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Becca D'Hand

She said, nobody move or I'll bring the house down.

About Me

i love music. i love everything about it. a good song will put a story in my head, make me pace in the dark with headphones on, hands raised to the ceiling. every piece of music has a soul, and if you connect with it, you get goosebumps. if you don't, it just sounds like another song. i use music to tell my lifestory. i get high from it. i fall in love daily-honest and heartbreaking- with a refrain, a lyric, immodualtion, a voice. sometimes, it washes over me, and i have to stop where i am, eyes closed with the smile of a galapagos rock lizard, basking. it keeps me breathing. it stops my heart.and i can't create a lick . . . then again, we love what is most mysterious to us, right?

My Interests

Watching someone talk about what they love or what they're good at doing. Learning something new.

I'd like to meet:

I am a sucker for a smarty, (be it brains, pants or mouth).

Music:

The Walkmen, Firewater, M. Ward, Sloan, Neutral Milk Hotel, Lftr Pllr/Hold Steady, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Starlight Mints, Field Music, Andrew Bird, Magnetic Fields, Wolf Parade, Sultans of Ping FC, +/-, Mobius Band, The Pixies/Breeders/Frank Black, Mazarin, Mark Lanegan/Queens of the Stone Age, Hum, The Stars, Menomena, Elf Power, Leonard Cohen, The National, My Morning Jacket, Eric Bachmann/Archers of Loaf/Crooked Fingers, Bloodshot Records, Calexico, Sigur Ros, Smog, Built to Spill, Islands, Poster Children, Fiery Furnaces, Silver Jews, Neil Finn/Crowded House. The list goes on and changes daily. In short, mopey boys with guitars, angry men with drinking problems and a misogynistic streak, chicks with a sarcastic attitude, and bands with a heavy amount of swirly. No genre is left out. I'm over my "anything but country or house" phase.

Movies:

"The Thin Man" is my idea of what love should be like. It's either that or "Old Boy".

Television:

If I had television, I would watch Venture Brothers, Scrubs, Good Eats, Daily Show, Colbert Report, anything with Hugh Laurie and/or Stephen Fry, Exit 57, My Name Is Earl, Arrested Development, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Nova, documentaries and nature shows. Thank God for Netflix and Youtube.

Books:

Suggest some because I've read through all mine at least three times.

Heroes:

The ones who speak up in a room full of people who do not agree with them in the slightest.

My Blog

Jeez Louise, I am tired.

I just finished my first week of training.  That's right.  Some jobs actually train you, these days.  I've been getting up at 5:30 (yes, AM) and going to bed around 9 at night.   M...
Posted by Becca D'Hand on Sat, 12 May 2007 05:34:00 PST

Holy hell, I am employed.

For the past couple of years, I decided that I was going to take a more hands-on approach to helping people.  I quit my stressful office job after the death of a good friend in order to finish ma...
Posted by Becca D'Hand on Thu, 12 Apr 2007 04:00:00 PST

Hot damn, it's Spring!

Here, in Chicago, we don't often get Spring weather. It usually goes from pouring rain and/or snow to humidity that knocks away your breath. The past couple of days have been simply glorious. It is wa...
Posted by Becca D'Hand on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:22:00 PST

Important things about tomorrow

1) It is Mardi Gras.2) It is my birthday.-More Importantly-3) It is National Pancake Day.One of my favorite things to do when I am hungover is to demand pancakes. I lament that there isn't an online p...
Posted by Becca D'Hand on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:57:00 PST

The theme of our time?

I am listening to the new Fountains of Wayne single, and I realize there are a lot of songs out there about two people who are lonely and just miss each other. They are too wrapped up in their routine...
Posted by Becca D'Hand on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 06:35:00 PST

Messing around with writing again

Skeletons in the ClosetTook all the skeletons outLined them up on the floorDusted them off and broke them into piecesGot to workThat hamster I let starve keeps sweatersConstant lying is a tie rackMaki...
Posted by Becca D'Hand on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 02:48:00 PST

A lovely quote I heard on the TV.

Hell is killing us. The moral decline of a religion begins when it creates a Hell, a place of punishment and torment where those who are different must go. As soon as religions create such places, the...
Posted by Becca D'Hand on Sat, 06 May 2006 08:08:00 PST