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Pristine Christine

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About Me



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My Interests

Mapping, Muscle Memory, Water Pressure, Nice Restaurants, Vino Rosso, Kinder Bueno, Good Smells, Shoes, Dance, Live Music, Writing, Pretty Boys with Pretty Hands, Text, Coats, Bruises, the Unheimlich, New Wave Cinema, Postmodernism, Astronomy, Fresh Produce, Chocolate, Pilates, Ashtanga Yoga, Mutations, Fictionalized Encounters, Clothes I Can't Afford, Skin, Milky Tea, Hugs and Kisses, Five More Minutes

I'd like to meet:



image details from "Lovebirds" by Jane Mount
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secular humanists. hedonists with integrity.
aesthetes. foodies. smarties. pretties.
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the klaus kinski to my werner herzog.

Music:

Belle and Sebastian, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Kimya Dawson, Suicide, The Organ, A Certain Ratio, Delta 5, France Gall, Glass Candy, Mo-Dettes, The Long Blondes, Magas, Erase Errata, Blood On The Wall, Adult., Gang of Four, The Moldy Peaches, Les Georges Leningrad, Blonde Redhead, Stereolab, Les Savy Fav, Cat Power, Joy Division, Sonic Youth, The Smiths, Radiohead, J.S. Bach, Mozart, Stereo Total, Family Fodder, We Are Wolves, Nico

Movies:

Wings of Desire, Kill Bill, Saving Face, The Royal Tenenbaums, Talk to Her, Oldboy, Breaking the Waves, Rouge, Bleu, Before Sunset, The Celebration, Bad Education, Il Portiere di Notte, Spirited Away, Grave of the Fireflies, Saved!, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Best in Show, Billy Elliot, The Ice Storm, The English Patient, The Usual Suspects, P and P, About a Boy, Being John Malkevich, Amateur, Happiness, Strictly Ballroom, You Can Count On Me, Amelie, Adaptation, The Piano, La Pianiste, Heavenly Creatures, The Forsyte Saga, Blood Simple, A Clockwork Orange, Fargo, Wonderboys, Welcome to the Dollhouse

Television:

LOST, The Decalogue, Twin Peaks, ATHF, Firefly, The Sopranos, Creature Comforts, Little Britain, Project Runway, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Six Feet Under, The Simpsons, Chappelle's Show, The Daily Show, Arrested Development, Buffy, Freaks and Geeks, Weeds

Books:

Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Jane Austin, James Baldwin, Christian Bok, Albert Camus, Anne Carson, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Olena Kalytiak Davis, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, T.S. Eliot, Percival Everett, Nick Flynn, Mary Gaitskill, William Faulkner, Lyn Hejinian, bell hooks, Kazuo Ishiguro, James Joyce, Thomas Mann, Toni Morrison, Alice Munro, Vladmir Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor, J.D. Salinger, Richard Siken, Leo Tolstoy, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, An Anecdoted Topography of Chance

Heroes:

The deadly ones.

My Blog

I am chill...

like a freakin' dirty martini, makin' the glass all frosty 'n shit, with a halo of olive grease swirlin' up top...
Posted by Pristine Christine on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 01:26:00 PST

Proust's Proposal for a Play (1906)

A couple adore each other, immense affection, saintly, pure (needless to say, chaste) of the husband for his wife. But this man is a sadist and, besides the love for his wife, he has relations with wh...
Posted by Pristine Christine on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:22:00 PST

Monkey Orgasms

In 1953 John Lilly, of the National Institute of Mental Health, discovered that by placing electrodes inside the brain of a monkey, he could stimulate pain, anger, fear  and pleasure. He placed one i...
Posted by Pristine Christine on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 01:14:00 PST

Marguerite Duras on Writing

Finding yourself in a hole, at the botton of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save you. To be without the slightest subject for a book, the slightest idea for a ...
Posted by Pristine Christine on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:31:00 PST

on bearing witness and appropriation

"To witness is to make the truth known, but we must remember that most victims have no voice of their own, and that in bearing witness to their stories we must not appropriate them." --Yu Yuan in Ha ...
Posted by Pristine Christine on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 04:40:00 PST

Paris at 26! . . . but probably not.

Last night, I decided that I want to go to Paris for my birthday. I know the chances of my actually making it are extremely slim (my birthday's in 5 weeks or so and I am still blissfully unemployed) b...
Posted by Pristine Christine on Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:57:00 PST

addicted to the internet: crimes on the street

I'm currently sitting in Father Studzinki Square at the intersection of McGuinness and Driggs stealing some random person's internet. I know doing this in the privacy of one's home is common but it fe...
Posted by Pristine Christine on Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:53:00 PST

making things

There is the most visceral, emotional, beautifully macabre exhibit at the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston featuring the work of Kiki Smith. Her pieces moved me so much that I had to return to see ...
Posted by Pristine Christine on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 09:51:00 PST

good deed for the day

I just saved a bumblebee that was drowning in my pool. Yay! But if it stings me, I'll kill it. Fucking ingrate.
Posted by Pristine Christine on Fri, 31 Mar 2006 04:02:00 PST

grace paley

this morning, i had an hour long conference / chat with grace paley. she's such a sweetheart. she's itty-bitty so she had to get up on her tippy-toes to give me a hug and a kiss goodbye. i'm going to ...
Posted by Pristine Christine on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:57:00 PST