liiisa! - ProfilesArchive

About Me

I like to "weeeeee!" and I like people and events that make me "weeeeee!"

My Interests

dancing, fashion, contemporary Canlit, Alden Nowlan's poetry, Real World marathons, HGTV, making appropriately titled playlists, (failed) matchmaking, text messaging, roof top reading, porch sitting, city exploring, patio people watching, rum and cokes, Vancouver Island, springsummerfall, mint chocolate ice cream

I'd like to meet:

Someone who can tell me if sweet potatoes should be eaten as dinner or dessert.

Music:

New Order and Sam Cooke the majority of the time.

Movies:

Reality Bites, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Harold and Maude, The Squid and the Whale, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Annie Hall

Television:

Felicity (Scott Speedman helped spawn my new love for 1990s flannel), Arrested Development, Freaks and Geeks, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Weeds

Books:

Middlesex, The Great Gatsby, Angels in America, Chorus of Mushrooms, Spilling Open, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Skin, Fronteras Americanas, The Sound and the Fury, Truth and Bright Water, The Diviners, To The Lighthouse

My Blog

tick tock

There are only three papers (and four exams, but those are still too far off to even think about) standing between me and summer. And I know those three papers will be forgotten in a week’s time...
Posted by liiisa! on Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:49:00 PST

migrations?

After being away from Toronto for four years at university, I am eager to return. Sporadic weekend visits and summers spent in the 416 are not enough to fill this big hole in my heart. I feel like a c...
Posted by liiisa! on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:44:00 PST

At a distance he observes an unknown girl picking flowers

by Alden NowlanIf I think hard enoughof the roses and the girlbreaking them off,of how the flowers wouldsmell if I touched them, taste ifI were a child again,if I remember clearlyhow the pain of a tho...
Posted by liiisa! on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:22:00 PST

my 1st born will be named Nina

by Jen Lamthat night we were supposed to go to yourbrother's for dinner butwe got stuck in that traffic jamon the 2nd Narrows bridge.some big rig had turned over& was blocking all the lanes.so we ...
Posted by liiisa! on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:46:00 PST

love on the streets

The seasons shift in and out of place so suddenly the people on the busy street corner are unprepared for the wind and its chill and the way its chill stings their cheeks and fingers as they wait for ...
Posted by liiisa! on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:18:00 PST

This is a Love Poem Without Restraint

This is a Love Poem without RestraintBy Lorna CrozierThis poemis full of painfull of piecesIt cries outoh! oh! oh!It has no prideno discretionIt whimpersIt will not drop its eyeswhen it meets a strang...
Posted by liiisa! on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 05:15:00 PST

Postcard by Margaret Atwood

Postcard I'm thinking of you. What else can I say?The palm trees on the reverseare a delusion; so is the pink sand.What we have are the usualfractured coke bottles and the smellof backed-up drains, t...
Posted by liiisa! on Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:23:00 PST

places i'd like to be right now

On the BC ferry, heading from Vancouver to Vancouver Island. It'd be a July morning, around 11 am, and warm and clear and fresh in a BC summer sort of way. I'd be standing on the dock, fifteen minute...
Posted by liiisa! on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 06:20:00 PST

to my city, with love

There is nothing like driving along the Gardiner at night. The city creeps up on you slowly: you catch a glimpse of the CN tower from the 427, a hint of the Skydome (green and glowing) peeks through t...
Posted by liiisa! on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 03:07:00 PST

looking for nancy

Looking for Nancyby Alden NowlanLooking for Nancy everywhere, I've stoppedgirls in trenchcoatsand blue dresses, saidNancy I've looked all over hell for you.Nancy I've been afraidthat I...
Posted by liiisa! on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 10:12:00 PST