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Chandra

Part of figuring out who you are is discovering who you don't want to be.

About Me


Vibrant, silken folds caress my wandering eyes,
pelagic puddles of red, gold, and green.
Fragile waves crash the depths of cool brightness,
crystal prisms of broken light.
Truant voices echo my soft, muddled spin,
livid and languid lullabies.
I'm drowning in a sharply, shackled flow,
momentary calm of fluid rage.

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Music:

Ray Lamontagne, Damien Rice, Dire Straits, Sigur Rós, Bare Naked Ladies, The Shins, The Smiths, Talking Heads, Tori Amos, Radiohead, Coldplay, The Cure, Ryan Adams, Ben Folds, Billie Holiday, Delerium, Sade, Psychadelic Furs, The Killers, Marvin Gaye, Bob Marley, Wolfsheim, Outkast, Loreena McKennitt, Poe, Louis Armstrong, Manu Chau, Deep Forest, Paul Simon, M. Ward

Movies:

Happy Accidents, The Motorcycle Diaries, Secretary, Elizabeth Town, Amelie, Pirates of the Caribbean, Crash, Babel, City of God, Garden State, Hotel Rwanda, Closer, Life is Beautiful, The Magdelene Sisters, Schindler's List, The Shawshank Redemption, Disney's Robin Hood
...In English
...In Catalan
...In Dutch
...In Danish

Television:

Lost, Heroes, Boston Legal, House, PBS

Books:

Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng, The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber, Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, The Princes of Ireland by Edward Rutherfurd, The Awakening by Kate Chopin, There Will Come Soft Rains (a short story) by Ray Bradbury, A Portrait of the Artist by James Joyce, Wicked by Gregory Maguire, 1984 by George Orwell, Candide by Voltaire, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard

My Blog

anyone lived in a pretty how town

by e.e. cummings anyone lived in a pretty how town(with up so floating many bells down)spring summer autumn winterhe sang his didn't he danced his didWomen and men(both little and small)cared for anyo...
Posted by Chandra on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 11:20:00 PST

Indecision and the Future

I am wandering aimlessly trying to find myself. Too scared of taking the wrong path and too indecisive to even begin to choose a direction, I remain stagnant. Wallowing in self-doubt, I know that actu...
Posted by Chandra on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:58:00 PST

The Past

I feel so very far removed from the person I used to be.
Posted by Chandra on Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:55:00 PST

Coke or Water?

Water #1. 75% of Americans are chronically dehydrated. (Likely applies to half the world population.) #2. In 37% of Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is mistaken for hunger. #3. Even ...
Posted by Chandra on Sun, 16 Jul 2006 11:48:00 PST

Attention: Friends that actually know me...

If you read this, even if I don't speak to you often, you just gotsta post a memory. It can be anything you want, it can be good or bad, just so long as it happened. Then post this in your journal to ...
Posted by Chandra on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 10:47:00 PST

Regrets

"I know a woman, (who) became a wifeThese are the very words she uses to describe her lifeShe said a good day ain't got no rainShe said a bad day is when I lie in the bedAnd I think of things tha...
Posted by Chandra on Thu, 16 Mar 2006 03:23:00 PST