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pig!

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

About Me

I love people and being alive.

My Interests


I'd like to meet:

you. and strong bad

Music:

Radiohead, Air, Sparklehorse, The Smashing Pumpkins, Iron and Wine, Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, Nick Drake, The Flaming Lips, The Pixies, The Beatles, Belle and Sebastian, Travis, Pink Floyd, Ani diFranco, some Bjork, Elliot Smith, Luna, Jimmy Eat World, Bowie, Ben Folds, Interpol, ::Neutral Milk Hotel::, The White Stripes, Badly Drawn Boy, The Arcade Fire (they kick all asses that are), Mercury Rev, some Beck, Pavement, Grandaddy, The Decemberists, *Cat Power*, Broken Social Scene, Carole King, The Dresden Dolls, Augustana. starting to really enjoy the Velvet Underground, The Boy Least Likely, Fats Domino, Cocorosie, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Rilo Kiley, Modest Mouse, New Order, Bright Eyes, Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, Billie Holiday, Regina Spektor, Feist, some clash. starting to enjoy daft punk...

Movies:

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Minds, The Life Aquatic, The Truman Show, All the Real Girls, The Snowman, Edward Scissorhands, Nightmare Prior to Christmas, The Royal Tenebaums, Aladdin, The Matrix, Lilo and Stitch, Fight Club, Requiem for a Dream, The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Harold and Maude, The Truman Show, The Pillow Book,V for Vendetta, i ♥ huckabees, Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Television:

The Office. That's about it.

Books:

Catcher in the Rye, The Lovely Bones, Winter's Tale, White Oleander, Blankets :), Slaughterhouse 5, The Great Gatsby, , Angela's Ashes, Oscar Wilde, Goodbye Chunky Rice, ♥ Lolita ♥, The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, Welcome to the Monkey House, The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

I really am begining to fall in love with W.H. Auden and e.e.cummings.

in spite of everything
in spite of everything
which breathes and moves,since Doom
(with white longest hands
neatening each crease)
will smooth entirely our minds

-before leaving my room
i turn,and(stooping
through the morning)kiss
this pillow,dear
where our heads lived and were.

-e.e.cummings

Heroes:

"Heroes of mine would be, Bob Hope. Umm, Abraham Lincoln definitely. Bono... and probably God would be the fourth one. And I just think, all those people helped the world in so many ways that it's umm really beyond words. It's incalcucable."seriously? People that make their own paths.

My Blog

repost from Facebook note: "Trouble’s gonna lose me - worry leave me behind"

So, it's about 9:00 and I'm awake despite the fact that:1. I'm a college student and it's saturday2. I went to bed around 4:00 am (yeah blues dancing)3. I'm Katie, and this feels wrong4. My body feels...
Posted by pig! on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 10:13:00 PST

Rhetoric, twizzlers and the blues...

So this is one of the essay prompts that I can choose from in my Rheotic 20 class:"4. What was the function of Gender in accounts of the New World? Why do you think it is important to understand the p...
Posted by pig! on Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:45:00 PST

shine on you crazy diamond...

and I intend to do so.So I think I've decided my major.English and a minor in Art Practice. I'm really excited, to be quite honest, not only because I love both art and writing, but because I have ACT...
Posted by pig! on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 08:03:00 PST

I just kick it from my head. (do you know what I am saying?)

My feet are cold. I do believe that Berkeley winter's are going to own my Southern California face. Well, in other news:-I'm think about changing my major. I wanted to do Psychology, but it's impacted...
Posted by pig! on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 12:46:00 PST

this is badass

 In seven days... Bob Dylan played by Richard Gere, Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett....
Posted by pig! on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 12:00:00 PST

crisis owned

I'm moving up to Berkeley this Monday.  It's so odd to think how different my life is going to be in the next year, but I am one excited lady, let me tell you.some pictures of the apartment I fou...
Posted by pig! on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:04:00 PST

crisis de housing.

So, as luck would have it, I went up to Berkeley this past weekend to find a room, and I found a wonderful, hardwood floored room with my own bathroom, furnished, with a garden, cats,  and a real...
Posted by pig! on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 03:40:00 PST

poetic murmurs (unedited, posted right after writing)

Ok, so I wrote this literally in 6 minutes or so, without editing. don't judge me. (hahahaat break of dayalonetea steam and my thoughts,both billowing. both growing.The sun's rays only covernot cutthe...
Posted by pig! on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 09:26:00 PST

yes to one and no to the rest

Berkeley is a wonderful little city, and I'm really excited to be spending the next two years of my life there. It really, truly feels right to me. However, I'm having a problem when it comes to my m...
Posted by pig! on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:25:00 PST

W.H. Auden, UCLA, and the end of an era.

So, today my mom and I visited UCLA, and while it is a fabulous school, with beautiful buildings (and not to mention it's right next to Westwood), I've decided that I'm pretty much for sure going to B...
Posted by pig! on Mon, 07 May 2007 10:14:00 PST