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About Me

I believe that stress, fatigue, and uncertainty are cardinal elements of happiness. I believe I have a lot more kicking and screaming to do. I believe that having a good heart is the most important thing in the world; almost as important as being sexy.
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My Interests

dancing. grammar. the art of good conversation. coffee. tea. vodka. jesus christ. strangers. ecclesiastes. honing my technique. janky big beats. kung-fu diet. men's eyebrows. night. outerwear. interpreting glances. making ditties on the piano. stammering french. going to the movies alone. sentimental quagmires. apple juice. trying to punctuate meaningful statements with something other than "dude"...I have an entire chest of drawers dedicated to socks and stockings.

I'd like to meet:

a chess tutor. a tennis partner. ill-fitting jeans. mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni.

Music:

television. elo. yes. kraftwerk. neil young. johnny cash. syd barrett. belle&sebastian to a fault. modest mouse. black keys. ariel pink. beirut. refused. coco rosie. joanna newsom. broadcast. godspeed you! black emperor. animal collective. pulp. pixies. books. the unicorns. the homosexuals. serge gainsbourg. jean sablon.

Movies:

Background imagery.

Television:

all for Cyrus.

Books:

House of Leaves. Bobby Fischer Goes to War. Stalking the Wild Semicolon. Edwin Mullhouse: The Life and Death of an American Writer. The Age of Innocence. The Loved One. White Nights. The Trial. Lolita. This Side of Paradise. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. Letters to a Young Poet. The True Story of Ah Q. Pastoralia...Short stories for little victories! Nabokov, Vonnegut, Murakami, Chekov, Maupassant, George Saunders...huzzahs!

Heroes:

purn.

My Blog

Poem

I made this poem verbatim from some of Eric Shaw's charicteristically evasive text messages. *ahem* You'd Be a Bad Wife I can't explain it well right now. You see small things,...
Posted by Christina Catherine on Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:45:00 PST

Do you ever get that urge?

I almost had a panic attack just now, because I realized that I don't have a curling iron. Suddenly I need one. Seriously. I'm going to finish this sentence and haul ass over to Rite Aid.
Posted by Christina Catherine on Fri, 06 Apr 2007 09:11:00 PST

Fashion...is...awesome...

When theatrics overpower the clothes. Apparently this caused a ruckus (as in, audible shrieks and oh my gods from the audience) at the Viktor&Rolf show in Paris, over concern for the safety of the...
Posted by Christina Catherine on Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:18:00 PST

RIP little blue volvo

The following dialogue took place in the ER. I guess I really am a jerk."Okay, we're gonna have to cut this""Are you going to cut off my clothes?!""...no...we're not going to cut off your clothes.""ar...
Posted by Christina Catherine on Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:29:00 PST

This is really neat.

Posted by Christina Catherine on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:36:00 PST

Passing the time.

I went to Flaunt again today, and probably did more homework than actual intern work, but it was good. I'm trying to revise this short story for my creative writing class, and I'm just sick of lo...
Posted by Christina Catherine on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:35:00 PST

Reflections

I am leaving my job in just under a month, and I feel akin to Winston at the end of 1984. I have not exactly been tricked into loving Fred Segal/Ron Herman as an institution, I am simply too tired to ...
Posted by Christina Catherine on Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:00:00 PST

Mom's first trip to Wal-Mart.

"It was just so depressing. I mean, everyone looked so sad and zombie-ish and everything was messy and...I don't know. That's how I felt going to Missouri. A whole state that just gave me that feeling...
Posted by Christina Catherine on Fri, 16 Jun 2006 08:42:00 PST

There is hope...dummy!

Okay, if I were a troubled individual wandering aimlessly through a Rite Aid in west hollywood, fingering the $3.99 knock-off keds, this is the last...I mean last thing I would want to see.Look at tha...
Posted by Christina Catherine on Sat, 15 Apr 2006 05:43:00 PST

The 'Bu

Elisa and I went to the beach on Sunday. This is very impressive, considering the ratio of times we plan on going to the beach versus actual trips to the beach.On the way...Sexy rest stopback to busin...
Posted by Christina Catherine on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 03:52:00 PST