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marissa

electric like static.

About Me

"to be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting." -e.e. cummings the beginning. "everything was beautiful and nothing hurt." -kurt vonnegut

My Interests

this is butter bean. he is absolutely the best dog in the world.

I'd like to meet:

'if i am not for myself, who will be for me? if i am only for myself, then what am i? if not now, when?' -jewish proverb. I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC.

Music:

the black heart procession, the mercury program, cat power, mazzy star, songs:ohia, neutral milk hotel, azure ray, billie holiday, moonraker, karate, bjork, tv on the radio, soulive, radiohead, ani difranco, my bloody valentine, nina simone, stevie wonder, portishead, massive attack, elbow, ella fitzgerald, joni mitchell.

Movies:

amelie, wait until dark, the triplets of belleville, novacaine, my life in pink, hable con ella, the three faces of eve, todo sobre mi madre, the devil's backbone, the royal tenenbaums, pee-wee's big adventure, big fish, garden state, eternal sunshine of a spotless mind, napoleon dynamite, earth girls are easy, king of hearts, the garden of the finzi-continis, city of women, dirty dancing, the squid and the whale, loggerheads, capote, the game, parenthood, good will hunting, death of a salesman, watership down, pet cemetery.

Television:

background noise.

Books:

"you don't have to take MY word for it!"

Heroes:

the one and only. RIP.