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My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I would like to meet all the actors from the dream I had entitled, "All About Oranges and Hats."

Music:

Roxy Music, Cocteau Twins, Wire, Built to Spill, Unwound, VU, Big Star, OCS, Thee Ohsees, Mogwai, Om, Earth, Lightning Bolt, Akron/Family, Angels of Light, Love, Dylan, Donovan, Squeeze, Prince, Pere Ubu, Sonic Youth, TV on the Radio, Animal Collective, Wilco, The Clientele, Broken Social Scene, The Cure, GBV, The Jam, Superchunk, Kate Bush, M'i and L'au, Ride, Yo La Tengo.Oh. And Nu Shooz.

Movies:

Old Brian's Yeller Song Endearment Story.And Documentaries, but I also love: Network, Being There, Spinal Tap, Fat Girl, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, Trust, U CanCount On Me, Spellbound, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, the Omen, Harold & Maude, Jaws, The Apartment, Breakfast at Tiffany's, the Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Breathless, Chinatown, the Changeling, anything scary

Television:

The Office. The Ricky Gervais. 'Pranos. Battlestar Gallactica. Six Feet Under

Books:

My favorite will be the future masterpiece of Miss Brooke Harries. For now: The Magus, The Corrections, Norwegian Wood, American Pastoral, Vox, Sleeping In Flame, Lolita, The Odd Sea, House of Leaves, The Feast of Love. Also poetry by Pinsky, Gluck, Young, Hoagland, Wakoski, Hillman, Rich, Olds, and many others which, for now, elude me.

Heroes:

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My Blog

Here are some things I’m good at:

Not much.HA!
Posted by Aliza Penelope on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 12:58:00 PST

Unsolicited poem from guy on a stoop with a typewriter

Seemed to think I needed this:"i am not sure what sadis and thats spinning inrecord players set up anddown but not out and clichecan sometimes be comfortingas a hug is and repeating canmake feeling be...
Posted by Aliza Penelope on Sun, 06 May 2007 09:19:00 PST

Poem fragments

Identify them and win a prize! You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your ...
Posted by Aliza Penelope on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:19:00 PST

Louise Gluck, I owe you one for this...

because it's okay to be irritated, sullen and bitter some of the time, as long as you can write something like this to excuse yourself:"I like watching you gardenwith your back to me in your purple ba...
Posted by Aliza Penelope on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 12:58:00 PST

Remember this...

...when things seem too easy. Note to self: It's always work. And the work is never over. When the kitchen closes, the dishes are stacked up in back. I'm not sure when to stop being vigilant a...
Posted by Aliza Penelope on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 12:07:00 PST

Great! I owe $854!!

I don't understand money. Or insurance policies. Or why "automatic withdrawal" seems to mean something different to Blue Cross than it does to me and the F*CKING BANK. I hate.
Posted by Aliza Penelope on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:07:00 PST

Hormones: 28-day-cycle-style!

I recant the utterly pathetic endorsements of self-defeat all over that last blog, because yesterday I got my period and realized the world isn't actually ending--I just have been buzzing with th...
Posted by Aliza Penelope on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:17:00 PST

Never quite there

While my sensitivity skyrockets, my level of tolerance for simple human interaction is diminishing at an alarming rate. I want to condone every conversation that happens outside of me, control all the...
Posted by Aliza Penelope on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 01:22:00 PST

The Envoy

One day in that room, a small rat. Two days later, a snake. Who, seeing me enter, whipped the long stripe of his body under the bed, then curled like a docile house-pet. I don't know ho...
Posted by Aliza Penelope on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 07:51:00 PST

Dead, I said with a dry throat and spat

I don't fucking believe it. This is an actual Viagra email sent to my friend, which I begged her to forward to me. Does it get any better than this?:Hi look scratched inside my forehead in letters of ...
Posted by Aliza Penelope on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:35:00 PST