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X sylvia O

I consider myself a perpetual English major, but I also get into barfights.

About Me



My Interests

Generally: Idealistic realist, cynical romantic, intellectual transient.

I'd like to meet:

nice folks.

Movies:

I always wanted to be a Tenenbaum.

Television:

the Food Network channel is an ongoing zen experience for me.

Books:

"...but of course there is no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons." ............................................................ ............................................................ ............... "We die, rich with lovers, and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have entered and swum up like rivers, fears we have hidden in like this wretched cave. I want all of this marked on my body. Where the real countries are. Not on maps with names of powerful men." ............................................................ ............................................................ ............... "The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into the heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant.What then shall we choose? Weight or Lightness?"

My Blog

"I'm leaving for Paris..."

It's around oneish on Wednesday morning, and I'm in my bed surrounded by candles and clean sheets, listening to the mockingbirds outside my window as they persistently immitate a car alarm. It isn't g...
Posted by X sylvia O on Wed, 23 May 2007 01:46:00 PST

"I took to walking barefoot around town, melodies from grade school, kicking in my brain..."

"Musicamagizing!" 1. Your favorite songAngeles by Elliott Smith2. Last song you listened toNow At Last by Feist3. First song you slow danced toI actually remember this! Angel Of Mine by Monica (wowwww...
Posted by X sylvia O on Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:38:00 PST

"Sugar Never Tasted So Good..."

Music Shuffle Survey- TO TAKE THIS SURVEY, SIMPLY PUT YOUR MUSIC PLAYER ON SHUFFLE -- AND ANSWER THE QUESTIONS WITH THE TITLE OF THE SONG THAT COMES ON -[it's better if you don't cheat and don't skip ...
Posted by X sylvia O on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 04:41:00 PST

"but for now, I want my feet on the ground, cause I feel like going home..."

I just got home from Owen's house, and while driving down the hill towards town I saw this unbelievable bright light coming from El Rey mountain over on the other side of the peninsula. It was like th...
Posted by X sylvia O on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 02:23:00 PST

"One night to push and scream, and then relief..."

Tonight I'm in my big empty house. Tomorrow I'm going home to St. Helena to see my mom and my kitty and hopefully lots of friends. I'm horribly lonely right now, and for some reason, terrified that th...
Posted by X sylvia O on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:48:00 PST

"And summer blows away and quietly gets swallowed by a wave..."

just spent the last two hours out in my back yard in the afternoon sun with my headphones, listening and re-listening to the Crane Wife. I am so happy. It's so, so, so good.
Posted by X sylvia O on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 04:41:00 PST

"These days..."

It says that my journal has been viewed 12 times today. out of 13 times this week. wowzers.Anyway. moved into the Alamo house. I like it pretty well, apart from the fleas (problem now solved, thank yo...
Posted by X sylvia O on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 12:02:00 PST

"Now you thought I was just 7-7-0, and 4-0-4, but I worldwide bitch, act like yall don't know."

My computer thinks that I live in San Leandro. I guess its really not that far off, but still. Whenever those awful little online dating service banners come up on my homepage, they're always boasting...
Posted by X sylvia O on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 12:37:00 PST

"We'll find a way to offer up the night, tonight..."

Wednesday morning the 19th. I have been 22 years old now for about a day. It was a nice birthday, nothing big or special, but nice. Went out to sushi then desert with Claire, Mal, Corrine, Em, Katie a...
Posted by X sylvia O on Wed, 19 Jul 2006 02:21:00 PST

"...and I have learned that even land-locked lovers yearn for the sea like navymen..."

I. Can't. Handle. Living. Alone.Granted, maybe I haven't tried it for long enough to really know if this is true, but so far, it's been rock bottom shit. And I'm not even really LIVING alone! Emily is...
Posted by X sylvia O on Fri, 14 Jul 2006 02:03:00 PST