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kristen

the people laugh and love and dream, they fight, they hate to die

About Me

i miss the road. (animation by ethan. photo by shannon.)www.flickr.com/kristenhoffthewhistletree.blogspot.c om

My Interests

travel, writing, reading, running, hiking, camping, swimming, skiing, kayaking, live music, sharing music, sharing ideas, random adventures, walking & wandering, sitting on rooftops, watching football, taking pictures, eating exotic foods, daydreaming of far away places, being healthy, being earth friendly, being in the city, being in the woods, being on the beach, making new friends & keeping them

I'd like to meet:

the ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved; the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

Music:

belle and sebastian, iron and wine, elliot smith, joni mitchell, bob dylan, woody guthrie, wilco, the shins, tv on the radio, brian jonestown massacre, animal collective, panda bear, grandaddy, nico, cat stevens, nick drake, the postal service, simon&garfunkel, fiona apple, the go! team, daniel miller, katie the pest, the flaming lips, talking heads, pavement, neutral milk hotel, radiohead, seu jorge, sigur ros, sufjan stevens, tom waits, black rebel motorcycle club, clap your hands say yeah, neko case, cat power, brian wilson, gillian welch, patsy cline, old crow medicine show, nina simone, akron/family, grizzly bear, broken social scene, andrew bird, blonde redhead, coco rosie, joanna newsom

Movies:

l'auberge espagnole, amores perros, lost in translation, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, sideways, the big lebowski, oh brother where art thou, the royal tenebaums, the life aquatic, amelie, annie hall, y tu mama tambien, motorcycle diaries, butch cassidy & the sundance kid, 8 1/2, 3iron, the squid and the whale, what about bob?, groundhog day, the breakfast club, high society, love actually, muriel's wedding, harold&maude, dancer in the dark, the virgin suicides, lantana, fight club, city of god, crash, boondock saints, run lola run, we don't live here anymore, closer, before sunset, march of the penguins, winged migration, dig!, the fearless freaks, the good the bad & the ugly, once upon a time in america, caddyshack, dr. strangelove, grizzly man, down by law, secretary, the host, the philadelphia story, rear window, to catch a thief, peewee's big adventure, the science of sleep, shaun of the dead, this is spinal tap, touching the void, volver, planet earth

Television:

scrubs, lost, six feet under, man vs wild, amazing race, good eats, no reservations

Books:

the blind assassin, white teeth, the brothers karamazov, portrait of the artist as a young man, dubliners, notes from the underground, to the lighthouse, anything austen, the dharma bums, the sun also rises, cold mountain, into thin air, a perfect storm, a tree grows in brooklyn, beloved, the perks of being a wallflower, east of eden, one hundred years of solitude, desert solitaire, tao te ching, long walk to freedom, rembrandt's eyes, the abduction of sita, fear and loathing in las vegas, the great railway bazaar, kafka on the shore

Heroes:

my grandmothers

My Blog

that was then

this was october:i'm frazzled and calm at the same time. i wish i did not need to sleep. FALL. pretty colored leaves. camping trip to the "best campsite ever". taking out more library books than i can...
Posted by kristen on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 08:36:00 PST

boston, people, boston.

yes. so. this is a f'ing great city. most of you don't know that.today i went to the south end. they had open markets and open art studios. we took the silver line, after getting confused. does anyone...
Posted by kristen on Sun, 16 Sep 2007 05:57:00 PST

blurry-eyed

  It's not all just a dream, you know. In the park, on the grass, I thought. We just need to figure out how to crack the nut. So let's be friends and we'll walk around at night, feeling invisib...
Posted by kristen on Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:06:00 PST

green dragon

She finishes off her second tall glass of rum-and-coke. Sitting at her desk, glowing computer monitor opposite her, her eyes are racing along the screen, absorbing a news article she clicked to from h...
Posted by kristen on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 06:13:00 PST

starting

"Is starting hard? You know it is. I don't know what you do when you start, but I clean my desk, I make a lot of stupid appointments that I make sound important. Avoidance, delay, denial. I'm always s...
Posted by kristen on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 06:20:00 PST

2weeks in europe in a nutshell

today is my last day in venice and its raining, but we had two beautiful days here so its ok. with luck, this will be the only day it rains on our trip. weve been doing so much! i really feel like im ...
Posted by kristen on Fri, 21 Jul 2006 07:57:00 PST