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Dana

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About Me

Henry Miller was right
-"New epithets will have to be coined to describe my bad taste"-
I read aloud and
lionize my defects
He calls me out on my
leopard printed shield,
aberrations made of
hot pink and black paw prints
etched in rough silk
a wretched woman spouts semantics
from the television
my gaze descends
stainless steel peeks from
the faded print,
a greeting
to the "unkown citizen" of the world,
yes you my dear,
my maniacal circuitry is winking hello!
Confessing a love
brainsick and daft
to substance,
reality,
all forms of matter
beset on each side by
28 year old
wide green eyes
Blessed be my lover for
foregoing my many mediocrities
and making due with my
otherwise fine ass
the garish disappointment of my generation
will include
your words,
your messy hair,
my inky reluctance,
and conclusionless finalities
this life is a pornocracy
and I am putting down the scalpel,
I bid you,
stuttering love letters
of the mind,
goodbye
goodbye

My Interests

Lithium Carbonate, being overly sensitive, nostalgia, memories, writing it down

I'd like to meet:

"Everyone is a fucking Napoleon"

Music:

Chiodos
The Get Up Kids
A Day to Remember
Coheed and Cambria
August Burns Red
Death from Above 1979
The Recieving End of Sirens
Red Knife Lottery
Latterman
Drop Dead Gorgeous
Boy Sets Fire
Converge
Fugazi
Texas is the Reason
The Devil Wears Prada
Bikini Kill
The Mars Volta
Horse the band
Cibo Matto
The Killing Gift
The Sleeping
LoveHateHero
Snapcase
Sunny Day Real Estate
Head Automatica
Pretty Girls Make Graves
Sean Lennon
Bless the Fall
Thrice
Jawbreaker
Le Tigre
Menomena
Scary Kids Scaring Kids
Every Time I Die
A Static Lullaby
Four Letter Lie
Cave In
Roses Are Red
The Smiths
Action Action
Tsunami Bomb
He is Legend
Kidneythieves
From First to Last
Aphex Twin
Metric
Hey Mercedes
Saves the Day
Kill Holiday
Blonde Redhead
the Distillers
Anberlin
Most Precious Blood
The Raveonettes
Silverstein
Eighteen Visions
Finch
Gratitude
Protest the Hero
Renee Heartfelt
Bjork
Nora
Karate
Hopesfall
The Gaslight Anthem
Neutral Milk Hotel
Fantomas
The End
Criteria
I Am Robot and Proud
Between the Buried and Me
The Futureheads
Further Seems Forever
Starflyer 59
I Can Make a Mess Like Nobody's Business
Alexisonfire
Slant 6
As I Lay Dying
Paulson
Moneen
Morcheeba
Emanuel
Saosin
Placebo
Portishead
The Used
Glassjaw
Rival Schools
Alesana
Circa Survive
Open Hand
the Postal Service
AFI
the Sounds
Descendents
the Loved Ones
Minus the Bear
At the Drive-In
Hot Water Music
Refused
Sensefield
Rilo Kiley
Squarepusher
Mindless Self Indulgence
Hot Hot Heat
The Decemberists
Forecast
Straylight Run
Lily Allen
My Chemical Romance
BoysNightOut
The Promise Ring
the Pixies
Gatsby's American Dream
CKY
Armor for Sleep
the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
From Autumn to Ashes
Muse
Paramore
Tegan and Sara
Stretch ArmStrong
Blood Brothers
Eisley
Reggie and the Full Effect
Jets to Brazil
Sleater Kinney
Taking Back Sunday
DJ Shadow
Superchunk
the Dresden Dolls
Comeback Kid
Velocity Girl
Tapping the Vein
Weezer
The Banner
Death Cab for Cutie
Bright Eyes
Gorilla Biscuits
7 Seconds
the Faint
Unwound
Endpoint
Quicksand
Thursday
Ani Difranco
MeWithoutYou
The Sounds of Animals Fighting
P.J.Harvey
Mae
30 Seconds to Mars
Aereogramme
Sigur Ros
Bloc Party
Celebrity
Eskimo Hunter
Brand New
Burnt By the Sun
Miss TK and the Revenge
UNKLE
Pinback
The Hurt Process
Mew
Poison the Well
The Cure
Jeremy Enigk
Radiohead
Silversun Pickups
Spoon
Stars
The Shins

Movies:

Harold and Maude, Party Monster, The House of Yes, Pie, Secretary, Another Day in Paradise, Magnolia, Happiness, The Big Lebowski, Buffalo 66, Requiem For a Dream, Party Girl, The Dreamers, High Art, Dazed and Confused, Run Lola Run, Heathers, Igby Goes Down, The Opposite of Sex, American Splendor, Kill Bill 1 &2, Garden State, Swimming with Sharks, Zazel, Spanking the Monkey, E Tu Mama Tambien, Crybaby, Reversal of Fortune, Stealing Beauty, High Fidelity, Teen Witch, Heavenly Creatures, Jesus' Son, PCU, Better Off Dead, Killing Zoe, Nowhere, Say Anything, Goodfellas, Amelie, The Ice Storm, Pecker, The Professional, Wonderland, Le Haine, Mysterious Skin

Television:

Project Runway, Top Chef, Family Guy, Simpsons, Robot Chicken, American Dad, Will and Grace, and General Hospital

Books:

The Collected Works of Allen Ginsberg, Crazy Cock-Henry Miller, Aloud-Voices of the Nuyrican Poets Cafe, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man-James Joyce, 1984-George Orwell, Stripping-Pagan Kennedy, On the Road (of course), anything by Kathy Acker, Surviving the Loss of a Love-Peter McWilliams, Junkie-Burroghs, The Stranger-Camus, The Awakening-Chopin, anything Corso, Creeley, Ferlinghetti, Orlovsky, or Di Prima.

Heroes:

My sister, my mom, Henry Miller, Allen Ginsberg, Ani Difranco, my grandpop

My Blog

This poem’s just a little guy

The fear is coming from a new place, dropped from a terrifying height into what I've come to see is not a fuzzy bunny, a cookie, my love is heavier than all of your metaphoric treats! --Panic-- This ...
Posted by Dana on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:02:00 PST

"So tired of playing, playing with this bow and arrow"

He's noticed how I eat every type of food by my own personalized and strange methodology I've been found out! Put down that cumulative mass of brownie icing you saved to eat only after you pi...
Posted by Dana on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:33:00 PST

Buy the crux of your despondency at the dollar store, get what you pay for

A rave added thirty years to the electric Kool-Aid acid tests, but this was not enough, we needed pure MDMA, pure molecules of ecstatic joy on a candyflip akin to Benecio Del Toro giving a "fresh ...
Posted by Dana on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:10:00 PST

New

"Anxious to feel something" write everything down before you fall asleep and lose rolling prose to the stagnant night, to the dark and lazy indulgence of a relationship, to the drunken complacency t...
Posted by Dana on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:28:00 PST

Dear Sofia and Adrian

Dear Sofia and Adrian, I've never been so excited for anything in my entire life, in some sort of anticipatory shock too much to take in, the two of you already in competition for who comes first.&nbs...
Posted by Dana on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:26:00 PST

Door number one

4 am listening to the cd you burned me and wondering why you never come through I thought of you for a while and held the thought to my heart for too long now, during months when heat and newfound lov...
Posted by Dana on Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:17:00 PST

Don't say we're healing when it's just not what we do

I'm not going to leave any legacy behind my message is my nothingness, it's apparent in these blank torn pages I can turn anything into my fault He backs up and I think why would anyone move toward me...
Posted by Dana on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Don't make me come over there.....

Last call for alcohol, you don't have to go home but you can't stay here memories ringing in my ears so loud I think I'm being called to dinner but I'm not hungry, just starved for a plot twist, I'm...
Posted by Dana on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Biggitty Biggitty Bipolar

I was in bed minding my business when somehow I attract contact, confusion, and all things over, around, in between, and I grunt what about the lonely nights?  my bed is my island of art projects...
Posted by Dana on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

NO FATE (like they say in T2)

so fucked up contemplating possible names for unborn children of the future, entire generations of imaginary offspring whose names change as I do, a baby girl named Michael when I was a teenager sched...
Posted by Dana on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST