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About Me

"I am sill so naive;
I know pretty much what I like and dislike;
but please, don't ask me who I am.
'A passionate, fragmentary girl,' maybe?"

lj: users / unfinished__
librarything: books, books, books.
aim - dancehall hipsxx

My Interests

my Lord & Saviour. literature. literary theory. feminism. holocaust studies. socialism. libraries. music that leaves my heart elated. people who leave my heart elated. books that leave my heart elated. my cats. my family. children. babysitting.

I'd like to meet:

michael showalter.

Music:

rainer maria. brandtson. belle & sebastian. mewithoutYou. jeremy enigk. sunny day real estate. the fire theft. elliott. the shins. tilly & the wall. maria taylor. the postal service. mates of state. death cab for cutie. the jealous sound. modest mouse. mineral. poor old lu. the rocket summer. sigur ros. the white stripes. camera obscura. the get up kids. cursive. imogen heap. frou frou. elliott smith. joy electric. matt pond pa. pedro the lion. last days of april. the smiths. the anniversary. starflyer 59. the appleseed cast. the promise ring. sixpence none the richer.

Movies:

the united states of leland. dead poets society. newsies. swing kids. love me if you dare. strangers on a train. vertigo. dial m for murder. the edukators. the royal tenenbaums. sylvia. bon voyage. goodbye lenin! garden state. i heart huckabees. bonnie and clyde. the dreamers. eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. the constant gardener. lost in translation. the notebook. that thing you do! munich. rear window. almost famous. about a boy. schindler's list. westside story. sleeping beauty. the pianist. young adam.

Television:

veronica mars. x-files. pushing daisies. gilmore girls. twilight zone. scrubs! arrested development. lost. heroes. crossing jordan. law and order: svu. house. the office. nip/tuck. big love. battlestar galactica. history channel. educational tv. most things sci-fi. pbs kids shows.

Books:

1984. animal farm. the great gatsby. flight of the romanovs. the bell jar. hamlet. the stranger. rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead. letters to a young poet. crime and punishment. the picture of dorian gray. the importance of being earnest. mere christianity. the virgin suicides. dracula. till we have faces. frankenstein. the heart is a lonely hunter. rebecca.

3 : historical fiction. history books. ancient literature. modern literature. fyodor dostoevsky. george orwell. rainer maria rilke. f scott fitzgerald. flannery o'connor. cs lewis. sylvia plath. mary shelley. virginia woolf. carson mccullers. oscar wilde.

Heroes:

authors. musicians. poets. holocaust survivors. the russian people.
my little champ, theodore:

[may he rest in peace.]

My Blog

my grandmother always wanted me to be a model.

i was freakishly tall at a very young age, way before any of the boys in my class got their growth spurts. i'm still tall, but not in a freakish, extremely noticeable way. my grandmother always wanted...
Posted by maria. on Wed, 03 May 2006 06:30:00 PST

duckswan?

for a moment, i thought there was a duck- or swan-type creature outside the office. and when you work at the corner of i-24 and harding place, that's not something you'd really see. but it was just th...
Posted by maria. on Tue, 02 May 2006 01:46:00 PST

i thought that this meant something more than broken hearts and new addictions.

it's a strange feeling when you begin to realize that you were nothing more than a joke to so many of the people in your life. i'm not sure if i even really care, it just leaves a sour taste in my mou...
Posted by maria. on Wed, 26 Apr 2006 01:26:00 PST

Oh, he is here; my black marauder; oh hungry hungry.

"I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love."I just keep crying and crying and crying. Lying on my makeshift bed in a cold house. Dreaming about being happy again. Missing my ...
Posted by maria. on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 06:29:00 PST

To ____ . . . [part 4]

Dear ____, Something very terrifying too has happened to me, which started two months ago and which needed not to have happened, just as it needed not to have happened that you wrote that you did not ...
Posted by maria. on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

To ____ . . . [part 3]

Dear ____, Understanding. Love. Two worlds. I am simple enough to love the spring and think it foolish and terrible that you can deny it to us when it is the wonder of it that is uniquely ours. With t...
Posted by maria. on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

To ____ . . . [part 2]

Break through the barriers; I am in great pain, and another shell of the so circumscribed understanding is shattered. All the neat tight desperate schedules are gone, and I got a letter from my ___ th...
Posted by maria. on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

To ____. . . [part 1]

Dear ____. . . Only in your eyes did the winds come from other planets, and it cuts me so, when you speak to me through every word of _____, though every single word I look up bleeding in the diction...
Posted by maria. on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

To whom it may concern. . .

dear ____, it would be easy to say I would fight for you, or steal or lie; I have a great deal of that desire to use myself to the hilt, and where for men, fighting is a cause, for women, fighting is ...
Posted by maria. on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

post impressions : vii, viii, ix.

at the head of this street a gasping organ is waving moth-eatentunes. a fattish hand turn the crank;the box spouts fairies,outof it sour gnomes tumble clumsily,the little...
Posted by maria. on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST