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jezebelee

About Me

I am a Dunkin Donuts mocha skim latte. I am a dirty punk rock pigeon with an oil-smeared feather-hawk. I am the train that pulls out of the station, engine pumping despite the drag of 2 million fleshy pounds in my compartments. I am the snow inviting you to hop and skip off your path and into fun. I am the morose building, windows hooded by arches, waiting to be noticed by an artful eye. I am the eye.

When I am not inanimate objects, or admiring inanimate objects, I am also a fan of those things in the left column, some of which may or may not also be inanimate objects.

My Interests

advertising, pens, writing, reading, SCIENCE FICTION, fantasy fiction, fiction, creative nonfiction, essays, science, supernatural fiction, web design, DESIGN, caffeine, transit, photography, french, russian

I'd like to meet:

Meet is such a strong word. I'm here to keep in touch with people I already know.

Contact Info:
AIM | kalaratrian
Y!IM | jezebeleen
Gtalk | nerism
MSN | kalaratrian

Meebo:

Music:

DEPECHE MODE, daft punk, placebo, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, the basement jaxx, THE DOORS, the beatles, new order, squirrel nut zippers, yann tiersen, electronic music, MELANCHOLY MUSIC, the streetlife djs

Movies:

STRANGER THAN FICTION, amelie, zoolander, lost boys, better off dead, overboard, labyrinth

Television:

the soup, THE OFFICE, TORCHWOOD, hex, moonlight, SNL, 30 Rock

Books:

FIERCE INVALIDS HOME FROM HOT CLIMATES by tom robbins, fledgling by octavia butler, twilight series by stephenie meyer, one hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcia marquez, JUSTINA ROBSON, night watch series by sergei lukyanenko, and lyricist martin gore of depeche mode

Heroes:

tina fey, amy poehler, SWITTERS

My Blog

Stamps, Hard Drive, CPL, and arts!

I'm down to one 41¢ stamp, so I visited the post office to purchase some new 42¢ stamps. I don't use stamps often, but occasionally I think of sending post cards and well hell, you need a stamp to do ...
Posted by brutal// on Tue, 13 May 2008 06:42:00 PST

Brother!, books.

Today is my little brother's birthday (he is littler than I by 16.5 months, and it is important to note he is not my baby brother, as my baby brother was 4 years old as of last month). It is in acknow...
Posted by brutal// on Thu, 01 May 2008 08:48:00 PST

Life, After Life

I just read this article regarding these portraits. I warn you it's a little morbid. Photographer Walter Schels captures living and postmortem portraits of the dying, sharing their insights and storie...
Posted by brutal// on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:57:00 PST

Apartments

After scouring Craigslist and pulling phone numbers off the side of buildings, the apartment search is over. I limited my search by price range and geographic epicenters (Chicago and Division blue lin...
Posted by brutal// on Mon, 24 Mar 2008 08:20:00 PST

Sunshine, the film

I finally saw Sunshine last week, it’s a sci-fi/futuristic thriller starring Cillian Murphy and directed by Danny Boyle. It’s a film I wanted to see as soon as it came out, but for various...
Posted by brutal// on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:11:00 PST

Chatter

The button returns! I found the little knave in the apartment and now I need to buy some superglue to permanently return him to my phone. Joy.As some of you know, I had planned to apply to Urbana-Cham...
Posted by brutal// on Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:22:00 PST

Knavish Button

A button fell off of my Motorola SLVR. The SLVR is a candy bar style phone. The keys are really just shiny black plastic squares adhered to a layer of gel that I suppose sits on top of the actual butt...
Posted by brutal// on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:46:00 PST

Tagged, forever ago: 10 Randoms

"So here's the rules. You have to write a blog that has 10 random goals, habits, skills, hobbies that people don't know about you then send comments to 10 of your friends "You're it!" with instruction...
Posted by brutal// on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:05:00 PST

Birthrate Up, Abortion Down | Chicago Trib

Against the Trend, U.S. Births Way UpAbortions at 30-year lowThe Chicago Tribune published two articles regarding birthrate in the U.S. In "Against the Trend, U.S. Births Way Up," the journalist tries...
Posted by brutal// on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 01:39:00 PST

Negligent in my Duties

Now that the holidays are definitely kaput, I think I can take a minute to acknowledge my continued existence. Christmas was great, my little cousins and brother are in that weird phase where they gro...
Posted by brutal// on Wed, 16 Jan 2008 07:51:00 PST