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avital ash

til human voices wake us and we drown.

About Me

no sleep for the wicked.

My Interests

good spelling and grammar, les miserables, serial killers, old movies, baking cakes, ghosts, iceland, nice teeth, serial killers, chocolate, gene hackman
cartoon avital!

ketchup jesus

I'd like to meet:

a man not merely without moral principles, but of immoral principles.

Music:

beatles, smiths, elliott smith, joy division, pulp, leonard cohen, sufjan stevens, damien rice, glen hansard, the swell season, wilco, iron and wine, cat stevens, tones on tail, bauhaus, nick drake, the shins, echo and the bunnymen, jeff buckley, jolie holland, belle and sebastian, frank sinatra, stars, the cure, new order, iggy pop, the pretenders, brian jonestown massacre, american music club, bright eyes, billy joel, death cab for cutie, the postal service, dogs die in hot cars, thursday, beck, les miserables, the phantom of the opera, brian eno, engine down, jonathan fire*eater, the walkmen, REM, the streets, the zutons, bjork, chris isaak, jim white, stone roses (& ian brown), kings of convenience, new york dolls, johnny thunders, ocean colour scene, heatmiser, the format, michael mazochi & the widows

Movies:

secrets & lies, casablanca, annie hall, harold and maude, city of god, clueless, jaws, witness for the prosecution, stand by me, charade, once, the crucible, cabaret, in america, cool hand luke, the royal tenenbaums, being there, amelie, pan's labyrinth, the prestige, roman holiday, before sunset, reservoir dogs, girl on a bridge, american beauty, memento, closer, suicide kings, zoolander, dead poets society, primal fear, not another teen movie, donnie darko, old school, garden state, the count of monte cristo, edward scissorhands, the cooler, manhattan, the office special, in the name of the father, the natural

Television:

the office (BBC first and foremost), lost, rome (season 1)

Books:

the perks of being a wallflower, the picture of dorian gray, extremely loud and incredibly close, i am the cheese, the bell jar, the art of seduction, i, lucifer, please kill me, slaughterhouse 5, pere goriot, glamorama, after the first death, the stranger, the glass menagerie, maus, american psycho, less than zero, the rules of attraction, ham on rye, johnny thunders: in cold blood, david mamet's true and false

Heroes:

hal ashby, marlene dietrich.

My Blog

our collective ruin

...is the name of the movie i'm working on now.we start shooting feb. 23 in joshua tree, here: http://www.joshuatreedomehomes.com/dome1/index.htmlhang out with me before then.a...
Posted by avital ash on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 04:13:00 PST

there wiill be blood!!!!!!!

i finally saw it, after waiting for it to come out for over a year!before:after:...
Posted by avital ash on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:47:00 PST

enjoin

why is that the most confusing word ever?American Heritage Dictionaryen·join (en-join') tr.v. en·joined, en·join·ing, en·joins 1. To direct or impose with authority and emphasis. 2. To pr...
Posted by avital ash on Sat, 24 Mar 2007 07:02:00 PST

Lord Byron, Errol Flynn, Giacomo Casanova...

July 17 2006Where are the consummate seducers of today? Errol Flynn met his second wife while she sold snacks at a courthouse during his statutory rape trial. How? In like Flynn, that's how. Byron had...
Posted by avital ash on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

autumn leaves

Wednesday, February 22, 2006thanks to tyler playing it on my show on tuesday, i am now obsessed with the song "autumn leaves". i can't get it out of my head, EVER. i'm condemned to die thinking of th...
Posted by avital ash on Sun, 26 Feb 2006 09:02:00 PST

is love a decision or a feeling?

Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2004that's never even crossed my mind before. i've never been in love but i always assumed it was a feeling. tonight (this morning?) a friend (who just graduated from "acquaintance" ...
Posted by avital ash on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

selective memory

It seems that when it comes to relationships, if things go differently than we'd like them to, we change our recollection of the events in one of the following two ways:A. To convince ourselves that w...
Posted by avital ash on Tue, 27 Sep 2005 01:03:00 PST

the factory... i miss you champ.

does anyone remember the story of thumbellina? i know she was as big as a thumb, but what did she ever do? fall in love? befriend a midget? end up living on a lily pad? get stepped on? i cannot rememb...
Posted by avital ash on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 05:49:00 PST

Casimir Pulaski Day

Goldenrod and the 4H stone, The things I brought you, when I found out you had cancer of the bone Your father cried on the telephone, And he drove his car into the navy yard, Just to prove that h...
Posted by avital ash on Thu, 29 Sep 2005 04:11:00 PST

i'm OFFICIALLY a creep

it's 10:40 A.M. and i've been up all night. what's worse is that for the last two hours i've been lurking on myspace. not just leaving comments on my friends' pages, NO, but actually using the "Browse...
Posted by avital ash on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST