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walkingdisdainmachine

About Me

i hate it when people don't write anything in these boxes. this is your chance! to fit all of you? into a small text filled box! go man, go!i want to marry hawkeye pierce. i wish samantha stevens was my grandmother.all i want to do is be a switchboard operator girl from the 60s.one of my life's aims is to be hassled by other people as little as possible.i spend a lot of time contemplating (as a friend put it) the nascent tooly status quoness sitting on my chest.i am constantly planning my escape.i think the following things are bullshit: planned obsolesence, snow, mosquitoes, the town of dish, tx, the textbook industry, atm fees, tact, vehicles without 4 wheel drive, artificial states, dropped calls, gitmo, unneccesary rotaries, the phrase and concept "rights of the fetus", living in a holding pattern.

My Interests

advertising, america, ancient rome, beach glass, drinking, driving around, earrings, exquisitely awful boston accents, extreme fiber arts!, fleamarkets, friendly toast, geese, history, intellectual sluts, jalepeno-colored house paint, light pollution, media, puppies, sean connery, this american life, thunderstorms, travel, trivial pursuit.

I'd like to meet:

the massively uneven, the strangely powerful, the accidentally holy, the mercifully quiet.

Music:

a tribe called quest, amy winehouse, ani difranco, atari teenage riot, bob dylan, bob seger, cake, cream, david bowie, devotchka, dresden dolls, elliott smith, fiona apple, janis joplin, jay-z, jimi hendrix, johnny cash, justin timberlake, kanye west, kmfdm, lily allen, massive attack, meg lee chin, mighty mighty bosstones, mindless self indulgence, modest mouse, morningwood, muse, neutral milk hotel, nine inch nails, our lady peace, pixies, placebo, portishead, radiohead, regina spektor, smashing pumpkins, sonic youth, stone temple pilots, sublime, the allman brothers band, the cure, the dandy warhols, the doors, the fugees, the killers, the mars volta, the postal service, the rolling stones, the roots, thievery corporation, underworld, van morrison, zero 7.

Movies:

25th hour, american beauty, american history x, boiler room, breathless, but i'm a cheerleader, casino royale, chasing amy, clerks, clueless, crash, cruel intentions, dazed and confused, diamonds are forever, doctor no, dogma, easy rider, empire records, fear and loathing in las vegas, fight club, from russia with love, garden state, ghost world, goodfellas, harold and kumar go to whitecastle, high fidelity, igby goes down, little miss sunshine, mean girls, mystery science theater 3000, office space, pi, plan 9 from outer space, pulp fiction, reality bites, rent, requiem for a dream, romeo + juliet, run lola run, seven, sleeping beauty, some like it hot, syriana, the birdcage, the boondock saints, the breakfast club, the butterfly effect, the craft, the godfather, the royal tenembaums, the rules of attraction, the sandlot, the seven year itch, trainspotting

Television:

all in the family, bewitched, boy meets world, buffy the vampire slayer, clone high, c-span, daria, degrassi, fresh prince of bel-air, friday night lights, friends, gilmore girls, good eats, history channel, house, mad men, mash, my so-called life, project runway, queer as folk, rescue me, that 70's show, the colbert report, the daily show, the l word, the riches, veronica mars, washington journal, what not to wear.

Books:

1984, a clockwork orange, a little princess, american psycho, angelas ashes, a swiftly tilting planet, a wrinkle in time, big sur, breakfast at tiffany's, bret easton ellis, casino royale, catcher in the rye, child of the owl, choke, chuck palahniuk, david sedaris, dharma bums, diary, dress your family in corduroy and denim, farenheit 451, fear and loathing in las vegas, fight club, franny and zooey, glamourama, ghost world, howl, if i die in a combat zone, in revere in those days, interpreter of maladies, invisible monsters, jack kerouac, j.d. salinger, killing yourself to live, less than zero, lindsey davis, lipstick jihad, lullaby, lydia queen of palestine, maggie cassidy, many waters, maus, me talk pretty some day, naked, nine stories, no exit, on the road, persepolis, raise high the roofbeams carpenters and seymour an introduction, reading lolita in tehran, secrets: a memoir of the pentagon papers, sex drugs and cocoa puffs, so far from the bamboo grove, survivor, the chronicles of narnia, the giver, the hours, the rules of attraction, the secret garden, the sewing circles of herat, the subterreaneans, the things they carried, this is the beat generation, thursday's child, violet and claire, weird like us, when i was cool.

Heroes:

i traded all my heroes in for ghosts.

My Blog

i must be procrastinating...

Soundtrack to your life: Opening Credits: prayers for rain-the cure (clearly this will be cheerful) Waking Up Scene: consequence-incubus Car Driving Scene: blue sky-the allman brothers band (aweso...
Posted by db on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:48:00 PST

tagged.

These are the rules. Once you've been tagged, you have to write a blog about 6 weird things or habits about yourself. In the end you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names. Don't fo...
Posted by db on Sun, 04 Jun 2006 02:15:00 PST

good lord, i'm ultra-bored

i have two days inbetween paper and final. i don't know what to do with myself, but i know i don't want to read emerson. so here we are.Directions: Open your choice of music playerand put it on shuffl...
Posted by db on Fri, 19 May 2006 05:26:00 PST