clara [in medias res] - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I wish I really knew what to say about myself. Um, I go to Mills College in the SF Bay Area. I love my friends at school and I miss my friends from Sacramento. My friends are amazing people, even if we don't get along all the time. I love laughing, watching movies, listening to/making good music, reading, eating good food, learning new things, conversations about everything and nothing, and my friends. I'm still not really sure what I want to do for the rest of my life, but I'm hoping it's something interesting and fun.
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"So... your adventures are over." "Oh, no. To live... to live will be an awfully big adventure."
"What does a scanner see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does it see into me? Into us? Clearly or darkly? I hope it sees clearly because I can't any longer see into myself. I see only murk. I hope for everyone's sake the scanners do better, because if the scanner sees only darkly the way I do, then I'm cursed and cursed again."
"And that's when I figured out that tears couldn't make somebody who was dead alive again. There's another thing to learn about tears, they can't make somebody who doesn't love you any more love you again. It's the same with prayers. I wonder how much of their lives people waste crying and praying to God. If you ask me, the devil makes more sense than God does. I can at least see why people would want him around. It's good to have somebody to blame for the bad stuff they do. Maybe God's there because people get scared of all the bad stuff they do. They figure that God and the Devil are always playing this game of tug-of-war with them. And they never know which side they're gonna wind up on. I guess that tug-of-war idea explains how sometimes, even when people try to do something good, it still turns out bad."
"Maybe it makes sense now. Maybe somewhere in all of this there's a reason. Maybe somewhere in all of this there's a why. Maybe somewhere there's that thing that lets you tie it all up with a neat bow and bury it in the backyard. But nothing, not getting angry, not prayers, and not tears, nothing can make something that happened unhappen."

Positive thoughts from bbc.co.uk/slink

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My Interests

reading, dancing, acting, theatre, history, music, shows, friends, love, laughing and smiling, photography, high fashion, funny things, languages, movies, nintendo, archaeology, travel, ice skating, gymnastics, soccer, biology, animals, environmental science and issues, sustainable development, life in general

I'd like to meet:

I love to meet new people...

Ghost caught on surveillance camera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo8CP9Hhb58

Hella funny

Music:

From rock to hip hop to classical to pop to bluegrass to classic rock to opera, pretty much a little bit of everything except country. So, in no particular order:

Thursday, He Is Legend, Demon Hunter, Death Cab For Cutie, Bob Marley, Eminem, Anberlin, Project 86, MGMT, The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Sublime, The Stranglers, Copeland, Nickel Creek, Blessthefall, Imogen Heap, Kate Nash, Brand New, The Cure, Shiny Toy Guns, Castledoor, Joshua Radin, Enya, John Mayer, The Byrds, Josh Groban, U2, REM, Gym Class Heroes, Ferraby Lionheart, Ronnie Day, Frank Sinatra, Camille, Fall Out Boy, Ludacris, Hot Hot Heat, AC/DC, Muse, The Clash, Dido, The Police, Mae, Beirut, The Fugees, Dr. Dre, Genesis, E-40, Gorillaz, Vampire Weekend, Daft Punk, Jack Johnson, Lily Allen, Switchfoot, Natasha Bedingfield, Justin Timberlake, Queen, Billy Idol, Jimmy Eat World, Steve Miller Band, The Rolling Stones, Pink, The Wombats, Prince, Black Eyed Peas, Jeremy Enigk, Taking Back Sunday, Rufus Wainwright, Snow Patrol, Michael Buble, Jars of Clay, Panic At The Disco, Alison Krauss, The Postal Service, Rob Dougan, Tom Jones, Goo Goo Dolls, Dashboard Confessional, John Lennon, The All-American Rejects, Third Day, MC Lars, Queens of the Stone Age, The Ataris, The Ramones, Blink 182, Chevelle, Sex Pistols, Violent Femmes, System of a Down, BBMak, Bing Crosby, Depeche Mode, Relient K, Jason Mraz, Green Day, Weezer, Underoath, 98 Degrees, Jet, Jump 5, Sum41, Rooney, Nine Inch Nails, The Beach Boys, Cake, Incubus, The Eagles, Foreigner, Hans Zimmer, Angels and Airwaves, Led Zepplin, Elvis Presley, Foo Fighters, Gnarls Barkley, Charlotte Church, Snoop Dogg, The Who, Moby, Sigur Ros, The Streets, Backstreet Boys, N'Sync, Bayside, Daddy Yankee, Pitbull, Damien Rice, Dead Poetic, Heart, John Murphy, Maroon 5, Norah Jones, Radiohead, Say Anything, The Shins, and more I can't think of at the moment...

Movies:

Body of Lies, Michael Clayton, Whale Rider, There Will Be Blood, No Country For Old Men, The Incredible Hulk, 30 Days of Night, The Dark Knight, Tropic Thunder, Pineapple Express, And When Did You Last See Your Father?, The United States of Leland, Funny Games, SUNSHINE, El Orfanato, The Strangers, Cloverfield, Mr. Brooks, Iron Man, Kung Fu Panda, What Happens In Vegas..., I ♥ Huckabee's, Closer, Blood Diamond, Half Nelson, The Departed, SAW, The Rescuers, Spirited Away, The Hills Have Eyes, Pan's Labyrinth, Little Miss Sunshine, Winnie the Pooh, A Scanner Darkly, Fight Club, Sense & Sensibility, Domino, Office Space, Flirting, Unbreakable, The Devil Wears Prada, Simon Birche, The Aviator, Broken Flowers, Vanilla Sky, Hotel Rwanda, Lucky Number Slevin, L.A. Confidential, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, Superbad, Everything is Illuminated, Stay, V for Vendetta, Mary Poppins, Thumbelina, Capote, Dummy, The Believer, Finding Neverland, Wuthering Heights(1998 TV), Peter Pan, Indiana Jones, Princess Mononoke, The Last Samurai, Memento, SLC Punk, American Beauty, Gattaca, October Sky, Toy Story and Toy Story 2, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Gladiator, LOTR, Sixteen Candles, Hero, Scream, To Catch A Thief, The Mummy, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, Amelie, Big Fish, 28 Days Later, The Triplets of Bellville, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Superemacy, Underworld, The Aryan Couple, Johnny Stecchino, The Jacket, The Downfall, Garage Days, Donnie Darko, Constantine, Identity, Stargate, The Matrix, Once Upon A Time In Mexico, Snatch, The Shawshank Redemption, The Stand, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Stage Beauty, Hidalgo, Secondhand Lions, Sin City, 10 Things I Hate About You, Never Been Kissed, Hamlet(2000), Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead(2004), Collateral, That Thing You Do, Dogma, Matilda, Without A Paddle, The Wild Thornberrys Movie, all Sean Connery "James Bond" movies, etc...

Television:

The Life and Times of Tim
TrueBlood
Project Runway
Top Chef
Law & Order

Books:

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
When You Are Engulfed In Flames by David Sedaris
Wicked by Gregory Maguire
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
The 13th Warrior by Michael Crichton
The Pilgrim's Regress by C.S. Lewis
The Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
The Stand by Stephen King
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller

Heroes:

The people who do this for a living...

Peter Pan

Batman

Rebecca Siegert

My Blog

My Prayer

This is my prayer. Giving It Away by Mae And by the way You brought me here, It makes me believe The best is still yet to come And I don't want to leave. Forgive my hesitation- Oh, but I...
Posted by clara [in medias res] on Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:13:00 PST

Nothing Much

I have nothing really to say this week. I'm really stressed out and depressed is all. Twenty-Four by Switchfoot Twenty-four oceans Twenty-four skies Twenty-four failures And twenty-four tries ...
Posted by clara [in medias res] on Sun, 22 Jan 2006 09:38:00 PST

Some thing that have been on my mind for longer than they should've

Today I was in English and we were learning a little more about Transcendentalism in the American Romantic era. The Transcendental writers of the time got there inspiration from Nature and being one w...
Posted by clara [in medias res] on Tue, 15 Nov 2005 10:12:00 PST