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Lizzy

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About Me

27 for 2007: 1. Lullabies For Little Criminals - Heather O'Neil 2. What is the What - Dave Eggers 3. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov 4. Short Cuts - Raymond Carver 5. Kitchen - Banana Yoshimoto 6. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - Betty Smith 7. After Dark - Haruki Murakami 8. The History of Love - Nicole Krauss 9. The State of Constraint - New Work from Olipo 10. Dress Your Family In Corduroy and Denim - David Sedaris 11. Red Passport - Katherine Shonk 12. Needlepoint/Remnants of an Unknown Woman - Ursule Molinaro 13. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More - Roald Dahl 14. The Red Notebook - Paul Auster 15. Glacial Period - Nicolas De Crecy 16. Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka 17. The Bears'Famous Invasion of Sicily - Dino Buzzati 18. New Cuban Fiction - Various

My Interests

long car rides, live music, photography the Sunday NYT, This American Life, record shopping, reading, travelling, making collages, sultan's market, missed connections, train rides , the environment, touchdown jesus

Music:

the smashing pumpkins, SIGUR ROS, BJORK, placebo, radiohead, spoon, death cab for cutie, the dismemberment plan, spiritualized, yo la tengo, stereolab, the postal service, the faint, modest mouse, belle and sebastian, sleeping at last, rilo kiley, modest mouse, guided by voices, sleater kinney, magnetic fields, the promise ring, bright eyes, american analog set, the decemberists, rogue wave, explosions in the sky, God Speed You Black Emperor!, do make say think, BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE, ARCADE FIRE, sunset rubdown, the shout out louds, the stars, wolf parade, the beatles, new order, the CURE, johnny cash, the SMITHS, the pixies, elvis costello, TALKING HEADS, depeche mode, menomena, wilco, ryan adams, my bloody valentine, interpol, ladytron, pulp, blur,

Movies:

THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, the city of lost children, amelie, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the nightmare before christmas, brazil, yellow submarine, vertigo, finding nemo, breakfast at tiffany's, the birds, spirited away, annie hall, winter passing, manhatten

Television:

sports night, six feet under

Books:

Haruki Murakami!!!!, Sarah Vowell, Dave Eggars, Stephen Chobsky, Margaret Wise Brown, Rachel Carson, David Sedaris, Milan Kundera, Borges, Howard Zinn, Lemony Snicket, J.D. Salinger, George Orwell, Jonathan Franzen, Truman Capote, Raymond Carver, Rainer Maria Rilke,

My Blog

Rock en Seine

 But seriously, I never would have thought it possible for me to see Bjork and the Arcade Fire in Paris!!! Oh good god!!!! The first time I get to see Bjork could be in Paris? Really!?!?! AH...
Posted by Lizzy on Thu, 24 May 2007 07:52:00 PST

oh McSweeney's

Band NamesRejected by theSmashing Pumpkins. BY RYAN VAUGHAN - - - - Eating Candy Wearing Costumes Carving Pumpkins Smashing Mailboxes Egging Houses TP'ing Front Yards Drinking Schnapps Razorbl...
Posted by Lizzy on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:17:00 PST

But thought is its unfitting companion

If there were a question that needed to be answered in this story it would be not one but many, and would be these: How can a world allow all this? Allow these people to live so long?... To be naked t...
Posted by Lizzy on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:07:00 PST

I like it right here, but I can not stay

wow. I work a lot. But I like it. a lot. Cayt wrote me the sweetest note. Liz came to visit me. Everyone is really nice. I don't get bored. The people are awesome. I get to enjoy my train ride home. I...
Posted by Lizzy on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:01:00 PST

a little advice

Never tell farmers from Nebraska that you've never been to Schula's Steakhouse because your a vegetarian. It apparently offends them on many levels.
Posted by Lizzy on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 08:15:00 PST

Blustery Days

Dear Winter,                Please hold off just a little longer. The trees and I would really appreciate it. People were just starting to en...
Posted by Lizzy on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:14:00 PST

sad

It's September and I've only just made the halfway point of my set number of books for the year. I thought I would have done so much better over the summer, alas now school is in session and I must cu...
Posted by Lizzy on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 09:15:00 PST

for half your smile

I don't have a dog anymore. It's such a shocking void in my life. I come home and there is no one to greet me. My brother and I are still automatically saying all the phrases we used to call out when ...
Posted by Lizzy on Tue, 09 May 2006 02:42:00 PST

grounds for divorce

*New York*The Rock n Roll hall of fame*Touchdown Jesus*Intonation*Lollapalooza*Pitchfork Music Fest*Sigur Ros*Rainer Maria*shower curtains*lame holidays decorations*christmas lights*christmas trees*ba...
Posted by Lizzy on Fri, 05 May 2006 12:06:00 PST

intelligent design my foot

According to a Gallup poll drawn from more than a thousand telephone interviews conducted in February 2001, no less than 45 percent of responding U.S. adults agreed that "God created human beings pret...
Posted by Lizzy on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 03:26:00 PST