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About Me

i graduated with a degree in writing. but i don't write and i can't write. but sometimes i try, and i read a lot, which they say is the best thing for writers. i often wish i were different in small stupid ways that don't matter. i bite my nails without mercy. i like working in the city. i like mornings. i like driving alone. i like a good thunderstorm, and a good sneeze. i like making food and eating it with friends. i am into joy, and love, and peace. i can get lost in a bookstore. i like live music. i like my family. i like my friends. i like talk radio. i like going out to breakfast. i like old books and new books. i like the beach but not the ocean. i don't like my feet. i don't like when my hands and lips are dry. i wish i could sing, paint, play an instrument. i want to travel. i like to take pictures. i wish i were closer to god and to my grandparents. i'm trying to like beer more than sissy drinks with umbrellas and fruits. my hands are too small.

My Interests

i'm interested in being authentic. i'm interested in finding the God i could never imagine. i'm interested in growing up. i'm interested in congruence.

I'd like to meet:

not you. well, maybe you.

Music:

and now for a weird mix of musicians: bob dylan, death cab for cutie, jose gonzalez, josh komorowski, pearl jam, the beatles, david gray, damien rice, neil young, the innocence mission, ramona cordova, sufjan stevens, radiohead/thom yorke, brightblack morning light, the avett brothers, juana molina, john mallinen, alexei murdoch, ben folds, elton john, miles davis, billie holiday, nick drake, fiona apple, mi and l'au, ben harper, jamiroquai, iron & wine, seu jorge, james taylor, smashing pumpkins, rufus wainwright, joni mitchell, bjork, stan getz, redbird/peter mulvey, joanna newsom, sun kil moon, red house painters, jens lekman, my morning jacket, saxon shore

Movies:

the white diamond, amelie, the last waltz, the fountain, pride & prejudice (all 6 glorious hours), the motorcycle diaries, harold and maude, junebug, roman holiday, amores perros, the sword in the stone, the godfather part II, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, the science of sleep, garden state, magnolia, the squid and the whale, brokeback mountain, annie hall, casablanca, any wes anderson film.

Books:

mostly fiction. currently my favorite book is the brothers k. others include catcher in the rye, the house on mango street, lolita, the hours, pride & prejudice (i HAVE to, i was an english major), the river why, angela's ashes, the bluest eye, anything by flannery o'connor or roald dahl, anything not by mitch albom. i like poetry by e.e. cummings, mary oliver, wendell berry, nancy thomas (one of my english professors in college), my sister kelly, and my friends ryan and katrina.

Heroes:

my sisters.

My Blog

in the end

i'm reading the english patient. this is my favorite paragraph in the entire book, near the end. "And all the names of the tribes, the nomads of faith who walked in the monotone of the desert and saw ...
Posted by birdie on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:16:00 PST

colors

monet refuses the operation --Lisel Mueller Doctor, you say there are no halosaround the streetlights in Parisand what I see is an aberrationcaused by old age, an affliction.I tell you it has taken me...
Posted by birdie on Thu, 31 May 2007 07:35:00 PST

loss

Molt, Laurie Kutchins This is my way of wanting the trees to teach methe grace of loss the "duende" of failurethe simultaneity of green and groan let go...
Posted by birdie on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:50:00 PST

april afternoon

this poem makes me want to go to california, for some reason. not like i've ever been there. Web, by Allison Hawthorne Deming (with lines from Claude Levi-Strauss) Is it possible there is a certain ki...
Posted by birdie on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 12:10:00 PST

more wendell berry

Ask the world to reveal its quietude--not the silence of machines when they are still,but the true quiet by which birdsongs,trees, bellworts, snails, clouds, stormsbecome what they are, and nothing el...
Posted by birdie on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 09:05:00 PST

love for wendell berry

Love the quick profit, the annual raise,vacation with pay. Want moreof everything ready-made. Be afraidto know your neighbors and to die.And you will have a window in your head.Not even your future wi...
Posted by birdie on Wed, 29 Nov 2006 12:32:00 PST

another good poem

Wild Geese You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. ...
Posted by birdie on Fri, 22 Sep 2006 11:52:00 PST