happiness is Shadi-shaped...again

About Me

I'm into art, music, photography and all that hippie stuff. I'm a sophmore at the beautiful Cal State Long Beach and I'm studying to be an elementary school teacher. There's not much more to say, so if you have any questions, you can IM me at peace0feve on aim, and yes, that is a zero not the letter "o". Don't be scurred, I usually don't bite. Come on...you know you wanna.
...i ♥...
paint
babies
multicolored stage lights
margarita ice in a waffle cone from baskin robins
monkeys and penguins and ducks
the smell of persian food
my amazing friends
bad tv
pedicures in spa chairs, with flowers
protests with awesome people
croutons
lilys and mums
chocolate chip cookies and chili cheese fries
life through a camera lens
stuffed animals that smell familiar
sour things
blasting music with the windows open in the car
swings
gyros
black eye liner
naps
text messages
beauty marks
cheese from pizza
cute shoes
my mommy
sweet fruit
secret money stashes
mexican candy
neon colors
my awesome tattoo
communal property
100 calorie packs
citywalk
catchy sayings and good quotes
sex and the city
spooning
avacados
art galleries
multiethnic couples
thai food
being a ginormus dork
my fishie rufus...i miss him
my new fishie, augusten
inner peace
...i don't ♥...
broken hearts
ignorance
things that smell like bad
too much rice
designer labels
thinking too, too much
stiff joints
paying too much for movies and other things
war
being unprepared for rain
tuna salad with unmashed chunksa tuna
wasting time in useless places
inclosed, dark spaces
wet doorknobs
turbulance on planes
packing
sitting on the inside of booth-like apparatuses
anchovies and sea food in general
people who come on too strong
people who don't fight for what they believe in
...if you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything...
i stand for truth, beauty, happiness, love, music, freedom, peace, revolutionary thought, simple pleasures, breaking the mold, and ordinary people.

My Interests

Music, Poetry/Spoken Word, Art, Photography, Musicals, Protests, Laughing, and Peace

I'd like to meet:

Auguesten Burroughs, Frida Khalo, Maya Angelou, Jonathan Larson, Mark Ryden (and i did!!!!!!), Marc Chagall, Amy Tan and whomever invented buffalo wings.

Peace Camp was AWESOME!!!!

Music:

Maroon 5, Alanis Morrisette, No Doubt, Celine Dion, Showtunes of many sorts, Keane, the Cranberries, Ozomatli, the Bangels, The Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Kanye West, System, the Killers, The Beatles, mixed tapes!...I'm very random with my music...i suppose it depends on my mood.

Movies:

AmÃ©lie, Little Miss Sunshine, Frida, Crash, Brokeback Mountain, RENT, Dirty Dancing, Phantom of the Opera (I like it better on Broadway), The Holiday, The Score, The Sweetest Thing, The Upside of Anger, World Trade Center, The Manchurian Candidate...and the list goes on...i think this is really AWESOME! ..

Television:

Sex and the City, House, The Actor's Studio, One Tree Hill, American Idol, Saved By the Bell reruns, TV-Land reruns, I Love Lucy, America's Next Top Model, The Hills, My Fair Brady and whatever looks good while i flip channels

Books:

Augusten Burroughs books, Harem, Funny in Farsi, Amy Tan books, the Awakening, What's the Girl Worth?, Brave New World, Man's Search for Meaning, and Maya Angelou poetry

Heroes:

My mommy, Frida, Maya Angelou, Augusten Burroughs, and Revolutionaries, big and small.
Here's to my peeps-

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My Blog

the Spirit survived the awakening

INVICTUS Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor...
Posted by happiness is Shadi-shaped...again on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 11:37:00 PST

a look back to the future

you don't know mebut i encompass you.you can't see mebut you know that i'll be there. "hello, gorgeous"are the words you'll utter when i walk through the doorafter a full day's work, we'll switch off ...
Posted by happiness is Shadi-shaped...again on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:30:00 PST

hurts me soul

i hear the musici feel the cues andi want to write someand make you bite some but when i sit downand i spit soundmy words have no place to go to tell a storyto cope with gloryi want to heal youand i b...
Posted by happiness is Shadi-shaped...again on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 01:18:00 PST

Sweet and Sticky

i've been living with a shadow overheadi've been sleeping with a cloud above my bedi've been lonely for so longtrapped in the past, i just can't seem to move on i've been hiding all my hopes and dream...
Posted by happiness is Shadi-shaped...again on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:04:00 PST

i don't own emotion, i rent...

i'm even angrier now then whence i began.i wrote it all out. all of my current emotions.and i was betrayed by my own trusty browser.if you can't depend on your browser, what can you depend on? the hea...
Posted by happiness is Shadi-shaped...again on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:45:00 PST

solace in an old favorite...

Effort at Speech Between Two People speak to me. take my hand. what are you now?i will tell you all. i will conceal nothing.when i was three, a little child read a story about a rabitwho died, in the ...
Posted by happiness is Shadi-shaped...again on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 11:19:00 PST

breath in, breath out...

breath in, breath outbreath in, breath outi can't do this.breath in, breath outbreath in, breath outdon't FUCKING call him.breath in, breath outbreath in, breath outthe walls creep in on me everytime ...
Posted by happiness is Shadi-shaped...again on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:05:00 PST

myspace doesn't provide a status:heartbreak

a long, long time ago,sometime after mufasah, but only a few hours after the 40-year-old virgin,a girl found herself with a boy.they were sitting at the water frontsomewhere near watchtower four.he to...
Posted by happiness is Shadi-shaped...again on Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:27:00 PST

you've got a beautiful taste.

Tell me something good.Like those stories I used to love, the ones that showed me parts of you that noone else ever would...know.And I'll tell you something good, too. Join me on a trip.Somewhere we'v...
Posted by happiness is Shadi-shaped...again on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 04:48:00 PST

L.U.V.

Long ago and far away, but closer than you think, there was a goddess by the name of L.U.V. and she always dressed in pink. L for Lady, U for Usoa (Dove in Spanish, it's true), V for Valentine, that's...
Posted by happiness is Shadi-shaped...again on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 03:46:00 PST