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And so it is...

About Me

words to describe me: writer, dreamer, cynic, liberal, friend, adaptable, loner, stuborn, agreeable, stupid clever person, socially inept, foot in mouth, caring, loving, former film student, vegetarian...

My Interests

MOVIES!; writing; reading; video editing; poetry; photography; listening to music; kick boxing; hanging out with friends; traveling; foreign languages; chocolate; black-cat peanut butter; the smell of vanilla; I love dogs (especially Dobermans) and think that people should be kind to animals.

I'd like to meet:

people i haven't met already...

Music:

Live, Alanis Morisette, Robbie Williams, Rammstein, Avril Lavigne, The White Stripes, The Killers, Metallica, The Beatles, Elliot Smith, Aimee Mann, Cheryl Crowe, Suzanne Vega, Katie Malua, Bon Jovi, Coldplay, SOAD, NIN, Johnny Cash, Karen Zoid, Natasha Beddingfield, Chantal Kreviazuk,

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind; The science of Sleep; Closer; Chasing Amy; Magnolia; Fight Club; Jarhead; Crash; Brokeback Mountain; Saving Face; Amelie; Goodbye Lenin; Motorcycle Diaries; Dogma; Donnie Darko; Shrek, Good Will Hunting; Pi; Being John Malkovich; Elizabeth Town; Say Anything; Almost Famous; Jerry Maguire; Dr Strangelove; Full Metal Jacket; Amores Perros; Boys Don't Cry; Sin City; The Jacket; The Hours; Orange County; School of Rock; Walk The Line; Cruel Intentions; The Three colours trilogy; The Double life of Veronique; Pleasntville; Lord of War; Lola Rennt (Run Lola Run); The Terminal; Alfie; Proof; Babel ; Little Miss Sunshine; Garden State ... I also love boxing movies: Million Dollar Baby;Girl Fight; Cincerella Man; Ali; Raging Bull; The Calcium Kid. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE MOVIES!!!

Television:

Scrubs; S(e)x and the City ; Gillmore Girls ; Futurama ; Las Vegas.. Six Feet Under.. Arrested Development; South Park;The Simpsons; Veronica Mars;Desperate Housewives; Weeds; My name is Earl; Prison Break

Books:

Animal Farm, 1984, Catch-22, Emma, Nervous Conditions, Crime and Punishment, The Last Sin-eater, The Long Walk to Freedom, Fight Club, Choke

Heroes:

Katherine Brooks; Natalie Du Toit;Oprah Winfrey; Frida Kahlo; Nelson Mandela; Mohamed Ali; Jane Austen; Holocaust survivors; conscientious objectors; People who make a difference. And people who make ME LAUGH!!!

My Blog

Child inside.

I often wish that I can go back to the child I was. Not back in time, (though sometimes I do wish I can go back and make  different choices in my teenage and young adult life), just back to the m...
Posted by lowercase v on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 05:49:00 PST

customer service a-hole.

Don't you just hate assassins? Professional killers? I'm not talking about snipers dressed in black like the ones in movies. I mean the kind of person that will hurt or emotionally kill someone to suc...
Posted by lowercase v on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 07:26:00 PST

Loss.

I'm in an internet cafe because my internet still doesn't work and my computer is pretty corrupt. i was here last night. the reason I'm here again is simply. I lost my card reader with my camera's 1G ...
Posted by lowercase v on Fri, 02 May 2008 10:43:00 PST

idea.

I’ve been wishing i had some t-shirts with vegetarian slogans (especially in chinese so that i cant just point to my shirt when  i buy food. they like to put meat in everything in china No ...
Posted by lowercase v on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 04:47:00 PST

Happy Meal

I'm sure someone must've said something to this extent before but I don't really know who. HAPPY MEAL: a meal for kids at a fast food restaurant which includes a small toy. Fisrt of all. How can a me...
Posted by lowercase v on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:06:00 PST

My First Week Back in China

aI haven't written in this blog in ages. For that I appologize. I wrote the following entry about a month ago in another blog. Its about my first week back in China, at a new school. If i go on a...
Posted by lowercase v on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 04:24:00 PST

hands

like a scanner reading the stripes of a barcode her fingers traced the lines on my palmsreading meknowing mesharing herself with mei wanted to pull awayand at the same moment never let goswing her clo...
Posted by lowercase v on Mon, 28 May 2007 07:23:00 PST

new friends

last weekend my friend alice and i went to a park in wuhan. we walked around taking pictures. we saw a young man with a lovely border collie (sheep dog). he had a female companion (presumably his...
Posted by lowercase v on Sat, 26 May 2007 07:03:00 PST

cut off from the world

i can't even boot up my own computer, so now i'm at an internet bar.this is so frustrating because i cant skype my family or anyone else for that matter.looks like it will be a few days (maybe even we...
Posted by lowercase v on Tue, 22 May 2007 02:17:00 PST

serendipity (part 1)

It was in the early afternoon on a Wednesday. The man was going up the stairs in the subway building; the woman was going down the escalator. Their eyes met. He recognized the stranger somehow. He sai...
Posted by lowercase v on Fri, 18 May 2007 01:14:00 PST