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Somebody You Used to Know

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My Interests

Music:

Modest Mouse, George Winston, Neil Young, Beastie Boys, and everything inbetween

Movies:

my favorites are The Royal Tenenbaums and American Beauty.

Television:

I only get 29 channels and have come to find QVC fantastically mesmerizing at times due to its existance alone.

Books:

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, A Wrinkle in Time, Lord of the Flies, The Catcher in the Rye (please take note that it is IN and not AND and those who say it is AND should just kill themselves.), Harry Potter, Choke, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, The Perks of Being A Wallflower, Freeways and Aquaducts, Catch 22

Heroes:

Alan Ball, Isaac Brock, Richard Kelly, Margot Tenenbaum, Wes Anderson

My Blog

dweller on the threshold

Summer 2007. Gas is 2.79 on good days. George Bush and his staff admit they made immense mistakes with the Iraq war. The bridge in Minnesota collapsed. 63,000 people in Mississippi are still living in...
Posted by Somebody You Used to Know on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:55:00 PST

i am leaving my best friends

there's not really a way to cover that up.  i am leaving my best friends to go to  a college that is just like my hometown, only my mind and heart lacks the ability to call it home.  wh...
Posted by Somebody You Used to Know on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:51:00 PST

the parking lot behind dairy queen at night

is wonderful.  yes, because of the crowd at bent willey's and the tiki torches forever exploding in the reflection of carwindows.  yes because there are always people walking close by  ...
Posted by Somebody You Used to Know on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:58:00 PST

trying to prove myself wrong.

a wet spot covers three inches of a pink sheet that my dog is lying on. all four of her paws are slicker than usual, some of it sticks out like an elementary school student's cowlick.   she ...
Posted by Somebody You Used to Know on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:58:00 PST

i'm that sign behind kurt cobain in that black t-shirt all the kids wear.

last night driving through penn state in that huge elephant of 2000 chrysler voyager + five other names they tack on to cars these days. i've felt so young recently.  so inexperienced a...
Posted by Somebody You Used to Know on Mon, 12 Jun 2006 10:27:00 PST

heart cooks brain.

it makes me want to throw up when i write an entire blog only to have it deleted because my computer is awesome. but here were the basics:  today i watched eternal sunshine of the spotless mind a...
Posted by Somebody You Used to Know on Fri, 19 May 2006 08:05:00 PST

scholarship essay, again

             Pots rattle over the stovetop, and pancakes sizzle in oil. An egg timer buzzes, signaling the end of break. I fasten an apron around ...
Posted by Somebody You Used to Know on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 05:04:00 PST

essay for scholarship

The question i was supposed to write on: why you have chosen to pursue a college cooperative education program toprogram.   Title: Because I Don't Want To Become This   Pots rattle over the ...
Posted by Somebody You Used to Know on Sat, 11 Mar 2006 01:14:00 PST

if you tried to be my friend before

but couldnt' add me because you had to know my last name or crap, now you can because i changed the settings.
Posted by Somebody You Used to Know on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Peter Pan is always pitiable

Peter Pan by Disney, Peter Pan with that blonde haired kid, Hook, and Finding Neverland. All versions of this great tale have left me very unsatisfied, but none so much as Finding Neverland. I saw p...
Posted by Somebody You Used to Know on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST