numbers, Do Make Say Think, Emergency Room, Exploding Star Orchestra, Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, Ganger, Grails, holy fuck, Hrsta, Iron & Wine, Large and Small Rooms, LCD Soundsystem, The Lymbyc Systym, mewithoutYou, Minus the Bear, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Mono, Neutral Milk Hotel, the New Deal, Pinback, The Postal Service, Radiohead, Ratatat, Sigur Rós, Simon & Garfunkel, STS9, Tortoise, Ugly Casanova, Xela, Yndi Halda...

Movies:

Manic, Life As A House, The United States of Leland, Mysterious Skin, The Fountain, Motorcycle Diaries, A Home at the End of the World, The Island, The Postman, Equilibrium, Donnie Darko, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Butterfly Effect, The Libertine, Garden State, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, My Neighbor Totoro, Waking Life, Stay, V for Vendetta, Dot the I, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Edward Scissorhands, The Village, American Beauty, I Heart Huckabees, Super-Size Me...

Television:

is a seductive lie

Books:

An Essay on Liberation, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, ISLAND, Brave New World, The Doors of Perception, Days of War--Nights of Love, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Wretched of the Earth, One-Dimensional Man, The Sane Society, Life After God, Johnny Got His Gun, the kin of Ata are waiting for you, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, Off the Map, The Anarchist Cookbook, Adbusters Magazine, Culture Jam, Fast Food Nation, Goodnight Moon.......

Heroes:

people who just want to love and be loved

My Blog

only

if the awakening could just be a series of moments, one after the other, instead of these boundless shadows of abstraction&&only..ones meant to be [nothing's meant to be. and so is everything]&&&&&ha...
Posted by just Karla on Thu, 27 Sep 2007 08:58:00 PST

cognitive dissonance

Life. Is out of control. There's NO time. Who brainwashed us as a society into believing that we do not deserve to get the sleep we need to in order to survive, let alone thrive, EVERY SINGLE NIGHT...
Posted by just Karla on Sat, 21 Oct 2006 06:46:00 PST

i see you

And so I watch the tears well up in those translucent eyes, wipe them away as they spill down that sad, stone face. He..s curled up in a ball, his back to me, shutting me out with all his strength. ...
Posted by just Karla on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 07:44:00 PST

Road trip from hell

The curse continues. Ok, so my mom and this Taiwanese girl, Min and I are on our way to Baltimore/D.C. for an appointment and a weekend of "fun and excitement." We all know I should never be allowed...
Posted by just Karla on Sat, 10 Jun 2006 06:37:00 PST

the myth of eternal return

ok. i give up. these patterns replay throughout my life like so many bad television reruns......and yet, what could i possibly have done to make things turn out any differently? this time, i reso...
Posted by just Karla on Tue, 02 May 2006 12:05:00 PST

disassimilate

The smell of the soap in certain public restrooms still brings back that horrible, dull aching I felt as a nine-year-old child newly arrived in America.
Posted by just Karla on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 10:37:00 PST

can't say goodbye

so beautiful outside.so desolate inside.
Posted by just Karla on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:49:00 PST

love finds love. narcotics find pain.

yes, i'm still heaving, curled up in fetal position under Carlos' blankets, and not getting ANYTHING of importance to ANYTHING done. on the bright side, most of the nerves in my blood draw arm have f...
Posted by just Karla on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:43:00 PST

Cedra Day ONE

I'm dying. But it's taking much too long...
Posted by just Karla on Tue, 04 Apr 2006 08:20:00 PST

no control

ahhhh...........if i don't get in i don't know what i'm going to do. i need this time......my insides are making their way out and my thoughts are screaming so loud that someone just gave me a dirty ...
Posted by just Karla on Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:00:00 PST