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About Me

I think pockets are the most ingenious invention.
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My Interests

Basically, Johnny D

I'd like to meet:

Gael Garcia Bernal--Chris Martin--Johnny Depp--Carolina Herrera--people from other cultures (and people from other lifetimes, such as C.S. Lewis, Alfred Hitchcock, Walt Disney, and Audrey Hepburn)

Music:

Sylvie Lewis-- Ludovico Einaudi-- RHCP-- Coldplay-- Peggy Lee-- Ella Fitzgerald-- Rogue Wave-- Matt Costa

Movies:

Born into Brothels--The Hustler--God Grew Tired of Us--Boys of Baraka--Tsotsi--The Painted Veil--The Ghost and Mrs. Muir--Rebel without a Cause--The Italian--Roman Holiday--A Nun's Story--The Goodbye Girl--Blood Diamond--Pride and Prejudice--Romeo and Juliet--Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind--Shakespeare in Love--Emma--Proof--Water--Mozart and the Whale--Blow Up--Anything Johnny D

Television:

Grey's Anatomy--TCM--World Cup

Books:

History of Love (among others...)

Heroes:

Robert Osborne and Mama T

My Blog

Succor for an Ingenue

Man alive. I have not written a blog since I began school. I figure it’s high time I write another one. I’ve done some thinking. (I should hope so; it’s been more t...
Posted by Luba the Great on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:01:00 PST

Cause for Hope

So this college thing is kinda cool. It's also hitting me pretty hard. Yep... most people go to school and have a roommate and make friends and live on campus, or they stay at home, where ...
Posted by Luba the Great on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:38:00 PST

The end is near

This one won't be a poem...I think. It also won't be wise or witty, probably. I just feel like typing. Last week, I went to a hippy store on Delmar, and I got a skirt. It's co...
Posted by Luba the Great on Sun, 24 Jun 2007 02:06:00 PST

Ahead or behind?

This is my attempt at free-lance poetry. I wrote it in Calculus a while ago, and I just decided to 'publish' it. (If nothing else, it should at least tell you what I get out of Calculus.) Somewh...
Posted by Luba the Great on Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:02:00 PST

Words for my emotions

In the last blog, I said I wished there was a poem or song that matched how I felt about my experience in Chicago, and I have just come upon the perfect poem.... written by my brother. If you do...
Posted by Luba the Great on Sat, 19 Aug 2006 01:02:00 PST

All My Little Children

I bet there's a poem or song that could describe how I feel every time I think about Chicago and the children there. It's been a week, and I still want to cry every time I remember their faces.&...
Posted by Luba the Great on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:30:00 PST

Mi amor: Ecuador

To write about my trip would not do it justice. The experience was (of course) life-changing. The children loved you because they knew you were there to love them. They hugged you be...
Posted by Luba the Great on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 03:14:00 PST

Another poem...

While looking at a website that had the "100 Best Poems Ever Written," I came across a few good poems, but one was called Ode on Solitude, and it was about the quiet and peace that comes with bei...
Posted by Luba the Great on Sun, 18 Jun 2006 07:53:00 PST

The Mother

I really like this poem by Gwendolyn Brooks... it applies to Jenica's posts lately, too, so I thought it would be fitting to put it here. The Mother Abortions will not let you forget. You remember th...
Posted by Luba the Great on Tue, 16 May 2006 05:19:00 PST