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About Me

Rover wanderer, nomad vagabond... call me what you will.

I love to read and write and laugh and love... I think. I work way too much, but you do what you gotta do. I enjoy spending my money on good food, rockin' concerts, and my friends because I worked hard to earn it. I love my cereal soggy, my soda flat, and my leftovers cold.
I like to think that if I'm actually capable of falling in love, it'll be with someone like Jason Wade.
Guys with tattoos on the smalls of their back scare me and guys who sashay make me nauseous. Oh, I also hate that whole emo-hair-in-my-face shit. Get a fucking haircut, goddammit. You look like a wet cat.
My favorite thing to do when I get home is melt into a good song or start a new novel. I love books, chocolate, live music, stargazing, the beach, solving a good puzzle, and giving people unusual nicknames.
My AIM and Yahoo screen name is isrolie321 ... Feel free.

My Interests

I like...

...animals, art history, astronomy, austin, autumn, big words, books, candles, care-packages, cemeteries, chalk pastels, chocolate, coffee in the evenings, comedy, comets, cooking, daydreaming, dictionaries, drawing, edgar allan poe, fire, flowers, fog, foreign films, forensic science, fortune cookies, freecell, gardens, gargoyles, gravestones, grumpy bear, horror, independent films, individuality, intelligence, journals, learning, lightning, linguistics, listening, live music, meteor showers, nature, new orleans, orion, painting, the paranormal, passion, philosophy, phoenixes, photography, planets, rain, reading, redemption, religion, researching, sarcasm, science news, seashells, stargazing, stars, storms, studying, suicidal bunnies, the beach, the color indigo, the moon, the ocean, theater, thunder, trees, ut, watercolors, weather, wit, words, writing.

I'd like to meet:

I'm dying to know... do you like dreaming of things so impossible or only the practical or ever the wild, or waiting through all your bad, bad days just to end them with someone you care about? And do you like making out and long drives and brown eyes and guys that just don't quite fit in?

Music:

I like a bunch of different stuff, I guess. But my top 10 at the moment are: Jack's Mannequin, Coldplay, Nightmare of You, The Alkaline Trio, Radiohead, The Killers, Dashboard Confessional, The Weakerthans, Jason Mraz, and Incubus...It doesn't stop there or anything. Indie's probably my favorite at the moment, but I love alternative, rock, classical, country, pretty much anything with a really good beat. I can find something I really like in any genre.

Movies:

The Illusionist, Gone With The Wind, Moulin Rouge, Night Watch, Day Watch, The Saint, Scary Movie 2, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Crash, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Sixteen Candles, Velvet Goldmine, Real Women Have Curves, Garden State, Lost In Translation, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Saved, Legend, Legally Blonde, School of Rock, Miss Congeniality, The Mummy, The Mirror Has Two Faces, etc...

Television:

Don't really watch it much; I prefer movies, I guess. I hate reality TV, but I do enjoy the following:

SNL
Mad TV
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
The Simpsons
Reno 911!
Futurama
Ugly Betty
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT

Books:

Most of the stuff on my shelves deals with mythology, philosophy, religion, history or art.

Some of my favorites: Kushiel's Legacy, The Alchemist, The Watch Tetralogy by Sergey Lukyanenko, The Historian, Everything Is Illuminated, 1984, Gone With The Wind, Circle of Friends, The Other Bible, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, His Dark Materials Trilogy, The Haggadah (would that count here?), Little Women, Ovid's Metamorphoses, The Odyssey, The Aeneid, The Poisonwood Bible, Girl With A Pearl Earring, Mists Of Avalon, Practical Magic, Pillars of the Earth.

Heroes:

My ma. My pa. Thomas Edison. Benjamin Franklin. Heron of Alexandria. Isaac Newton. Phedre no Delaunay.

My Blog

where are you now?

gah. this is the second time this week that i've watched something on abc family. i'm feeling a little shamed. haha. work has been fun, for lack of a better word. interesting, at least. wednesday we h...
Posted by Israel on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 05:45:00 PST

deo gratias.

i sit and smile my secret smile. all at once it's made sense, and i remember what i am.
Posted by Israel on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:03:00 PST

So call me Captain Backfire.

tonight is the nightmare of you concert which i'm pretty psyched about. it's at stubb's indoors which i've actually never been to. sure, i've eaten there but i've never gone downstairs. :O so for now ...
Posted by Israel on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:32:00 PST

Mr. Brightside

So... we meet again. I'm so groggy, still; even though i woke up about 10 hours ago, i still feel like a slight breeze could put me to sleep. kate is in new mexico, atm and will be there for the next ...
Posted by Israel on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 04:55:00 PST

this is the last time that i’ll hold your hand.

sometimes love just isn't enough.
Posted by Israel on Sun, 25 May 2008 10:04:00 PST

ugly is in.

i'm finding myself at odds [with myself] again. the worst thing you can do to me is leave me alone with my thoughts. seriously. i find myself pretty overwhelmed at the moment, not by my job or by stre...
Posted by Israel on Fri, 23 May 2008 06:47:00 PST

lolz

Posted by Israel on Thu, 22 May 2008 05:35:00 PST

woot woot

holy shit! so i'm back now. i fixed my compy problems and i now have regular internet access via my computer. i'm gonna go upload some pictures now :D
Posted by Israel on Sat, 17 May 2008 09:30:00 PST

hallo, poppet

so much to talk about and so little time to write it all down.things are becoming increasingly turbulent in my mind, enough to make me want to say 'enough.' nothing drastic or anything, just a change ...
Posted by Israel on Sat, 03 May 2008 10:57:00 PST

a plea.

so i’m going to begin writing my first book.i’m pretty damned nervous, but i figured if i don’t suck it up it won’t ever get done and i won’t ever win that pulitzer i&rsq...
Posted by Israel on Sat, 22 Mar 2008 07:39:00 PST