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Shelly

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About Me

I left Kalamazoo in December and I am stuck in Michigan for awhile.I make a misery of men and usually I maintain it's not my fault.I really love the guy I'm dating right now. I hope I make him happy.I like tequila and meteorology an awful lot.I refuse to compromise my intellectual integrity to appease the needs of a man's ego.The Best Ever Death Metal Band Out Of Denton by the Mountain Goats reminds me endlessly of my years in Kalamazoo.I fall half in love with people in strange places, such as airport lounges and cafes.I am not sure if I believe in love.I understand the previous two sentences contradict one another.I am drunk while I am writing this.I hope tomorrow I am amused by my honesty.I am a grammar nazi.The earth is not six thousand years old and god did not create the eyeball.I do not have an addictive personality.I am not particularly fond of children. I most certainly don't want any.I often throw happiness away with both hands just to be moving on from something. The last time I committed suicide like that was about five months ago.I'm turned on by dangerous, rebellious, amoral, and intellectual people. Drawn to them, even.I do not believe in god or an afterlife and I don't feel like anything is missing from my soul as a result. Music has filled what otherwise would have been a void in my non-believing heart.I am not particularly talented.I am listening to the Mountain Goats while writing this. I am painfully nostalgic right now.I consider myself to be a democratic socialist.I am incapable of maintaining a relationship with a man for longer than five months.Check that-- three months.Check that-- I am capable, it just requires the right chemistry. I think I may have found that "right chemistry"; perhaps is was right in front of me all along...I'm not a particularly happy person, but not a particularly sad one, either. I'm fine so long as I'm not bored.Betrayal isn't the most heinous of offenses; betrayal means breaking ranks and going off into the unknown. I know of nothing more magnificent than going off into the unknown.I don't have very many female friends, but I am a feminist to the max.A good night for me involves both the sunset and the sunrise, good tunes, and warm arms.Yep.

My Interests

Music, film, existentialism, travel, driving, reading, the Velvet Underground, collecting vinyl records, cartography, nice drinks, meteorology and climatology.

I'd like to meet:

If you don't know me and want to talk, you had better be really fucking cool.

Music:

Pavement, Cat Stevens, The Velvet Underground, The Magnetic Fields, Jets To Brazil, Jackson Browne, Iron and Wine, Sigur Ros, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Echo and the Bunnymen, Braid, Hey Mercedes, The Flaming Lips, Weezer, Smog, Leonard Cohen, Descendents, Rancid, Less Than Jake, Mustard Plug, Reel Big Fish, Operation Ivy, Catch 22, Voodoo Glow Skulls, The Pixies, Elvis Costello, Sufjan Stevens, Wilco, Tom Waits, The Smashing Pumpkins, Simon and Garfunkel, The Shins, Operation Ivy, Selector, The Specials, Radiohead, Neutral Milk Hotel, Pedro the Lion, Nick Drake, Koufax, James Taylor, Sunday's Best, John Vanderslice, The Gin Blossoms, Elliott Smith, Devendra Banhart, The Decemberists, Cursive, Bright Eyes, Counting Crows, Bob Dylan, Beatles, Beulah, Belle & Sebastian, The Mountain Goats, R.E.M., Nico, Ash, Zwan, Yo La Tengo, A Radio With Guts, Jim Croce, Joy Division, The Clash, Secret Machines, Zwan, Interpol, Sondra Lerche, Owen, The Cure, David Bowie, The Band, Chad and Jeremy, Dios Malos, The Wrens, Sonic Youth, Queens of the Stoneage, Ben Folds Five, and yeah, the Alkaline Trio... to name a few.

Movies:

Rushmore, Casablanca, The Empire Strikes Back, High Fidelity, Harold and Maude, Royal Tenenbaums, American Beauty, Gone With The Wind, Forest Gump, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Twister, The Life Aquatic, Irreversible

Television:

Eh.

Books:

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Elegant Universe, How the Universe Got Its Spots, Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Stranger, The Immoralist, Skinny Legs and All, Naked Lunch, The Red and the Black, Gone With The Wind, Rameau's Nephew, Walden, A Sand County Almanac, A Brief History of Time, Being and Nothingness, Still Life With Woodpecker, On the Road, East of Eden, currently working on The Brothers Karamazov. I also subscribe to the National Geographic Society magazine.

Heroes:

My mentor, Harold Glasser

My Blog

Portland, Maine, in the pouring rain.

Tonight I missed my bus and walked home in the pouring rain. Sometimes you're up and sometimes you bust and that's just how life is.I miss my dad.
Posted by Shelly on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 07:07:00 PST

Graduating.

I have fifteen days left of waking up for school....This is so fucking cool.
Posted by Shelly on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:54:00 PST

Worst message yet:

Hello! My name is Justin. I'm 24 and live in Whitehall, MI. Its just north of Muskegon by the lake. You are more then welcom to come over to my trailer any time! You can sit on my lap out side and ope...
Posted by Shelly on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:56:00 PST

Myspace is lame.

It has been my experience that myspace is a place for strangers to comment on your pictures. I'm not entirely sure why I have this thing, but it probably has something to do with staying in touch with...
Posted by Shelly on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:15:00 PST