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dodai

I am here for Friends

About Me

professional amateur.
the true new yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.
--john updike..
"i shut my eyes in order to see."
-- paul gauguin

i was a terror since the public school era.
words are weapons
sharper than knives

i used to collect typewriters and lunchboxes. then, briefly: rotary telephones.
i'm not a luddite but i have a soft spot for the once-coveted-now-discarded.
i heart my lowrider bike with its custom-made camouflage seat and star-spangled grips.
i lay down law from state to state and slay all suckers who perpetrate.
i like hip hop, flip flops, helmut lang and helmut newton, dr. dre and dr. seuss, peanut butter and jelly, gin and tonic, steak with frites. shakespeare and sesame street make me smile. i wish i could write like gabriel garcia marquez, mug like robert de niro and sing like sade.
my favorite motto is the one from the lotto: you gotta be in it to win it. rainy days and r. kelly always get me down.
{risk taker/ list maker/ heart breaker}

My Interests

cocktails, writing, art/photography, dinner, film, music, low-rider bikes, boys. in that order.

I'd like to meet:


champagne for my real friends,
real pain for my sham friends.


Music:

lately: beck, bjork, bob marley, buzzcocks, cab calloway, chromeo, clear static, deee-lite, depeche mode, dirty pretty things, federico aubele, fink, ghostface killah, goldfrapp, gnarls barkley, grandmaster flash, louis jordan, manu chao, my chemical romance, panic! at the disco, placebo, roughstars, the clash, the faint, the raconteurs, the smiths... there's more, but you get the point.

Movies:

s t a r w a r s
real genius, velvet goldmine, city of god, the crow, flirting, the sweet smell of success, whale rider, midnight cowboy, party girl, excess baggage, tommy, the man who cried, the bicycle thief, valley of the dolls, sexy beast, snatch, slums of beverly hills, the pick-up artist, chocolat, charade, gone with the wind, the wiz, labyrinth, la boum, weird science, the craft, the elephant man, a bronx tale, north by northwest, the dreamers,
b r e a t h l e s s

Television:

ROME. lost, the OC, antm. the price is right, match game

Books:

the fortress of solitude, the picture of dorian gray, motherless brooklyn, gangster of love, one hundred years of solitude, alice in wonderland, geek love, running with scissors, me talk pretty one day, gossip girl

Heroes:

a r c h i m e d e s. josephine baker, henri rousseau, jean-michel basquiat, allen ginsberg, julia child, jim henson, bob barker, heather tallchief, michael wilson, oscar wilde, patsy stone, edgar allen poe
w e e g e e

My Blog

through the looking glass

i had bad skin but good hairand yesterday vice versaeverything always flipsi was leaving when you got theredid you see me across the roomi had stars in my eyes and a feather in my hairor vice versaeve...
Posted by dodai on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:43:00 PST

blog log clog dog

people. i hope you know that my real blog is girlhattan.blogspot.com - recently redesigned (sort of) so take a look and leave a comment.xod...
Posted by dodai on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:40:00 PST

do coincidences mean anything?

a couple of weeks ago i found a t-shirt on waffo.com. the words "we will roam again" above three buffalo. for some reason this shirt spoke to me. my obsession with the number three, my native american...
Posted by dodai on Tue, 16 May 2006 10:38:00 PST

i crossed my fingers, but i didn't beg

cuz i knew you knew.i knew you knew i liked you.
Posted by dodai on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:35:00 PST

if you leave your drink around me...

believe your drink's gonna get drunk up.
Posted by dodai on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 07:08:00 PST

p e r u

i'm back. click here to see pix.
Posted by dodai on Fri, 30 Dec 2005 09:37:00 PST

the mediterranean in july

absofuckinglutely GORGEOUS. check this shit out
Posted by dodai on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

every day is like sunday

everyday is like sunday everyday is silent and grey hide on the promenade etch a postcard : how i dearly wish i was not here in the seaside town that they forgot to bomb
Posted by dodai on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

"one good thing about music--

-- when it hits, you feel no pain." (bob marley)
Posted by dodai on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

black is the new black

if you don't know, now you know.
Posted by dodai on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST