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sara obscura

i give up.

About Me


i like: nights cool for sleeping under old quilts; black eyed susans; vintage fabric. good conversation.
i dislike: a few things.
some good reading:
salt of the earth
wonkette
poetry daily
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My Interests

among other things:

sewing
craft
nature trails
books
poetry
words
coffeehouse afternoons
good films
npr
violet candy
live music
opera
earl grey tea
outsider art
collage
genealogy
dc/md/va
bird motifs
portugal
red wine
amazing conversation
shabby chic
old houses
simplicity
neighborhoods
kindness
sincerity
thai green curry
lemon-lime fizzy water
mindfulness
learning stuff
psychology
montessori
faith
old photographs

I'd like to meet:

new friends. old friends.
european honeybees.
good poems.

Music:

yes.
some stuff i like:
ani difranco
april march
belle and sebastian
beth orton
the bird and the bee
camera obscura
cat power
feist
fiona apple
francoise hardy
freezepop
iron & wine
isobel campbell
jennifer o'connor
johnny cash
joni mitchell
ladytron
le tigre
lily allen
the magnetic fields
massive attack
neil young
nick drake
nico
norah jones
of montreal
the polyphonic spree
regina spektor
the rolling stones
rufus wainwright
ryan adams
sam cooke
the sea and the cake
sigur ros
stan rogers
stereolab
stereo total
sufjan stevens
tom waits
tracy chapman
there's a lot more...

Movies:


the godfather
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind
amelie
run lola run
the royal tennenbaums
the life aquatic
the bourne identity
confessions of a dangerous mind
hideous kinky
i the virgin suicides
walk the line
adaptation
garden state
shattered glass
mona lisa smile
holy smoke
dr. zhivago
pleasantville
heavenly creatures
six degrees of separation
volver
my life without me
knocked up
once
little children
metropolitan
match point
hot fuzz

...too many to list them all.

Television:



i like to watch:
pbs
big love
mad men
law and order in all its incarnations
csi (original and miami)
24
without a trace
cold case
medium
hockey night in canada

Books:

stuff i'm reading now:
"nine gates: entering the mind of poetry," by jane hirshfield
"a poet's guide to poetry," by mary kinzie
a partial list of authors will be added soon.
i read about 2-3 books a week. addicted to words, stories, and poems.
magazines:
harper's
the new yorker
bust
ready made
craft
real simple
domino
blueprint
cloth, paper, scissors
poets and writers
the believer
venus zine

Heroes:

daddy. grandma.

My Blog

one is the lonliest (sometimes)

today:  sent out more resumes.  talked with a friend who was having some problems. did some housework.  went on two nanny interviews.  talked with one of my out of state friends on...
Posted by sara obscura on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 08:51:00 PST

i want one....

this little cuttlefish appeared  today on  cute overload...
Posted by sara obscura on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 05:15:00 PST

unfinished and sketchy

pathetic how months later i start to cry over the sandhill cranes.  i wait and hold my breath seven times in a row but still the door stays silent.  ...
Posted by sara obscura on Sun, 19 Aug 2007 11:52:00 PST

geeks like us

ask oxford has a list of what to call various groupings of animals. my favorites.a host of angel fisha clowder of catsa murder of crowsa business of ferretsa tower of giraffesa charm of goldfinchesan...
Posted by sara obscura on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 03:12:00 PST

yippie skippy, sara can read!

i just took an online iq test. they would only give me the verbal results for free. i scored in the 99th percentile and have a verbal iq of 142. don't know about the numerical portion (probably bad...
Posted by sara obscura on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:14:00 PST

song for solomon

Song for Solomonthe ohio turnpike never changes.you're the one missing:drinking coffee and smoking cigarettesnext to me in the passenger seatmoving east at rapid speedsthe birds are heading south, to ...
Posted by sara obscura on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:20:00 PST

untied

untiedyour eyes, my heartalternating beats of rage and charity;repeated incantations ofyour given name wrapped around my tongue wedged in between my teeth:tiny seeds that will never bloom. across the ...
Posted by sara obscura on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:08:00 PST

swing-set

swing-setI can still feel the heat on my blistered summer hands; hanging from the thick metal bar of the sun burnt swing set. Jessica's shiny hair lit from beneath, beside me tear-streaked, suspended...
Posted by sara obscura on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 06:06:00 PST

pears

Pearswhen i think of pears and taste the sweet ridges madewith my teeth, i am small and standing behind the tiger lilies in my aunt's backyard.it was wild then and unkemptbushes, grass, and bumblebees...
Posted by sara obscura on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 05:39:00 PST

catalogs

places to visit someday:lisbonmadridparissienaflorencerome praguekievst. petersburgstockholmlondonderrydublinhanoi  seven cities i've seen firsthand detroit pittsburgh baltimore washington d.c. ...
Posted by sara obscura on Mon, 30 Jul 2007 05:54:00 PST