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jolie laide

the revolution will not be microwaved

About Me

awfully wonderful, wonderfully awful, and full of awe.

My Interests

walking, plant life, fringe academia (see ecopsychology, ecological models of human development, radical economics, and qualitative research methods), reading, critiquing, making things, dancing, biking, poverty, conversating, talk radio, recycling, perpetually shifting goals, deterioration

I'd like to meet:

kidnappers.

Music:

diamond from crime mob, diane cluck, the magnetic fields, satie, joan baez, boogie down productions, prince buster, anti-folk and pretty much anything soul jazz puts out

Movies:

tuvalu, delicatessin, talk to her, welcome to the dollhouse, annie hall, spellbound, texas chainsaw massacre, spirited away, jules & jim, y tu mama tambien, the shining, w. anderson, p. almodovar, j. jeunet, and t. burton. i do not like holy mountain or gummo.

Television:

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever does." --Margaret Mead

Books:

"Middlesex," "A Moveable Feast," "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down," "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", "Found", "Kitchen", "Marry Me", "Freakonomics", "The Mismeasure of Man", "Why I'm Not a Christian", "Jane Eyre", "Persepolis I + 2", "The awakening", the Tao, any Tom Robbins, Noam Chomsky, Michel Foucault, Truman Capote, Howard Zinn and Oscar Wilde

Heroes:

my friends and sisters, granny d, urie bronfrenbrenner, ira glass, juliet schor, howard dean and mcgyver

My Blog

things I want to do after my thesis is submitted:

-engage in more of the following: sleeping, laughing, dancing, make believe-engage in less: coffee drinking, sitting, computering, complaining-go for a long walk-see people i love-plant flowers-finish...
Posted by jolie laide on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:54:00 PST

there was a child went forth

There was a child went forth every day;And the first object he look'd upon, that object he became;And that object became part of him for the day, or a certain part ofthe day, or for many years, or str...
Posted by jolie laide on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 01:14:00 PST

the sympathetic bus driver gets nowhere

i could never be a bus driver. i would have to stop for all those people who run towards the bus after the doors have closed and the bus begins to pull away. i wouldn't be able to stand the feeling i ...
Posted by jolie laide on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:55:00 PST

My Religious Right

So, this morning I sit down at my desk to begin my morning routine: e-mail, myspace, bbc and maybe a little craigslist for good measure. As I am approaching step two of this routine and checking my my...
Posted by jolie laide on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:09:00 PST

ecolympics

i think instead of the olympics, we should have the ecolympics. during the ecolympics countries would compete in categories like: efficiency, conservation, eco-friendly technological development, etc....
Posted by jolie laide on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:23:00 PST

an invention

i am going to create a machine that acts as a breathalizer for your computer. you know, so you would be required to breath into it in order to turn your computer on... just like the ones for cars.
Posted by jolie laide on Sat, 03 Feb 2007 05:58:00 PST

10 year plan

I woke up this morning and the following 10 year plan suddenly came to me:years 0-3: finish grad. school, get moderately well paying 9-5 job that wont make me want to kill myself and will make me feel...
Posted by jolie laide on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 07:44:00 PST

wtf

uggg, house republicans have earmarked $20million in the 2007 defense budget for a day of celebration for the success of the war in Iraq. meanwhile, 2/3 of troops in iraq surveyed feel as though the m...
Posted by jolie laide on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:04:00 PST

kind words comp

So I decided to share the love; The following comments were written in response to a post soliciting pleasent thoughts. Some have been excluded due to their lewd nature...not that they weren't apprec...
Posted by jolie laide on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:17:00 PST

a love story

i can hear the dying brain cells buzzing in my ear. they are mad. they don't know how lucky they are. fast death for them, slow death for me.
Posted by jolie laide on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST