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leila bird

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About Me

In July of 1987 I was born in Gainesville, Florida. I was a secretive and bizarre child who enjoyed going to grandmother's house, drawing, and traipsing through Jarboe Park, Neptune Beach, where I would spend hours collecting small fresh water fish with a net. I have enjoyed my eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth years in Brooklyn, New York, but I dream of my escape - following in the footsteps of a family friend and traveling to the American southwest in a Winnebago making needlepoint tapestries and collecting garish turquoise artisan jewelry. I hope to spend the last years of my life continuing what Thor Heyerdahl started in the late thirties, sailing around the South Pacific in small crafts studying aquatic life and ocean currents.

I have raven brown hair and wear nothing but chiffon.

My Interests

autumnal things, poetry, collecting, Bianchi bicycles, cheap wine, physical anthropology and human evolution, typologies, natural history museums, Architeuthis, folk history, insects, the macabre, drawing, the Frick, nature documentaries from the 70s and 80s, museum studies, taphonomy, the art of Jenny Saville, Balthus, Marcel Dzama, Pieter Breugel, Carol Prusa, Walton Ford, Neo Rauch, Charlotte Salomon, etc.

I'd like to meet:

fighters, rock bottom risers, kids with heart, wild love

Mabel Ganson Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan

Music:

(((GRRLS))), Alasdair Roberts, Antony and the Johnsons, Aretha Franklin, Beach House, Beat Happening, the Beets (and other 90s nostalgia), Bill Callahan, BlackBlack, Brittle Stars, Destroyer, Dolly Parton, Edith Frost, Electrelane, the Halo Benders, Joanna Newsom, Judee Sill, Julie Doiron, Karen Dalton, Khaela Maricich, K Records everything, Little Wings, Loudon Wainwright III, Mice Parade, the Microphones/mt. eerie, Mirah, the Mountain Goats, Neko Case, Palace/Palace Brothers/Palace Music/Will Oldham/etc., Pavement, Pulp, Scout Niblett, Sebadoh/Sentridoh, the Silver Jews, smog, T.Rex/Tyrannosaurus Rex, Woelv

Movies:

"Me You and Everyone We Know," "The Holy Mountain," "Harold and Maude," "Grey Gardens," "Last Tango in Paris," the Michael Haneke, the Werner Herzog, Akira Kurosawa's "Dreams," "Talk to Her", "Paris Texas," "True Stories," "The Witches," Woody Allen, etc.

Television:

The Jacques Cousteau Odyssey, Weird Weekends with Louis Theroux, Little Britain, Arrested Development, The Adventures of Pete & Pete

Books:

Non-fiction: Anarchism and Other Essays (Emma Goldman), Henry & June (Anais Nin), Herzog on Herzog, Our Inner Ape (Frans de Waal), Veiled Sentiments: Honor and Poetry in Bedouin Society (Lila Abu-Lughod), other ethnographies, The Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau, anything by Diane Ackerman

Fiction: No One Belongs Here More Than You (Miranda July), Narcissus and Goldmund (Hermann Hesse), The Piano Teacher (Elfriede Jelinek), everything by Flannery O'Connor, The Stories of John Cheever, Lost in the Funhouse (John Barth)

Poetry: Actual Air (David Berman), Franz Wright, Louise Gluck, Elizabeth Bishop, Mary Oliver, Marie Howe, Li-Young Lee, etc.

Plays: Edward Albee, Tom Stoppard, Peter Shaffer

graphic novels: Edmond Baudoin, Daniel Clowes, Craig Thompson, Adrian Tomine,

Heroes:

Big and Little Edie Beale, Sterling Poole, Rachel Bonfanti.

My Blog

alive together

Bedtime StoryLisel Mueller The moon lies on the riverlike a drop of oil.The children come to the banks to be healedof their wounds and bruises.The fathers who gave them their wounds and bruisescome to...
Posted by leila bird on Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:57:00 PST

the continuing saga of stupid haircuts

The stupid haircuts started in spring 2001, with the Leonard Nimoy (Spock) haircut. A few of you may remember this. I think my "girlfriend" (yes, I took a freshman year foray into lesbi...
Posted by leila bird on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 08:29:00 PST

women / poems

ConfessionLouise Gluck To say I'm without fear--It wouldn't be true.I'm afraid of sickness, humiliation.Like anyone, I have my dreams.But I've learned to hide them,To protect myselfFrom fulfillment: a...
Posted by leila bird on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:06:00 PST

parousia

ElmsLouise GlückAll day I tried to distinguishneed from desire. Now, in the dark,I feel only bitter sadness for us,the builders, the planers of wood,because I have been lookingsteadily at these elmsan...
Posted by leila bird on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 02:59:00 PST

where is Mt. Eerie?

I love this song. At the part where he sings about Bart Simpson he is usually singing about Woolly Mammoths. But that's ok too. Quickly forgetting was the way I used to live my life.If you tr...
Posted by leila bird on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:39:00 PST

all I want for chirstmas

is to go to taxidermy school
Posted by leila bird on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 09:39:00 PST

here’s to you, neith and mabel

"Our culture is now more feminist, but our communities are weaker, and our personal struggles often as difficult. Contemporary feminism gives women support to leave individual men, and supports some w...
Posted by leila bird on Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:32:00 PST

"DO NOT BE AFRAID"

What an amazing band / person / ideas / images.It changes me.
Posted by leila bird on Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:03:00 PST

IT’S OFFICIAL

We signed the lease and got our keys today! It's really happening!As David Berman once said,"When I paint my dining room people gonna come around!"
Posted by leila bird on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 03:23:00 PST

notes to motivate myself

Dear Leila,Make good choices.Go to class.Do your homework.Take your vitamins. Stop telling yourself you are sick.Stop telling yourself you are tired.(You are a young, lithe, healthy 20 year old.)Retur...
Posted by leila bird on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:32:00 PST