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Kamigaeru

Once, I wished upon a star and nothing happened. I suppose that someone else must have seen it first

About Me

Misfit extraordinaire.

My Interests

Knitting, reading, travel, food, origami, making soap, music, hiking, horseback riding, book binding, kayaking, scuba diving, just to mention a few.
I like to look at things:
Found
ghostco
Oswald Yves
I also read blogs when I'm bored at work:
Daily Nooz
Engrish.com
Indexed
Ironic Sans
The Panopticon
Pointless Waste of Time
Post Secret
This Moment

I'd like to meet:

People who have a good sense of humor, have something interesting to share/teach, can make me laugh, aren't afraid to challenge me and test my boundaries, or are otherwise slightly off-kilter like myself. If you can cook, that's a bonus!! Life is meaningless without good friends. Science geeks of the world, unite!
Stuff to Watch:
SNL - More Cowbell!

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King of Many Talents

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Music:

Moxy Fruvous, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Afro-Cuban Allstars, The Mountain Goats, Evanescence, Yo-Yo Ma, Mozart, They Might Be Giants, DaVinci's Notebook, The Decemberists, Bach, Harry Belafonte, Bobby McFerrin, Beethoven, Habib Koite, Johnny Cash, Eric Clapton, Weird Al Yankovic... do I really have to list them all? Let's just say I'll listen to just about anything, especially if it's got a Middle Eastern or Latin theme.

Movies:

Talk to Her, El Crimen del Padre Amarro, Amores Perros, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Full Metal Jacket, Ghost in the Shell, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Donnie Darko, Secretary, Farinelli, Waking Ned Devine, Dancer in the Dark, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Hero, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Fight Club, Frida, Run Lola Run, Hillary and Jackie, Amelie, Requiem for a Dream, Perfume, Pan's Labyrinth, Shortbus

Television:

With 3.5 channels, there ain't much on. It doesn't get any better with cable or satellite TV, so why bother? But I'll watch Heroes or House if they're on.

Books:

Palm of the Hand Stories, American Gods, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, Sandman, Love in the Time of Cholera, Blindness, The Stone Raft, East of Eden, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, The Piano Tuner, Otherland series, Dalva, The Road Home, Chesapeake, Bloodchild, Watership Down, Bridge to Terabithia, Chronicles of Narnia, House of Sand and Fog, Stones from the River, Heart Songs, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Life of Pi, Stiff, The Sea, The Time Traveller's Wife; poetry by Pablo Neruda, e.e. cummings, Rainer Maria Rilke
Care to add to my book collection? Pick something from my wishlist on my 'wishlist' shelf:

(Yes, this is a shameless plug to acquire more literature!)

Heroes:

My Dad

My Blog

Feather

A single featherDoes not hold the beauty ofThe entire bird.
Posted by Kamigaeru on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:43:00 PST

Standing Stillness

I remember watching youAnd inexplicably wishingThat our shadows (then moving)Would begin holding hands.Standing. Stillness.
Posted by Kamigaeru on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:18:00 PST

Growing up

I don't often feel the need to quote the works of others, but having read The Sea by John Banville over the weekend, I was rather moved to do so. (If anyone would care to read this book, I have a copy...
Posted by Kamigaeru on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:32:00 PST

The Gift

The gift I wish to giveYou will not have.Just as the cataractCan only follow gravity's whim:With desperate strength it leapsAnd fallsTo break upon the rocks below.ShatteredInto morning light,Into mist...
Posted by Kamigaeru on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:29:00 PST

So it goes

We've lost a great author: Kurt Vonnegut. (Thank you Gabe, for introducing me to his books.)RequiemWhen the last living thinghas died on account of us,how poetical it would beif Earth could say,in a v...
Posted by Kamigaeru on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 07:19:00 PST

On Sitting Down to Dinner

A folded napkinIs not intended to beA permanent thing.
Posted by Kamigaeru on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 02:17:00 PST

Trial by Snow

Back in the 7th grade, I was not a particularly good runner. I always came in last, or nearly so, and if I finished a mile in under 15 minutes it was a miracle. That's probably because I read too many...
Posted by Kamigaeru on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 11:58:00 PST

Shameless

I watch shamelesslyAs half-naked trees bathe inWarm April showers.
Posted by Kamigaeru on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 05:34:00 PST

A.M. Advice

For a good morningOne is advised to avoidDecaffeinated.
Posted by Kamigaeru on Fri, 30 Mar 2007 03:51:00 PST

Empty

You showed me where to lookFor things I'd given up for lost:Memories forgottenAnd buriedLike hummingbirds with broken necks.I did not know the shallow gravesFor what they were at first,Thinking them o...
Posted by Kamigaeru on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 03:50:00 PST