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Joyce

If you can't take the heat, get the fuck out of the kitchen.

About Me

Easily amused, hardly impressed.I can eat more chili peppers than you.

My Interests

Cooking, eateries, dinner parties, cookware and kitchen appliances, Victorian and Gothic lit, debonair charm, Mattie!, bicycles and buddies, shabu-shabu, writing, Scrabble, traveling, city by the bay, the beach, jogging, dancing, CAL football, bright lights and big cities, 1200's.

I'd like to meet:

Paperback writers, soup enthusiasts, surfers and T.I.

Music:

In no particular order: The Beatles, Nat King Cole, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Billie Holiday Santagold, The Bravery, Outkast, Bloc Party, Atmosphere, Radiohead, Miguel Migs, MSTRKRFT, Diplo, Cut Copy, Girltalk, Ztrip, Kaiser Chiefs, Amanda Banks, Jay-Z, Goldfrapp, CSS, NAS, Stateless, Broken Social Scene, Lykke Li, Adele, and T.I.

Movies:

Amelie, Lost in Translation, Born into Brothels, Rear Window, The Anchorman, Juno, In the Mood for Love.

Books:

East of Eden, The Godfather, Catcher in the Rye, Trifles, The Peril of Magnificent Love, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, Dracula, Milton's Paradise Lost, Wuthering Heights, The Awakening, Beowulf, The Yellow Wallpaper, Tender at the Bone, Garlic and Sapphires, Charlotte's Web, The Fountainhead, Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Woods, The Things They Carried, Thomas Keller's Bouchon.

Heroes:

My Papa! Per aspera ad astra.

My Blog

The Climb Begins.

"When we tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new. This restless craving in the souls of men spurs them to climb, and to seek the mountain view." :Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Posted by Joyce on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 11:58:00 PST

3 to 4.

"From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still to think of what it was like to be alive."_E.B. White ...
Posted by Joyce on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:49:00 PST

Still.

I, I still rememberhow you looked that afternoon.There was only you.You said "it's just like a full moon".Blood beats faster in our veinsWe left our trousers by the canalAnd our fingers, they almost t...
Posted by Joyce on Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:11:00 PST

Comforting Sounds.

I don't feel alright in spite of these comforting sounds you make.I don't feel alright because you make promises that you break.Into your house, why don't we share our solitude?Nothing is pure anymore...
Posted by Joyce on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:05:00 PST

Quiet Soul and Perfect Despair.

It is a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as per...
Posted by Joyce on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 10:11:00 PST

Initiative.

Initiative. "Stay still." It was said. Keep on the open plains, smooth sands and mountains in the far off distance. Not a soul or sound to see. When doors opened. Free and clear as the road before me....
Posted by Joyce on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 04:04:00 PST

Reality and Purpose.

The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in light of their purposes. _Henry KissingerI can vaguely remember the last time I sat down...
Posted by Joyce on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:26:00 PST

Emotions and Reality.

"An emotion as such tells you nothing about reality, beyond the fact that something makes you feel something."Ayn Rand, "Philosophical Detection"...
Posted by Joyce on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:38:00 PST

Problematique.

Fear and panic in the air.I want to be freeFrom desolation and despair.
Posted by Joyce on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 06:12:00 PST

Ducunt volentem fata, nolentem trahunt.

Fate leads those who are willing. The unwilling it drags.
Posted by Joyce on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 07:37:00 PST