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courtney

secret_raven

About Me

embracing the arbitrary & nebulous...

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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Jorma! and people who live on boats

Music:

iron and wine, death cab for cutie, the arcade fire, sufjan stevens, sigur ros, silver jews, gogol bordello, metric, leonard cohen, bruce cockburn, jeff buckley, bright eyes, bob dylan, joanna newsom, feist, neko case, broken social scene, cat power, boards of canada, animal collective, bing crosby, dean martin, nat king cole, nina simone, miles davis, led zeppelin, patsy cline, johnny cash, simon and garfunkel, the who, sarah harmer, cat stevens, emmylou harris, otis redding, chet baker, slipknot, killswitch engaged, stutterfly, wagner, mozart, beethoven, chopin, shostakovitch, tchaikovsky, rachmaninov, kelly clarkson, radiohead, pearl jam, nirvana, smashing pumpkins, lauryn hill, amadou and mariam, ali farka toure, wolfmother, wolf parade, smog, queen, joni mitchell, jt, rise against, the ramones

Movies:

adaptation, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, almost famous, the new world, waiting for guffman, the life aquatic, pan's labyrinth, volver, butch cassidy and the sundance kid, vertigo, the defiant ones, a streetcar named desire, on the waterfront, all the president's men, funny girl, the way we were, the corpse bride, big fish, a river runs through it, downfall, me and you and everyone we know, the english patient

Television:

mtv, the hour! the office! snl! the colbert report! the discovery channel, pbs, national geographic, and wild america f. my first love, marty stouffer

Books:

some current favorites are Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard, A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemmingway, the Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, Pablo Neruda, Isaiah (the Bible), Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. i somehow feel i have an obligation to the classics, but when read, they rarely satisfy. i have far greater success with more contemporary reads, so i don't know why i keep torturing myself with trying to read classics that bore me a lot of the time. masochistic? probably

Heroes:

people who own who they are, and don't pretend to be somebody they're not. that may seem obvious, but...

My Blog

last night i dreamt that i hit a deer with my car

in tandem, these two songs reach some place in my subconscious that has been badly in need of expression... favorite oh liei thought you were goldeni thought you were wisecaught you returningto the ...
Posted by courtney on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:09:00 PST

Lu Lu

i'm so cool manz LOLZ
Posted by courtney on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:48:00 PST

soft spot for cephalopods

{aside: could that title be construed as a pun? yes, a clever one, i think. so clever that i am willing to break my no-pun policy. just this once, and that does not give certain people i know permissi...
Posted by courtney on Fri, 02 Mar 2007 05:18:00 PST

so, there's this bird

a cormorant. showed up at camp today. he splays his wings wide in the sunlight, looks around and around, eyes everything constantly. he seems nervous. i like him. i took these pictures through binocs....
Posted by courtney on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:47:00 PST

won't go away, can't forget

thought I'd be sleeping by this time tonight. i'm bagged, exhausted, ill (corporeally and otherwise). and yet, sleepless again. so here is another edition of, you guessed it, LateNite Poetry with Cour...
Posted by courtney on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 02:06:00 PST

the postman brings neruda

more poetry... I guess I'm compiling an anthology of personal favorites here, for no apparent reason. hopefully someone out there might discover that these works strike resonant chords in them too... ...
Posted by courtney on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 01:47:00 PST

the meteoroid's a bone thrown from the void

Emilythe meadowlark and the chim-choo-ree and the sparrowset to the sky in a flying spree, for the sport over the pharaoha little while later the Pharisees dragged comb through the meadowdo you rememb...
Posted by courtney on Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:38:00 PST

are you writing from the heart?

UNDER the harvest moon,When the soft silverDrips shimmeringOver the garden nights,Death, the gray mocker,Comes and whispers to youAs a beautiful friendWho remembers. Under the summer rosesWhen the...
Posted by courtney on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 12:30:00 PST