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Claire

There's gotta be something more to it.

About Me

Insomniac. Addict. Lover of music. Lover of life. Reader. Feminist. Student. Friend. Sister. Daughter. Lover. Shit disturber.

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My Interests

miso soup & bubblegum ice cream. long drives with good tunes. good friends. driving on the backroads, getting lost in the middle of nowhere, not being sure if we'll make it to the next town (or A town), gas light on, no spare tire, and then POOF now you're in port alberni/chemainus/duncan/anywhere but port renfrew, cause they stop selling gas at six. that's gratitude. that's fun. that's adventure. that's us.

I'd like to meet:

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Music:


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Movies:

GOODFELLAS! boondock saints. pulp fiction. reservoir dogs. heat. killer paradise. casino. snatch. trainspotting. nothing's as good as the sopranos. if you know of any good films/docs, let me know!

Television:

sopranos. trailer park boys. the L word. seinfeld. curb your enthusiasm. the colbert report. cbc's a good channel. and radio station. canada, you done goooooood.

Books:

Medicine River, Thomas King; The Way The Crow Flies, Fall on Your Knees, Ann Marie MacDonald; The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini; Monkey Beach, Eden Robinson; Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt; The World According to Garp, John Irving; Bel Canto, Ann Pachett; Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri; The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorn; Wild Swans, Jung Chang; English Lessons and Other Stories, Shauna Singh Baldwin. I really like Sherman Alexie's work these days. Good fiction. Non-fiction is pretty dry, no matter what anyone pretends to defend.

My Blog

it's a roof made of straw in the jaw of el nino.

document this moment of serenity, but where does one begin? your recitation of obscure lyrics makes me smile, in a close-your-eyes kind of way, this is what you do. lack of sleep makes your dreams mor...
Posted by Claire on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:04:00 PST

in our bedroom after the war.

and sometimes you don't even know what to say. you don't have to. i'll fake it for the two of us.
Posted by Claire on Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:02:00 PST

a question on human behaviour.

in my late stages of delerium i often dream of sleeping.   i wonder what that would be like?
Posted by Claire on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:07:00 PST

god, i love the benefits.

breath of fresh air. a high. meeting new people comes so damned easily right now. re-affirming existing relationships with old friends feels so good. losing one relationship creates opportun...
Posted by Claire on Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:38:00 PST

oh my heart.

    it's weird being in your house without you, weird to drive your car, weird to drink out of your favorite coffee mug. it's hard to say what i'd give to have it back again... no. it's...
Posted by Claire on Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:50:00 PST

you keep me up all night.

when i woke up at two, i thought my pillow was you. fully awoke, sweaty, I gave you the pat down, shook you,  turned on the light. it was a flat, lumpy pillow.   my disappointment kept me ...
Posted by Claire on Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:39:00 PST

hoping for my sanity, holding onto my father, retrieving my sandal.

alone again, remembering to breathe, this seems vaguely familiar, the past is hazy, the future is blurry, eyes are too tired to see straight anyway. eight years can be extended to forty eight, but in ...
Posted by Claire on Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:35:00 PST

you rock. my rock.

absolutely exhausted. hearts buise, but repair, especially with the help of friends. and the island.   onwards and upwards.
Posted by Claire on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:24:00 PST

but you feel like leather and taste like shit.

  i would chew you up and spit you out,
Posted by Claire on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:14:00 PST

too beautiful to fuck.

people will fuck you over. i've been that person. will never be that person again. know that in your head. decide what kind of person you want to be, and fucking be that person. no excuses. i tried t...
Posted by Claire on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:58:00 PST