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Nicole

Oh, how lovely...your coming back to spawn at the place of your birth - just like a salmon.

About Me

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My Interests

Piano, Drums, Yoga, expression, people who are extremely influential (albeit, usually after they're dead. I like to read about them.), sci-fi lit and the occasional movie (not the channel so much), patchouli!, being in a foreign place and finding familiar things, late-night liquor soaked discussions with Chris and occassionally Drewcifer, kindred spirits and bosom buddies, organics, all kinds of astrology (for fun), run-way fashion/art, culture & language, Christopher Lee, WIKIPEDIA, getting Bush impeached, international relations, Fiji water, finger paints, picking my fingers to a bloody pulp, watching IFC until I am so disturbed I become catatonic, orgasmically well-written sentences, whales, seaweed, horseback riding, swings, whipporwills and owls, cognac on a cold night, outerbanks at christmas, theories, museums, old shops (old anything really), polaroids, chianti,

Music:

An Epic at Best- Ani Difranco- Animal Collective- Badly Drawn Boy- The Beatles- Beck- Ben Folds- Ben Kweller- Bloc Party- BRIGHT EYES- Broken Social Scene- Built to Spill- CAN- The Cardigans- Cat Power- Cindy Lauper- Counting Crows- The Cranberries- Cursive- Damien Marley- Danger Mouse- Death Cab for Cutie- The Decemberists- Elliot Smith- Flaming Lips- Fleetwood Mac- The Foreign Exchange- The Format- The Fugees- Gigi- Gin Blossoms- Grandaddy- Imogen Heap- Ishues- White Stripes- Jeff Buckley- Jewe (auwld school)- Joan Osborne- Johnny Cash- Joni Mitchell- Man Man- Mars Volta- Mars ILL- Medeski Martin and Wood- MF Doom- New Pornographers- Okkervil River- Omara Portuonda- Pete Yorn- Pinback- Pink Floyd- PJ Harvey- Postal Service- Radiohead- Ravi Shankar- Rush- Rush- Ryan Adams and Cardinals- Sheryl Crow (only 1st 2 albums though)- The Shins- Sinead O' Connor- Smashing Pumpkins- Ted Leo and Pharmacists- Tim McGraw- Tom Waits- Tori Amos- Trail of Dead- Weezer (Green, Blue and Pinkerton albums-not the new shit that some body snatcher is putting out in River's name)- Wilco- Wutang- Zwan-

Movies:

2046- About a Boy- All About Eve- Almost Famous- Anne of Green Gables (the Kevin Sullivan set)- Anything on TCM- Before Sunrise- The Big Chill- Brick- Broken Flowers- Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (w/ E. Taylor & P. Newman)- Clash of the Titans- Cowboy Beebop series- The Dark Crystal- Dead Man- Donnie Darko- Dr. Doolittle (1967)- Four Weddings and a Funeral- Garden State- Ghost Dog- Hard Candy- The Hobbit (the 1977 TV version)- Home for the Holidays- Howl's Moving Castle- In the Mood for Love- La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc- Labyrinth- Legend of the Falls- Life as a House- The Life of Brian- Lilo and Stitch- Monty Python and the Holy Grail- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington- Munich- Princess Bride- Return to Me- A River Runs Through It- Robin Hood (Disney)- Roman Holiday- Romeo and Juliet (Baz Luhrman style and Franco Zeffirelli's)- Samuari Seven series- Shrek 1 & 2- Sleeping Beauty (Disney)-

Television:

Ally McBeal- America's Top Model- Animal Planet- Animaniacs- Aqua Teen Hunger Force- Colbert Report- Daily Show- Dirty Jobs- Duck Tales- Dumbo's Circus- Family Guy- Gummi Bears- My So Called Life- Nothern Exposure- Project Runway- Public Broadcasting- Sex & the City- Silent Library (YouTube)- Southpark- That 70s Show- The Cosby Show- The World of David the Gnome- Turner Classic Movies channel- Will & Grace- Wind in the Willows-

Books:

Bartleby the Scrivener- Emerson- Emily Dickinson- George R.R. Martin- Gertrude Stein- Hemingway- Kate Chopin's "Desiree's Baby" and "The Story of an Hour"- Metamorphosis- Mina Loy- Murakami Haruki's The Wind Up Bird Chronicle- SHAKESPEARE especially Hamlet and Richard III- The C.S. Lewis Science Fiction Trilogy (my optimist's choice)- The Island- The Education of Little Tree- The Death of Ivan Ilyich- Thoreau- Twain's The Mysterious Stranger- Women in Love-

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My Blog

A bit of Tao...translated

There are ways but the Way is uncharted;There are names but not nature in words:Nameless indeed is the source of creationBut things have a mother and she has a name.The secret waits for the insightOf ...
Posted by Nicole on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:26:00 PST

Coming Together

I guess one will always go back and forth between loving and hating their source of income. I have a job at a consulate office in Atlanta. Every day I am around people who come from a different world ...
Posted by Nicole on Sat, 17 Mar 2007 08:57:00 PST

And the Kitty Strolls in: "Ewes Not Fat. Ewes Fluffy."

I love the way Marley just strolls and in and takes control of a frame. I am sitting there listening to Waits with Christopher and I am gazing off at the stereo system, that digital glow, and Marley c...
Posted by Nicole on Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:51:00 PST

Reads Like Aesop's Fables

The year of your birth does not just indicate your age! According to the Chinese system of Astrology, the year of birth indicates a certain phase or aspect of a sixty-year cycle of time. Three system...
Posted by Nicole on Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:42:00 PST

Clash of the Titans

Seems as if wikipedia has some competition. The allegorical debates this is sparking are very amusing, at the least. Citizendium is the new Republic. Wikipedia is fast taking on the burden of a utopia...
Posted by Nicole on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 02:02:00 PST

I could stick the gnarls barkley song title in here, just to hear you all groan

Do you ever think you are crazy?  Sometimes that idea isn't so bad. Lots of really cool people have been crazy, but from the inside, crazy is usually bad or at least very hard to deal with. ...
Posted by Nicole on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:21:00 PST

wonders of sex

This weekend I went to a show. There I saw two women doing something that I find ridiculous, but some seem to find sexy. The wonderbra.... why? I don't know what is appealing about smooshed boobs in a...
Posted by Nicole on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 04:01:00 PST

Lilies are Good with Okra Stirfry, Why Not Some Daisies with your Politics?

Chris is better at the witty titles, but he's at work right now, so you get my inane headers. Somewhere at the end of my ramble, is a link to the libertarian party's website. This particular pag...
Posted by Nicole on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 09:24:00 PST

Libertarian

    So, can all you tell me what you think about the libertarian view? I am discovering it as an option and to me, it seems to all make sense. I am wondering why more people dont v...
Posted by Nicole on Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:56:00 PST

For Tyler, My Stone Rabbit Stealing Brother

A gnome is a legendary creature characterized by its very small stature and subterranean lifestyle. According to the alchemist Paracelsus, gnomes are the most important of the elemental spirits of the...
Posted by Nicole on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 08:46:00 PST