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About Me


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My Interests

art. blankets. love. art. love. irony. hating irony. love. soccer. passion, because what choice do i have? playing with kids, especially of the pre-teen age (creeps). meeting people. feeling healthy, when i have the discipline to be happy. funny how that works. sitting down on a cushion and training myself. confusion. clarity. music. music music doot da doot doo. my car and the fact that it drives. sneakers. tulips. cameras and more cameras and people who feel good holding cameras. globes and most round things. christmas cacti in honor of my family. my family. elephants, both miniature and real. lovely, strange minds that do their own thing and good hearts that do that thing that we all do. hands and the things they make. learning to trust myself.

I'd like to meet:

everybody counts.

Music:

portishead, bjork, the beatles, radiohead, fiona apple, rufus wainwright, madonna, nina simone, dar williams, prince, r.e.m., keith jarret, india arie, saul williams, john legend, joanna newsome, jose gonzalez, fiest, neil young, michael franti, david bowie, meredith monk...

Movies:

home for the holidays, judy berlin, do the right thing, you can count on me, amores peros, hero, kill bill, american beauty, lost in translation, fried green tomatoes, steel magnolias, good will hunting, rocky 2, mad hot ballroom, ants (in spanish), i heart huckabees, v for vendetta, stranger than fiction, y tu mama tambien...

Television:

six feet under and the cosby show.

Books:

milan kundera, hermann hesse, alice walker, donna haraway, leo tolstoy, flannery o'connor, j.d. salinger, e.e. cummings, t.s. elliot, jorge luis borges, paolo coelho, adrian piper, kim sooja, sabrina ward harrison, haruki murakami, rainer maria rilke, ram dass, chogyam trungpa rinpoche...

Heroes:

ahora.

My Blog

let me tell you about my day.

today, i had the kind of day i haven't had in a long, long time. it all started when i woke up early with a boy on my brain and went to his house and laid on his bed and talked with him for a few hour...
Posted by katie day on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 08:45:00 PST

this guy's cool.

"We are not talking about love as a virtue or as something good from a moral, religious, or philosophical perspective. We are talking biology, we are talking about our animal constitution as the parti...
Posted by katie day on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 11:01:00 PST

one of my most vivid dreams

occured when i was about 5 years old. i had watched an episode of he-man that day and had been very moved by the story, in which one lumpy, big blue character was treated very poorly by the whole soci...
Posted by katie day on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:42:00 PST

i'm a jubu

"G-d, I am not afraid of your hell and I don't need your paradise. Why do I continue to serve you? Because I love you." - Balshemtov.
Posted by katie day on Mon, 12 Mar 2007 04:57:00 PST

i think i would die without art.

i think i might. without craziness. without absurdity, joy. love. sometimes i try to outsmart it all and remain miserable because it's so safe and reliable, but i just have to make stuff. making stu...
Posted by katie day on Mon, 05 Mar 2007 12:19:00 PST

so much love in a seemingly mundane night.

laughing solely because she was happy. happy to see her happy. had nothing to do with me and my heart had no choice but to be glad to see her glad. laughing along with her, i forgot myself and remembe...
Posted by katie day on Fri, 23 Feb 2007 10:47:00 PST

welp, i'm-a going back.

back to CO after a pitstop in VA after a month in VT. feels like i'm curled up in the hinge of a door. it's kind of claustrophobic and dark in here, and there's no room for anybody else.  the doo...
Posted by katie day on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:51:00 PST

i am gradually getting weirder and weirder.

i know this because buddhism really changes a person. and i'm into it pretty heavy duty. and that is somehow terrifying, because my very personality is threatened. but shit, whaddayagunnado? life ...
Posted by katie day on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 06:15:00 PST

revolutionary petunias.

Reassurance     I must love the questions themselves as Rilke said like locked rooms full of treasure to which my blind and groping key does not yet fit.   and await answers as unseale...
Posted by katie day on Wed, 06 Dec 2006 03:13:00 PST

i have a very secret confession.

i could never date anyone who wasn't able to embody "the hoodie sweatshirt" in their being. if you do not understand what this means, you cannot be my boyfriend. sorry.
Posted by katie day on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:19:00 PST